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MASCHINE: Beat Making

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Overview

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Producer JK Swopes demonstrates how to create beats using MASCHINE's built-in sounds, expansions, and samples.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • What you should know:
1. Understanding the Basics of Making a Beat
  • 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
2. Making a Track with MASCHINE's Factory Library and Official Expansions
  • 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
3. Making a Track from a Sample
  • 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
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

JK Swopes

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