Yo what’s good MT Fam!
This is just another one of those little “things” that I use and wanted to share.
I usually layer my sounds, even if it’s the same sound, especially with synths, brass, and strings. I’ll just play the same riff at lower or higher octaves.
I want to show you a quick way to do this if you’re like me and sometimes you can’t play the riff exactly the same again lol.
Or if you just want to quickly change the octave of a synth into a bassline, or make it higher because it fits better with the track.
have fun!
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I think that was a good tip man! Thanks!
Cool, have fun wit it!
Ah man that was nice. Good one.
No doubt fam
Yo Saintjoe, this is why I’m here at this site for…tips like this.
I always wanted to do this in my MPC but never actually put the time into figuring it out.
This right is here really big for me with my production because, I love that fat sounding layered instrumentation within my songs.
We need more of these lil tip videos, they proof to be more valuable in my opinion.
Thanks!
I’m loving it too fam, just copied the bras track onto a new group to lay down a bass groove under it, moved it down a few semitones and bam! lol
I love sharing my lil workflow tips like this, they are so much a part of what I do I forget about it lol.
Nice Video I Always Wanted To Know How To Do That, Thanks SJ For That Video
No doubt fam, if it’s something you want to know make sure to ask us 🙂
solid tip thanks man! will definitley be using this a lot!
No doubt fam!
Really really good tip!
I’ve been layering but using the mouse, so cool to see the hardware way, plus I never knew about the octave thing (even though it is printed on maschine, lol)
I think this is gonna help me a lot!
Cheers SJ!!
Cool bro, enjoy!
thanx SJ another goodie
No doubt fam.
Another way (or additional) of fattening a MIDI sound is to duplicate the synth and detune them against each other, using the tune knob in the sampler section (holding down shift gives a finer resolution). This technique can be cpu intensive, though. Of course there’s always the option of resampling. Then there’s an AUDIO file to mess around with. Duplicate the audio to another track/pad, pan them left-right and play around with the sample start point. Instant Phatty! A third way would involve using a plugin, the simplest one being a chorus. But there are a number of others. I… Read more »
yes indeed :),
you can use the tune method here as well instead of the octave, I find sometimes using semitone instead of octave works for getting a slight detuned effect as well, which I love on synth sounds
Just a musical side tip from me:
When you transpose up 7 semitones or down 5 semitones, it will always be in tune :0)
Best,
Rob.
Cool, thanks for the tip!
That was really cool… thanks SJ … you’re excellent teacher,,, you show the big picture, then come back and takes us through step-by-step… that’s big man… peace
Cool fam, glad you like it!
Yes, I’m another one who has been doing exactly this, but with my mouse. Thanks for the great tip, Joe. Just a quick Q, from a mixdown perspective. If you are layering a part multiple times, across three octaves, as per this example, that would mean that the sound is going to have more frequency content across a wider section of the frequency spectrum, right? Just wondering if you did this to a number of sounds in your track (lead, pad, bass) – is it necessarily going to create a lot of build-up in certain areas of the frequency spectrum,… Read more »
Just depends on what you’re doing…it wouldn’t be any different than using a single sound that is “fat” and covers many frequencies. But I wouldn’t normally do this to multiple instruments, mostly a main lead or strings, etc…I rarely ever do this to a bass unless I’m using a synth and layering it with a deep bass.
Cool, thanks for clearing that up.
I guess it is one of those things that you might tighten up a little bit using EQ once you’ve heard your sound in the context of the other sounds in your track to ensure that it retains its clarity and position in the freq. spectrum.
Still, learning a lot of these principles, so everything helps. Thanks again SJ.
yes brother, no problem 🙂
we are always learning from each other!
Oh, cool – one thing you didn’t point out, which I only just worked out is that you don’t have to ‘Select’ + ‘All’ before you hit Copy – it just works automatically.
I’ve been selecting before copying, but its a bit faster now that I know you don’t have to select.
Cool!
Yeah 🙂
I didn’t point it out because I wasn’t using it in the video. Anytime you’re working at the piano roll level for a sound, you don’t have to use select unless you only want specific notes.
This is why I usually go into piano roll for most of my editing of a single sound’s data, as I showed in other quick tips for quantizing, deleting, etc.
Tips Tips Tips!
Love em SJ keep em coming!!
There’s lots of little stuff to share, sometimes you just need a quick lil something and not a long tutorial. So we trying to mix em all up ya know!
Share the deep stuff and share the quick stuff, so everyone gets what they need.
Sometimes these lil tips really can improve your workflow.
Man i like that.the MT fam will be pros when ya’ll finished with use.
That’s the plan fam!
can u say MT University.
word man, word!!
Yeaaaa all this time I didn’t know this because I didn’t like the manual that came with it, this is very good stuff thanks!
No doubt fam, glad to help
Dear SJ
Are there tutorials where you a bit more in detail in page 4 modulation envelope and destination and page 5 LFO and destination. I know what they do but in maschine it s a bit confusing how to use them in a creative way. Thanks
Pieter
no specifically, but here is one showing how to create a wobble bass using the lfo
https://maschinetutorials.com/how-to-make-a-wobble-bass-in-maschine/
Yoow this was exactly what i needed for a project that i dropped cause i could not layer the same pattern a few octaves lower 😀
Now i can finnaly finish that project into the way i head it in my head 😛
Thanks st Joe great video
Glad to help man!
Using this method you could also easily create chords couldn’t you?
Exactly! 🙂
how do you do this within in the software? (changing octaves etc? i got doing option with hitting the up or down arrows moves it a semitone but for octaves?
It’s a controller function. Or you could just highlight the notes and drag them up/down in the piano roll editor.
Hey SJ, how do you use octave up and down control on the machine studio 2?
If you are talking about adjusting Octaves from the hardware in standalone mode then press and hold the “pad Mode” button and look in the right screen on the hardware and you will see octave- and octave+ simply adjust from there by hitting the buttons above octave- and octave+
Press the pad/notes you want to move, and hold the note button while turning the jog wheel. I can do a video for you, will get it up shortly.