MASCHINE: Beat Making

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

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