Arranging Your Project; Creating Scenes - Native Instruments Maschine Jam Manual

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Arranging your Project

In MASCHINE, a song is made of a variety of Scenes. Each Scene provides access to a number
of different patterns that make up the song, e.g., intro, verse, chorus, break, second verse, etc.
One of the strengths of MASCHINE JAM lies in its ability to provide quick and easy access to
Scenes and Patterns, which is a very flexible way to arrange your song and maintain an over-
view of your project.
The basic building blocks of a Scene is a Pattern. A Pattern is a sequence that plays Sounds
from a Group, and is therefore usually linked to a Group. However, you can also save it inde-
pendently from the Group, which is useful if you want to try out different drum kits with the
same Pattern or different Sounds with a given melody.
Pressing the Scene buttons along the top of MASCHINE JAM will trigger a Scene and in turn
trigger the Pattern. Scene buttons are not only good for creating an arrangement in a studio
environment but they are also fantastic for improvisation during a performance.
7.1

Creating Scenes

Now that we have created a few Patterns for both our drum kit Group and our melodic Group,
we can start to arrange them together in order to build up a structured song!
In MASCHINE, a song is made of a variable number of Scenes, which represent the different
parts of the song — e.g., intro, verse, chorus, break, another verse... Scenes provide a very
flexible way to arrange your song.
Creating a Scene
To create a new Scene:
1. Select the Scene button (1).
2. Press the click-pads in each Group column to select the desired Patterns for this Scene.
Arranging your Project
Creating Scenes
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