Oh my god finally a good teacher, this quite literally took away every single confusion I had in less than 15 minutes, compared to those hour tutorials where they don't push the concept of the device but just showcase features that nobody will even touch until they have learn the basics which they don't provide.
Thank you! This totally nailed it for me by showing where we should end up, rather than always getting stuck at the beginning with tons of basic ideas that I never take into full songs.
What an amazing tutorial. I’ve been playing with my machine plus for a while. Making beats has been easy and fun but I’ve always got frustrated trying to arrange the petters and scenes. In just a few minutes you have solved all my problems. Thank you very much, I am in your debt!
Thanks! I was actually thinking about doing one on finger drumming techniques. But let me know what you want to see and I’ll consider it for the future! 😎
I promise you, I'm not judging you but having grown up a lower middle class white boy in an urban area you look about as urban as Urban Outfitters... Having said that, you seem to really know your stuff, you're going over some of the exact concepts I'm working on. I really appreciate your end to beginning approach, it's brilliant.You just got a new subscription from me.
As Urban as Urban Outfitters. Love it. 😂 I did ask them once if I could get a discount. They said no. I also tried getting a gig with Keith Urban. That didn’t work out. Nor did a date with Nicole Kidman.
Thank you. I confess, I get confused by the different modes and switching between them. I recently took Maschine+ away on holiday with the intention of cracking this confusion but I was distracted by all the possibilities and so produced very little. I can see at least one misunderstanding I spotted between the role of groups and patterns in ideas mode. I do hope you'll get around to more tutorials on this device.
Yes. It takes some time and mistakes to understand the workflow. And when I’m away from it for a few weeks, I need to remind myself how it works. That being said, once you get into the flow, it’s great. But it isn’t intuitive in terms of the way my mind works.
Heaven, thanx for this. As you said " stucked @ the beginning" you gave me the bridge to go on. I would be very interested, if there is a way to get a vst-synthsound from the PC directly/online into the maschine+ (no SD-copying, changing the Maschine+-mode or using the sampling by analog in) . Meaning not to VST-Sound (digital) -> Soundcard analog out -> m+ Analog in -> Sample analog to digital -> Save wav. Isn´t there a way directly via usb?
hi.I have M + it happens to me that it is in standalone aia in vontroller as soon as I connect it to the pc from the audio outputs a very annoying hiss / noise comes out from the headphone output nothing, perfect audio. I tried them all and followed all the advice of native but nothing. can you help me? thank you. louis
Hmm. So the 1/4” jacks give you hiss? And nothing from the headphones? Im thinking that you might need to go into the setup page in settings on the hardware and see if something is setup improperly. I would also make sure to let NI know about this again in case there is a problem with your unit. I’ll need to plug-in my unit and take a look again, but won’t have time until later this week.
The only thing I can think of is go into settings. Then click hardware in the menu. The 6th encoder knob selects the outputs. I always keep mine to “main + phones”. If this doesn’t fix it, it might be another setting but I don’t know what to suggest.
Thank you so much for this tutorial. I’ve been immersed in the same situation, struggling with too many concepts and agreeing with you, the first steps with Maschine+ can be overwhelming. Your approach, starting by the end, clarifies a lot the workflow and allowed me to clarify my understanding of how maschine + works. However, im still trying to understand the concept of “clip”. Could you please bring some light there?
Try reading this page. NI goes into solid detail about it. www.native-instruments.com/ni-tech-manuals/maschine-mk3-manual/en/working-with-patterns-and-clips
I do not get Maschine at all. I literally followed each step and my song was note matched. Whatever scene one had muted, was muted the for scene 2,3, and 4
Maschine does have a learning curve. My suggestion would be to find the quick start manual. They have a good step by step tutorial that takes you from the very most basic how to select a sound. I think if you start there, rather than diving into scenes, it will be helpful.
Is there a way to bring the sequencer back to the beginning without it playing ? Like there's a restart button. But what if I just want to go back to the start without playing ?
Yes, I think so. I don’t have my unit in front of me, but I remember it is different depending on whether you are in song or pattern mode. I’ll need to fire it up and give it a try again
Thank you for your video. Let's look at song creation from my perspective. I am a singer. So to me, the lead instrument is the vocal. Starting from a vocal recorded onto an SD card, how do you bring the vocal into a track and do build a song from there. Please show me this. This will entice people to buy this product.
That’s a great question. I don’t work for NI, but put this together more from the angle of how I’ve used the product. Maybe someone else can answer here with a few ideas??? 😊
Yeah, basically. But obviously with the plus, you can work completely in hardware form, which changes the feel from working in the box with the Maschine 2 software.
Hmm. Good question. I don’t know a way without stopping the current track, and loading a new one. Maybe someone else can add a comment here?? Best thing would probably to export things as stems and put them into a DAW. But that defeats the point of a standalone unit.
@@ToddUrban thank you. Another thing, so in MPC One, i would have 5 different sequences (one for every song), inside the sequences I have different tracks, which I use as different instruments depending on what song section i'm playing...what would be the corresponding way to do it in MK3? Thanks a lot for your help (i maybe getting old but I still don't get completely how the whole patterns/scenes/ groups work...)
@@hectorsalcedo1851 not sure if this answers your question, but I’ll try: Think of the scenes as song sections. These sections are made of different patterns that correspond to different instruments. When switching between scenes, I can trigger the entire scene, but I can also mute patterns within that scene. I can also perform live by triggering patterns for different instruments and never putting them into scenes. This is great of you are performing loops live, but don’t really have a full song put together. Ideas and Song mode really are used by me when I want to assemble my scenes into a static song for export. So if you are playing live, you might never use song mode. I think everyone uses these modes slightly differently depending on their use case. You kind of need to play around with it to find a flow that works for how you want to work.
@@ToddUrbanThanks! so let me see if i understood...i would need to create a pattern formed of sounds, loops, samples or instruments inside a group and put it into a scene. Now can I have scenes with completely different patterns and not just mute/unmute what's in the pattern?
@@hectorsalcedo1851 think of scenes as basically launching groups of patterns. If you want to launch multiple patterns, you are probably best doing that from pattern mode.
Once you are in scene mode, you are building a song (from the way I understand it). So in those cases, I need to remove any sequencing I’ve done in song mode to go back to pattern playing.
@@lollomasc there might be, so don’t take my experience as the final word. But from what I have found, I don’t think there is. And I remember thinking this was confusing when I first started with the product.
At 2 minutes in, he explains that ideas mode and scenes are tied together. Basically, he is reverse engineering a full track by working backward. At 2:58, he literally shows how to add the scenes. Maybe you skipped that part??
Hi A.C. I do explain this in the video - possibly you skipped over it or just didn’t understand my explanation? Anyway, happy to help, but just writing “terrible tutorial” doesn’t give me a lot to go on. So if I can help with a question, feel free to write something specific and productive and I’ll take a shot at explaining it.
@@ToddUrban Fair enough. It just seems the info on my issue isn’t cut and dry as I would like it which leads to my frustration. My apologies. My issue is i made 6 patterns in group A using various one shot and samples. Now I want to take those patterns and spread them across 6 different scenes so that I can arrange a song. I just want to know how to copy or move patterns from one scene to other scenes. I must be missing that in this video and all the other ones… something that seems would be surface level use of the pattern/ scene/ idea modes.
Got it! Im on the road for another week doing some remote work. Let me think about this, get in front of my Machine, and I’ll hit you back with some answers! 😎
I’m back! I wanted to be in front of the hardware so I didn’t misspeak about a feature. Anyway: Think of it this way. You program different patterns and switch between them when using the pattern button. You would think that the scene button above the pattern button is where you would program patterns. But it isn’t. It is where you select the scene you want to launch. The place to program the patterns is in Ideas mode. So… Click “scene selection” select a blank pad. Then go to ideas on the top left. Here you can select the scene you want to build with the white buttons at the top. Then you can select which pattern you want to use from your groups. (ABCDEFGH) You don’t need to copy patterns, as they can all be selected right here. I understand why it was confusing, but once you get the hang of it, it’s actually super fast.
I think you say "of course you can..." a bit too much. For some of us who are trying to learn this device, there's no "of course" about it. It's usually can't can't can't. Of course not.
Oh my god finally a good teacher, this quite literally took away every single confusion I had in less than 15 minutes, compared to those hour tutorials where they don't push the concept of the device but just showcase features that nobody will even touch until they have learn the basics which they don't provide.
Thank you! 🙏🏻 I’m glad it was helpful!
Thank you! This totally nailed it for me by showing where we should end up, rather than always getting stuck at the beginning with tons of basic ideas that I never take into full songs.
Awesome. Glad it helped! Thanks for the comment. :)
What an amazing tutorial. I’ve been playing with my machine plus for a while. Making beats has been easy and fun but I’ve always got frustrated trying to arrange the petters and scenes. In just a few minutes you have solved all my problems. Thank you very much, I am in your debt!
Thank you! Glad it helped!
Please give us way more!!! Best tutorial I’ve seen in a long time!
Thanks! I was actually thinking about doing one on finger drumming techniques. But let me know what you want to see and I’ll consider it for the future! 😎
@@ToddUrban yes please!!!!
They best teacher. Thanks
Thank you! 🙏🏻
Thank you so much for this! For real.
Of course! Hope it helped. Thanks for watching and supporting the channel!
I promise you, I'm not judging you but having grown up a lower middle class white boy in an urban area you look about as urban as Urban Outfitters... Having said that, you seem to really know your stuff, you're going over some of the exact concepts I'm working on. I really appreciate your end to beginning approach, it's brilliant.You just got a new subscription from me.
As Urban as Urban Outfitters. Love it. 😂 I did ask them once if I could get a discount. They said no. I also tried getting a gig with Keith Urban. That didn’t work out. Nor did a date with Nicole Kidman.
Thanks for this! 😁👊
Glad it helped! 😃
Thank you. I confess, I get confused by the different modes and switching between them. I recently took Maschine+ away on holiday with the intention of cracking this confusion but I was distracted by all the possibilities and so produced very little. I can see at least one misunderstanding I spotted between the role of groups and patterns in ideas mode.
I do hope you'll get around to more tutorials on this device.
Yes. It takes some time and mistakes to understand the workflow. And when I’m away from it for a few weeks, I need to remind myself how it works. That being said, once you get into the flow, it’s great. But it isn’t intuitive in terms of the way my mind works.
Heaven, thanx for this. As you said " stucked @ the beginning" you gave me the bridge to go on.
I would be very interested, if there is a way to get a vst-synthsound from the PC directly/online into the maschine+ (no SD-copying, changing the Maschine+-mode or using the sampling by analog in) . Meaning not to VST-Sound (digital) -> Soundcard analog out -> m+ Analog in -> Sample analog to digital -> Save wav. Isn´t there a way directly via usb?
Hmm. I’m not sure beside using the analog inputs. (Which I know is what you don’t want). I’ll check it out and see if I can find a way.
The best tutorial on Maschine Plus bar none
Thank you!
Good stuff sir!
Glad it helped! 😃
hi.I have M + it happens to me that it is in standalone aia in vontroller as soon as I connect it to the pc from the audio outputs a very annoying hiss / noise comes out from the headphone output nothing, perfect audio. I tried them all and followed all the advice of native but nothing. can you help me? thank you. louis
Hmm. So the 1/4” jacks give you hiss? And nothing from the headphones? Im thinking that you might need to go into the setup page in settings on the hardware and see if something is setup improperly. I would also make sure to let NI know about this again in case there is a problem with your unit. I’ll need to plug-in my unit and take a look again, but won’t have time until later this week.
@@ToddUrban Thanks, I have already reported. If you find something you do me a real favor. Thank you
The only thing I can think of is go into settings. Then click hardware in the menu. The 6th encoder knob selects the outputs. I always keep mine to “main + phones”. If this doesn’t fix it, it might be another setting but I don’t know what to suggest.
Thank you so much for this tutorial. I’ve been immersed in the same situation, struggling with too many concepts and agreeing with you, the first steps with Maschine+ can be overwhelming. Your approach, starting by the end, clarifies a lot the workflow and allowed me to clarify my understanding of how maschine + works. However, im still trying to understand the concept of “clip”. Could you please bring some light there?
Try reading this page. NI goes into solid detail about it.
www.native-instruments.com/ni-tech-manuals/maschine-mk3-manual/en/working-with-patterns-and-clips
I do not get Maschine at all. I literally followed each step and my song was note matched. Whatever scene one had muted, was muted the for scene 2,3, and 4
Maschine does have a learning curve. My suggestion would be to find the quick start manual. They have a good step by step tutorial that takes you from the very most basic how to select a sound. I think if you start there, rather than diving into scenes, it will be helpful.
Thank you.
Is there a way to get into the Drum Synth from the controller? I normally modify my kicks, snares and high hats that way.
Yes! I didn’t have time to dive into the specifics of sound design. But you can load drum synth right from the hardware and modify the sound there too
crack!
Is there a way to bring the sequencer back to the beginning without it playing ? Like there's a restart button. But what if I just want to go back to the start without playing ?
Yes, I think so. I don’t have my unit in front of me, but I remember it is different depending on whether you are in song or pattern mode. I’ll need to fire it up and give it a try again
Thank you for your video. Let's look at song creation from my perspective. I am a singer. So to me, the lead instrument is the vocal. Starting from a vocal recorded onto an SD card, how do you bring the vocal into a track and do build a song from there. Please show me this. This will entice people to buy this product.
That’s a great question. I don’t work for NI, but put this together more from the angle of how I’ve used the product. Maybe someone else can answer here with a few ideas??? 😊
@@ToddUrban I am going to focus on my daw.
@ygung for your workflow, that might be better
The workflow is basically the same as the mk3 right?
Yeah, basically. But obviously with the plus, you can work completely in hardware form, which changes the feel from working in the box with the Maschine 2 software.
Nice video! Now, let’s say i wanna play 5 different songs with different tempos, how would I do it? Thanks for your help.
Hmm. Good question. I don’t know a way without stopping the current track, and loading a new one. Maybe someone else can add a comment here?? Best thing would probably to export things as stems and put them into a DAW. But that defeats the point of a standalone unit.
@@ToddUrban thank you. Another thing, so in MPC One, i would have 5 different sequences (one for every song), inside the sequences I have different tracks, which I use as different instruments depending on what song section i'm playing...what would be the corresponding way to do it in MK3? Thanks a lot for your help (i maybe getting old but I still don't get completely how the whole patterns/scenes/ groups work...)
@@hectorsalcedo1851 not sure if this answers your question, but I’ll try:
Think of the scenes as song sections. These sections are made of different patterns that correspond to different instruments. When switching between scenes, I can trigger the entire scene, but I can also mute patterns within that scene. I can also perform live by triggering patterns for different instruments and never putting them into scenes. This is great of you are performing loops live, but don’t really have a full song put together. Ideas and Song mode really are used by me when I want to assemble my scenes into a static song for export. So if you are playing live, you might never use song mode. I think everyone uses these modes slightly differently depending on their use case. You kind of need to play around with it to find a flow that works for how you want to work.
@@ToddUrbanThanks! so let me see if i understood...i would need to create a pattern formed of sounds, loops, samples or instruments inside a group and put it into a scene. Now can I have scenes with completely different patterns and not just mute/unmute what's in the pattern?
@@hectorsalcedo1851 think of scenes as basically launching groups of patterns. If you want to launch multiple patterns, you are probably best doing that from pattern mode.
Hi, how do I exit scene mode to start playing with groups again?
Thank you :-)
Once you are in scene mode, you are building a song (from the way I understand it). So in those cases, I need to remove any sequencing I’ve done in song mode to go back to pattern playing.
@@ToddUrban Thank you so much!
I thought there was a more direct way
@@lollomasc there might be, so don’t take my experience as the final word. But from what I have found, I don’t think there is. And I remember thinking this was confusing when I first started with the product.
Terrible tutorial!!!!!!! You missed an entire critical important step. How do you put patterns into various scenes?
At 2 minutes in, he explains that ideas mode and scenes are tied together. Basically, he is reverse engineering a full track by working backward. At 2:58, he literally shows how to add the scenes. Maybe you skipped that part??
Hi A.C. I do explain this in the video - possibly you skipped over it or just didn’t understand my explanation? Anyway, happy to help, but just writing “terrible tutorial” doesn’t give me a lot to go on. So if I can help with a question, feel free to write something specific and productive and I’ll take a shot at explaining it.
@@ToddUrban Fair enough. It just seems the info on my issue isn’t cut and dry as I would like it which leads to my frustration. My apologies. My issue is i made 6 patterns in group A using various one shot and samples. Now I want to take those patterns and spread them across 6 different scenes so that I can arrange a song. I just want to know how to copy or move patterns from one scene to other scenes. I must be missing that in this video and all the other ones… something that seems would be surface level use of the pattern/ scene/ idea modes.
Got it! Im on the road for another week doing some remote work. Let me think about this, get in front of my Machine, and I’ll hit you back with some answers! 😎
I’m back! I wanted to be in front of the hardware so I didn’t misspeak about a feature. Anyway:
Think of it this way. You program different patterns and switch between them when using the pattern button. You would think that the scene button above the pattern button is where you would program patterns. But it isn’t. It is where you select the scene you want to launch. The place to program the patterns is in Ideas mode. So…
Click “scene selection” select a blank pad. Then go to ideas on the top left. Here you can select the scene you want to build with the white buttons at the top. Then you can select which pattern you want to use from your groups. (ABCDEFGH)
You don’t need to copy patterns, as they can all be selected right here. I understand why it was confusing, but once you get the hang of it, it’s actually super fast.
I think you say "of course you can..." a bit too much. For some of us who are trying to learn this device, there's no "of course" about it. It's usually can't can't can't. Of course not.
I think I just believe in you 😉
𝓅𝓇𝑜𝓂𝑜𝓈𝓂 💖
Thumb down for stating that it can do everything like a daw. Stop lying.
😮take ur bi polar meds