This tutorial is all about getting creative with your fx.
You can use the Maschine sequencer to automate, play, and even perform various fx changes throughout the song or in a live situation.
I show how to set it up, and give some examples of how to create patterns to trigger live or automate in the song for transitions and fx changes.
You can really create your own performance fx setup like The Finger or Stutter Edit using patterns and such to sequence your fx.
Fun stuff!
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enjoy bro!!
Amazing tutorial, love it. Great work again, love this site.
Cool, glad to help!!!
LOVE IT !!… I was doing all this the hard way…LOL !! Thanks Bro !
Hahaha!
Very nice! I could have used this one last night when I was trying to figure out how to automate some of Razor’s knobs!
Now I know. Many thanks!
awesome man!!
Nice tutorial.
The guy in the fireman’s hat is clueless! He didn’t even leave a comment.
ahahahaha, yeah lol
Thanks for fixing that.
I got you brotha!
Sweet!
Glad yall like it fam
Man, Maschine is wild!!! So many options to create tracks its crazy.
Definitely learning decent techniques from your videos bro.
yeah this thing is a beast bro! glad you diggin the knowledge!
I gotta say thanks SJ for all the technics. You’re cutting my learning curb down to months!! Seriously I cant wait to see wut else I dont know or haven’t thought of!! lol
Producer Stylzkeyz
That’s whasup fam! Glad you can use the info!
Yo, Joe The Guru! Thank You Family! I truly needed this tutorial. I’m tryin my best to figure out how to span a trailing delay or an echo effect across multiple patterns, if it’s even possible. Good thing I’m already bald or else there’d be a whole lotta wig on my lab floor. One question though, I know you get a bunch of requests for vids but some day could you post a quick vid dedicated to the delay/ trailing echo effect? I’m downloading your proj file now so I can play with it. I KNOW I will learn from… Read more »
Lol glad you like it fam! It gets hard in Maschine when you want to go across different scenes, give me an example of what you trying to do and I’ll see if it’s possible.
With that video, you literally gave the whole forum “the finger”.
yeah 🙂
nice 🙂
word bro!
Nice, Joe……… Nice……!
No doubt fam, have fun with it!
..iLL bruV
glad to help fam
Hey Joe I tried the setup you described (Input>FX, etc) but its not working for me. I’m still not sure how to route fx to my kore player to temporarily mute it via drawing the modulation. Is this something I have to do with the Kore Player interface? I did it one way and it ended up cutting the sounds I played with Kore completely or giving it this prolonged sound after the scene was done playing. Help!
What exactly are you trying to cut off? Is it a sound or disable/enable an effect?
Nevermind, I figured out how to “mute” the sound via drawing in the velocity. Doing this just gave me another issue- My trouble is the sound is not muted completely- I want to make a drop out effect-before it loops back, I still hear the last part of the chord I played before the scene goes back to the beginning, despite my drawn in “muting”. I tried shortening the length of bars, my midi events, nothing works.
I don’t know that the velocity thing will do it completely, when you say drop out, do you mean you want to fade the sound? If I know exactly what you are trying, I can mess around and try to do it myself.
I want to do a drop like you would hear in dubstep.
You mean like the wobble bass drop?
Like this?
https://maschinetutorials.com/how-to-make-a-wobble-bass-in-maschine
Perfect! I have not tried yet but I think this may solve my knob twiddling yet not recording thing when I have the likes of massive or razor loaded up in maschine as a vst. I was thinking I would have to record everything in maschine then export it to ableton to lay down any wobble bass or stuff from my vst’s I fancied doing while playing the track in the background. Big help if what I’m trying to do in maschine now works. I’ll be sure to ask if I have any questions cos you are the go to… Read more »
Ha! That’s what’s up bro! we REALLY appreciate it man, that’s why we do this, so everyone can get their creativity down man! NO matter if you brand new or a vet, we want to help. Really glad this stuff is helping you man, you know if you have a question just ask, if you need a video specifically using massive or absynth just let me know!
pps. I would correct the spelling and grammatical errors but I think I have said enough 🙂
Never enough man lol, we welcome it all, typos and all 🙂
Cheers bro. As my old grandfathers tattoo used to say, “Hands across the sea” underneath two shaking hands (he was a sailor and his parents were Irish, haha) He would have been talking about Ireland, but keep sailing west and we are not so far away 🙂 It’s a small world you know 🙂 Brilliant. Actually, If you ever fancy a vacation in Scotland give me a shout (or anyone reading this does too hit me up) and I’ll put you up. (Eh, not sure if that means anything. “I’ll put you up” means you can stay at my place)… Read more »
Awesome, yeah I know what “put you up” means 🙂
I’ll defo keep you posted if I’m not understanding anything but you really have it covered so far man….Nice!
Cool man, just let me know!
Every problem I run into there’s a tutorial for it already… that’s what’s up!!
We try! If its not here already we will make it for you!
Holy hell! This opens up a whole new can of worms! As usual thank you so much… what a blast!
HAHAHA, cool man, have tons of fun with it!
Would be awesome if you guys could share some of your presets you use for your drums..I’m sure you dont tweak your compressions, EQ, etc… everytime you load a drum kit in Maschine. And actually the mixing process for people like me who do not have a music theory background. Just understanding of what general FX in Maschine should be used at either the master, group, sound level and what per instrument/sample. if something already exists on this site about this then my bad, and just help point me to it or other sources.
I actually do not have any presets for this, as each track is different I just add what’s needed at the time. Most times I do not add anything, I just choose my drum sounds carefully from the beginning. maybe I will add some reverb on a snare, etc at times. or if I want a different feel I will add a compressor/tube amp on the whole drum group…but I definitely do not have a collection of presets that I throw on every time.
thanks SJ!!!
No doubt fam! Enjoy!
stacking the outs … man, that’s gonna make life so much better!!!
good news fam!
woa…. great tutorial… but I can see how someone still learning the ropes, like myself, could get totally lost in a mass of FX patterns…. trying to figure out what the f’k should go where. lol I did a search, but couldn’t really see an overview intro or intermediate tutorial on automation. No doubt it’s here – could you point me in the right direction of said tuts? I noticed last night when drawing in automation that it doesn’t track the value in the hardware display – is that right? Like if I make an automation curve on a reverb… Read more »
Yeah, not really any intro to automation, as this is pretty much it right here, you can either sequence it, or just automate it by holding the autowrite button. Using patterns lets you enter automation only during certain parts of your song, or for certain duration, instead of having it going all the time. But there’s a few others on basic automation, just grabbing the knob and turning or using the mouse. As for tracking on the hardware, that’s normal, and as for the meters, we’ve been asking for a mixer for a long time 😉 Not there yet I’m… Read more »
doesn’t that confuse you – not knowing what value your automation is at on the hardware, once it’s recorded? I guess I’m showing plainly here I’ve come from a software background to my first piece of real hardware. I’ll get used it no doubt.
Is this a common requested feature for Maschine? Or just me being anal. lol
Not so much, since you can see it moving in the software, but it would be cool to have it on the hardware too. But I can hear it changing and see it in the GUI so, I guess I never really thought about it 🙂
Sorry I’m late for class SJ!!! i dug up a old beat & needed some help. just what i needed. thanks for another tutorial!!!
no such thing as being late sir, that’s what the site is for 🙂
glad to help!
hi SJ,
if i want to add FX on top of each other, should I add input tracks and redo the procedure ? in order to stay in the same group FX i mean.
Yeah you can do it that way, it’s really up to you how you want to route things. Did you already watch the video on creating multi fx?
Also remember you can draw in or input automation directly on the insert fx if you don’t want to use patterns to sequence the fx.
Very nice tutoral, I’ve done automation in FL Studio and figured out how to do it in Maschine a few years ago and your tutorals confirm this. Many Producer’s that use FL Studio did so because of the Automation feature in FL Studio playlist, but Maschine is coming into it’s own because of people like you and Knock sq I like to say THANK YOU VERY MUCH !
Peace
word man, you can get really flexible when you start experimenting
Woww… that tutorial just showed me how can endles Maschine and our imagination or creativity can be.
Thank you so much SJ!!!
Awesome, glad you liked it!
Yoow, that drawin with he mouse does not work anymore since 1.8 (or MKII) right? You have to use autowrite? (I cant do draw with mouse i have to do it with autowrite?) once you have done it with autowrite, than i can change the “stripes” length with the mouse? Another question, how can you quikly erase tha autowrite you have done?
Thanks great vid 🙂
make sure paint is on
Lol, i was just about to type, i forgot to put paint on smh
LOL yeah uhmmmm lol that would be it 🙂
Lol, the mistakes i made today/tonight smh ,dont know or i should laugh or cry hahahaha but i just read the reason, Flux said, never go into the lab without eating, well ive been 8hours inthere and forgot to eat before so lets blame it on that hah 😀 now dinnertime (at 1am lol)
happens to all of us man lol
Yoo joe what would you do if you wanted to record yourself playing out the patterns? Resample yourself playing it and use the sample? I want to be able to basically use this in my track switching back and forth between FX during the same scene.
yeah you would have to do it in realtime since you can’t automate the pattern changes, you could use different patterns in different scenes if you want though
or you could capture it all in realtime like this
https://maschinetutorials.com/recording-your-live-performance-as-an-audio-file/
you could also record it directly into a daw like some of these
https://maschinetutorials.com/?s=tracking+out&submit.x=-1403&submit.y=-301
No doubt Joe. Big help as always.
everyone says it worked but i cant even choose internal, i dont have this option when im create a new group
You can choose where to route audio from the output tab on the group or sound, then you can choose to route it to one of the pads you have an fx setup on.
is there a slight change to doing this in 1.8?
You can still do it the same way
I cant figure how to automate de BP Filter. I want to start without the effect and then putting some, but it looks like theres no way to cut it off to hear the original beat. Do you know if can?
You would want to start the pattern with the filter all the way down/open so it’s not filtering anything, you can draw in a point at the start for this. Then you would automate from there. Or you can simply draw it all in by hand using paint mode.
this answered my pattern question as far as turning fx on and off for a specific pattern in the forums!! i’m pretty sure it did at least, just was checking to see the best way to turn fx off for one pattern and on for another etc…
There’s a couple ways to do it, you could also automate it directly in the pattern. I can do a specific video for you if you want, probably have it done for you tomorrow.
man i’d appreciate that so much, thanks saint joe!!!