I vote for more ‘I don’t know what I’m doing yet' videos. Good to see your learning process, mistakes, dead ends and all. Looking forward to seeing future vids on the maschine +. Also, for selfish reasons, more digitone would be cool, as I just bought the dn keys.
Kudos for being so vulnerable in showing us your first steps with the Maschine+! It's great to see musicians / producers who you admire giving you an insight into the struggles and frustrations which all of us face & share when starting on the learning curve. It just goes to show you never stop expanding your ability whether as an absolute beginner or as an accomplished producer as yourself! Keep up the good work my man!
Re: editing velocity for multiple things at once: When editing events (or really on almost any of the editing views) there is a tab at the top that says "select" that allows you to select multiple events and affect all of your selection.
Reccomendation! You can pin stuff by pressing the top row of buttons, the first one, when your in events mode or any other modes! It makes it so you dont have to hold it down
If I'd have wanted a well organized, methodical review with in-depth analysis, I would have gone to loopop, but then the thing is, your review format is just so much more ADD friendly.
so this was really interesting to watch mainly cause I've been primarily a Maschine producer most of my musical career. I liked watching you most of the time cause you're using everything else, including abelton etc. personally I think you'll love the FX perform strip once you get into it. it transforms songs into live songs in an instant. happy maschining to you, sir
Thanks for letting us in and seeing you figure it out! I got a Maschine + at launch and have been making roughly a beat a day and still get caught out and have to pull the manual up for simple things all the time. It's incredibly intuitive and ridiculously confusing at the same time, thanks for being vulnerable and so relatable. But you are the synth whisperer, and you make the most intimidating concepts and interfaces look trivial so I have no doubt that you'll be cooking up crazy beats in no time. I can't wait to see where you end up in this ecosystem. My biggest gripe is with how much of a chore searching for sounds is. Even with their robust tagging feature, it still sucks to scroll through 400 snares when you're just looking for the right one and simply "digital" or "vintage" won't suffice. I really wish we could do custom directories and manage our libraries ourselves, like I do on my MPC. I would consider it a dealbreaker if the pre-made groups weren't so damn good, but as you mentioned often you can just take one and run with it for a full track. I find I often have to strike a balance between just wanting to get some creative energy out and jam, and wanting to translate what I WANT to make in my head but don't have the time or attention span to pursue. The friction is kind of refreshing in that it keeps things interesting every time and really rewards you either way. My biggest tip would be about preserving your CPU by managing your effects. Especially when loading groups, I'll go through and make sure that there are no redundant effects and/or shift as many as I can to the group level. Especially when you've got a big track with multiple groups running you can pretty quickly run out of CPU, but just as easily you can usually free up some space with just a bit of optimization. Oh, also save early and often. I've lost too many tracks to count because it crashed out or I thought I saved it but didn't. Cheers!
YESSSSSSSSSSSSS... I'd LOVE to have a long/unedited version.. like 2-3 hours long.. warts and all... I really like hearing you recording and experimenting... I find it incredibly calming.
The sampler in maschine isn't all that, but you do have zones. Even more interesting, IMO, is loading sounds to pads and linking them. Sample a long bleeeep from your modular. Put it on pad 1. Sample a bloop and put it on pad 2; panned. Blurp sound goes on pad 3; also panned. Set your filters and ADSR in the sampler. Modulation options are weak, but there are some. Now you have an interesting instrument to play with. I look forward to watching your sampling video. Maschine also plays well with external gear. Set the audio input to something like a microfreak. Midi out from a pad goes the the MF. Midi out from the MF goes to the pad. Local off. Now you can just record a bunch of midi while playing with spice and dice. Record 32 bars and create patterns by moving the start/end points. Or record it as audio in a pattern or clip. And you can add effects to the live signal (inserts or sends). Or route to another pad, route that pad out to hardware and back in on another pad. I look forward to that video too.
@1:51 you can filter by kits under the groups.. Then you get way better drum setups 😊 the shift button is your friend aswell.. Totally love my maschine mk3. The tracks you mentioned are actually groups of instruments.. Patterns are kind of more like tracks.. But you can mix and match between them. Enjoy the journey 👍 keep em coming 😊 BTW the ext lock feature is cooooool...
7:57 the NPR Morning Edition theme song! I howled! 🤣🤣 Would love to see you make a beat off of that... Thanks for this video. Just got the Machine+ and it's just so overwhelming (in a good way). These kinds of videos are super helpful for bridging the gap between what's possible and how you got to what's possible, how to go from idea to realization. Thank you!
I love the learning process. Trying to do stuff like this myself. Maschine really interests me as far as establishing ideas fast and grabbing random inspiration out of nowhere.
Thank you for this inside view in the learning curve with maschine. I was at the same point with the whole Maschine Eco System. But the difference is.....I quit and you pushed trough! All the best for you. ;-)
the first producing equipment i owned was a maschine mikro mk2... i had the same difficulty navigating arrangements.. never got too far deep in that rabbit hole before i switched up my hardware/software you make it look easy even when youre fumbling through!
Nice video... I just grabbed one of these myself. Really cool device, so quick and fun to use, but like you mentioned, at least currently, it's not well suited for creating synth sounds from scratch (of course manipulation of sounds sampled into it from scratch is brilliant, it's just an issue creating brand new synthesizer sounds from an init patch or something - I hope NI can improve the interface for Massive and Monark - because then this could become something truly incredible for Synth nerds too!). This is probably my only (minor) disappointment with the Maschine + so far. For me, I think I'm still more a synth guy than sample guy, so Deluge is still personally my favourite groovebox type gear, but I'm really loving learning the Maschine workflow - it's definitely different to what I'm used to!
i wouldnt wait for NI to get this done. not being able to really create synth patches without clicking around in the plugin window has always pissed me off about maschine and this being a major issue with maschine+ was exactly what i expected. knowing them they probably expect you to buy their expansion packs, so you can use the synth sounds in there. or to use that sorry little bass synth they put in.
Thanks for the demo! Am looking forward to seeing more. I still want a DAW-in-a-box. Something to record and arrange clips from other hardware on a timeline. Record midi, clean it up, record audio, arrange it along a free-form timeline in relation to other clips. Plus maybe some basic utility effects, and a basic sample engine... but otherwise no particular need for built-in instruments or anything fancy. I guess I'm basically wanting an even lighter-weight clone of Reaper, in standalone hardware form.
Agreed! It does seem fun to play and the unit itself is pretty too, but I'm under the impression that this piece of kit doesn't bring anything new to the table
Am using the mpc 5000 in my setup, but like the native products too. They´re cool. For some reason I like workflows that exclude working on the computer for as much as possible. The good thing about the newer devices is that you can finally get rid of being tied up to midi routing, recycle and not very user friendly file transfers^^ Congrats to the new sampler! :D
I like the Pad Mode. It would be great if Arturia would put a scale selector on the Keystep and light up all the keys in that scale. Bonus points if they identify Root 5th, etc. with colors or something.
Just got mine the other day and I am trying to figure it out. Coming from a bass and drums side of musicianship, so all of this is new to me. I liked your video, hope there are more like this. For me I like seeing step by step on a work flow. A how to if you will. Well, thank you anyways. I liked and subscribed.
Akai and Maschine demos (and music?) always ends up sounding like over-produced trip hop, electro swing, etc. I like the interface a lot but I need a more limited palette and some keys. And I'm not talking about the keyboard workstations, which also have way too many sounds and are just generally boring. They should make a sort of simplified machine with four octaves of weighted keys and the pads, that would be cool.
I was excited for this but then saw that nice big screen just got used to display the synth logo image. I don't want to use Massive if I can't control all of the knobs and routing, period.
Damnit - - - I'm still learning my Deluge after obsessing over your videos. I will not buy this immediately . . . I will not buy this immediately . . . . I will not buy this immediately . . . .
looking forward to the arranging video. the free-floating clip is what makes it possible to attempt things that are not just the usual pattern-based groovebox jams.
Quite a hard thing to pick between, but this over the OP1? they are both in the same price range (at least where I am). I mainly make lofi and ambient so I feel like Mashine+ would be fun (or just the mk3 and my pc).
I got one and I love it but I don’t know what the hell im doing but I’d love to see you do a bunch of tutorials on this, I have a hard time learning how to arrange. Also could you link the new SD card??
Great video as always, however I would like to have seen you using it to make your kind of music as opposed to hip hop style beats if that makes sense?
As a poor man I wish you were doing some garageband stuff. :/ I admire you man. edit: You know what, scratch that, I shouldn’t say I’m poor, I’m just not good enough to use stuff like yours (all I want OP1 actually) so I don’t want it to go waste.
Totally agree with lack of ability to make sounds from scratch, imagine a "normal" user paying a lot of money, and the company didn't bother to program an UI for at least one synth where you can build a sound, see waveforms, buttons, and so on.... They basically have one picture of the instrument and a bunch of macros pages. We all know how contra intuitive is tweaking a sound navigating in banks of macros. It was acceptable while you were using a much cheaper Machine Mk3 as you would be always connected to the software, but paying all this this price just because it is standalone without any user side relevant software development? Hopefully they will update, or not? Who is really using this, apart of some privileged people and youtubers.
You are not supposed to make sounds on your own. NI has moved away from being a synth creator to a sound pack selling platform provider years ago. So please buy sound packs if you want fresh sounds.
@@matt_phistopheles I guess a lot of people are happy with presets, anything is valid when helps boosts our creativity. And in M+ we can still change inside banks of macros to a certain depth. Well fare say there is probably a big market for preset maschines. But it is still too expensive
S C A R Y _ I gave up on NI eons ago 10 years ago and Maschine holds my books up on my shelf after five crashes during a live performance. Hopefully this stand-alone machine they are producing holds up. The workflow is like meh - don't question it - 30 years into production
3:20 - Thinking about cheating... When do you get to the point where you think it actually is cheating? You know, sometimes I don't feel satisfied anymore because the software does too much for me.
5:22 The soundtrack to every RUclips tech review channel. “Sup RUclips it’s your boi here!”
I vote for more ‘I don’t know what I’m doing yet' videos. Good to see your learning process, mistakes, dead ends and all. Looking forward to seeing future vids on the maschine +. Also, for selfish reasons, more digitone would be cool, as I just bought the dn keys.
I do not mind the slightly more chill less professional vibe! It fits well when figuring things out yourself, I dig it.
I loled at "Tha fuck is button 2?" I can so relate.
Kudos for being so vulnerable in showing us your first steps with the Maschine+! It's great to see musicians / producers who you admire giving you an insight into the struggles and frustrations which all of us face & share when starting on the learning curve. It just goes to show you never stop expanding your ability whether as an absolute beginner or as an accomplished producer as yourself! Keep up the good work my man!
Re: editing velocity for multiple things at once: When editing events (or really on almost any of the editing views) there is a tab at the top that says "select" that allows you to select multiple events and affect all of your selection.
Hey dad, fancy seeing you here. Thanks for the new video!
Reccomendation! You can pin stuff by pressing the top row of buttons, the first one, when your in events mode or any other modes! It makes it so you dont have to hold it down
If I'd have wanted a well organized, methodical review with in-depth analysis, I would have gone to loopop, but then the thing is, your review format is just so much more ADD friendly.
the op-1 text at the beginning. good times!
I am in the “almost every single pack that there is” club lol
so this was really interesting to watch mainly cause I've been primarily a Maschine producer most of my musical career. I liked watching you most of the time cause you're using everything else, including abelton etc. personally I think you'll love the FX perform strip once you get into it. it transforms songs into live songs in an instant. happy maschining to you, sir
Thanks for letting us in and seeing you figure it out! I got a Maschine + at launch and have been making roughly a beat a day and still get caught out and have to pull the manual up for simple things all the time. It's incredibly intuitive and ridiculously confusing at the same time, thanks for being vulnerable and so relatable. But you are the synth whisperer, and you make the most intimidating concepts and interfaces look trivial so I have no doubt that you'll be cooking up crazy beats in no time. I can't wait to see where you end up in this ecosystem.
My biggest gripe is with how much of a chore searching for sounds is. Even with their robust tagging feature, it still sucks to scroll through 400 snares when you're just looking for the right one and simply "digital" or "vintage" won't suffice. I really wish we could do custom directories and manage our libraries ourselves, like I do on my MPC. I would consider it a dealbreaker if the pre-made groups weren't so damn good, but as you mentioned often you can just take one and run with it for a full track. I find I often have to strike a balance between just wanting to get some creative energy out and jam, and wanting to translate what I WANT to make in my head but don't have the time or attention span to pursue. The friction is kind of refreshing in that it keeps things interesting every time and really rewards you either way.
My biggest tip would be about preserving your CPU by managing your effects. Especially when loading groups, I'll go through and make sure that there are no redundant effects and/or shift as many as I can to the group level. Especially when you've got a big track with multiple groups running you can pretty quickly run out of CPU, but just as easily you can usually free up some space with just a bit of optimization. Oh, also save early and often. I've lost too many tracks to count because it crashed out or I thought I saved it but didn't.
Cheers!
Yeah the sound searching is a mess. Always has been even in komplete kontrol. You're at the mercy of what someone else thinks something sounds like.
YESSSSSSSSSSSSS... I'd LOVE to have a long/unedited version.. like 2-3 hours long.. warts and all... I really like hearing you recording and experimenting... I find it incredibly calming.
The sampler in maschine isn't all that, but you do have zones. Even more interesting, IMO, is loading sounds to pads and linking them. Sample a long bleeeep from your modular. Put it on pad 1. Sample a bloop and put it on pad 2; panned. Blurp sound goes on pad 3; also panned. Set your filters and ADSR in the sampler. Modulation options are weak, but there are some. Now you have an interesting instrument to play with. I look forward to watching your sampling video.
Maschine also plays well with external gear. Set the audio input to something like a microfreak. Midi out from a pad goes the the MF. Midi out from the MF goes to the pad. Local off. Now you can just record a bunch of midi while playing with spice and dice. Record 32 bars and create patterns by moving the start/end points. Or record it as audio in a pattern or clip. And you can add effects to the live signal (inserts or sends). Or route to another pad, route that pad out to hardware and back in on another pad. I look forward to that video too.
Ahhh videos with Maschine! Im super hype for this, started off my music journey with Maschine back in March!
I like when Jeremy swears
Was just thinking the same, all the PG ad-friendly youtube stuff makes people very unrelatable.
I’ve never related so hard with the manual on the iPad
@1:51 you can filter by kits under the groups.. Then you get way better drum setups 😊 the shift button is your friend aswell.. Totally love my maschine mk3. The tracks you mentioned are actually groups of instruments.. Patterns are kind of more like tracks.. But you can mix and match between them. Enjoy the journey 👍 keep em coming 😊
BTW the ext lock feature is cooooool...
Accurate Beats' videos with the Maschine showcase the amazing functionality of this tool too!
That keys solo at the end is dope. Major pentatonic ftw.
7:57 the NPR Morning Edition theme song! I howled! 🤣🤣 Would love to see you make a beat off of that... Thanks for this video. Just got the Machine+ and it's just so overwhelming (in a good way). These kinds of videos are super helpful for bridging the gap between what's possible and how you got to what's possible, how to go from idea to realization. Thank you!
I really enjoyed this video! Love the improvisation
I love the learning process. Trying to do stuff like this myself. Maschine really interests me as far as establishing ideas fast and grabbing random inspiration out of nowhere.
Thank you for this inside view in the learning curve with maschine. I was at the same point with the whole Maschine Eco System. But the difference is.....I quit and you pushed trough! All the best for you. ;-)
the first producing equipment i owned was a maschine mikro mk2... i had the same difficulty navigating arrangements.. never got too far deep in that rabbit hole before i switched up my hardware/software
you make it look easy even when youre fumbling through!
As a Maschine beginner after one year of Ableton Live this video was very helpful. Loved the chaos style.
Really nice beat Red! Liked the freestyle at the end 🔥👊🏻
Nice video... I just grabbed one of these myself. Really cool device, so quick and fun to use, but like you mentioned, at least currently, it's not well suited for creating synth sounds from scratch (of course manipulation of sounds sampled into it from scratch is brilliant, it's just an issue creating brand new synthesizer sounds from an init patch or something - I hope NI can improve the interface for Massive and Monark - because then this could become something truly incredible for Synth nerds too!). This is probably my only (minor) disappointment with the Maschine + so far. For me, I think I'm still more a synth guy than sample guy, so Deluge is still personally my favourite groovebox type gear, but I'm really loving learning the Maschine workflow - it's definitely different to what I'm used to!
Agree!
i wouldnt wait for NI to get this done. not being able to really create synth patches without clicking around in the plugin window has always pissed me off about maschine and this being a major issue with maschine+ was exactly what i expected. knowing them they probably expect you to buy their expansion packs, so you can use the synth sounds in there. or to use that sorry little bass synth they put in.
You inspire the living shit out of me. Nice vid man
It's a beautiful Mashine
What a brilliant way to completely cure GAS.
Thanks for the demo! Am looking forward to seeing more.
I still want a DAW-in-a-box. Something to record and arrange clips from other hardware on a timeline. Record midi, clean it up, record audio, arrange it along a free-form timeline in relation to other clips. Plus maybe some basic utility effects, and a basic sample engine... but otherwise no particular need for built-in instruments or anything fancy. I guess I'm basically wanting an even lighter-weight clone of Reaper, in standalone hardware form.
This is so great! Love all the pretty lights on it too.
"Let's side-chain some shit". -- a whole series is born.
The Maschine+ is fine. But it doesn't seem to do anything new or particularly interesting. It's like owning a Lite version of a DAW, but for £1,000.
I mean yeah in a way but the point is to be more hands-on vs using a DAW which majority of the time you would be using a mouse and keyboard
Agreed! It does seem fun to play and the unit itself is pretty too, but I'm under the impression that this piece of kit doesn't bring anything new to the table
Well it's a maschine without need for a computer, so it's both not new and the first of its kind
@@chrisloren9363 thanks for that... thought that was pretty obvious lol.
That's a decent production. For the time you did it in.
Am using the mpc 5000 in my setup, but like the native products too. They´re cool.
For some reason I like workflows that exclude working on the computer for as much as possible. The good thing about the newer devices is that you can finally get rid of being tied up to midi routing, recycle and not very user friendly file transfers^^ Congrats to the new sampler! :D
I like the Pad Mode. It would be great if Arturia would put a scale selector on the Keystep and light up all the keys in that scale. Bonus points if they identify Root 5th, etc. with colors or something.
Super fun! Nice to follow along with the learning curve 💖
this is great! i got a mk3 cause the price was too high for the plus for me right now. oscillating between that and the mc 707.
Great stuff as usual Jeremy! Loving the colors, and loving the beat.
Just got mine the other day and I am trying to figure it out. Coming from a bass and drums side of musicianship, so all of this is new to me. I liked your video, hope there are more like this. For me I like seeing step by step on a work flow. A how to if you will.
Well, thank you anyways. I liked and subscribed.
Akai and Maschine demos (and music?) always ends up sounding like over-produced trip hop, electro swing, etc. I like the interface a lot but I need a more limited palette and some keys. And I'm not talking about the keyboard workstations, which also have way too many sounds and are just generally boring. They should make a sort of simplified machine with four octaves of weighted keys and the pads, that would be cool.
I was excited for this but then saw that nice big screen just got used to display the synth logo image. I don't want to use Massive if I can't control all of the knobs and routing, period.
Huge agree. It's currently a gigantic missed opportunity
i've creeped your playlists for awhile now and always wonder when you're gonna release this ;)
8:11 amazing
I really appreciate this style of video - thanks for making it.
It‘s MaSCHine. Have a nice holiday Jeremy. Love from Germany
I thought it was Mash een Ah
Damnit - - - I'm still learning my Deluge after obsessing over your videos. I will not buy this immediately . . . I will not buy this immediately . . . . I will not buy this immediately . . . .
Finally! been waiting for that new Maschine video ever since I got an old Maschine to play with
looking forward to the arranging video. the free-floating clip is what makes it possible to attempt things that are not just the usual pattern-based groovebox jams.
“Fuck Around and Find Out” - your inner Seattleite is showing. ;)
good stuff bro!!
Couldn’t figure out how to get back to my first pattern, no hassle, made a sick new pattern to jam out to anyway catch u next time PEACE 😆
I also lost my patterns once, how did you retrieve them??
This was so incredibly helpful and it was right at my pacing haha
Button 2!
A really complete production station, nice tutorial :-D
I prefer the MPC live touch screen for editing notes. But tho be honest the mouse will always be the easiest way
Jeff Gibsons Maschine tutorials is where you should head next.
You is one monster !
Quite a hard thing to pick between, but this over the OP1? they are both in the same price range (at least where I am). I mainly make lofi and ambient so I feel like Mashine+ would be fun (or just the mk3 and my pc).
Oh, nice little music piece you made! A bit off from your style but very good! Cmon, publish the other videos already! Thanks!
Sounds like a cry for help AccurateBeats! ;)
Great video again!
i have a maschine mk3 (what’s the +, Is it new?) but i haven’t used the thing in a while i really need to get back into it lol
Like contact . How did you get beyond them all.
Travel vlog type beat
Would you please make a workflow tutorial / explanation?
Great video. How does it compare to the Deluge?
i think i saw your comment posted on the review by Stimming. What Maschine would you advice people to buy as is right now, the mark 3 or the plus?
I got one and I love it but I don’t know what the hell im doing but I’d love to see you do a bunch of tutorials on this, I have a hard time learning how to arrange. Also could you link the new SD card??
Great Jeremy. But, the vocal sample in the video, where are you from?
It's something from the mashine library!
@@RedMeansRecording Thanks my friend.
Great video as always, however I would like to have seen you using it to make your kind of music as opposed to hip hop style beats if that makes sense?
As a poor man I wish you were doing some garageband stuff. :/
I admire you man.
edit: You know what, scratch that, I shouldn’t say I’m poor, I’m just not good enough to use stuff like yours (all I want OP1 actually) so I don’t want it to go waste.
Totally agree with lack of ability to make sounds from scratch, imagine a "normal" user paying a lot of money, and the company didn't bother to program an UI for at least one synth where you can build a sound, see waveforms, buttons, and so on.... They basically have one picture of the instrument and a bunch of macros pages. We all know how contra intuitive is tweaking a sound navigating in banks of macros. It was acceptable while you were using a much cheaper Machine Mk3 as you would be always connected to the software, but paying all this this price just because it is standalone without any user side relevant software development? Hopefully they will update, or not? Who is really using this, apart of some privileged people and youtubers.
You are not supposed to make sounds on your own. NI has moved away from being a synth creator to a sound pack selling platform provider years ago. So please buy sound packs if you want fresh sounds.
@@matt_phistopheles I guess a lot of people are happy with presets, anything is valid when helps boosts our creativity. And in M+ we can still change inside banks of macros to a certain depth. Well fare say there is probably a big market for preset maschines. But it is still too expensive
You can easily learn a Monark using it blind
Needs more quantization 😉 and of course, more cowbell.
S C A R Y _ I gave up on NI eons ago 10 years ago and Maschine holds my books up on my shelf after five crashes during a live performance. Hopefully this stand-alone machine they are producing holds up. The workflow is like meh - don't question it - 30 years into production
yooo, your cpu usage is at 81%. How you handle that?
I'm wondering, who is the target?
3:20 - Thinking about cheating... When do you get to the point where you think it actually is cheating? You know, sometimes I don't feel satisfied anymore because the software does too much for me.
Just in case you forgot almost all the classic songs have a basic beat.
Anyone here LOVE Mutemath?
Red Means Cursing
The fuck is button 2
Lol “Don’t judge me for this basic-ass beat.” :)
"Shrekton Sub"
some
Great tune's but that Maschine is overpriced !!!