How to Use the Step Sequencer in Maschine [My Top 14 Tips]

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I'll share my top 14 tips to teach you how to use the step sequencer in Maschine. The step sequencer, or "step mode," is a useful feature in Maschine that I use extensively throughout my workflow when I am creating a beat.

It speeds up the workflow and can allow you to get your ideas down quickly. Step mode can also be used for navigation, note editing, and applying automation / modulation as well. I hope some of these tips can help your workflow when you are creating songs within Maschine.

Timecodes:
0:00 - Intro
0:22 - Tip 1
1:12 - Tip 2
2:05 - Tip 3
2:43 - Tip 4
3:21 - Tip 5
3:55 - Tip 6
5:04 - Tip 7
5:41 - Tip 8
6:40 - Tip 9
7:24 - Tip 10
8:15 - Tip 11
8:58 - Tip 12
9:45 - Tip 13
10:18 - Tip 14

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[EncounterCaneCorso]

Much appreciated. Looking forward to applying these tips.

[christianabels]

This was incredibly useful! Thanks a lot and keep up the good work!

[Mark-vfop]

Like your vids easy to watch, nice tempo and good explanation! Keep it up buddy! 👍🏻👊🏻

[tys]

Thank you!!! Thanks for sharing your knowledge!!

[rhythmace]

Tip 11 FTW! I'm always struggling to select multiple notes to edit things like length and velocity together, especially when they're not adjacent. Never occurred to me to use Step mode and the pads to select them if they are part of a chromatic sound, so that's a great tip.

[Daktyl]

great video! Is there a quick way to clear the entire sequence? thanks :)

[seanocean]

tip 4. thanks that was maddening for me.

[wlwhistlelucy]

Nice vid, very informative. Thanks, ✌️🇨🇦

[tomwatson]

Helpful vid, thanks. Does Maschine have a way to record notes 'step by step' like in Renoise for example? So without the sequencer playing, you hit one pad and that note is entered, then you hit another pad and that note is entered and so on and so on.

[zhukmy]

Brandon, thanks for useful tutorials!) I've known almost all of it except for tip number 7)

By the way, I use my Maschin+ only in standalone mode and I have even opened soft on PC

May you know the answers to these questions?:

In standalonе mode:
1. how to record and process a great voice (how to remove noise, what chain of effects to assemble, and how to configure);
2. how to rewrite macros;
3. is there an option on how to reset any parameter (when you screw it up with knobs and so as not to set your hands to zero, what to do for a long time, but press something so that it is reset);

What I remembered and haven’t found the answers yet. Thanks in advance)

[MrBattlehunter]

hey nice informative video, with the upcoming update i was looking at maschine again and i'm wondering, can you hold a pad slot then play in the note you want on that slot with another midi controller or add notes one step at a time? im not a fan of live recording or selecting a note with a rotator knob

[GrootsieTheDog]

Is there a live transpose key in Maschine? So like if you have sequence playing, you can "perform" the sequence by pressing pads to raise or lower the key of the sequence(s)

[hypgnosis]

I didn't know you did regular tutorials too, sweet!
These should apply to Mk3 too, right?

And if so, do you have any tutorials up that show how to make something like different loops,
(I was hoping to be able to fill up a couple pads or groups with a few background beats and bass that I could solo guitar and keyboard over, for live and performance videos)
If you didn't, would you consider making any,
(If Maschine is capable of doing something like this )

[plastictoaster]

Hello. Thanks for the tips. Can I create/move loops in step mode? For instance 32 bar sequence I’d like to loop 4 bar (white block that follows the sequence) and move it along? Something like in traktor

[GrootsieTheDog]

You could do a whole video on tip #14 - an extremly powerful way to create rich, comokex, and evolving patterns. Title it "Elektron-like Parameter Locks" i.e. step automation. To this day so nany Maschine users and people doing "reviews" or demos have no idea the Maschine can do this easily. In fact, the somewhat famous YouTuber, Bad Gear, just made a Maschine episode and said "I didn't find find a way to do parameter locks". 🙄

[GrootsieTheDog]

Do you know if its possible to control the four macros in Vital plugin with Mascine MK3 controler? Using the arrow keys, they are not one of the options to choose to make a macro in Maschine. With my Circuit Tracks, I just turn the knob and it maps. But I have no idea how to get one of the knobs on Maschine to control a vital macro - which can have several parameters that its controling.

[FadeClanGaming]

Do you have a class on lock state. i need to master it but the workflow work around hasnt clicked with me yet. any tips?

[dave]

I’m new to masculine plus how many tracks can you make and does it have real time replace and over dub?

[giorgosgargalas]

how i can have free grid and quantized??