How to Make an Uplifting House Track with MASCHINE | Native Instruments

Watch as Native Instruments’ MASCHINE guru Boris Mezga walks you through how to make a house track with MASCHINE. By the end of this tutorial, you’ll know how to use Expansions in MASCHINE, create authentic-sounding loops from scratch, how to make your tracks groove with samples and effects, how to master your finished track with iZotope Ozone, and much more.

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CHAPTERS
00:00 - Intro
00:28 - Creating the first sample
01:15 - Sampling the sample
02:37 - Modifying the sample
03:30 - Essential tips: How to make things groove
05:03 - Building up percussion elements further
07:02 - Resampling
07:56 - Adding width to the drums
08:50 - Adding new rhythms with a vocal sample
12:24 - Adding wide and snappy claps
14:30 - Adding a melody
15:23 - Adding shaker
16:17 - Adding melodic elements
17:19 - Sidechain compression
19:26 - Creating a bassline
21:00 - Adding synths and hi-hat
22:02 - Arranging the track
23:57 - Mastering with Ozone 10
26:06 - Outro

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[obiedecker]

Very well put together and inspiring! Especially like the „do not overthink“-attitude. So many tutorials nowadays question how to mix perfectly and which dozens plugins to use to get the sound surgically correct. This led to an analysis paralysis situation for me, and that’s exactly why I went back to use Maschine much more for my sketches than Ableton. Just having fun throwing ideas out, not overanalysing all the time and getting stuck in Mixing work while composing.

[KjartanAbel]

This has to be one of the most inspiring tutorials I've ever seen. Thank you NI and thank you Boris.

[zorglub]

This video sells Machine units much better than any Black Friday deal, we deservedly so. (Commenting as an MPC user myself...). Very cool production technique. So many tricks packed in one tutorial. I particularly enjoy how layering in this context doesn't get overly messy after a few minutes, the base groove keeps pulsing through.

[judddredd]

This guy is a freaking Maschine genius! So much info to take on board, his recent videos have been amazing. I love working with my MK3, probably my favourite music creation hardware.

[mefflecakes]

Man, I love watching the maschine series. Very inspirational.

[hisroyalillness]

No big House Head over here, but this was a maschine Mastreclass by Boris - I just couldn´t stop watching AND learning. Great Entertainment - this is the way to go N.I. !

[selektaian]

Boris is a Mad Maschine Scientist.... Who gives me inspiration to learn more about Maschine. Each of his videos opens up more options & tricks about Maschine.... Thank You!!!

[iamsocial]

Here I am thinking its going to be simple, nope. That was a lot to unpack. I guess I know what I'll be doing this weekend. Nice job, maschine is such a powerful tool.

[dimabelan]

Please more, it’s one of the best tutorial I seen how work with maschine 👍👍👍

[anomusproductions]

Boris never disappoints. Love these deep dives into Maschine workflow. Very informative and inspiring.

[stevenvictorparker]

Boris's Maschine tutorials are easily the most informative and easiest to follow. So many little tips here and there. Big up Boris! 👊

[ed_ms]

Gotta love that strummed clap trick, brilliant idea. Very good Maschine content has been released lately, keep it up!

[livetechsupport]

Cutting away to the computer screen showing the graphic layout of the pattern at every step of the way was very thoughtful and helpful. Superb video.

[skillmaticwayne]

Native Instruments, you all are not the company we need, but the company we want. You all are truely the gift that keeps on giving! This is something you won’t see from Akai or any other company! I love EDM and been dying to make my own track. Thank you for doing this! Happy Thanksgiving to you all!

[BorisRoss]

Boris delivers the best Maschine tutorials out there ! Super inspiring even as a daily Machine user I learned so many new workflows and tips.

[willtunstall]

Wow, awesome video! Great to see a tutorial that teaches fun and interesting ways to use the various features, rather than just the features themselves. Love the vocal chopping with the pattern length, great trick! Would love more videos like this.

[XDizzleMusic]

WOW! this is mind blowing work & I am now thinking of adding a MASCHINE to my House music production workflow🚀🙌🏼

[freddymatthewsmusic]

Thank you for a great video! There is a lot to unpack here, however you laid it all out. It's been amazing to see Maschine come to life over these last few years; and now it's doing everything I had hoped it would be able to do back then. Free Patterns, Audio Sampling, Editing have been very significant developments - also NKS - it's so great to use hardware for music production rather than a mouse. For those songwriters coming from another more traditional DAW, maybe this (oversimplification?) will help wrap your head around the Maschine workflow: In Maschine, a "SOUND" = track in a DAW; a "GROUP" is a bus / aux track; and "PATTERNS" in the Ideas View in Maschine are where you can create and build upon 'takes.' Cheers! 🔥💯 -Freddy Matthews, New Rock, Reggae-Rock, (soon to be some house music!) Much Love!!

[falazarte]

Maschine Master has spoken! All listened.

[duckmanVSR]

Keep posting content like this very useful ✊🏽🙏🏽