Release Year: January 2016
Manufacturer: Lynda
Manufacturer’s Website: lynda.com/Maschine-tutorials/Beat-Making-MASCHINE/424050-2.html
Author: JK Swopes
Duration: 1:33
Type of Material Handout: Video Clips
Language: English
Description: MASCHINE is the go-to technology for making beats. This course is your go-to guide. Join producer and instructor JK Swopes as he demonstrates how to create beats using MASCHINE’s built-in sounds, expansions, and samples. He covers basic rhythmic theory and MASCHINE’s main features for altering the sounds of a performance, including swing, quantization, and velocity. Next, he moves into making beats with the built-in sounds and official MASCHINE expansions, creating melodies, drum parts, bass lines, and percussion tracks. He also demonstrates how to add variety to your patterns and organize your patterns into a complete song structure.
In Chapter 3, JK uses the same techniques to create a new sample-based track—a great way to create custom sounds you won’t hear anywhere else. Start watching to learn how to make your own beats with MASCHINE.
Machine is a technology for creating rhythms. This course will be your guide. Join producer and instructor JK Swopes as he demonstrates how to create beats using MASCHINE’s built-in sounds, decompositions, and samples. He covers basic rhythmic theory and MASCHINE’s key characteristics for changing performance sounds, including swing, quantization, and velocity. Next, he moves into arrangements compared with built-in sounds and official MASCHINE decompositions, and creating melodies, drums, basslines, percussion, and song structures. He also demonstrates how to add variety to your structures and organize your patterns into a complete song structure.
Content :
Introduction
Welcome
What should you 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
Example files: not provided
Video format: MP4
Video: AVC, 1280×720, 16:9, 29.97fps, 942kbps
Audio: AAC, 48kHz, 128 kbps, stereo
