Producer JK Swopes demonstrates how to create beats using MASCHINE's built-in sounds, expansions, and samples.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know:
- Introduction to tempo, bars, beats, and time signature
- Understanding the pattern grid and how it works with note divisions
- How to quantize your beats to align your notes on the grid
- Making your first simple drum pattern
- Adding groove to your beats with swing, velocity, and note location
- What are MASCHINE Expansions and where do you get them?
- How do you find MASCHINE Expansion sounds in the browser?
- Creating the initial melody or idea
- Adding melodies on top of the initial idea
- Creating a drum pattern
- Adding a bass line to the track
- Adding extra percussion and FX
- Creating pattern variations for variety
- Arranging your song idea using scene and pattern variations
- Recording, importing, editing, and slicing the sample
- Creating a new pattern from the sliced sample
- Creating a drum pattern to go with the sample
- Adding percussion and other extra elements
- Adding a bass line to the track
- Creating pattern variations for variety
- Arranging your song idea using scene and pattern variations
- Next steps
Taught by
JK Swopes