Great tutorial! 👍 I just bought my MK3 ten days ago, and I’m a Newbie. I even bought a laptop stand for it, (the Maschine sits 10 inches high from table) so that I can stand up while making music, instead of sitting down in a chair all the time. You are a great teacher on this subject. I think that I’m going to follow your advice, by mainly dealing with the Arrangement View (although I wanna learn how to use The Ideas View too)
Holy shit, dude. THANK YOU SO MUCH. I just got into music-making after getting out of the Navy as an Electronics Technician; I've been able to learn a lot on my own, but this video is SAVING MY LIFE. THANKS!
I know a lot about Maschine but you always show me something new. I didn't know about how to avoid ideals mode when hitting scene mode, or about how easy it was to add or jump between scenes that way. I was just using it for my loop points but this is much better.
CADILLAKTRACKZ glad i can help bruv! It was way more simple before, the scene button did just that but now it seems like they’re trying to force ppl into the ideas view. Maybe people prefer that idunno but it doesnt fit my workflow at all.
Thank you for this one. It was much easier on the Mk2 version of maschine. I just made the switch and was frustrated by not knowing. Your video helped. Keep up the good tutorials man.
Imo working in ideas view is more interesting when it comes to adding variation to your track, the most important is to name every pattern so you don’t get confused
Yeah it's just not my style and this is for the ppl are more into the linear flow since the ideas view has confused a lot of people since it came out, but if that's how you work then the overview of patterns is dope. That's a good pointer!
Hey fam i love your beats! Yo can you do a video on how you do your transitions? Like beat breaks/mutes or placement of risers? And also possibly incorporating the maschine fx into our arrangements?
Preppy thanks king! That’s a great idea. Gimme some time to make beats with that in the back of my head so I can break it down for you cause I dont even think about it when I do it lol.
Blezz beats yeah bro, that the thing, i love my maschine and the sound i get out of it, but the workflow at times takes me out of creating. This video was so motivating, plus it got me into using the hardware more. Your vids are mad entertaining 😂😂 and yet ive learned a lot. Mad love from the US! 🙌🏾
@@preppybeats You just need to get into it man! Once you have it down to the point you don't really have to think about the steps you'll be walking it like it's nothing. It'll be like breathing. What workflow are you used to? Thanks meng means alot to me
@@BlezzBeats can you explain how you made the backround beat in the begin? Is it a sample? that airy lo fi sound is great. I would pay for project stems tbh
king a I played everything on that one, if I remember correctly I mostly used Massive, Omnisphere and a soundfont from Donkey Kong Country. Lol no doubt what’s a reasonable price to you? Shoot me an email and we’ll talk!
Blezz I still really struggle writing in Maschine. I do drum & bass and look for subtle variations every 4 bars whilst still trying to keep it rolling, I’m going to keep it arrange view for my next project, thanks for the videos man, I must of watched this video a dozen times because I think I’m missing something critical yet simple 🇬🇧
Blezz beats Ok so I now get a little groove in ideas and then go arrange and for variation just duplicate, it’s a break through, thanks man, best channel for Maschine, you have saved an old timer because now I’m 95% arrange window🇬🇧🌚🌻
Great Guide Thanks. I've been looking for a guide on how you manage project files. Eg How you organise your harddrive. User samples. Projects. Updates to projects. Swapping ideas between projects. etc In short, do you have any work flow tips which goes beyond building beats on Maschine.
Your video cracked me up, because I HATE the damn Ideas view and how early button-pushing made scenes work like they MADE SENSE. I wonder if they'll ever fix this. They probably won't. Enough complaints at the official forums, but they go ignored, always. This is the one main thing that always slows me down with Maschine and trying to arrange full ideas in it. I often just use it as a plugin inside Reaper and use the sounds/kits and let Reaper do all the hard work (and thus, making it easy).
I don’t think they’ll fix it lol, it must be a majority that are against it! Maschine was fine being Maschine I don’t get why they’re trying to make it Ableton Live. I still find it quicker to work in standalone but I find myself using the mouse alot more. Simple thing such as duplicating the scene takes a couple extra pushes now so you might as well do the right-click.
thank you,wish i kept following you 1yr ago,my machine mk3 is on my console unused it was to complicated for my first bit of digital kit HOW F....N EASY THAT ONE TIPS HELPED
Hmm i find ideas way to work very fine. I usually make my chorus in that and then duplicate the scene like 5 times. After that i do them like intro1, intro 2, verse 1, verse 2, chorus and then make some scenes unique to make final adjustments. Sorry for my bad english.
JANARI Yeah I get it, I work in a similar way alot of times except I make the chorus in the arranger view straight away. So it just doesn’t make any sense to add that extra step for me.
Heavy shit man! Jag lärde mig en hel del här. Suttit på min mk3 ett bra tag nu men du täckte allt jag har irriterat mig på minst lika länge haha. Inspiring to see that you´re still on your music thing. Stay up, stay blezzed and thank you main!
Hey man I have this new mk3 and havent created any scenes and patterns yet. I noticed that controller and the software dont make sense at times when pushing the buttons. This vid explains half of what's happening to me as a newbie to this new world of beat making. The mutherfunkin IDEAS view is a major CB like u so eloquently explan. Thanks for sharing the most important tip on how to stay in arranger view. Thanks so much for pointing out this crazy problem with MK3 maschine. Your the best!!!
Thank you. This helped so much. I watched loads of tutorials before yours that didn't make sense using scenes. But your way is way easier to build patterns into songs. How did you learn this?
So happy you found some use in it! Before Maschine Jam, there was no Ideas view. So this was really the default way of building arrangements and I find it way faster since it's the way I've always worked since 1.0. Then they went and overcomplicated things to compete with Ableton Live, I think, since it's a pretty similar workflow. Me personally I prefer the Maschine just being itself. Be yourself kids!
@@BlezzBeats Thanks very much. I'm just going through your Maschine Tutorials and making notes. Is it ok if I message you on Insta if I have the odd question please?
Shiet might just be my doppelganger! My real name is Jonatan - there's Jon in that if you remove the atan. Add an S and you got Satan now that's my worse half. But switch O for A and that's me right there.
Again. like always, the best MK3 videos. One thing tho.. If i want to put an effect on some drums, but only the ones that i just duplicated to pattern two on scene one, how do you do that?
Thank you bro! The fastest way would probably be to duplicate the group and apply the effects on your new group, especially if its insert-effects. Otherwise your option is setting up sends and automating them.
Thanks bro! Oh yeah definitely more coming up and there's probably a hundred others on my channel lol, full workflow and clips videos cover this specifically in a more updated manner. Thanks for watching!
My favorite program was Project5 by cakewalk. It had a pattern grid. When you click on a pattern, or push a controller switch or key, you play the next pattern. But you had the option for the pattern to play immediately, or at the end of the presently playing pattern. Then you could record on another track the patterns playing back. Can you do this in Maschine? I mean, can you play the patterns, and have them begin when the present pattern finishes? Thanks for your tips.
It's been awhile since I use my machine about two years so call me back I was kind of rusty I needed to watch some new videos found you it's just to say it mate you my best friend
Thanks for taking the time to do this! Great tutorial! I do get everything you say but somehow I can't duplicate patterns and then modify them without affecting all the others. No matter what method I use. Is it maybe a setting that doesn't allow me to do it? What do you think that might be about? Thanks again!
Your hunch is right, if you check Scene/Section in Preferences -> Default it should be set to "Scene only" and without "Link when duplicating sections" by default. That's how I do it, when I duplicate a scene I get the same patterns on all groups, and any pattern I wanna make changes to I just hold pattern and press duplicate before I get in there. If however you set it to "Scenes and patterns" copying a scene will make duplicates of each pattern as well. I like having it the other way around cause you avoid a bunch of unnecessary patterns that make it harder to navigate.
hey man these videos of yours really are helping me. I was wondering if you could make a video of you making a song start to finish on your maschine only? Im using the new maschine software but with a maschine mk2. sometimes its confusing to know what buttons to press since its different than mk3. my toughest time is navigating my scenes from my mk2.
Thanks! Simply use sampling and record your audio, then when you have it ready on a pad (think of your pad as a track) hold shift and press browse. Scroll from "Sampler" up to "Audio". Press load (if i remember correctly). And voila - now it's an audio track. There are limitations to it right now, you can't nudge it around etc. without actually editing the sample, which is why I still prefer just using it in sampler mode for the mostpart. Unless I wanna real-time timestretch it, then it needs to be in Audio mode. Check out my video "Using Maschine as a looper", it's basically the same principle so you might understand it better. I also talk about it a little bit in my Maschine 2.7 tutorial video.
Thanks man! I'm trying to decide between the mk3 or the Mpc live, i'm a guitarist and audio tracks are very important to me, I watched your other videos and I seen the one when you compare the two.
@@vlove888 Dope! Well in terms of the audio track capabilities the Maschine is ahead a tiny bit. The overview is better and less confusing. It's nowhere near a typical DAW but it is a more streamlined workflow. You could use the "looper" functions and build up a track real fast for example. If you're tight timing-wise, you won't run into many issues. Like I speak on in this video, you need to get used to a loop-pattern way of thinking when you structure your songs since patterns can't cross over scenes. Same thing with the mpc live basically except it's called Sequences and Tracks. Come to think of it I think the MPC Software has some audio tracks that work like in a regular daw, but it's still a complete mess of a GUI.
Don't append the scenes, duplicate them instead. Hold shift and press Scene and there's duplicate. If you press scene again now or if you made the mistake of just pressing Scene without shift before you did anything with the Scene button - you'll come to a page which pretty much controls the Ideas view and appends scenes from there. So just press shift + Scene and hit scene twice or get into another mode like pad mode or keyboard mode to get out of the menu.
Anthony Muniz Sry man I don’t have the maschine studio anymore, the major difference is that every shift function (shift + pad 1 = undo for example) has it’s own dedicated buttons to the right. I’m not sure how much they’ve adapted some of the keys to newer software since I had it, for instance if you can still push scene just once instead of shift + scene?
Thank you for the video man I ended up figuring it out I just had to watch your vid a few dozen times lol but I got it I can be pretty impatient sometimes I been using fl studio for years and wanted to try something new with machine studio I hate the arrangement set up but your vid helped the most out of all the ones I watched ill be subscribing keep up the good work @@BlezzBeats
Personnaly I prefer Ideas view for live act, it's less linear. Remind me my old hardware groovebox system (like RS7000). But I use Song view to make full tracks/songs. I'll maybe try it like you for live act, why not. I'm happy with the two views :)
@@BlezzBeats Yeah. My younger brother calls it space music :) Here is an unreleased track I finished a while ago that you could check out. Regarding the Maschine and other genres like psychill for instance, do you think your approach to would differ in any way? soundcloud.com/zouzmusic/nitro/s-uAofh
Thanks for the video, very helpful. I have a question. Lets say you want an 16 bar intro but on the 16th bar want a fill in drum bit to bring the drums in do you have to have a whole track or group with no midi notes in just to fill the gap? I cant seem to move my patterns around within a scene. Example I just want to fill in the last 16 bar (Block)
Hey moosie, you got it right. The rule of thumb is patterns can't intersect across scenes, and the patterns will always loop in relation to the longest pattern in a scene. So what you need to do on the intro is have a 16 bar pattern on you drum group with only the fill on it. It might be confusing at first cause you cant drag and drop patterns where you want to like in any DAW.
@@Brucelectricmoose More a'comin! If you're just getting started I made a thorough beginners course that's on sale right now for 2 more days, 50% off with the coupon code "ITSXMASMENG". With that foundation you'll understand everything I talk about in my other videos here on the channel. Happy new year!
You can do it! Recommend watching the newer videos on clips (0 to hero workflow or whatever its called) to get hip to that cause the sequencing has changed slightly since this video came out
Nice vid! I have a question: I want to add longer automation for breakdown i.e. for 16 bars for one sound from pattern in group - what is the fastest way to do it? Right now I need to create copy of group with sound to be able to automate without messing current pattern (group) with automation, stretch it to 16 bars and automate manually which is hard and not convinient - are there automations curves or something? Is there easy way? Its really annoying ^^ thank you!
Are you automating on group or sound level? If you're just automating parameters on a sound level there's no reason to copy the group. If you want to make a pattern different from another one, make the habit of duplicating it by holding pattern and pressing duplicate. Either make several scenes with different patterns, or a longer one. If you have a 4 bar loop on one pattern in a scene - first hold pattern and duplicate it, then keep holding it and double it four times to make a 16 bar pattern. Then go ahead and record your automations!
Maybe I'm missing something as I'm still really new to all this, but the fact that I can't freely work with audio files that span multiple scenes seems like a massive limitation. Say I want a sample of someone speaking over the entire beat, or to just freestyle guitar over the whole beat to add some texture, would I have to chop it into multiple patterns and not be able to repeat scenes at all? Not gonna lie this almost seems like a dealbreaker I can't imagine getting away from just putting audio where I want it. Update: I'm dumb didn't realize audio triggered in one pattern will keep playing even if the pattern ends if the audio is longer than the pattern. Still makes it a bit of a bitch to move around audio files but I'll take it.
@@ProdBy__Seth getting more comfy on maschine everyday but honestly that's the one reason I dont think I'll ever go 100% maschine. That and mixing is just easier for me in FL but that's personal. Still a super dope workflow though
Blezz, can you do a tutorial on automation? Is there any way you can automate just one pattern? Cut and paste automation? For example, on ableton, you can automate fx on the master track which is handy when going in and out of a chorus/verse part. It's one part of Maschine I haven't got to grips with yet. I'd happily send a few quiddles your way on Patreon!
Hey man any idea why my patterns in song mode are grey and not bright coloured like any videos I see? Im not sure what it is or if it makes any difference.
So, am I right in thinking that pinning the scene section isn't possible with the Mikro Mk3 or Komplete Kontrol Mk2 and that I'm going to have to use my mouse each time I want to change scenes?
I think pretty confidently and really hope you're wrong! Don't have one to try it out but it would be straight up retarded if you can't switch scenes from the controller. Anyone know this?
Hahaha..... Bro...... It’s what the controller is for. And I’m not hating at all. I joined NI/MASCHINE family last year and it threw me off for a minute. I have the mikro so you have to use a monitor if you don’t have the full MASCHINE version of gear. Believe I got confused too but you realize “wait LMAO have to utilize the controller with movement” get that down you’re flyin boss.
@@BlezzBeats it is more than close. It nails: the ableton drum rack can hold ***everything*** in *** every of it 16 x X slots***. (are they up to 64) It can hold simpler devices, sampler, instrument racks, and all simple devices like every synth like wavetable, operater, analog etc...reall everything.
@@lwpweb I stand corrected! But structurewise in the workflow the comparison is not really the same. It would be like at the same time the group is on a sound which is the answer to a track but its not a track.. lol
@@BlezzBeats But I remember there is a way to do regular recording without using scenes or patterns, I did it before but forgot how I did it. Like I was able to just press (Shift+Record) and Maschine will just start recording me as I play my notes
@@jarrellwilliams3107 Sorry what I mean is you can't, scenes and patterns are the foundation of sequencing in maschine. So if you make a pattern by holding shift and rec, waiting for the count in and pressing some pads you have just made a pattern in a scene.
Having no visual indicator to see where each individual pattern is in its loop cycle is a little disappointing. So if a have a pattern length of 3 bars, another 5 bars, and another 10, all it shows is the play head go through the longest pattern before looping...even though the other patterns are looping at their individual lengths . The clip method is ok but for making phase looping and aleotoric music, the oattern mode is quicker to get very interestung results - especially if using empy space at the end of loops - creating the sane linear quality as clips but with more random probabilities.
Ideas view really shines with Jam, which is basically just a permanent ideas view.
Great tutorial! 👍
I just bought my MK3 ten days ago, and I’m a Newbie. I even bought a laptop stand for it, (the Maschine sits 10 inches high from table) so that I can stand up while making music, instead of sitting down in a chair all the time.
You are a great teacher on this subject. I think that I’m going to follow your advice, by mainly dealing with the Arrangement View (although I wanna learn how to use The Ideas View too)
Whoa im late on the ball here, never got a notification but welcome to the family and congrats on that new back strength! Thanks for watching brother
Holy shit, dude. THANK YOU SO MUCH. I just got into music-making after getting out of the Navy as an Electronics Technician; I've been able to learn a lot on my own, but this video is SAVING MY LIFE. THANKS!
Yoo glad I could help you out man! Electronics technician damn that sounds amazing. Join us at the Discord if you wanna xchange some navy knowledge!
I know a lot about Maschine but you always show me something new. I didn't know about how to avoid ideals mode when hitting scene mode, or about how easy it was to add or jump between scenes that way. I was just using it for my loop points but this is much better.
CADILLAKTRACKZ glad i can help bruv! It was way more simple before, the scene button did just that but now it seems like they’re trying to force ppl into the ideas view. Maybe people prefer that idunno but it doesnt fit my workflow at all.
So I've just been re-watching some of your tutorials only to realize just now that you've sampled one of my favorite SNES games of all time !
Yaah 😁 Sampled a few, which game is your fav?
@@BlezzBeats Chrono Trigger !
@@wilhelmaichelberg absolute gem!
Thank you Master this was "dangerous" my mk3 arrived and I'm ready & rumbling. Keep it hard. Pe💣ace.
Good luck man!!!
DUDE! This blog is fire, you told me some & more of what I’ve been search YT for thank you BRO . FREAKIN’ AWESOME!
Ayy thanks for watching Anthony glad I could help u out!!
Thank you for this one. It was much easier on the Mk2 version of maschine. I just made the switch and was frustrated by not knowing. Your video helped. Keep up the good tutorials man.
watched soo many scenes tutorials buti finally found a video that explains it where i understand. thanks so much bro!
Mike Chec glad it made sense to u!
New Maschine user, this helped so much, the quick start guide and videos are so bad, this made everything so clear for me, thanks.
Thanks for watching meng! Stay tuned for more Maschine mastery ;)
Imo working in ideas view is more interesting when it comes to adding variation to your track, the most important is to name every pattern so you don’t get confused
Yeah it's just not my style and this is for the ppl are more into the linear flow since the ideas view has confused a lot of people since it came out, but if that's how you work then the overview of patterns is dope. That's a good pointer!
Blezz beats I agree with you 🙏🏻
I have to say arranger view is where it's at for me being able to create as I'm arranging is great
Hey fam i love your beats! Yo can you do a video on how you do your transitions? Like beat breaks/mutes or placement of risers? And also possibly incorporating the maschine fx into our arrangements?
Preppy thanks king! That’s a great idea. Gimme some time to make beats with that in the back of my head so I can break it down for you cause I dont even think about it when I do it lol.
Blezz beats yeah bro, that the thing, i love my maschine and the sound i get out of it, but the workflow at times takes me out of creating. This video was so motivating, plus it got me into using the hardware more. Your vids are mad entertaining 😂😂 and yet ive learned a lot. Mad love from the US! 🙌🏾
@@preppybeats You just need to get into it man! Once you have it down to the point you don't really have to think about the steps you'll be walking it like it's nothing. It'll be like breathing. What workflow are you used to? Thanks meng means alot to me
@@BlezzBeats can you explain how you made the backround beat in the begin? Is it a sample? that airy lo fi sound is great. I would pay for project stems tbh
king a I played everything on that one, if I remember correctly I mostly used Massive, Omnisphere and a soundfont from Donkey Kong Country. Lol no doubt what’s a reasonable price to you? Shoot me an email and we’ll talk!
Blezz I still really struggle writing in Maschine. I do drum & bass and look for subtle variations every 4 bars whilst still trying to keep it rolling, I’m going to keep it arrange view for my next project, thanks for the videos man, I must of watched this video a dozen times because I think I’m missing something critical yet simple 🇬🇧
I would stick to arrange view as well for that cause you get a way better overview! Thanks for watching bruvv!!
Blezz beats Ok so I now get a little groove in ideas and then go arrange and for variation just duplicate, it’s a break through, thanks man, best channel for Maschine, you have saved an old timer because now I’m 95% arrange window🇬🇧🌚🌻
Love your sense of humour. Thanks for the knowledge my G.
Thanks for the kind words!!
Love the sense of humor
Great Guide Thanks. I've been looking for a guide on how you manage project files. Eg How you organise your harddrive. User samples. Projects. Updates to projects. Swapping ideas between projects. etc
In short, do you have any work flow tips which goes beyond building beats on Maschine.
Thanks for the request and idea I will put it on the list!
Your video cracked me up, because I HATE the damn Ideas view and how early button-pushing made scenes work like they MADE SENSE. I wonder if they'll ever fix this. They probably won't. Enough complaints at the official forums, but they go ignored, always. This is the one main thing that always slows me down with Maschine and trying to arrange full ideas in it. I often just use it as a plugin inside Reaper and use the sounds/kits and let Reaper do all the hard work (and thus, making it easy).
I don’t think they’ll fix it lol, it must be a majority that are against it! Maschine was fine being Maschine I don’t get why they’re trying to make it Ableton Live. I still find it quicker to work in standalone but I find myself using the mouse alot more. Simple thing such as duplicating the scene takes a couple extra pushes now so you might as well do the right-click.
dude this was the cure to my mk3 anxiety thankyou
🚀❤ Only gets better from here!
“We are back in muthafuccin ideas view “ hahaha man I love that part just before 6:00 dope vid bro.
I really like you clearly explained this... why some people dislike your video? I don't know.
Glad you enjoyed it bro! Haters gonna do their thing lol
Been looking for this
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And MOST of all very GOOD tutorials
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Questions
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How would you redo this video if the JAM was out at the time you made this tutorial
thank you,wish i kept following you 1yr ago,my machine mk3 is on my console unused it was to complicated for my first bit of digital kit HOW F....N EASY THAT ONE TIPS HELPED
Never too late! Glad I could help u out bro!
That actually helped me think of it in a different way. Lego Blocks! Perfect... thanks!
Only way is up now!
So blezzed right now and blezzed to have Blezz beats as my Maschine instructor!
Blezzed be thy name Nithin!
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@@BlezzBeats like your style bro just followed you on the gram
You are awesome! I really love your attitude bro!!!
vegancoder Thanks for the boost king!
Hmm i find ideas way to work very fine. I usually make my chorus in that and then duplicate the scene like 5 times. After that i do them like intro1, intro 2, verse 1, verse 2, chorus and then make some scenes unique to make final adjustments. Sorry for my bad english.
JANARI Yeah I get it, I work in a similar way alot of times except I make the chorus in the arranger view straight away. So it just doesn’t make any sense to add that extra step for me.
Great video. But how did you make the sounds block in the group section so large ?
Thanks man! Double click the mouse scroll thing to the right in the pattern view
Heavy shit man! Jag lärde mig en hel del här. Suttit på min mk3 ett bra tag nu men du täckte allt jag har irriterat mig på minst lika länge haha.
Inspiring to see that you´re still on your music thing. Stay up, stay blezzed and thank you main!
Siphooo! Long time no see! Haha alltid bror det vet du. Fett att videon hjälpte dig, go hard. Må bäst!
Bro you the Best maschine teacher. Thank you !!
You're welcome! ❤ and check out my DANGERUZ soundkit if you need some fresh inspo! Only 5 buckaroos on my beatstars page
Good video. Your ability to emphasize features and how they work, stand out. Keep it up.
Yah you explain things the best!!
Hey man I have this new mk3 and havent created any scenes and patterns yet. I noticed that controller and the software dont make sense at times when pushing the buttons. This vid explains half of what's happening to me as a newbie to this new world of beat making. The mutherfunkin IDEAS view is a major CB like u so eloquently explan. Thanks for sharing the most important tip on how to stay in arranger view. Thanks so much for pointing out this crazy problem with MK3 maschine. Your the best!!!
Thank you. This helped so much. I watched loads of tutorials before yours that didn't make sense using scenes. But your way is way easier to build patterns into songs. How did you learn this?
So happy you found some use in it! Before Maschine Jam, there was no Ideas view. So this was really the default way of building arrangements and I find it way faster since it's the way I've always worked since 1.0. Then they went and overcomplicated things to compete with Ableton Live, I think, since it's a pretty similar workflow. Me personally I prefer the Maschine just being itself. Be yourself kids!
@@BlezzBeats Thanks very much. I'm just going through your Maschine Tutorials and making notes. Is it ok if I message you on Insta if I have the odd question please?
@@brigsy Sure thing bro I answer as fast as I can
@@BlezzBeats Thanks mate.
Blezz beats Hey mang! Sent you a message on insta. Would you mind having a look when you have a spare second please?
Great video.. very helpful! Thank you for posting. Side note: Years ago, I knew a guy from the Czech Republic named Jan. You guys look a lot alike!
Shiet might just be my doppelganger! My real name is Jonatan - there's Jon in that if you remove the atan. Add an S and you got Satan now that's my worse half. But switch O for A and that's me right there.
Again. like always, the best MK3 videos.
One thing tho.. If i want to put an effect on some drums, but only the ones that i just duplicated to pattern two on scene one, how do you do that?
Thank you bro! The fastest way would probably be to duplicate the group and apply the effects on your new group, especially if its insert-effects. Otherwise your option is setting up sends and automating them.
@@BlezzBeats Thank you so much. that worked.
Thank you my brother I'm coming from
Pro to studio One and logic Pro X
you really made it easy to understand
hope you make some more videos
Thanks bro! Oh yeah definitely more coming up and there's probably a hundred others on my channel lol, full workflow and clips videos cover this specifically in a more updated manner. Thanks for watching!
The beat was so damn fire I had to keep skipping the cideo back, good work man I think I'm going to learn a lot from you
Hahah thank you so much brother
My favorite program was Project5 by cakewalk. It had a pattern grid. When you click on a pattern, or push a controller switch or key, you play the next pattern. But you had the option for the pattern to play immediately, or at the end of the presently playing pattern. Then you could record on another track the patterns playing back.
Can you do this in Maschine? I mean, can you play the patterns, and have them begin when the present pattern finishes? Thanks for your tips.
Yes you can do that!
No you can't - only with scenes or sections it's possible but you can then say if it should immediately or synced to different note lenght
Smart use of time and becoming an instructor, well done.
Thank you!
It's been awhile since I use my machine about two years so call me back I was kind of rusty I needed to watch some new videos found you it's just to say it mate you my best friend
flexenten007 We need an awkward best friend handshake 🖖
Thanks for taking the time to do this! Great tutorial! I do get everything you say but somehow I can't duplicate patterns and then modify them without affecting all the others. No matter what method I use. Is it maybe a setting that doesn't allow me to do it? What do you think that might be about? Thanks again!
Your hunch is right, if you check Scene/Section in Preferences -> Default it should be set to "Scene only" and without "Link when duplicating sections" by default. That's how I do it, when I duplicate a scene I get the same patterns on all groups, and any pattern I wanna make changes to I just hold pattern and press duplicate before I get in there. If however you set it to "Scenes and patterns" copying a scene will make duplicates of each pattern as well. I like having it the other way around cause you avoid a bunch of unnecessary patterns that make it harder to navigate.
Peace BRO, Thanks I like the Idea of seeing both while working, 💪💪🏿✌️👆🏿
I mess with Blezz beats. My dude.
Hope you still offering the blez beats mk3 academy
Yessir its still up n on!
@@BlezzBeats ok will purchase it on my day off
@@jayosuna7711 Thanks for supporting brother 👊🏻❤ I'm sure it will come to good use
@@BlezzBeats yeah it's kinda tricky trying to figure out the song mode?
I have a quick question is it possible to go from ideas to song mode while keeping patterns to use on song mode?
Yo Bleez!!! Big Ups on this video!! Great job!! So much useful info and very informative!! Thanks
Thanks Roh Roh bigupyaself!!
your song at the end is amazing!
Thank you so much!
Thank you very much! Very useful video
Glad it was helpful!
hey man these videos of yours really are helping me. I was wondering if you could make a video of you making a song start to finish on your maschine only? Im using the new maschine software but with a maschine mk2. sometimes its confusing to know what buttons to press since its different than mk3. my toughest time is navigating my scenes from my mk2.
Glad I could help you out! You mean like w vocals and everything on it?
Blezz beats no just a full maschine beat from scratch. My bad
@@Rayzcooks Oh yeah definitely I'll do that!
Blezz beats you are amozing
Nice vid, can you explain how to record audio tracks with the machine software?
Thanks! Simply use sampling and record your audio, then when you have it ready on a pad (think of your pad as a track) hold shift and press browse. Scroll from "Sampler" up to "Audio". Press load (if i remember correctly). And voila - now it's an audio track. There are limitations to it right now, you can't nudge it around etc. without actually editing the sample, which is why I still prefer just using it in sampler mode for the mostpart. Unless I wanna real-time timestretch it, then it needs to be in Audio mode.
Check out my video "Using Maschine as a looper", it's basically the same principle so you might understand it better. I also talk about it a little bit in my Maschine 2.7 tutorial video.
Thanks man! I'm trying to decide between the mk3 or the Mpc live, i'm a guitarist and audio tracks are very important to me, I watched your other videos and I seen the one when you compare the two.
@@vlove888 Dope! Well in terms of the audio track capabilities the Maschine is ahead a tiny bit. The overview is better and less confusing. It's nowhere near a typical DAW but it is a more streamlined workflow. You could use the "looper" functions and build up a track real fast for example. If you're tight timing-wise, you won't run into many issues.
Like I speak on in this video, you need to get used to a loop-pattern way of thinking when you structure your songs since patterns can't cross over scenes. Same thing with the mpc live basically except it's called Sequences and Tracks. Come to think of it I think the MPC Software has some audio tracks that work like in a regular daw, but it's still a complete mess of a GUI.
Cool, I'm also considering getting the mikro mk3 just to get familiar with the Maschine method. Thanks for your help bro!
vlove888 Good luck with the choice hope you have fun with your decision!
Guess what? We are back in MOTH' FUCKIN' Ideas View!
Dude, thank you. That ish is so confusing when you're working it out alone. The MK3 is my first Maschine.
LT Right! Welcome to the fam!
@@BlezzBeats Thank you :-)
can u sho all these tips in mikro mk 3 ..
Sorry I cant, dont have the mikro. Maybe someone in the Discord does tho!
Great explanation, thanks.
Glad to be at your services homes!
when I append a scene t arranger view with the controller there is a gap between the existing scene, and the newly added one, any ideas why?
Don't append the scenes, duplicate them instead. Hold shift and press Scene and there's duplicate. If you press scene again now or if you made the mistake of just pressing Scene without shift before you did anything with the Scene button - you'll come to a page which pretty much controls the Ideas view and appends scenes from there. So just press shift + Scene and hit scene twice or get into another mode like pad mode or keyboard mode to get out of the menu.
3:10 How do you make the sound slots this wide? as oppose to the 11:20 sound slots?
Quick way of doing it is double clicking the scroll bar!
@@BlezzBeats LEGEND
Nice video ! Yeah they really put a mess in maschine with those ideas scene..
How did you make your sounds in the program look bigger (larger) ?
Right! What in the actual hell were they thinking? I think it’s in the preferences if I’m not mistaken, not by the Maschine right now
I looked on internet and you have to double tap on the scroll bar !
Kris Vodiac ahh thats right! Thanks!
THATS JUST WHAT I NEEDED
THX BRO
CONGRATULATION! And good luck with the bangers!
Thank you BRUV been annoyed by the ideas view glad there’s a way to bypass it!
Hahah yeah I feel ya! Dont know if i mentioned it in the video but shift + arranger is real handy as well!
When u duplicate the pattern how do I automatically get it to say pattern 2 instead of pattern 1(1)
You don't 😔
@@BlezzBeats oh damn.... will pattern 1 affect pattern 1(1)?
Oh no, its just a name to indicate its a duplicate of pattern x
@@BlezzBeats ok got it, Thanks
Thanks mate, Really helpful.
Thanks Blezz
I have machine studio im lost some of the buttons are the same some are not I like your idea just having a hard time apply it
Anthony Muniz Sry man I don’t have the maschine studio anymore, the major difference is that every shift function (shift + pad 1 = undo for example) has it’s own dedicated buttons to the right. I’m not sure how much they’ve adapted some of the keys to newer software since I had it, for instance if you can still push scene just once instead of shift + scene?
Thank you for the video man I ended up figuring it out I just had to watch your vid a few dozen times lol but I got it I can be pretty impatient sometimes I been using fl studio for years and wanted to try something new with machine studio I hate the arrangement set up but your vid helped the most out of all the ones I watched ill be subscribing keep up the good work @@BlezzBeats
I'm trying to follow up on this it is still complicated I'm just new to the maschine +
Id recommend the full workflow video and clips videos i did a few weeks back this is in some ways outdated
@@BlezzBeats I will look it up right now
Lol that's funny because this is my very first MPC that I ever bought in my life now I have a lot to learn from it
Personnaly I prefer Ideas view for live act, it's less linear. Remind me my old hardware groovebox system (like RS7000). But I use Song view to make full tracks/songs. I'll maybe try it like you for live act, why not. I'm happy with the two views :)
I agree! Have changed my mind since, especially the latest version with clips cause it behaves more like before (no more shift + scene bs)
Aha yeah, right :)
i'm also burning for music making, but i'm more into psychill and downtempo. your beats are tight though!
Had to check out some psychill and downtempo! Dope as fuck. Reminds me of alot of 90s pc games.
@@BlezzBeats Yeah. My younger brother calls it space music :) Here is an unreleased track I finished a while ago that you could check out.
Regarding the Maschine and other genres like psychill for instance, do you think your approach to would differ in any way?
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Thanks for the video, very helpful. I have a question. Lets say you want an 16 bar intro but on the 16th bar want a fill in drum bit to bring the drums in do you have to have a whole track or group with no midi notes in just to fill the gap? I cant seem to move my patterns around within a scene. Example I just want to fill in the last 16 bar (Block)
Hey moosie, you got it right. The rule of thumb is patterns can't intersect across scenes, and the patterns will always loop in relation to the longest pattern in a scene. So what you need to do on the intro is have a 16 bar pattern on you drum group with only the fill on it. It might be confusing at first cause you cant drag and drop patterns where you want to like in any DAW.
@@BlezzBeats Nice one dude! Great video, looking forward to more.
@@Brucelectricmoose More a'comin! If you're just getting started I made a thorough beginners course that's on sale right now for 2 more days, 50% off with the coupon code "ITSXMASMENG". With that foundation you'll understand everything I talk about in my other videos here on the channel. Happy new year!
Great teacher. Subscribed.
Peter Hayden I subscribe you to my heart.
Dope tutorial, bro. A+
Thanks for the report card man!
Dangeruz!
Like real talk. I was confused as hell but with practice I'm sure I'll get it right
You can do it! Recommend watching the newer videos on clips (0 to hero workflow or whatever its called) to get hip to that cause the sequencing has changed slightly since this video came out
Thanks man very much this helps me so much!
No problemo bro!
I like that!!
Thanks for the info!!
Thank you for this video!!!!!!
Thanks for watching!!
Nice vid! I have a question: I want to add longer automation for breakdown i.e. for 16 bars for one sound from pattern in group - what is the fastest way to do it? Right now I need to create copy of group with sound to be able to automate without messing current pattern (group) with automation, stretch it to 16 bars and automate manually which is hard and not convinient - are there automations curves or something? Is there easy way? Its really annoying ^^ thank you!
Are you automating on group or sound level? If you're just automating parameters on a sound level there's no reason to copy the group. If you want to make a pattern different from another one, make the habit of duplicating it by holding pattern and pressing duplicate. Either make several scenes with different patterns, or a longer one. If you have a 4 bar loop on one pattern in a scene - first hold pattern and duplicate it, then keep holding it and double it four times to make a 16 bar pattern. Then go ahead and record your automations!
can you copy a pattern from one group to another some how?
Thanks a lot!!! This helped me so much! 🙏
Np brother! Join us in the beat challenge when you're up n runnin!
Maybe I'm missing something as I'm still really new to all this, but the fact that I can't freely work with audio files that span multiple scenes seems like a massive limitation. Say I want a sample of someone speaking over the entire beat, or to just freestyle guitar over the whole beat to add some texture, would I have to chop it into multiple patterns and not be able to repeat scenes at all? Not gonna lie this almost seems like a dealbreaker I can't imagine getting away from just putting audio where I want it.
Update: I'm dumb didn't realize audio triggered in one pattern will keep playing even if the pattern ends if the audio is longer than the pattern. Still makes it a bit of a bitch to move around audio files but I'll take it.
unfortunately yes
@@ProdBy__Seth getting more comfy on maschine everyday but honestly that's the one reason I dont think I'll ever go 100% maschine. That and mixing is just easier for me in FL but that's personal. Still a super dope workflow though
Blezz, can you do a tutorial on automation? Is there any way you can automate just one pattern? Cut and paste automation? For example, on ableton, you can automate fx on the master track which is handy when going in and out of a chorus/verse part. It's one part of Maschine I haven't got to grips with yet. I'd happily send a few quiddles your way on Patreon!
Sick Maschine tips!
Hope they come to use over yonder!
Do u have the template on google drive we can download. Plz if u do.
Been a while since I did the video so I don't know what template it is but I'll look into it 😁
Subbed brother love this content ⚡️
Thank you m'bruh!!
Thank you! Very helpful.
No problem meng!
Hey man any idea why my patterns in song mode are grey and not bright coloured like any videos I see? Im not sure what it is or if it makes any difference.
"Christopher Walkin" teaches Maschine....needs more COWBELL! (you are funny Blezz - good job guy)
HAHA! Thanks Darryl!
after the update I cant figure out how to duplicate scenes, any help?
cool uplaod - yeh takes awhile to get use to this daw :)
I miss the Shift+3 "Split" pad function
That’s what I need to learn 😱😱😱🤣please don’t tell no one 🤣lol
Secret is safe with me and the internet!
Blezz beats 🤣
So, am I right in thinking that pinning the scene section isn't possible with the Mikro Mk3 or Komplete Kontrol Mk2 and that I'm going to have to use my mouse each time I want to change scenes?
I think pretty confidently and really hope you're wrong! Don't have one to try it out but it would be straight up retarded if you can't switch scenes from the controller. Anyone know this?
Hahaha..... Bro...... It’s what the controller is for. And I’m not hating at all. I joined NI/MASCHINE family last year and it threw me off for a minute. I have the mikro so you have to use a monitor if you don’t have the full MASCHINE version of gear. Believe I got confused too but you realize “wait LMAO have to utilize the controller with movement” get that down you’re flyin boss.
a group in Maschine is nothing else as a Drum Rack in Ableton.
Mmyyee almost but not really, if the drum rack held instruments, plugins, effects for routing etc it would be getting close to similar
@@BlezzBeats it is more than close. It nails: the ableton drum rack can hold ***everything*** in *** every of it 16 x X slots***. (are they up to 64) It can hold simpler devices, sampler, instrument racks, and all simple devices like every synth like wavetable, operater, analog etc...reall everything.
@@lwpweb I stand corrected! But structurewise in the workflow the comparison is not really the same. It would be like at the same time the group is on a sound which is the answer to a track but its not a track.. lol
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Love ur track
Thank you!
@@BlezzBeats But I remember there is a way to do regular recording without using scenes or patterns, I did it before but forgot how I did it. Like I was able to just press (Shift+Record) and Maschine will just start recording me as I play my notes
@@jarrellwilliams3107 Yeah you can still do that and you are automatically creating a pattern within a scene then
@@BlezzBeats how do I just record without pattern or scene tho? I completely forgot lol
@@jarrellwilliams3107 Sorry what I mean is you can't, scenes and patterns are the foundation of sequencing in maschine. So if you make a pattern by holding shift and rec, waiting for the count in and pressing some pads you have just made a pattern in a scene.
I like ideas view and its all easy to work with
Having no visual indicator to see where each individual pattern is in its loop cycle is a little disappointing. So if a have a pattern length of 3 bars, another 5 bars, and another 10, all it shows is the play head go through the longest pattern before looping...even though the other patterns are looping at their individual lengths . The clip method is ok but for making phase looping and aleotoric music, the oattern mode is quicker to get very interestung results - especially if using empy space at the end of loops - creating the sane linear quality as clips but with more random probabilities.
Booyah. No more loopy stuff for me.
Virtuoso symphony pieces - COMMENCE!
Thanks bro!!
NO PROBLEM!
This is when jam comes into play
Yes its a must if you're into the ideas view flowetry
legend
took me a month to figure this out on my own