Maschine tutorials www.maschineskills.com Buy presets and courses www.adsrsounds.com Get discounts www.facebook.com/adsrsounds In the first of two videos, I go over the the process of arranging in Maschine. The first step is to create several varied patterns for each element of the track. This can be done using unique sequences, automation, and addition/deletion of instruments. At the end of this step, I have the building blocks ready for arrangement. In the next video, I will cover using scenes to arrange these patterns into a finished, coherent track. -- In this project here, I have three groups. My first group has the sample, my second group has drums, and the third had instruments. I have electronic piano, bass, tremolo and strings, staccato strings and piano. I like to do this group arrangement quite a bit; one group for the sample, one group for the drums, and one group for all of the instruments. The basic idea for this project started with a sequence of the sample, which sounded good to me, but if I had that whole thing playing for the entire length of the track it would get pretty boring. So what I did was that I created a new pattern, starting from scratch and recorded a totally different sequence but using the same slices. It has the same vibe as that first pattern, but it sounds interesting and new and I could see that I could switch between those different patterns to keep things interesting. I could also see this track splitting into two sections; I had one section governed by the first pattern and another section that is a little bit slower that has this pattern. So I wanted to create those two sections and in Maschine you can do that by using scenes. So my first scene I selected my main pattern and I created a new scene on this empty pad here and loaded up the different pattern with the sample. So now any time I want to select different sections of this song, I can just use these two scenes here. So scene one is that main section and scene two is a little bit slower, and that is one way to keep things interesting to have different sections that are completely different based on the sample. I had all that ready and then move on to drums, so I started on my main section here and moved over to my drum group and just recorded a basic drum pattern to fill in the gaps. I like how that sounded going with the first pattern of my sample, but I wasn't sure that it would fit the other section. I headed over there and loaded up that same drum pattern but again this is the different sliced pattern. I thought that that would probably work but I wanted to try something a little bit different. Again, these slices gave me a slower feeling to them, so what I did was I duplicated my drum pattern, took out my high hats and added a ride central down below. To me that sounded a little bit more fitting and to have that slower feeling to it with that ride central and makes things a little bit more interesting. Again, we have this first scene here has the main drum pattern going and the second scene has the slower variation of the sample as well as the drums. Another thing I can do is keep transitions, so moving between these two scenes things might sound a little bit more choppy and I decided to test that out. So I went to my scene here and went to a little bit towards the end and that didn't sound too bad but I thought I could make it sound a bit better, and going to my first section and duplicated that drum pattern and just changing the ending of it a little bit. You can see the ending changes their; the snares are a little bit different and I decided to see how that sounded and I think that is sounding pretty good at this point. I have two sections, with drums and the sample as well as a pattern that I can use to transition between them. Music - ‘All Yours’ by Submotion Orchestra Instagram: www.instagram.com/submotionorchestra Website: www.submotion.co.uk

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