How to Use Everything in MASCHINE MK3, Beat Making Masterclass (Part 2) | Native Instruments

Watch as Native Instruments’ MASCHINE guru Boris Mezga walks you through part 2 of our epic MASCHINE Masterclass. By the end of this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use MASCHINE to quickly compose musical ideas and arrange them into a fully produced beat using its internal plugins, effects, instruments, step sequencer, sample slicer, mix view, and arrangement views.


CHAPTER 6: PLUGINS & INSTRUMENTS
Understand MASCHINE’s internal signal flow and how to navigate the plugins, effects, instrument browser, and modulation settings.

CHAPTER 7: THE STEP SEQUENCER
Learn how to use the step sequencer to quickly program drum patterns.

CHAPTER 8: THE VARIATION ENGINE
Learn how to use the variation engine to spark musical ideas.

CHAPTER 9: SLICING SAMPLES AND LOOPS
Learn how to slice samples and loops, different ways of executing them, and how to save your edits for later use.

CHAPTER 10: MIX VIEW & QUICK EDIT BUTTONS
Learn how to navigate channel settings, mix view, and the quick edit buttons to edit your mix. You’ll also learn how to save multiple mixes to compare your work.

CHAPTER 11: EFFECTS & AUTOMATION
Learn how to apply and automate effects to individual sounds, groups, and the master bus.

CHAPTER 12: ARRANGEMENT STRATEGIES
Learn how to use Ideas view and Song view to compose and arrange your beat. Once you’re done, we’ll walk you through how to export your track into an audio file.


00:00 - CHAPTER 6: PLUGINS & INSTRUMENTS
00:15 - Understanding the Internal Signal Flow
00:39 - Plug-in view
02:10 - How to Use the Sampler Plugin: Working with Individual Samples
04:08 - The Sampler’s Internal Effects, Modulation Envelopes, and Velocity Settings
05:01 - Vintage Sampler Emulation
07:39 - Editing Sample Waveforms
09:45 - How to Use the Audio Plugin: Working with Loops
13:38 - How to Use the Virtual Instruments Browser

17:20 - CHAPTER 7: THE STEP SEQUENCER
17:57 - Step Mode: Triggering samples in the step sequencer
18:39 - Pad Mode: Selecting a sound to program in the sequencer
19:15 - FIXED Velocity mode
20:02 - Swing Function
20:47 - Editing the pitch, velocity, and length of a sound in a step
21:16 - Selecting multiple notes to edit simultaneously
22:15 - Quick edit controls
24:43 - Effect automations

27:25 - CHAPTER 8: THE VARIATION ENGINE
27:57 - Sparking ideas with the Randomizer

30:30 - CHAPTER 9: SLICING SAMPLES AND LOOPS
30:38 - How to use the Sample Slicer
33:54 - Ways of playing sliced samples
39:09 - Saving slices and patterns

40:01 - CHAPTER 10: MIX VIEW & QUICK EDIT BUTTONS
40:16 - Using the quick edit section
41:31 - Editing a group of pads simultaneously
42:09 - Saving and comparing multiple mixes with the Lock function
43:56 - Mixer view
45:55 - Channel Settings

46:53 - CHAPTER 11: EFFECTS & AUTOMATION
47:12 - Applying effects on individual sounds, groups, and the entire mix
50:00 - Loading effects from the browser
51:14 - Managing your effects signal chain
52:13 - Setting up send and return effects
55:25 - Recording and deleting automation
57:35 - Performance effects

56:33 - CHAPTER 12: ARRANGEMENT STRATEGIES
59:54 - Ideas View: Exploring musical ideas with scenes
1:01:05 - Creating a new scene
1:01:30 - Duplicating scenes
1:02:08 - Deactivating scenes
1:03:41 - Labeling scenes
1:04:13 - Song View: arranging your ideas with sections
1:04:44 - Dropping scenes, patterns, clips, and automations to sections
1:06:05 - Listening to the whole song
1:07:00 - Clips: adding transitional elements to glue sections together
1:09:40 - Exporting song ideas to an audio file

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[gcmaudio]

I absolutely love my Maschine MK3, and these NI tutorials are probably the best ones to follow to start learning. It also helps that the presenter really knows his stuff, and has a lot of enthusiasm for it.

[johnnylonz]

Great tutorial, this guy is one of the best teachers I’ve seen on YouTube. Hope NI pays him well.

[magnuseriksson]

All companies that want their customers to love their products should spend a lot more time on these kinds of tutorials.

[gmaxxbln]

These two parts are for me by far the best ever explanation of using the Maschine controller I watched! …and I watched many of them since I bought my Maschine a year ago! 😅 Thx for it!! 🙏😀

[in_z]

As a long time user (almost 10 years now) of Maschine, I can approve these How Everything series to be the hands down standard reference for learning and using Maschine effectively and efficiently! Thank you Boris and Native!!!!

[matthewwright]

This video (and it's presenter - brilliant guy) have just given me the confidence to buy one of these. This chap is a true ambassador to your company, informative and you can clearly see he's excited by what he's showing us. Sometimes that's all it takes!

[yazansaifi]

These 2 masterclass videos are outstanding!! I wish they were released pre-covid when i bought my MK3.

Honestly speaking, i am not using my Mk3 much due to my frustration of the learning curve associated with such a creative, limitless device.
It tires me and makes unmotivated to juggle YouTube videos, some guys r good, some aren't and some just wanna make profit.
I also bought a course from Udemy, the instructor is informative but, i dunno we didn't click.

The manual ia great and well put together, however, manual are well used for microwaves and such.
No amount of pages can illustrate the greatness and capabilities of the MK3.

Boris, i cant thank you enough for both classes, they are well put together. The passion that you have cant be measured, your method of delivery, the constant smiles and the tones of your voice did not make me feel like i have watched a +2 hours tutorial. Again, thank you so much.

For Native Instruments, thank you for going above and beyond.
For the Tech and innovation team, thank you so much.
The team in marketing and social media, you are doing a great job. Your content, the guests you have in your videos and expansions are implacable.

[blacktminister]

This kind of lenghty, im depth video’s are great! Keep them coming! Daw-workflow, vocal-recording in even more depth, automation in depth, using mk3 and jam and kk together… Maschine is just so much fun, so inspirational!

[hypgnosis]

I didn't realize when I bought the Mk3, and entered the ethos that is "Native Instruments & Maschine", this thing isn't a groove box or music work station, it's a musical EVERY thing, like a true AI "brain" of magic and sounds !
Anything this capable is obviously gonna have a little learning curve, any new owners reading this, don't get discouraged (like I did, )
be proud, and just dive IN and get to grips with this masterpiece gadget!
Lord knows what NI will have in 10 years(!?!)
Great work, thanks Boris and NI 🙏

[TheConsideredMan]

Purely on the strength of this video and Part 1 before it, I went out and bought a Maschine Mk 3 straight away. I love Native Instruments anyway, but this level of detail and the quality of this video presentation by Boris is on another level as are those by Jef. We need good quality content like this to enable us all to see the massive potential that these instruments have. If this quality of detail could be brought to ALL of NI's products, instruments and software alike, my bank account would be empty in seconds, my wife would have left me and taken the kids too! Question is guys, would I rather have the Native Instruments gear or my wife...I better be very very careful here!!! Keep this EXCELLENT QUALITY of video coming, NI people...absolutely brilliant...😁😁😁

[afdanarcho]

I need a half year, to find out all this tipps & trix by myself. With this 2, 5 hour video i would maybe got my knowledge in 3 days. So please in future: Bring such teach-vids exact in THIS way as SOON as possible!!! - This guy is a really good teacher!!!!

[WillieJB]

I would love to see a series like this for the Maschine Mikro. Even though I love these videos, they highlight how 99% of your workflow can be done on the hardware. Not the case with the Mikro. I would appreciate a deep dive into what makes the Mikro different.
Boris is the Maschine GOAT BTW!!!

[dertbom]

I just finished the other one last night, and was looking for this yesterday, what perfect timing MASCHINE!

[larry]

This is the most educational and simple video of maschine mk3 i've ever seen

[CharlesK]

58:57 Oh wow! Theres so much that can be done. It blows me away !

[case_ku]

Around 12:00 mins in, I wadnt aware Maschine was capable of this,
(Time stretching a sample loop)
this is such a handy & powerful tool to bave at our disposal,
I can't see how i missed this,
(I have watched bits & pieces of all these tutorials, Pts 1, 2, and 3) but i usually just search out what specific issue i am having trouble with,
So i havent watched every single minute yet,
Thanks NI and Boris 🙏🙏

[mariopandza]

This is so good, I learned a few tricks that I thought weren’t possible, well done NI!

[joseluisrevelo]

I’ve been a Maschine user for years now and even I caught details I didn’t know or had forgotten about. Great videos and awesome educational style

[shahirmaged]

this is the most useful and comprehensive series to use Maschine. Great great great

[mptybeats]

Been rocking maschine since mk1 always loved the fluidity of their products, you can never know everything! This was amazing!