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I want to use a Maschine Mikro in midi mode to control looping and beatjumping on the pads. I want to have the 8 on the left control whatever deck the left side of the VCI is controlling and the right for the right. Is there a way to do this? Does the deck switch send out midi? I'd rather not use a separate button to assign the deck to Maschine.