One of the things I hear from FL Studio users coming to Maschine is how much quicker it is to lay down a quick beat, since FL Studio has a dope step sequencer.
I agree, it’s very quick!
And if you like to work this way, don’t fret, you can do it pretty much the same in Maschine.
This tutorial shows how to “paint” in your notes, similar to FL Studio, so you can draw out your patterns quickly instead of banging them in real time.
I wish there were a few more options like the ability to “fill x number of steps” and such, basically some line patterns and stuff.
Maybe in a future update?
Anyway, peep it, I hope it helps.
Even if you’re like me and do your stuff real time, you may find, like me, you can use this for tweaking or embellishing upon what you’ve already done.
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sorry if you mentioned this in the video i didnt pick it up…when I tried to move things on occasion it seemed to only move it to the next step on the grid, whereas you could seemingly move them as little or as much as you wanted – is that just because you had a very large grid setting like 1/64 or something?
ie can you only nudge the notes to grid lines or as little or as much as you want?
thx
yeah I mentioned it, you have to turn the grid off to get more control, otherwise it will snap to grid. So when you want to move, just turn the grid off, then back on to place the steps 🙂
Just learned something new. Amazing.
It can add a new tool to the box man, you never know, I find it useful for really tweaking my grooves etc, ever so slightly.
ahh perfect thanks…was watching it over some lunch so was maybe a little too focussed on my spaghetti bolgnaise 😉
great helpful vid as ever
Mad…we know you had a Peanut Butter jelly sandwich… dont be ashamed..LOL
knock you silly, shoot, I be on some PB&J son, no shame in my game…may make me one today!
Awww snap, sauce in ya face son, sounds good lol.
LOL!!! All this time its been sitting there in front of me. I have made like MANY beats on FL so this is cool. Soon as I saw the boxes..I was like OHHHHHHHH !! lol.Dope
Yep, I think people realize the grid, but don’t really get the concept that it’s a step sequencer…maybe because it’s so blended in 🙂
Very quick pattern making and even more control over lil nuances in the beat.
i’m sure you boys could market those peanut butter jelly sandwiches over here in the UK cos we’re certainly not ready for those yet!!
yall don’t eat that over there? lol
C’mon joe, behave yourself – shy would we eat that shit?! LOL
‘…why…’ – that should be lol.
Lol, that’s normal over here…I bet yall got some gnarly “snacks” over there though lol. Guess it’s just the different cultures lol. I don’t even know who decided to put them together lol, but it works! ha!
I’d have to really think about it for a while to come up with something we eat that would even come close on the grossometer! lol
Oh wait… The Scots eat ‘Fried Mars Bar’, which is a chocolate and caramel bar, dipped in batter like a fish and then deep fried in oil.
It’s a strong contender lol Not for me either.
Lol I’m sure we have that here hahahaha. I couldn’t touch it though.
Learned something new today. Didn’t know you could copy by holding down the command button on the mac,
These lil tips makes a bid difference if you catch of case of OCD and need to do some intricate tweaking!!
Great job!!
no doubt fam, yeah, it’s lil stuff in there like that bro that can come in handy!
haggis is pretty disgusting food the scots eat too!
most foreigners who come to the UK turn their noses up at baked beans on toast but i love that!
When I was in London… they told me that Iced tea is disgusting. I was like WHAT?????
And another what moment for me is back in 89 when I was in the UK I was asking about comedian Benny Hill….at the time he was HUGE here in the States. The person I asked said that hes not even considered funny in London. I was like WHAT??????
hahah i think he had his moment + i think he was popular with that generation and didn’t have any repeated success later on (nor did they even try to repeat his shows i think)…guess he got superceeded by Mr Bean or some joker like that lol
Mr Bean son!!! Yessssssssssss lol
Benny Hill was funny in his day. Mr Bean is crazy lol Nah, no haggis for me. Iced tea is cool tho/
Hey I have been doing this from the get go. I figured most with maschine would want to bang there beats out. I like to play with the velocity of the hits to give it some change did not hear you talk about that at all.
Yeah me too, I like to go in and change stuff like that, been doing it for years even before maschine. I actually did briefly talk about going in and changing the velocity, watch again 🙂
I plan to do a different video actually showing how to use it and what ways I use it, this was more just showing that Maschine has pretty much the same style of step sequencing as FL Studio if you want, and it’s a good tool to have even if you make your beats manually.
I’m late but I hear some people in the mid west never had grits, my boss from Michigan and he told me he never had or heard of grits! I laughed and said GTFOH for real!
LOL I’m from the midwest I know all about grits son lol…why you talmbout grits though lol!!
When I hit the play button, the pay icon disappears, but the video doesnt start. It just turns into a black screen.
make sure your flash and your browser is up to date, I just checked in google chrome and firefox
You are changing lives with this video…
Ha dope! Glad to help!
Thank you fam
no doubt fam, glad to help
Two questions:
1) Can you copy + paste within this? For example, if you laid out an intricate hi hat pattern for the 1st bar, could you paste it onto the 2nd bar?
2) Can you select multiple hits at once to move around? For example, if you decided you wanted all of your hi hats to lay behind the beat a little, could you hilight them all then drag them back a little?
Thanks. These tutorials are a huge help.
Yeah if you turn off paint, you can select multiple hits. Then you can do a copy/paste or move the notes.
One thing about copy and paste, what it will do, is just paste them over the current notes, but then you can move them all at once to where you need them.
You can also do the copy/paste from the controller by highlighting the notes then pressing shift+pad 11 (copy) and shift+pad 12 (paste)