You're the first vid that has shown the new song mode / clip mode (19:42).. THANK YOU BLEZZ!!! Please make another detailed video showing more of the Clip and arranging functions, if you can. All of us would love to see more about this. Thanks again!
Haha wow thought I was late on the ball by now! Thanks for the support Chris! I might not make it this week but will definitely do that if it's still worth it when I get around to it.
X 2 on this comment. Been HANGING for the new arranger, so keen to know all about it. looking to upgrade to either a MK3 or maybe a +, so keen to learn as much about the full workflow as possible.
hey , Is there a way for having a quantization when change pattern or scene or clip? I play Live and I need this functions that is in other groovebox ( Force, Elektron Mc707 ... ) the change is immediate here, doesn't wait finish the loop of last clip .. 😔
Hey! Yes, when you hold down Scene make sure that Retrigger is not turned on. If it's still not working right, check out your quantization settings for Perform and Arrange in grid (Shift + grid)
Thanks for this, it will be a big help when I get mine. The whole clips, ideas, patterns, etc is a bit confusing atm seems a lot simpler coming from MPC that really just has sequences.. 🤔
Interesting! I ordered an MPC One recently and I find it way more complicated to dive through all of it` s menues. Tried to do a mixdown today on a beat I did with the One. Way to many options to place my FX. My brain is totally wired to the hiarchies of Madchine ;)!!! Gonna stick with my MK3.
You can get used to either one its just a little learning curve bump to get past, I did find the Maschine a bit more intuitive starting out than the mpcs past the 2500 for the same reason though. I really love that the sounds are on the pad they're assigned to no matter how you sequence it instead of assigning it to a program and keeping track of the tracks, the scene/pattern references make for less backtracking if you decide to build more on a beat.
I'm only 4 minutes in, but so far this tutorial is the best I've found for the Maschine+ (And I've watched a lot of them now). Already learned so much! Thank you!! Almost all the MKIII videos use the GUI in some way and I don't hook mine up to a computer.
You are the only beat maker on RUclips I can tolerate watching cause you don’t give a fuck you just talk about the gear and give information you don’t make it about yourself Respect Keep up the good work
hey, is it possible du work just in song mode whith only clip ? for exemple, 4 clips in groupe 1 and i have my drum in groupe 1 .( for exemple drum intro, drum chorus etc...., )...the same in groupe 2 whith my bass...etc....? thanks a lot
You can set the time signature in settings but you can't automate it as far as I know. Bars and measures don't have to be even in the patterns so for example if your initial time signature is 4/4 and you want 2 bars of 3/4 just make a pattern that's 6 measures long.
You are one of the best in your genre video's, because you seem so honest and you always seems to know what we want. Because of your vids I feel safe to go with Maschine plus.
Hi dude great video when I press events I have to hold down events otherwise it keeps switching back and forth how you get ut to stay on events like you thanks
Really useful tutorial, I have my Maschine+ for less than 24 hrs and am a beginner with this unit. I found a few tutorials on YT but I learned so much more from yours. An excellent overview of the way the unit can structure music and some of the core functions. I'd love more detail on how scenes patterns and clips work. Thanks so much!
Thank you for watching! I have a few other videos that clarify this more, ruclips.net/video/5YEqK_d9qgA/видео.html this might be useful regardless if you're planning to use Clips or not. If you wanna go really deep you can check out my full course linked in the description.
Nice Video - Can you plz,plz do a video on how export on the Maschine + I have been trying to export but, can not find audio from the export in SD card after i export the audio and i do not see the export audio in the sub categories(one shot, group, inst, ect,ect.). I'm new to Native Instruments..
Looks like you cant right now, you could resample it and save it as a sound instead as a work around. The export is more intended for saving something finished onto the sd card to bring it somewhere else. Whats the use case, what are you trying to do with it?
W the mouse on software you can do the multiselect ting and split clips if you place it between scenes and duplicate (which is kinda odd) but I believe some improvements are coming up soon.
Hi, im thinking of buying one Maschine +. I would like to know, the Lofi is a plugin? Where do you see that windows. I see on other video that was different with less option, it was near comp drive and filter
Bless up Mr Blezz Beats! Still one of the most clutch Maschine channels on YT. Thanks for this, maybe a few more tutorials on how you've been working with Clips to create transitions using both audio and MIDI would be great? Keep up the dopeness man!
Always bringing the heat, Blezz. This is great. Also, man, big ups on the Maschine Noobs Mastery School. Between that and your 8-Bit Breaks sample pack, my beats have been mad wavy lately. Keep em coming man. Also, love your hi-hat 16th note rolls by hand. Great stuff.
After update I’m not hearing any samples I have loaded ..the pattern looks darker or greyed out if that helps...when in slice mode I can hear the sample..but once I leave slice mode there’s no sound..what’s up with this? Thanks In advance
Hi! New Maschine+ User here. My DAW is Ableton Live 10. I have a question about Midi Out from my Maschine. I want to trigger my external Synths via Midi but I have no Midi Out Signal. I am no newbie when it comes to Synths, I have lots of external Hardware. When I connect my Hydrasynth via USB Midi it is listed in the Midi Out Settings in my Maschine+ but when I enable it I don't get a signal when I trigger my Maschine Pads. With Midi it is the same,no signal. I think it must be something in the settings I did wrong. Can anybody help me?
@@BlezzBeats wow, thank you! I didn"t knew about that empty pad. Do you know how I can send Midi cc and control parameters on my Hydrasynth? Thank you so much!
You can think of every pad as a track essentially. Never done that and I'm not in front of it right now, but you can set it to controller mode by holding shift and pressing channel. That will give you access to all parameters but reduces the Maschine to a controller only. Im pretty sure you can do it building on the previous though, can anyone fill in on this?
Tsupposed to be on the macro page, (shift+macro to set macros, macro to reach them) and I've done it through the software by choosing which cc to mod but not directly from the plus. It should be around the macros though, hopefully not looked over in the standalone migration.
Is it not possible to just trigger scenes in ideas mode and build the song structure from that? Ideally you could perform out the song in ideas mode and have everything represented in song mode ready to be played back.
When they launched Maschine Jam that was the whole idea. And they even promised the performance recording mode would come soon after launch of Jam (there was even a beta version of Maschine that had it). But stuff happened and that never saw the light of day. So, no you can't do that right now. But hopefully with the development of the clips, that's where we're headed.
I haven't found it and I've just asked about it, it should definitely be implemented there since they have the keyboard-function in place for saving and entering wifi details
On my maschine studio. You dont have to select the kick -> unselect it -> chose the midi note and then move it. Just press the pad and move the right or left arrow. It’ll toggle between the midi on the last pad you’v hit. So In principle it should work on the plus
Yes sir! i like it when it does the brain thinking for us. LoL. I like the one synthesizer note sound too. Nice one here . Thanks. enjoyable to watch as always.
I use too much 3rd party stuff with maschine for the "standalone" of mk+ to be worth it. Does the controller itself have any advantages over the mk3? Or are they functionally identical?
Did you watch this video? I dont know where you're at in the process but make sure you're in song view and that your loop section is activated and covering the whole song
@@BlezzBeats Thanks. I will never move mine around, so I went with the cheaper version...also I've heard you can overwhelm the CPU in the + model, and my PC CPU (Ryzen 3700X, soon to be 5900x) is way more powerful...I don't even know I will get that sophisticated with it, but I figured why not be safe...thanks for the video!
Whats the advantage of the Setting for 'Link When Duplicating' for Scenes set to 'Off'? Wouldn't you want a duplicate to be a true duplicate that references the OG Scene, and still have the option to make it 'Unique' if you required it to be a variation?
Thank you! It's called a Divoom Timebox Evo, it's a pixelthing/portable speaker. You can make your own pixel art with an app and display random communitymade shit etc. There's a link in the description.
Such great content man. This is just great. Got my Machine+ on Monday and while I'm pretty good at understanding the basic concepts of my new gadget this is really helpful in filling out some of the tiny frustrations. It would be great to get an explanation on tactics on why and when you would decide to create new groups of sounds.
Thank you so much bro! People seem to lay it out a little differently. If you're a fingerdrummer for example, you want as many sounds as possible within immediate reach so you would place them all in the same group. I tend to organize it like I would with stems. So I'll have one group for my pad synths, one for my lead synths, one for bass sounds, and even divide the drums according to how I commonly mistreat them etc. Kick group, snare group, hihat group, percussion group. For one it gets easier to work with patterns: soloing/muting groups as you're working on a section, removing them in certain sections, applying effects on group level etc. And for two it makes the export process much easier if you attack it from that angle from the beginning: just export the groups.
@@BlezzBeats Sorry I edited that comment as I wasn't expecting such a fast reply. After watching the video a second time it began to sink in. It's all about thinking which sections you are going to want to have muted at certain times and pattern lengths.
I noticed the CPU load was hovering around 35-40% with just a drum kit and a couple synths. Have you had it choke out when just working on a project? Or does it just jump up on the first instances of each plugin?
Hope they implement a way to see the modulation on hdw in a future update. And also a good way to edit the modulation too. From what I see on Mpc one, automation editing is very nice on the touchscreen, you can basically draw in whatever you want. NI need to find a good way to edit automation without just turning the knobs in real-time. Some of the best sounding automation cannot be just dialed in by turning the knob and has to be drawn in.
@@alf1o1 yeah. After the improvements that are coming next week for the arranger (clips) my big issue with Maschine now is automation. It's pretty bad!
Yeah sure, either just have unique patterns and clips or to keep it a bit more dynamic you can route your audio into groups of fx that have clips stretching across the whole song
Real question for the real beat heads.. I like making my tunes on my opz.. I love it.. do I need this or a live or something? Or is my opz enough? It seems like it does all this can but I'm not sure.. There is a reason this cost more then twice? Do I need this to make fire beats or is opz good enough for the studio life?
I'd like to rephrase the classic term, however it goes. It doesn't matter at all what you have if you can't make fire with it - It matters slightly more what you have if you can and know what you want to do.
Simple way to say it... the M+ can make more sounds than the OP-Z cause it has more synths and can store more samples. And your beats can be longer because M+ has infinity patterns and OP-Z has 16-step. I love my OP-Z but if you want to make a beat that has all kinds of thrills and changes, you would want a more complicated machine.
It was the third time I shot the video cause one of the cameras or mics was always either running out of battery, sd card buggin out etc hahah. Thanks man
Great tutorial Blezz. Subscribed! Hey, just one quick question - is it possible to record either pad or group mutes into the arrangement? (Ie. to kind of subtract from the arrangement on the fly - to sort of be able to record a performance into an arrangement?)
Is there a way to create your own midi templates on the Maschine+? Or even import them over from a computer? It would be so dope to be able to map to iPad apps and use this as a hardware interface to touchscreen synths(it would save so much studio space and possibly offer a more robust sound design potential than the internal NI Synth offerings)
Blezz Beats Loopop apparently already tried this. Confirmed you can do it. There doesn’t seem to be any real limit to it- as he got bored on the 26th page of 8 macros trying to max it out
Hey there, i got the Maschine for 4 Days now. Is there a way to freestyle something without clicks of metronome & without a grid or bpm? Because i'm also a Loopstation RC-505 user and I like that workflow. Push "rec" freestyle a bit & push again "rec" for an infinity loop. Is there a way? Thank you.
@@BlezzBeats I checked online and it wont work...which is wierd... maybe it will be included. maybe not.... Jam is a weird one, i like it though! def a cool extension to Maschine. Hopefully NI supports it on it. peace out guys!
Wassup Blezz, Yes... this is my 2nd comment, but I gotta tell you.. after dealing with the MPC Workflow for so long, I was struggling just to find my way on my new Maschine Plus. Most channels combined their tutorials with software, and I'm DAW Less, so it was confusing. You really REALLY helped me out bro, and I'm grateful. Because my brain was stuck on Akai terminology, so I had a hard time. I finally was able to put a structure together, now I'm so excited to start this process bro. Sorry for the long comments but I'm excited!🙏🏾✊🏾🔥🔥🔥🔥
It makes me happy to hear this bro. The honest process from my end - I love to be part of enabling anyone to reach another level because I love any ability that enables myself to express a feeling. Making a video like this - not as enjoyable as just sitting down and pushing something out. But the long term payoff such as a comment like yours is much more worth it. So thank you man I hope you have a great weekend and spread love to your close ones!
@@BlezzBeats thanks! Seriously thinking of using it do finish complete songs and then master it elsewhere. Sorry just really want an opinion on this cuz I can’t find much info. But would you say that’s pretty doable?
ruclips.net/video/CXia3ZkE54E/видео.html this is an example of what that process could look like. Obviously not as smooth as on a DAW but I think its the best all in one box solution out if you really insist. The MV8800 is the only machine like it that gets close but there's a lot of dated aspects about it like the hardware and its library/sound possibilities (and its huge and pretty much a computer so its not not a computer in the same sense)
Hi! When you sample from an external HW synth (driven by Maschine MIDI) and try to sample a few bars using the SYNC setting, is the clip spot on, or are tails cut or gaps in the beginning? Is there any way to compensate for latency?
Somehow the sounds in one of my groups is stuck together, so when I change the volume of one sound, I change the volume of all the sounds in the group. It's so annoying and I the cant figure out how to remove the connection between the sounds in the group. Do you know how to unconnect the sounds?
Either you're on Group level instead of Sounds, check the tabs on the left window, or you're in the Mixer on group level - press down on the jog wheel. Lastly if none of that works hold down the Select button and make sure you haven't selected all the pads.
Just Went through the process of opening a project in maschine 2.0. I think the best thing they could do is make Storage and Controller mode the same. I think the MPC Live is like this, go to controller mode and your drive pops up as well to open projects. As of now, you have to go to storage mode, open the project in maschine, save project with samples, exit storage mode, enter controller mode, then use the + as a controller with your project in Maschine software. Maybe i missed something, if so, hit me up.
Ideas ended up being the one for me. it's actually easy once you have your patterns ready. ideas is where u create scenes and can basically arrange your music without all the time sink. The way my brain was taking it all in was driving me insane but it finally clicked. Thanks
@@BlezzBeats oh no no... I meant the clips and that stuff. I'm still on the fence about that. Aaaaaand... I just got an mpc500 that is keeping me busy.
TBH I though the MPC Live was a fkn headache... this is even more but i found that once I understand how to do the sh*t i kinda do things faster. With the Akai it was always a fkn struggle even after mastering the software. I love the M+ pads are so smooth like my Push 2... MPC sold...
@@BlezzBeats ya, definitely utilize the Digitone MIDI sequencer to sequence the sp404a, plus nice stereo inputs on Digitone w/FX and still be able to piggyback something else into the sp404a rca inputs, but, i guess the new Maschine+ is a complete one-stop music box now, sounds great, great, humorous workshops Blezz! thanks
@@freejazzbone Thanks bro! I have to warn you about a big big minus about the sp404a though if you're not aware of it, theres no way to pitch properly in semitones. I'm not a big fan of using it for anything but playing full tracks back and resampling fun for sound design myself. So dont expect features of really most other gear under the umbrella of "samplers", many people do put an effort into cramming the most out of it still!
@@BlezzBeats interesting comment Blezz, i guess it would depend on what the pitch accuracy was on the original sample, then processing further on an sp404a, weird, thanks for the heads up, i’ve got the Digitone and appreciate the stereo inputs but i hate to see features not used, like the 4 extra MIDI tracks, maybe use Roland MC101 with 4 drum tracks set up (4x16 individual samples w/FX) triggered by Digitone’s 4 track MIDI sequencer, i don’t think the Digitone or MC101 would have MIDI song position pointer because of their pattern based structure, that would be the same, by the way for any MASCHINE hardware, it’s all pattern based, but the Maschine+ is lookin’ real good!
@@freejazzbone Essentially yes I mean you literally can't spread out the pitch in semitones and play stuff that way, for sounds that have little to no timbre characteristics you can use the pitch effect and resample it to every pad you want a different tone on, for other sounds the algorhithm just doesn't work well for that purpose. Its real fun to mess sounds up with though. What about the Digitakt couple duo? 😁
@@BlezzBeats yeah i know. But I'm used to edit audio in film editing software and in daws like logic Pro tools and co where the waveform is visible in what we could say is the equivalent of the song view. And it's damned practical and quick... As is trimming clips and adding cross-fade there... Basic editing functions. Bring that to machine and I don't need to move to another software. For now it's better and there is hope... But I still need to record audio in logic... The point is that logic in it's last iteration now has beat and loop production tools...it's a potential machine and live complete killer... If ever Apple released a dedicated controller... Woooo
@@BlezzBeats Im still figuring it out.. In theory recording a melody as audio into a 16 bar clip and then turning a drum pattern into a clip so I can mute and unmute drums wherever it feels right would be a super simple way to write full songs but I'm not sure how to do this in the arranger yet as I'm still a noob scouring youtube.. lol
To me the only time I'd use clips is when I want something to cross sections in the arranter or routing audio to a group to record automations that span across several sections. Patterns are quicker to manage imo and when having a long doubled pattern or clip using erase is equivalent to "recording mutes". It could be perfect for remixing acapellas but the automatic splitting of clips when you make a new section makes it a bit weird.
Blezzy, what's up man. Don't be talking about Milli Vanilli like that. Them boys could sing. Don't you know it's true? Just messing about, anyway I got some unedited/uncut songs just messing about from the Roland JD-XI if you or any of the subscribers want to check them out, right here on the channel, mistakes and all, just warm up songs before the polished up version. I'm trying to get over my perfectionism, so this is something that I have to do, even though I kind of cringe putting it out, recorded on my phone's speaker and all. It's lovely. Welcome!...SBN
@@BlezzBeats yes, I do. btw, do you have bugs withs the maschine+ ? like instruments not playing, project loading incorrectly, ... ? (I even had a hard reboot when loading a project). I got mine yesterday and I keep having troubles here and there edit : I wrote to support, they told me to reset the maschine+ and it seems to works properly now.
Blezz your hertz for letting us know a secret on song mode in detailz! Yes, loop a piece and loop the full thing is needed (I like to make a song and listen to it 20 times in a row, myself, right from the device. Cuz if you can't handle your sht in a loop how anyone else would LOL though it does not guarante anyone would, but you can enjoy it 20 times without rendering and fool yourself you made something worth even rendering). Reference scenes, and uniquify, and clip across the whole do, to make a remix (or drop your own song, done anywhere and play over it) is super important. Kudos to NI making us out of the woods in this area. Finally deep enough control over ideasarranger. Kudos to you talking about what's important, BB!
You're the first vid that has shown the new song mode / clip mode (19:42).. THANK YOU BLEZZ!!! Please make another detailed video showing more of the Clip and arranging functions, if you can. All of us would love to see more about this. Thanks again!
Haha wow thought I was late on the ball by now! Thanks for the support Chris! I might not make it this week but will definitely do that if it's still worth it when I get around to it.
X 2 on this comment. Been HANGING for the new arranger, so keen to know all about it.
looking to upgrade to either a MK3 or maybe a +, so keen to learn as much about the full workflow as possible.
hey , Is there a way for having a quantization when change pattern or scene or clip? I play Live and I need this functions that is in other groovebox ( Force, Elektron Mc707 ... ) the change is immediate here, doesn't wait finish the loop of last clip .. 😔
Hey! Yes, when you hold down Scene make sure that Retrigger is not turned on. If it's still not working right, check out your quantization settings for Perform and Arrange in grid (Shift + grid)
Thanks for this, it will be a big help when I get mine. The whole clips, ideas, patterns, etc is a bit confusing atm seems a lot simpler coming from MPC that really just has sequences.. 🤔
Hey man, haha.. all the maschine + content thats out there will be watched 🤓🤓🤓
@@Marrcello yes 😂 study every video vigorously!
Interesting! I ordered an MPC One recently and I find it way more complicated to dive through all of it` s menues. Tried to do a mixdown today on a beat I did with the One. Way to many options to place my FX. My brain is totally wired to the hiarchies of Madchine ;)!!! Gonna stick with my MK3.
You can get used to either one its just a little learning curve bump to get past, I did find the Maschine a bit more intuitive starting out than the mpcs past the 2500 for the same reason though. I really love that the sounds are on the pad they're assigned to no matter how you sequence it instead of assigning it to a program and keeping track of the tracks, the scene/pattern references make for less backtracking if you decide to build more on a beat.
@@MakingMadBeats well this makes me eager and excited that I may gain a faster workflow with the maschine.
I'm only 4 minutes in, but so far this tutorial is the best I've found for the Maschine+ (And I've watched a lot of them now). Already learned so much! Thank you!! Almost all the MKIII videos use the GUI in some way and I don't hook mine up to a computer.
Glad it helped!
NI knew what they were doing when they sent you the M+. Solid solid demo/tutorial. I know you’re gonna help sell heaps of Macheenas.
My G! I do hope they sell a good amount, honestly I'm just happy to have it cause it's been a fantasy for a loong time!
You are the only beat maker on RUclips I can tolerate watching cause you don’t give a fuck you just talk about the gear and give information you don’t make it about yourself
Respect
Keep up the good work
Thanks bro I appreciate that!
hey, is it possible du work just in song mode whith only clip ? for exemple, 4 clips in groupe 1 and i have my drum in groupe 1 .( for exemple drum intro, drum chorus etc...., )...the same in groupe 2 whith my bass...etc....? thanks a lot
Yes it is!
@@BlezzBeats thanks ;)
is it possible to make time signature change in the new song mode ? thanks !!!
You can set the time signature in settings but you can't automate it as far as I know. Bars and measures don't have to be even in the patterns so for example if your initial time signature is 4/4 and you want 2 bars of 3/4 just make a pattern that's 6 measures long.
@@BlezzBeats Thanks !!
You are one of the best in your genre video's, because you seem so honest and you always seems to know what we want. Because of your vids I feel safe to go with Maschine plus.
Hi Blezz
Thanx for that explantion
How do you change parameters for a single note/event og a few - fx pan og putting on echo og another fx
Hi! For pan I'd automate the pan of the sound directly, for echo I'd make an effect channel and automate the send level
Hi dude great video
when I press events I have to hold down events otherwise it keeps switching back and forth
how you get ut to stay on events like you
thanks
Hey man! While you hold it down, pin it using the F1 button over the left screen
Really useful tutorial, I have my Maschine+ for less than 24 hrs and am a beginner with this unit. I found a few tutorials on YT but I learned so much more from yours. An excellent overview of the way the unit can structure music and some of the core functions. I'd love more detail on how scenes patterns and clips work.
Thanks so much!
Thank you for watching! I have a few other videos that clarify this more, ruclips.net/video/5YEqK_d9qgA/видео.html this might be useful regardless if you're planning to use Clips or not. If you wanna go really deep you can check out my full course linked in the description.
Nice Video - Can you plz,plz do a video on how export on the Maschine + I have been trying to export but, can not find audio from the export in SD card after i export the audio and i do not see the export audio in the sub categories(one shot, group, inst, ect,ect.). I'm new to Native Instruments..
That might be useful gonna look into it!
Looks like you cant right now, you could resample it and save it as a sound instead as a work around. The export is more intended for saving something finished onto the sd card to bring it somewhere else. Whats the use case, what are you trying to do with it?
Dude, excellent work explaining stuff. Should be essential viewing for all Maschine users next week!
Thank you Jef! How do you like it so far??
@@BlezzBeats I still don't have it... it's stuck in customs! :( For now I just get to watch your vids and live vicariously through you!
@@jefgibbons "DiiiisaaaPPOINTEEEED!" that sucks man I hope it gets cleared soon
Do you know if you can move more clips at the same time and how to make 1 clip into two clips and make two clips into one clip?
W the mouse on software you can do the multiselect ting and split clips if you place it between scenes and duplicate (which is kinda odd) but I believe some improvements are coming up soon.
Hi, im thinking of buying one Maschine +.
I would like to know, the Lofi is a plugin? Where do you see that windows.
I see on other video that was different with less option, it was near comp drive and filter
Bless up Mr Blezz Beats! Still one of the most clutch Maschine channels on YT. Thanks for this, maybe a few more tutorials on how you've been working with Clips to create transitions using both audio and MIDI would be great? Keep up the dopeness man!
Always bringing the heat, Blezz. This is great. Also, man, big ups on the Maschine Noobs Mastery School. Between that and your 8-Bit Breaks sample pack, my beats have been mad wavy lately. Keep em coming man. Also, love your hi-hat 16th note rolls by hand. Great stuff.
After update I’m not hearing any samples I have loaded ..the pattern looks darker or greyed out if that helps...when in slice mode I can hear the sample..but once I leave slice mode there’s no sound..what’s up with this? Thanks In advance
Hi! New Maschine+ User here. My DAW is Ableton Live 10. I have a question about Midi Out from my Maschine. I want to trigger my external Synths via Midi but I have no Midi Out Signal. I am no newbie when it comes to Synths, I have lots of external Hardware. When I connect my Hydrasynth via USB Midi it is listed in the Midi Out Settings in my Maschine+ but when I enable it I don't get a signal when I trigger my Maschine Pads. With Midi it is the same,no signal. I think it must be something in the settings I did wrong. Can anybody help me?
Select an empty pad on the Maschine, press channel all the way up to the left, and in output go to the midi page to select the Hydrasynth there
@@BlezzBeats wow, thank you! I didn"t knew about that empty pad. Do you know how I can send Midi cc and control parameters on my Hydrasynth? Thank you so much!
You can think of every pad as a track essentially. Never done that and I'm not in front of it right now, but you can set it to controller mode by holding shift and pressing channel. That will give you access to all parameters but reduces the Maschine to a controller only. Im pretty sure you can do it building on the previous though, can anyone fill in on this?
@@BlezzBeats in the walktrough video on the NI Website they are showing it, but no words how to do it😅
Tsupposed to be on the macro page, (shift+macro to set macros, macro to reach them) and I've done it through the software by choosing which cc to mod but not directly from the plus. It should be around the macros though, hopefully not looked over in the standalone migration.
How do I select individual notes in keyboard view? I only want to duplicate a few notes
Couple of ways to do it, enable select and either press the pads of the corresponding notes or use the knobs to narrow your selection down
Yo Blezz.. I just purchased a new Maschine Plus, and you even know how much I appreciate this video my brother. Thank you!!🙏🏾✊🏾🔥🔥🔥🔥
Eyy thanks for letting me know n making my day! 👊🏻 Have fun with it!
whenever I forget how to do something on the maschine+ I come back to this video :D
Great work BLEZZ !!
Thank you m'bro!
Best tutorial award
Hi! What is funny box standing near the Maschine? ®️Where did you get it? 😏
Hi! It's called Divoom Timebox mini - in the description as "the little pixel thingy"
4:16 Can you quantize to like, quarter note triplets? That would fit this beat way better.
Ahhh no I dont agree man big opponent of quarter note triplets, I cringe hard at that tbh haha. Dunno why.
What is it for a little light box right aside of your machine ?
Timebox Evo, there's a link in the description 🖖
What's that lil light box I want that where you get that from
"The little pixel thingy" in the description
Yeah I mean its in the description under "the little pixel thingy"
Is it not possible to just trigger scenes in ideas mode and build the song structure from that? Ideally you could perform out the song in ideas mode and have everything represented in song mode ready to be played back.
No, but it should be.
When they launched Maschine Jam that was the whole idea. And they even promised the performance recording mode would come soon after launch of Jam (there was even a beta version of Maschine that had it). But stuff happened and that never saw the light of day. So, no you can't do that right now. But hopefully with the development of the clips, that's where we're headed.
Can you rename scenes, clips sounds etc. in standalone?
I haven't found it and I've just asked about it, it should definitely be implemented there since they have the keyboard-function in place for saving and entering wifi details
Doublechecked and yes you can!
On my maschine studio. You dont have to select the kick -> unselect it -> chose the midi note and then move it. Just press the pad and move the right or left arrow. It’ll toggle between the midi on the last pad you’v hit. So In principle it should work on the plus
Good lookin out! Works for single notes. The jog wheel also works for that.
What button are you pressing while you were holding the scene button ?
At what time?
Around the 15:00 mark
Yes sir! i like it when it does the brain thinking for us. LoL. I like the one synthesizer note sound too.
Nice one here . Thanks. enjoyable to watch as always.
Hahah thanks bro!
How about some more in depth mixing and mastering. All the way to the end, IN THE BOX!
I think I have one on that 🤔🤔 Pretty sure but not 100% sure
Hahahaha! Respect for the Big Daddy Kane!!! That was dope and way under rated!😂🔥
Hahah glad you enjoyed my dad humor 😂
I use too much 3rd party stuff with maschine for the "standalone" of mk+ to be worth it. Does the controller itself have any advantages over the mk3? Or are they functionally identical?
It's a little bit more well built and fine tuned, but not to where I would recommend you get it coming from your standpoint
how can i play the whole song? it plays only the scenes. the manual says nothing about it. it's annoying.
Did you watch this video? I dont know where you're at in the process but make sure you're in song view and that your loop section is activated and covering the whole song
Does this tutorial equally apply to the non-PLUs model of the MK3?
Yessir at least 99% of it
@@BlezzBeats Thanks. I will never move mine around, so I went with the cheaper version...also I've heard you can overwhelm the CPU in the + model, and my PC CPU (Ryzen 3700X, soon to be 5900x) is way more powerful...I don't even know I will get that sophisticated with it, but I figured why not be safe...thanks for the video!
Whats the advantage of the Setting for 'Link When Duplicating' for Scenes set to 'Off'?
Wouldn't you want a duplicate to be a true duplicate that references the OG Scene, and still have the option to make it 'Unique' if you required it to be a variation?
What’s that glowing box thingy to the left? And what does it do? I want one!! Great vid! I want a maschine plus even more!
Thank you! It's called a Divoom Timebox Evo, it's a pixelthing/portable speaker. You can make your own pixel art with an app and display random communitymade shit etc. There's a link in the description.
Such great content man. This is just great. Got my Machine+ on Monday and while I'm pretty good at understanding the basic concepts of my new gadget this is really helpful in filling out some of the tiny frustrations. It would be great to get an explanation on tactics on why and when you would decide to create new groups of sounds.
Thank you so much bro! People seem to lay it out a little differently. If you're a fingerdrummer for example, you want as many sounds as possible within immediate reach so you would place them all in the same group. I tend to organize it like I would with stems. So I'll have one group for my pad synths, one for my lead synths, one for bass sounds, and even divide the drums according to how I commonly mistreat them etc. Kick group, snare group, hihat group, percussion group. For one it gets easier to work with patterns: soloing/muting groups as you're working on a section, removing them in certain sections, applying effects on group level etc. And for two it makes the export process much easier if you attack it from that angle from the beginning: just export the groups.
@@BlezzBeats Sorry I edited that comment as I wasn't expecting such a fast reply. After watching the video a second time it began to sink in. It's all about thinking which sections you are going to want to have muted at certain times and pattern lengths.
I just got excited that I can add a synth in a drum kit without thinking of why that might be a shit idea when it comes to arranging my masterpiece.
@@BlezzBeats Can you save groups using just the hardware (in standalone) or do you have to save the entire project?
@@Fauxleroid You can save groups and open them in other projects
I noticed the CPU load was hovering around 35-40% with just a drum kit and a couple synths. Have you had it choke out when just working on a project? Or does it just jump up on the first instances of each plugin?
Its normal that it floats around there its never on 0 really, but keep an eye open tomorrow dropping a video where I push it to the limit lmao
Blezz Beats yo right on! I’m so close to pulling the trigger on one of these. Looking forward to the next video.
is there a way to visualise the automation (or modulation) track from the hardware in the new update?
Gotta look into that but in my use so far it's been a ear thing
No, you can't see the automation on m+ yet only on the software.
Hope they implement a way to see the modulation on hdw in a future update. And also a good way to edit the modulation too. From what I see on Mpc one, automation editing is very nice on the touchscreen, you can basically draw in whatever you want. NI need to find a good way to edit automation without just turning the knobs in real-time. Some of the best sounding automation cannot be just dialed in by turning the knob and has to be drawn in.
@@alf1o1 yeah. After the improvements that are coming next week for the arranger (clips) my big issue with Maschine now is automation. It's pretty bad!
What's the light module to your left?
Divoom Timebox Evo, put a link to it in the description
can we do automation of fx across the songmode?
Yeah sure, either just have unique patterns and clips or to keep it a bit more dynamic you can route your audio into groups of fx that have clips stretching across the whole song
@@BlezzBeats thanks, thats awesome. Now it comes very close to all the things I would need in a DAW!
Hey mane, can you save projects as templates in standalone?
Can't find it, gonna ask about it
Hello! This device can be good for beginners or no ?
I wouldn’t say so, not if you’re a complete beginner
Blezz did you play guitar solo on The Strip song at the end with the macshine? If so what vst?
No that's a friend of mine @mathiaserksn on IG on his Gibson
Real question for the real beat heads..
I like making my tunes on my opz.. I love it.. do I need this or a live or something? Or is my opz enough? It seems like it does all this can but I'm not sure.. There is a reason this cost more then twice? Do I need this to make fire beats or is opz good enough for the studio life?
I'd like to rephrase the classic term, however it goes. It doesn't matter at all what you have if you can't make fire with it - It matters slightly more what you have if you can and know what you want to do.
Simple way to say it... the M+ can make more sounds than the OP-Z cause it has more synths and can store more samples. And your beats can be longer because M+ has infinity patterns and OP-Z has 16-step. I love my OP-Z but if you want to make a beat that has all kinds of thrills and changes, you would want a more complicated machine.
@@laineykat4706 infinity patterns is a power up move fam.. Pump the fire beatz fam yo.
By the end of this vid, you sound exhausted from trying to explain this shyte. Go take a nap Bro... You earned it. Great vid.
It was the third time I shot the video cause one of the cameras or mics was always either running out of battery, sd card buggin out etc hahah. Thanks man
Thanks dude
Realy good Video! Now i understood the Songview! Thanks!
Glad you're enlightened!
Really great explanation of what can potentially become really confusing! Well done!
Thanks Matt!
Great tutorial Blezz. Subscribed! Hey, just one quick question - is it possible to record either pad or group mutes into the arrangement? (Ie. to kind of subtract from the arrangement on the fly - to sort of be able to record a performance into an arrangement?)
Your tutorials / entertaining ways are Aaa-mazing !!! Fan !!!
Thank you so much 😀
Is there a way to create your own midi templates on the Maschine+? Or even import them over from a computer?
It would be so dope to be able to map to iPad apps and use this as a hardware interface to touchscreen synths(it would save so much studio space and possibly offer a more robust sound design potential than the internal NI Synth offerings)
Good point gotta look into that!
Blezz Beats Loopop apparently already tried this. Confirmed you can do it. There doesn’t seem to be any real limit to it- as he got bored on the 26th page of 8 macros trying to max it out
Hey there, i got the Maschine for 4 Days now. Is there a way to freestyle something without clicks of metronome & without a grid or bpm? Because i'm also a Loopstation RC-505 user and I like that workflow. Push "rec" freestyle a bit & push again "rec" for an infinity loop. Is there a way? Thank you.
Nope unfortunately not, you need a set bpm to loop on it. I’d love that feature though, the 505 is so dope.
Love your videos so much. Its so entertaining..
Thank you so much man I appreciate that!
Anyone know what that thing is to the left of the Maschine+ lol?
Divoom Timebox Evo, link in the description as "The little pixel thingy"!
@@BlezzBeats Thanks, Bro! 🐥
Digging the tutorial .. I wonder tho, can you plug Jam into the USB and will it work?
I don't own it but maybe someone else can answer, I know KnockSquared was gonna check it out!
@@BlezzBeats No
@@BlezzBeats I checked online and it wont work...which is wierd... maybe it will be included. maybe not.... Jam is a weird one, i like it though! def a cool extension to Maschine. Hopefully NI supports it on it. peace out guys!
@@lokologico Will check what the word is, I know Komplete Kontrol is coming and that hasn't been implemented yet so there's hope
Thx for the sneak peak on M+
Thanks for watching bro!
Wassup Blezz, Yes... this is my 2nd comment, but I gotta tell you.. after dealing with the MPC Workflow for so long, I was struggling just to find my way on my new Maschine Plus. Most channels combined their tutorials with software, and I'm DAW Less, so it was confusing. You really REALLY helped me out bro, and I'm grateful. Because my brain was stuck on Akai terminology, so I had a hard time. I finally was able to put a structure together, now I'm so excited to start this process bro. Sorry for the long comments but I'm excited!🙏🏾✊🏾🔥🔥🔥🔥
It makes me happy to hear this bro. The honest process from my end - I love to be part of enabling anyone to reach another level because I love any ability that enables myself to express a feeling. Making a video like this - not as enjoyable as just sitting down and pushing something out. But the long term payoff such as a comment like yours is much more worth it. So thank you man I hope you have a great weekend and spread love to your close ones!
@@BlezzBeats Most definitely agree! Same to you my friend, God bless!!🙏🏾✊🏾
How’s the sound quality of vocals doing it this way?
99% depends on your mic
You can use the effects on the vocal takes though? Compression etc? Was thinkin of goin with machine plus and native instruments audio interface.
@@Ubermensch16 Yeah there's lots of fx and you can directly monitor the "track" or sound as its called in Maschine with fx on it.
@@BlezzBeats thanks! Seriously thinking of using it do finish complete songs and then master it elsewhere. Sorry just really want an opinion on this cuz I can’t find much info. But would you say that’s pretty doable?
ruclips.net/video/CXia3ZkE54E/видео.html this is an example of what that process could look like. Obviously not as smooth as on a DAW but I think its the best all in one box solution out if you really insist. The MV8800 is the only machine like it that gets close but there's a lot of dated aspects about it like the hardware and its library/sound possibilities (and its huge and pretty much a computer so its not not a computer in the same sense)
New subscriber, thank you for this excellent video. Just ordered one. ❤️❤️
Thanks for watching! Enjoy it 😁
Hi! When you sample from an external HW synth (driven by Maschine MIDI) and try to sample a few bars using the SYNC setting, is the clip spot on, or are tails cut or gaps in the beginning? Is there any way to compensate for latency?
Resampling and sampling audio seems to be no problem but I haven't tried it out with the midi sync, will put it on the to do list
Funny very funny bruh!! I been searching like a vulture for these maschine+ videos. Dope job
Thanks man I appreciate that!
Somehow the sounds in one of my groups is stuck together, so when I change the volume of one sound, I change the volume of all the sounds in the group. It's so annoying and I the cant figure out how to remove the connection between the sounds in the group. Do you know how to unconnect the sounds?
Either you're on Group level instead of Sounds, check the tabs on the left window, or you're in the Mixer on group level - press down on the jog wheel. Lastly if none of that works hold down the Select button and make sure you haven't selected all the pads.
@@BlezzBeats Thanks a lot Blezz - now Im unstuck and the world is a better place
Just Went through the process of opening a project in maschine 2.0. I think the best thing they could do is make Storage and Controller mode the same. I think the MPC Live is like this, go to controller mode and your drive pops up as well to open projects. As of now, you have to go to storage mode, open the project in maschine, save project with samples, exit storage mode, enter controller mode, then use the + as a controller with your project in Maschine software. Maybe i missed something, if so, hit me up.
Yup you're right! More seamless integration would be a huge plus, I tend to stick in one environment or the other right now
Ideas ended up being the one for me. it's actually easy once you have your patterns ready. ideas is where u create scenes and can basically arrange your music without all the time sink. The way my brain was taking it all in was driving me insane but it finally clicked. Thanks
Good to hear you managed to figure it out!
Great job. I don't know why NI doesn't do their job. This should all be in the manual but it isn't!
How can I slave /sync ableton to maschine plus
Killer lead you made.
Can you have a clip in different parts of the timeline?
Thanks! Yes you can!
Blezz Beats that’s exciting!
Yooo what’s good!! I’ve been checking daily for this update. Dayumn why don’t they just drop it!!!
Gotta iron out bugs n shit first
Thanks brother. You are a master teacher!
Thanks for watching ❤🙏🏻
Is the clips gonna be an update or will we have to pay for a new maschine 3 program?
It will come as a free update.
Heyyyyy, how u went back to auto pattern length ?
🙏🏻
Shift + pad 1 for Undo works fine! Should be fixed to be in the list there tho.. Anyone else know another way?
@Blezz Beats 😆yeah i delete the pad and create another one. But damned this should be in the damned menu ! Simply...
Blezz Beats btw what’s that led stuff u got plz ?
Can I buy a 1 on 1 session and for how much
Ooooh!! I'm gonna watch that while eating dinner later🍉🍻
That sweet watermelon and beer combo! :D
Thank you very much. One of the best tutorials!!!
Damn I can't wait for this....
Preordered?
@@BlezzBeats oh no no... I meant the clips and that stuff. I'm still on the fence about that. Aaaaaand... I just got an mpc500 that is keeping me busy.
@@Zer0Spinn Oooooooooh! Ye hell yeah!
Thank you brother! The best video out there for the M+
Thanks for watching and the wonderful compliment! 🙏🏻🚀
TBH I though the MPC Live was a fkn headache... this is even more but i found that once I understand how to do the sh*t i kinda do things faster. With the Akai it was always a fkn struggle even after mastering the software. I love the M+ pads are so smooth like my Push 2... MPC sold...
elektron digitone and Roland SP404A or... Maschine+ ?
Very different options there 😁 wanna do some fm synthesis, some sampling/playback or both and 20 other things?
@@BlezzBeats ya, definitely utilize the Digitone MIDI sequencer to sequence the sp404a, plus nice stereo inputs on Digitone w/FX and still be able to piggyback something else into the sp404a rca inputs, but, i guess the new Maschine+ is a complete one-stop music box now, sounds great, great, humorous workshops Blezz! thanks
@@freejazzbone Thanks bro! I have to warn you about a big big minus about the sp404a though if you're not aware of it, theres no way to pitch properly in semitones. I'm not a big fan of using it for anything but playing full tracks back and resampling fun for sound design myself. So dont expect features of really most other gear under the umbrella of "samplers", many people do put an effort into cramming the most out of it still!
@@BlezzBeats interesting comment Blezz, i guess it would depend on what the pitch accuracy was on the original sample, then processing further on an sp404a, weird, thanks for the heads up, i’ve got the Digitone and appreciate the stereo inputs but i hate to see features not used, like the 4 extra MIDI tracks, maybe use Roland MC101 with 4 drum tracks set up (4x16 individual samples w/FX) triggered by Digitone’s 4 track MIDI sequencer, i don’t think the Digitone or MC101 would have MIDI song position pointer because of their pattern based structure, that would be the same, by the way for any MASCHINE hardware, it’s all pattern based, but the Maschine+ is lookin’ real good!
@@freejazzbone Essentially yes I mean you literally can't spread out the pitch in semitones and play stuff that way, for sounds that have little to no timbre characteristics you can use the pitch effect and resample it to every pad you want a different tone on, for other sounds the algorhithm just doesn't work well for that purpose. Its real fun to mess sounds up with though. What about the Digitakt couple duo? 😁
this is my third vid of yours im watching. love the head whip intro, love the skills but now you put Kane on the screen!?!?!im 43, SU BBED!!!!
I like the way you manuever that Maschine I def like your videos and Humor
Thanks man!
Ответь как называется светомузыка слева от mashine
What kit is it?
Brilliant Blez
Yeah looper vid plz !
Btw, can we split clips ?
Or do we have to do it by duplicating the pad and trimming it in the sampler ? (Like b4...)
🙏🏻
That would be a useful one-touch feature! Can't now that I know of though
Blezz Beats Gosh... and a proper visible waveform is the minima to edit audio too...)
Anyway it’s like women. Let it slowly come.
@@manunoyonify The waveform covers the whole screens when you edit them
@@BlezzBeats yeah i know. But I'm used to edit audio in film editing software and in daws like logic Pro tools and co where the waveform is visible in what we could say is the equivalent of the song view. And it's damned practical and quick... As is trimming clips and adding cross-fade there... Basic editing functions. Bring that to machine and I don't need to move to another software. For now it's better and there is hope... But I still need to record audio in logic...
The point is that logic in it's last iteration now has beat and loop production tools...it's a potential machine and live complete killer...
If ever Apple released a dedicated controller... Woooo
Thanks Blezz, this is super helpful!
So am I insane to only want to use clips after recently buying a maschine plus?
Not really lol, patterns might as well be clips in a sense. How do you use it yourself?
@@BlezzBeats Im still figuring it out.. In theory recording a melody as audio into a 16 bar clip and then turning a drum pattern into a clip so I can mute and unmute drums wherever it feels right would be a super simple way to write full songs but I'm not sure how to do this in the arranger yet as I'm still a noob scouring youtube.. lol
To me the only time I'd use clips is when I want something to cross sections in the arranter or routing audio to a group to record automations that span across several sections. Patterns are quicker to manage imo and when having a long doubled pattern or clip using erase is equivalent to "recording mutes". It could be perfect for remixing acapellas but the automatic splitting of clips when you make a new section makes it a bit weird.
I need the song mode update!
It's out!
Can you load .wav samples from the USB yet?
Nope!
Thanks Blezz.........guess it will be the MPC ONE then ;-)
Blezzy, what's up man. Don't be talking about Milli Vanilli like that. Them boys could sing. Don't you know it's true? Just messing about, anyway I got some unedited/uncut songs just messing about from the Roland JD-XI if you or any of the subscribers want to check them out, right here on the channel, mistakes and all, just warm up songs before the polished up version. I'm trying to get over my perfectionism, so this is something that I have to do, even though I kind of cringe putting it out, recorded on my phone's speaker and all. It's lovely. Welcome!...SBN
apparently you're the only one out there who know how to use the song mode. So, you know, thanks for making this video
Hahah idunno about that but thanks bro and I hope you understand it better 🕵️♂️
@@BlezzBeats yes, I do. btw, do you have bugs withs the maschine+ ? like instruments not playing, project loading incorrectly, ... ? (I even had a hard reboot when loading a project). I got mine yesterday and I keep having troubles here and there
edit : I wrote to support, they told me to reset the maschine+ and it seems to works properly now.
Thank you brother.
Epic synth solo
Haha thank you man
Blezz your hertz for letting us know a secret on song mode in detailz! Yes, loop a piece and loop the full thing is needed (I like to make a song and listen to it 20 times in a row, myself, right from the device. Cuz if you can't handle your sht in a loop how anyone else would LOL though it does not guarante anyone would, but you can enjoy it 20 times without rendering and fool yourself you made something worth even rendering).
Reference scenes, and uniquify, and clip across the whole do, to make a remix (or drop your own song, done anywhere and play over it) is super important. Kudos to NI making us out of the woods in this area. Finally deep enough control over ideasarranger. Kudos to you talking about what's important, BB!
Haha true that! Thanks for watching bro
Tack för bra genomgång av workflow 🙏😊