what's up guys this is part three of my mashine
micro mark 3 tutorial in my last tutorial video I showed you how to add
chords and a bassline we covered the chord progression feature setting scales
and even using the step sequencer if you haven't watched my previous two videos I
suggest you go watch those first so you understand the basics in this video
we're gonna add a melody add some effects to it make a song arrangement
and then export the songs so that we can play it anywhere if you have a question
leave it in the comments below and don't forget to subscribe to keep up with my
tutorials on micro and other music gear in an upcoming video I'm gonna cover the
sampling tools in machinae let's get started alright we're back to our beat
first we'll create a new group for our melody press the group button and then
press a blank pad click sounds in the machinist software and then the Browse
button on the micro now you can browse all the available sounds and I'm gonna
select organic bell this time I'm going to search for it there we go and I've
loaded it let's go ahead and create a new pattern and switch the micro to
keyboard mode so you can play notes and even chords let's record a simple melody
I'm going to set the pattern length to 4 and then I'm going to set the root note
to see - nice hit shift and record for the Counting
there you go now already that sounds good but let's add an effect to it in
the machine of software click on sound and you'll see there's already an effect
added called meta verb let's add another one press the plus button and then go to
internal and num choosing beat delay let's hear how that sounds that sounds
pretty interesting but maybe it's a bit too much you can adjust the parameters
of the effects right from the micro press the encoder button in and then you
can move to the different parameters that you can adjust I'm going to go to
mix and adjust mixed down
so god it's about 23 and that sounds pretty good now I showed you that we
already have met a verb on here but there's a little bit too much of it so
I'm going to hit plug in again and then hit the left arrow to find a meta verb
now that I see meta verb I can hit that and I can adjust the size or I can move
over to mix let's adjust that while we listen to it
I can also adjust the size all right that sounds pretty good now just like I
added an internal effect you can also choose from any other third party
effects from your arsenal all right there's our melody now let's talk about
scenes so far we've created one scene by
default when you start a new beat machinae creates a scene for you you can
create different scenes they're kind of like different sections of your song or
variations of the beat let's create another scene and then put together our
two scenes to start constructing a song if you look at the Machine of software
you'll see the first scene already there press the plus button to create another
scene you see our existing patterns already ready to go so you can reuse a
pattern you've already recorded but instead let's create a new pattern for
our drums of course you can do this by finger drumming again but let's just
modify our existing pattern for now you can do this in the Machine of software
by right-clicking an existing pattern and clicking on duplicate now you can
modify the drums in this pattern I'm gonna get rid of those claps you can
just delete things in the software but instead let's use this step sequencer
mode to just get rid of all the claps we know the collapse are here let's go to
the step sequencer and now you see where the claps appear let's go to the second
page there they are again now they're all gone let's play that next for this
scene I'm gonna activate the chords so I don't have to re-record them I can just
click on where the chords are and now that's activated for this scene I'm
gonna leave the other patterns deactivated so we'll have this beat
break down and chords and that's about it for this scene now let's put our two
scenes together switch to this song view that's the button right here then right
click in the header portion of the timeline and choose append I'm going to
first append scene two then in the next section I'm gonna append scene 1 now
let's play it and see what that sounds like I'm gonna take the loop off it
now you can always go back to your scenes and patterns to make adjustments
or create new scenes once you're done constructing your song
you might be ready to export it into a wav file so that you can just play it
anywhere or you can even import it into another da what you'll need to do is
click file export audio and then make sure in the range you select all choose
a folder where you'd like to save the file and give it a name and click export
that's it it's all done here's a bonus tip you can switch scenes right on the
micro hardware itself this is really great if you're doing a performance if
you click the scene button you can choose between the scenes that you've
created so if I want the first scene to play press that one and press play
I want to switch to the second scene
keeps it all in time which is really nice if you're actually doing a
performance there you go don't forget to save your project if you like this video
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love and I will see you guys later