what's up guys this is part 2 of my machinae micro mark 3 tutorial in my
first tutorial I showed you how to set up the micro and create your first
simple beat using one of the included kits now if you missed that first video
I suggest you go watch that first so that you understand the basics now in
this video we're gonna add a couple layers to that same beat I'm gonna show
you how to create a group play chords and even use this court set feature that
I really really love we're also gonna add a bass line using the scale feature
that makes anything we play sound right lastly I'm gonna cover the step
sequencer which is just another way of modifying or creating beats if you have
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we've created a pattern with a drum kit that drum kit and pattern belongs to a
group I like to think of groups as tracks in traditional recording terms so
let's add another track or group to the beat I'm gonna add some chords using the
chord mode first press the group button you notice that the first pad is already
lit that's the drum kit I added in the previous video press another pad and
that will be our group for the chords click sounds in the Machine of software
and then the Browse button on the micro now you can browse the available sounds
you can also filter this sounds I'm gonna filter by instruments then strings
and then load the Boggart sound press the Browse button to get out of the
Browse function and then next press the chord button to enter the chord mode
machine accumbens even if you don't know anything about music theory you'll see
in the little screen that our root note is c3 we'll leave that as it is press
the right arrow button and change the mode to chord set now try out the pads
you can now mix these chords however you want into an interesting chord
progression you can try out the other court sets as well for some more
inspiration to get to the other cord sets press the right arrow again and
choose a different set we'll stick with major one
alright let's record a set of chords first create a new pattern I'm going to
set the pattern length to eight to give myself some room to record a cool
progression before it loops again click pattern again to get out of the pattern
mode and we're ready to record hit shift and record for the countin
all right things are coming together next let's add a base line press group
and then one of the unlit pads again let's also create a new pattern now you
can choose a base sound and the same way that we chose the chord sound but I'm
going to do something a little different I'm going to use a third-party plugin
this time you can add a plug-in by clicking the plug-in button then the
plus sign and choosing any one of your plugins I'm going to choose one of
native instruments plugins and I can find them in the instrument section of
the browser I'm gonna look for a massive bass sound let's load that press
keyboard to get into the keyboard mode now you can play the pads like a
keyboard now since we're playing a bass the root note of C 3 is way too high so
I'm going to turn that down to see one much better
here's a quick cheat if you're not a keyboardist you can configure the pads
into the scale of your choice press the right arrow until you get to type and
then switch that to major now every note you play will be in the key of C major
now when you play the pads it'll only play notes in the scale of
your song you can't go wrong let's set our pattern length to four and record a
bass line
now you can adjust the volume of the baseline by pressing volume group button
and then turning the knob all right bonus tip time I love using the Machine
a micro pads to finger drum a beat but there's another way to create or modify
your beats it's using the step sequencer now in pad mode I know that the high
hats are here in step mode I can see how they're laid out in the beat now if I
want to add more high hats instead of finger drumming them I can actually add
them on the step sequencer let's add them here and see how that changes the
beat pretty cool right that's an easy way to make minor adjustments you can
actually create a beat from scratch using this same method let's try the
same with the snare I know the snare is number two
there's the snare let's add a snare there and see what that sounds like
now you notice that after it finishes this grid the pads are not lighting up
anymore when I recorded this pattern I set the length to two which means you're
seeing the first part the second part can be viewed by turning the knob so now
it shows two of two
let's add some snares here Tess more high hats
now if you want to remove what you added in you can just unliked the pads
now we're back to our original beat don't forget to save your project
alright the beat is coming together I'm sure your own style is coming through as
you're following these tutorials and that's the best part
get your sound out there let people hear what you create don't forget to keep
making the music that you love and I'll see you guys later