Native Instruments | 2 years ago

Watch as Native Instruments’ MASCHINE guru Boris Mezga walks you through part 2 of our epic MASCHINE Masterclass. By the end of this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use MASCHINE to quickly compose musical ideas and arrange them into a fully produced beat using its internal plugins, effects, instruments, step sequencer, sample slicer, mix view, and arrangement views.

Discover MASCHINE: https://www.native-instruments.com/products/maschine/production-systems/maschine/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=Maschine_Masterclass_2
MASCHINE MK3 Manual: https://www.native-instruments.com/ni-tech-manuals/maschine-mk3-manual/en/index-en
Arranging in MASCHINE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=772u5ZDKS0c

CHAPTER 6: PLUGINS & INSTRUMENTS
Understand MASCHINE’s internal signal flow and how to navigate the plugins, effects, instrument browser, and modulation settings.

CHAPTER 7: THE STEP SEQUENCER
Learn how to use the step sequencer to quickly program drum patterns.

CHAPTER 8: THE VARIATION ENGINE
Learn how to use the variation engine to spark musical ideas.

CHAPTER 9: SLICING SAMPLES AND LOOPS
Learn how to slice samples and loops, different ways of executing them, and how to save your edits for later use.

CHAPTER 10: MIX VIEW & QUICK EDIT BUTTONS
Learn how to navigate channel settings, mix view, and the quick edit buttons to edit your mix. You’ll also learn how to save multiple mixes to compare your work.

CHAPTER 11: EFFECTS & AUTOMATION
Learn how to apply and automate effects to individual sounds, groups, and the master bus.

CHAPTER 12: ARRANGEMENT STRATEGIES
Learn how to use Ideas view and Song view to compose and arrange your beat. Once you’re done, we’ll walk you through how to export your track into an audio file.

Check out Part 1 for more MASCHINE tips and tricks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcSle_Cypzg

Ready for Part 3? Here it is! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTCVW9wS-Qk

00:00 - CHAPTER 6: PLUGINS & INSTRUMENTS
00:15 - Understanding the Internal Signal Flow
00:39 - Plug-in view
02:10 - How to Use the Sampler Plugin: Working with Individual Samples
04:08 - The Sampler’s Internal Effects, Modulation Envelopes, and Velocity Settings
05:01 - Vintage Sampler Emulation
07:39 - Editing Sample Waveforms
09:45 - How to Use the Audio Plugin: Working with Loops
13:38 - How to Use the Virtual Instruments Browser

17:20 - CHAPTER 7: THE STEP SEQUENCER
17:57 - Step Mode: Triggering samples in the step sequencer
18:39 - Pad Mode: Selecting a sound to program in the sequencer
19:15 - FIXED Velocity mode
20:02 - Swing Function
20:47 - Editing the pitch, velocity, and length of a sound in a step
21:16 - Selecting multiple notes to edit simultaneously
22:15 - Quick edit controls
24:43 - Effect automations

27:25 - CHAPTER 8: THE VARIATION ENGINE
27:57 - Sparking ideas with the Randomizer

30:30 - CHAPTER 9: SLICING SAMPLES AND LOOPS
30:38 - How to use the Sample Slicer
33:54 - Ways of playing sliced samples
39:09 - Saving slices and patterns

40:01 - CHAPTER 10: MIX VIEW & QUICK EDIT BUTTONS
40:16 - Using the quick edit section
41:31 - Editing a group of pads simultaneously
42:09 - Saving and comparing multiple mixes with the Lock function
43:56 - Mixer view
45:55 - Channel Settings

46:53 - CHAPTER 11: EFFECTS & AUTOMATION
47:12 - Applying effects on individual sounds, groups, and the entire mix
50:00 - Loading effects from the browser
51:14 - Managing your effects signal chain
52:13 - Setting up send and return effects
55:25 - Recording and deleting automation
57:35 - Performance effects

56:33 - CHAPTER 12: ARRANGEMENT STRATEGIES
59:54 - Ideas View: Exploring musical ideas with scenes
1:01:05 - Creating a new scene
1:01:30 - Duplicating scenes
1:02:08 - Deactivating scenes
1:03:41 - Labeling scenes
1:04:13 - Song View: arranging your ideas with sections
1:04:44 - Dropping scenes, patterns, clips, and automations to sections
1:06:05 - Listening to the whole song
1:07:00 - Clips: adding transitional elements to glue sections together
1:09:40 - Exporting song ideas to an audio file

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