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How to Use Everything in Maschine MK3, Beat Making Masterclass - Native Instruments

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This tutorial introduces MASCHINE MK3 hardware and software, covering setup, controller controls, sound browsing, sample layering, rhythm creation, and melodies and chords. It also demonstrates exporting files to a DAW and using an external MIDI keyboard.

Syllabus

- Introduction
- Locating the Browser, Pattern Editor, Ideas, Mixer, and Master Level Fader
- Loading samples from your computer to the MASCHINE pads
- Exporting files from MASCHINE to your DAW
- CHAPTER 1: GETTING STARTED
- Downloading Native Access and registering MASCHINE
- Understanding the back of the MASCHINE MK3 unit
- Setting your preferences
- Troubleshooting installation issues
- CHAPTER 2: THE MASCHINE CONTROLLER
- Understanding and adjusting the 16 velocity-sensitive pads
- Changing the pad colors
- Understanding the 8 group buttons
- Understanding the capacitive encoder knobs
- Understanding the Play and Record section
- Understanding the Select, Solo, and Mute buttons
- Silently selecting sounds
- Understanding the quick edit section
- Understanding the touch strip
- Changing the behavior of function menus
- CHAPTER 3: THE MASCHINE LIBRARY
- Browsing sounds on the hardware
- Loading up existing projects from the library
- Starting a new project
- Erasing sounds within a kit
- Loading a Sound in MASCHINE
- How to layer Loops
- How to use One Shot samples
- How to save samples to your own user library
- CHAPTER 4: CREATING RHYTHMS
- How to use the Metronome
- Using the Auto-Length feature
- How to start a recording with a count-in
- How to use the Undo, Redo, Step Undo, and Step Redo functions
- How to use the Clear function
- Using the Quantize function
- Activating the Swing function
- Using the Pattern Menu
- Using the Note Repeat function
- Pattern recap
- Using the Arranger view
- How to access these functions in the MASCHINE software
- CHAPTER 5: CREATE MELODIES AND CHORDS
- Activating Keyboard mode in MASCHINE
- Using an external MIDI keyboard with your MASCHINE setup
- Changing scales in Keyboard mode
- Adding harmonies with Chords mode
- Using Chord sets
- Transposing Chords
- Using the Note Repeat arpeggiator function

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