Hey what’s good family, just wanted to share another sequencing and song mode tutorial to help you grasp Maschine’s arranger.
I’ve shared multiple different ways to understand the Maschine arranger and this is one that I’ve talked about but haven’t done a video on yet. This one shows you how to use the patterns in Maschine to create your own “loop” or “pattern” track in the arranger so you can more easily lay out your songs. Say you have a 2 bar basic pattern, but you want it to play for 4 bars in one part, 16 in another, and 8 in another. Well normally you would have to double your pattern, at least one in the scene, to achieve this. Which is fine. But I want to show you another way that may be even easier for those still having trouble grasping how to build out your tracks in the arranger
Check it out and of course ask any questions you may have.
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Another excellent tip, good Sir. I’ve done this a few times, but never thought to save the group. You so sneaky!
I”m all about workflow brotha!
Clever. I think you might have put a man out of the plugin business. Lol
LOL, well it’s not an alternative for linear arrangement, but I know it’s helped many understand the arranger better. Having those visual cues to tell you how long a scene is can help.
That’s a good idea man! Cool.
Cool man, have fun 🙂
Nice tip. Will use it on next project
cool man 🙂
See this is what I’m talking about Joe. I have the arranger down to science but this makes all the sense in the world.
I’m sitting here saying….why didn’t I think of that? Genius!
My songs don’t come alive until I start messing with my patterns and scenes. This is now part of my workflow lol
What a way to start the year of with this one.
EXcellent brotha!
Nice brotha! Enjoy it!
Daaaamn Nice Video
whatup fam! hope you can use it!
OH wow…… so simple…. but this is a big one SJ.
This is a massive help to guys like me, who really struggle with Maschine arranger.
I’m still going to bounce tracks out to Live for ‘properly’ finishing tracks – but when you are in the groove, and dont want to leave the app, this is a real handy tool to start messing with Scenes.
I’m going to add this to my default template right now.
Oh yeah I understand, just trying to show how to work with what we have lol. For those that don’t have other options or don’t want to mess with another app 🙂
I’m still trying to work out a definitive way to organise my patterns on the pads, though. I always just end up making loads and loads of patterns, whenever I need a switch. (esp. when doing the Workouts) Maybe I might try something like 1 bar patterns on the first page of patterns, 2 bar patterns on the second page, 4 bar ones on the third – and any rolls, fills switch-ups on the 4th page….. that might work well. I just kinda need to work out a system, so I’m not constantly fishing through patterns to find ‘that one… Read more »
yeah, I hear ya, the more patterns you have the more organization you have to do
Oh, another cool thing you can do with this is actually place a drum hit on each beat using Note Repeat to create a custom metronome sound in Group H. I’ve been doing this before, but now I think I’ll leave Group H as a dedicated Arranger/Metronome. I just used a dull-sounding rim shot sound from the factory library to get something that is similar to the MPC metronome sound. (I hate the NI metronome sound) And if you go into Pad Mode, you can pitch up the first beat of the bar by a few semi-tones, so you know… Read more »
Yes indeed, you can even download and use the MPC metronome, alot of use got used to that one over the years 🙂
Yeah, I’m not an ex-MPC head…. but i just prefer a ‘duller’ less obtrusive metronome than the NI factory one.
I’m surprised that they don’t have a few different options in the Preferences for that – or, hey, an option to simply select a sound from your own personal sample library.
Maschine 2.0 biz, for real……
‘NEW Maschine 2.0 – now with the new and improved ULTRA METRONOME!’
Forget timestretch, the real heads need that metronome!
Hahahahaha, classic!
SUPER NICE! I was just thinking on how to work this out. Perfect and on time!
Cool man! Enjoy!
Nice tip SJ!! This was very useful.
cool fam, hope it helps ya!
Darn it SJ, just when I was getting use to arranging all in one group you add another number to the multiplication table you are a Maschine Houdini my friend. With so many options to choose from is any better than another LOL!!
Hahahaha, man so many ways bro, I just want to show them all. And honestly I use em all, just depends on how I’m feeling. Sometimes I work in one group, sometimes I work like this, I just roll with it however it comes fam!
Good Tip BraH, Thanks.
No doubt fam!!! Hope it’s useful!
Nice tip indeed. Do you have any way around using up a whole group with this Control Track?
You could “embed” it into your arrangement. Meaning, since a scene is only going to play as long as it’s longest pattern, you can just make all your patterns on the numbers corrorsponding to their bar length. So make all your 1 bar patterns on pattern 1, all your 2 bar patterns on pattern 2, all 4 bar patterns on pattern 4, etc.
Yeah, that’ll be the solution. To just find the most simple pattern in my groups and double it out to make the 16-bar pattern, etc. I’m sure I’m gonna use this method a whole lot, so thanks.
No problem bro! Check this one out
https://maschinetutorials.com/maschine-song-mode-tutorial-using-scenes
Dope Joe!
Enjoy fam!
Thank you for this brilliant workaround for a baffling oversight on NI’s part.
Glad to help man 🙂
Not sure what the oversight is, it’s just the way it’s done in Maschine, it’s pretty flexible actually 🙂
You could do it directly on a sound if you don’t want to route multiple sounds to it as well, and automated directly in the group you want to use it in.
Very flexible
Nice one SaintJoe.I like that real smooth and easy.
Cool fam glad you dig it
Great explanations!
Cool, glad to help!
This is a super tip and a time saver when it comes to arranging through the DAW. Always used to wonder how to omit the initial 8 bars and then have the corresponding scene run for as many bars. This is a cool tip bro.
BTW, I just came into the MT fam starting y’day 🙂
Word, welcome to the fam! Glad to have ya!
Let us know if you have any questions
So if I don’t want any sound for the 1st 8 bars, I could typically have Scene 1 play an empty 8 bar on the Group H(say pattern 1 with no midi note on it). Am i right ??
Yep, because group H will be a pattern, it just doesn’t have any sounds in it, so you could use it to create that blank space if you wish.
This way I think we can make all the group patterns to just one bar and have it controlled through the Song Track for the # of bars desired.
Yep, exactly!
How to arrange tracks in maschine
Check this out https://maschinetutorials.com/maschine-song-mode-tutorial-using-scenes/
I didn’t even watch the whole video but at 2:30 I was like this dude is always thinking outside the box! Dope Idea! so many different ways to do things, especially with the hush vst. I can’t settle on 1, so i might just relent to dumping the audio in my daw and doing my arrangement there..idk…
Yeah man so many different ways to work I just like to give people options
Hi, how do I make a scene or pattern less than 1 bar long?
Thank you
in the pattern section you can turn the pattern length to “off” check this video
https://maschinetutorials.com/understanding-and-using-the-various-pattern-length-settings/
nice thanks again
no problem fam
Nice one
Glad to help fam!
hey my man! nice video ! i was wondering ehwn finished with arrangment of the track, how do i record the final version with the maschine studio? or do i need to get some other program? i also have komplete 9 full version and dont know if theres something in ther! i know theres mastering programs so i wonderd how to record? please holla at me! edwardgarden@ymail.com ! good lookin out !
You can export it from the file menu as a complete audio file https://maschinetutorials.com/how-to-export-your-audio-from-scenes-groups-and-individual-sounds/
Re live sets- I’m sure there are many ways to tackle a live set but please advise how you would set up If you want to play a number of tracks seemlessly in a live set without having to quit and load files?
I assume that the whole set must be written as 1 arrangement in order to do this or do you hve any better suggestions which provide the increased options and freedom of accessing multiple arrangements on the fly.
Thanks
You would have to either do it as one big long arrangement, which isn’t ideal because you can’t have different tempos, so the other option is using multiple instances of the plugin in a DAW
Hope it doesn’t matter too much that my question was completely unrelated to your last comment!
No worries fam LOL
So if you didn’t do that a live set will always be restricted to the one arrangement with its groups scenes and patterns?
I recognise that the variations will be infinite but you are essentially restricted to the sounds included on your one bank of groups?
Right, if you’re in 1.8 then you only have 8 groups, in 2.0 you have unlimited groups. If you are playing premade projects that require different tempos then using it as a plugin in a daw is the best way, but if you are just triggering your sounds live and the tempo is determined by your own playing, then you could set it up with all the sounds you need in your project.