Inconsistent navigation behavior in Maschine

Question

Hi folks! There is something I find quite inconsistent in the logic of the menus/sections. Can someone from the team please explain this?

* Let's say I'm playing live or producing a song with my MK3. I press Pattern (or Events) and pin it, so I can work in Pattern view for a while. Then I need to adjust a level in Mixer. I press Mixer, make the adjustment, and press Mixer again to leave. Instead of taking me back to Pattern view, it takes me to Plug-in view.

Why does leaving Mixer change the view I had previously pinned? It breaks the workflow, the muscle memory, and I find this still confusing after many years.

*  There is another similar behavior: if Volume (Swing, or Tempo) is assigned to the 4D, I go to Browser and its function changes temporarily. I leave Browser, and the function is still active — Great! But if I press Mixer and return, the function gets deactivated.

These behaviors seem inconsistent in terms of how Maschine preserves the user's working state. Am I missing something, or does anyone else find this strange?

Rilkecat · Answer

I understand what you mean, though it still seems to me that the logic is counter-intuitive.

I think the issue is simply: you’re in A, you go to B, and pressing B again takes you to C. Why not back to A?

If pressing Mixer again is effectively closing the Mixer, I would expect it to return to the view I was working in before entering it. So I understand I can press Pattern/Event even Pad or Step again to get back there, but why should I have to? If you have to develop an extra habit to work around it, something is getting in the way.

And what about the second example: Volume/Swing/Tempo remains active after leaving Browser, but gets deactivated after entering and leaving Mixer. Is there a consistent rule behind how Maschine preserves or resets the user's working state?

ALDREAD · Answer

Yeah ,as I’ve just come back to the plus , I kinda do the same , you just need to get into the habit of pressing the event/pattern button , instead of the mixer button to come out of it

is your mixer page also pinned ?

I think maybe you think pin means it’s pinned as the main window , when all it does is pin it to the button so you don’t need to hold to view ,