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

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This course teaches how to use MASCHINE MK3 to compose and arrange beats. It covers internal plugins and instruments, step sequencing, sample slicing, mixing, effects automation, and exporting a song.

Syllabus

- CHAPTER 6: PLUGINS & INSTRUMENTS
- Understanding the Internal Signal Flow
- Plug-in view
- How to Use the Sampler Plugin: Working with Individual Samples
- The Sampler’s Internal Effects, Modulation Envelopes, and Velocity Settings
- Vintage Sampler Emulation
- Editing Sample Waveforms
- How to Use the Audio Plugin: Working with Loops
- How to Use the Virtual Instruments Browser
- CHAPTER 7: THE STEP SEQUENCER
- Step Mode: Triggering samples in the step sequencer
- Pad Mode: Selecting a sound to program in the sequencer
- FIXED Velocity mode
- Swing Function
- Editing the pitch, velocity, and length of a sound in a step
- Selecting multiple notes to edit simultaneously
- Quick edit controls
- Effect automations
- CHAPTER 8: THE VARIATION ENGINE
- Sparking ideas with the Randomizer
- CHAPTER 9: SLICING SAMPLES AND LOOPS
- How to use the Sample Slicer
- Ways of playing sliced samples
- Saving slices and patterns
- CHAPTER 10: MIX VIEW & QUICK EDIT BUTTONS
- Using the quick edit section
- Editing a group of pads simultaneously
- Saving and comparing multiple mixes with the Lock function
- Mixer view
- Channel Settings
- CHAPTER 11: EFFECTS & AUTOMATION
- Applying effects on individual sounds, groups, and the entire mix
- Loading effects from the browser
- Managing your effects signal chain
- Setting up send and return effects
- Recording and deleting automation
- Performance effects
- CHAPTER 12: ARRANGEMENT STRATEGIES
- Ideas View: Exploring musical ideas with scenes
- Creating a new scene
- Duplicating scenes
- Deactivating scenes
- Labeling scenes
- Song View: arranging your ideas with sections
- Dropping scenes, patterns, clips, and automations to sections
- Listening to the whole song
- Clips: adding transitional elements to glue sections together
- Exporting song ideas to an audio file

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