Maschine Music Production Course

Beginner's Guide to Making Your Best Beats and Learning How to Tap into Your Creative Potential

What you'll learn
Students will interpret the influence of electronic music (New Wave, R&B, & Hip Hip), highlighting five songs that use a specific piece of analog gear.
Students will formulate an understanding of 4/4 time signature and its immediate impact with programming music on Native Instruments’ Maschine software.
Students will demonstrate a thorough understanding of the core functions of Native Instruments’ Maschine. Sequencing, quantization, and sample truncation.
With the use of instrument loops provided from our sound library,Students will demonstrate an understanding of electronic music by sketching out a “beat."
Students will deconstruct their “beat” instrument by instrument, detailing rationale behind why the instrument was used and its significance within the "beat."
Requirements
No programming experience is required as you will be learning the basics of electronic music creation within this course.
Description
Welcome to This CourseEngage…Inspire…Create! Those three words provide the foundational basis and motivation behind the Divided Souls Entertainment Maschine Production Course. Interest in creating music has only increased as the tools have become more affordable and readily available. However, school curriculums continue to phase out music programs while the existing programs fail to meet the students where they are creatively speaking. This paradigm disruption must be fixed, or music curriculums will continue to be more and more antiquated.Our music curriculum equips students with the tools via Native Instruments Maschine software for them to hit the ground running. Gone are the days when it takes years of instrument mastery. Having produced Grammy-Award-winning artists and dozens of musical cues for television shows, our in-house certified instructors within Divided Souls Entertainment & 12 Bit Soul continue to showcase premiere sound design skills, forging and nurturing B2B relationships with several of the preeminent music software companies. Our instructors bring this current knowledge of music software production skills to the classroom, incorporating current techniques into the student’s sonic tapestries.Simple and plain: kids are craving this. They want to be heard with a voice that’s their own. The Divided Souls Entertainment Maschine Production Course provides that and more. With students becoming more and more despondent with traditional education models, this program allows them the tools to become more engaged, incorporating visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learning modalities. With an ever-changing world around us, only seeming to change by the moment, we found a way to keep up with those needs and challenges as they move at the speed of sound.Purchasers of this course will receive all the drums, loops, and one-shots used in the tutorials plus a Maschine specific kit of samples from our music library at no additional cost.

Overview

Section 1: First Things First

Lecture 1 A. Maschine preferences I/O midi & audio

Section 2: Declutter

Lecture 2 Clickable buttons that enable you to show/ hide windows

Section 3: Views

Lecture 3 Main windows use with this software

Section 4: Common Editing Commands

Lecture 4 Improves your workflow by learning keyboard shortcuts

Section 5: Context Menus

Lecture 5 Menus that allows additional functions in Maschine

Section 6: Help

Lecture 6 Access user manuals and other online content

Section 7: Scenes

Lecture 7 Focuses on creating scenes for arranging composition

Section 8: More on Scenes

Lecture 8 Demonstrates arrangement using scenes

Section 9: Composition Arrangement

Lecture 9 Moving scenes around on timeline

Section 10: Mixer

Lecture 10 Mixing functionality in Maschine & I/O

Section 11: Aux

Lecture 11 Creating send and return effect

Section 12: Audio Capture

Lecture 12 Demonstrates recording your own samples of audio in Maschine

Section 13: Work Environments

Lecture 13 Setting up Maschine for recording ideas in your project

Section 14: Browser Review

Lecture 14 A look at the browser, marking sounds as favorites and saving sounds

Section 15: First Step

Lecture 15 Creating your first beat in Maschine

Section 16: Quantize

Lecture 16 Understanding how to get notes to play in time to a grid value

Section 17: Audio Plugin

Lecture 17 Using audio plugin in loop mode vs gate mode

Section 18: Sampler

Lecture 18 Using Maschine default sampler

Section 19: Sample Editor

Lecture 19 A look at Maschine slice modes

Section 20: Keyboard Mode

Lecture 20 Creating chords and pitched hi hats in keyboard mode

Section 21: Routing

Lecture 21 A look at how Maschine's signal flows

Section 22: Export Options

Lecture 22 Explorers Maschine 2 exporting windows

Section 23: Maschine in Action PT 1

Lecture 23 Overview of learned materials in this course

Section 24: Maschine in Action PT 2

Lecture 24 Demonstration of Maschine in action.

This course is intended for beginners, those unfamiliar but wanting to independently create songs and "beats."