Wanting to begin Music Production, how/what to get to start?

[djdunamis]

30 part what now?

yeah, NI has bunch of tutorials for Maschine, I took the time to make a playlist if you want to watch.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF3314E7EBDF93116


After talking with some friends that use Maschine, I wound up doing my patterns and sequences in Maschine, then export them as audio stems (it's a feature with Maschine) to further edit them within Live.

[Ugadeee]

http://blog.dubspot.com/dubspot-ableton-3030/
This is the 30 30 thing

[ThinkAboutIt]

yeah, NI has bunch of tutorials for Maschine, I took the time to make a playlist if you want to watch.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF3314E7EBDF93116

"This playlist is private. It can be shared, but others will not be able to view it until it is made public."

[djdunamis]

"This playlist is private. It can be shared, but others will not be able to view it until it is made public."

fixed

[ThinkAboutIt]

It still says private

[djdunamis]

alright, I tried again.

[squidot]

30 part what now?

someone else posted their playlist but here is the direct NI one if anyone wants



edit: click watch on youtube and click on the set at the right called maschine tutorials with 30 videos and it will play them all in order.

edit 2: i found their direct playlist here as well: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE09FB7325305DE7C

[squidot]

I use Maschine in combination with Ableton all the time. I posted about my favourite way to do so here: http://forum.djtechtools.com/showthread.php?t=48092

Remember that you can drag audio / MIDI out of the standalone application or use the Maschine VST in Ableton or Pro Tools.

nice, i'm gonna have to check out that out when i'm ready for that part. thanks!

[squidot]

Yeah. I just prefer mixing in pro tools.

I've done scratch mixes with Maschine, and I keep things sorts pre-mixed while I'm adding parts anyway. It is possible to finish a track and mix it in Maschine. Depending on how you think and how you (eventually) like to work, it's not ideal. There are serious limitations, mostly due to how weird routing is, how limited group mixes are, how there are only 4 effects slots per sound/group/master, and how it does (or rather doesn't do) song-level automation.

It has serious shortcomings that make it a lot harder to get a good mix, mostly the complete lack of level meters. But if you wanted to, you could get a lot closer with Maschine than with anything else that works like a groove box.

How I usually work is to do the "tracking" through maschine. I use its sequencer (for patterns and full songs) for basically everything including most automation and some basic effects. Then, I just bounce stems from Maschine to audio files on disk…import them to Pro Tools and do the editing and mixing.

I find that works the best. A few effects (things integral to the sounds and some basic EQing and some preamp/eq emulation stuff) get printed onto the audio. PT has a nifty feature to normalize sounds to specific peak or RMS levels……plus clip based gain.

There are a lot of ways to work, and I think that works best for me……it separates the mixing and writing processes. Mine is neither the only nor necessarily the best. But I'd be happy to answer questions if you have them.



There are a lot of things to learn. I say jump in head first and get to the point where you're having fun……then start focusing on your shortcomings.

that makes sense and i'm already finding that some simple things (that were very easy to me in ableton) seem rough to do in maschine. i think i'm probably going to work something similar to the way you use it but with ableton instead since i already have that and i'm reasonably comfortable with live's interface at this point.

thanks for the help! i'm sure i'll be on here asking some more questions when i get lost and stuck.

[mostapha]

No prob. And, yeah, if you know and like Live, use it. I'm only a Pro Tools snob when it comes to my own computer…and I actually own Live as well……I DJed in it for a while, and I'd consider using it for Live PA if I ever did that……but I just hate it for production.