Maschine+ Mute group midi only

Interesting question! I always thought that Group mute was in fact just muting the Group audio outputs, including the sends.

Maybe the sends can be excluded?

The audio coming from the midi sequencer only happens because the midi sequencer is playing specific notes as you programmed them so killing the pattern (midi) will kill the audio, where any given group can only have one pattern playing at a time, muting the group will mute the instruments being played by the midi pattern as well.

While it would be awesome to have a pattern sync, like insanely awesome, changing patterns within a single scene is instant and you have to time it right, like between the end of the last note of a bar and the 1 count because the audio from that pattern will drop out until the next midi notes are played.

But we do have Scene sync. Press IDEAS button in the top left. While holding Shift+Follow/Grid press pad 6 to select "Scene." if in ideas mode, "Section" if in song mode. Now you can have a set scene length. I.e. 8 bars and when changing scenes, the currently playing scene will finish before switching to the next scene.

If you create the next scene early enough or set a long enough scene length you can click patterns on/and off in scene 2 while scene 1 finishes, and if you get it done before scene 1 finishes, scene 2 will be ready to go, armed with a new pattern from your existing selection, or you'll be ready to loop the next one. You can also utilize the step sequencer to edit patterns you've duplicated while it's waiting to switch, and if you need more time you can just click back to scene 1 before the end of the loop and let it restart, then go back to working on your new scene after selecting it.

I got lucky and somebody sold me a Maschine Jam for a really great price, which I use for having 1 button access to creating/switching patterns and scenes, where doing it from the M+ requires jumping between the ideas menu and the pattern menu, which is manageable once you get used to it.

My bad I misunderstood and after playing with my M+ and digging through the manual.. and learning a thing or two the closest things I came to it were pressing stop to stop the sequencer, which you could come back in with "restart" , or simply creating a new pattern. The only other way I personally know if to get an entire group to finish a loop and not restart is via scene sync.

I defer to those more experienced on whether there is another way as I'm not seeing it.

I recommend you to look at Lock States because it's very useful for doing everything you described but at the same time do much more controlling multi Parameters and morphing between them on linear Time Line in Patterns Song Mode, Clips. I trigger them with Note in Maschine by making MIDI going out and coming back. All of 3 exclusive Controls I can control all of them and I would be able to control 16 different Controls.

For Program Change I use external MIDI device via USB for Kontakt and Reaktor sounds change. I see that on computer it's easier to adjust it in Preference under MIDI settings.

I do everything in Maschine Standalone Mode only, previously I was MK3 and did everything in Maschine only. I have couple of DAW's but I couldn't accept that Maschine is not capable for finishing everything so I took a Week to use Maschine only and it's become so fast and with amazing features I started to do Music only when I'm inspired, more accurate during the inspiration and it was big thing for me.

I hope that you will explore those Lock States and do Volume Faders down immediately or during Fade in or out because it's better than sudden Cut off the group or sounds.