I was really expecting more and a specific type of help that neither this video course nor the MachFive 3 manual explains. This video course goes into some other, interesting, but somewhat obscure uses for MachFive 3 which, eventually, might be useful to me, but there are some basic aspects to the program which neither MOTU nor Groove 3 seem interested in covering as topics or explaining. MachFive 3 Explained DID teach me some other ways to get around in the program, so it has been useful for that. This is one scenario for me: I have stereo samples in Kurzweil K2xxx format that have been transferred into MachFive 3. MachFive 3 does a wonderful job of loading the samples and with a little more prodding from me, using MachFive 3's Browser Editor, I can get it to map the samples exactly as they were laid out in a K2000R. I have noticed that most of the stereo samples appear as one sample with one name in MachFive 3's Sample Editor, but when they are viewed in the Browser, they appear as two samples per key (a right and left sample). Some samples, probably depending on how I saved the program in the Kurzweil, did not load as stereo samples, even though there are separate left and right components to each sample. There is no mention in either MachFive 3's manual nor MachFive 3 Explained which cover this topic, although it would seem like it should be. It's possible, in different instances for a stereo sample's left or right component may not properly load into a program and yet the data for it is there. I wish that MachFive 3 Explained would address this situation because, it appears, the only way I'm going to find out how to assign independent left/right stereo component samples into a proper pair is to keep on experimenting. I have to assume that I assign each 1/2 of a component stereo pair of samples to different stereo paired keygroups and different stereo paired layers for them to "sound" in stereo but in doing this, I still don't know if when I play these samples from a MIDI keyboard, if they will appear in the sample editor as one stereo sample, and can be edited as a single stereo sample. To me, this seems like a basic function of what MachFive 3 SHOULD be capable of, but to get any information on this basic aspect of sample importation and editing, there's no help, either in the MachFive 3 manual nor in Mach Five 3 Explained. I can't seem to find any other helpful information about these matters on the Web, either. It would be nice if someone wrote an independent comprehensive manual about MachFive 3, because so far, it seems to me as if the manual is not very detailed and forthcoming and there seems to be no other way to learn some of the more basic aspects of this program than by trial and error.
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Very helpful and explanatory...
I am a: Semi-Pro, Musician, Digital Performer, Logic Pro