Creating Beats; Fine-Tuning Our First Pattern - Native Instruments MASCHINE STUDIO Getting Started

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Creating Beats

In this tutorial, we will further enhance our tutorial Project with the following:
▪ We will double our Pattern and fine-tune it.
▪ We will add a second Pattern for breaks.
Even though we have only dealt with drum kits until now, MASCHINE is much more
than a rhythm box. Indeed, it also does a great job with melodic instruments! For those
who can't wait: Please be patient, we will add a bass line in the next tutorial.
Prerequisites
We assume here that you followed the previous tutorials in chapter
Building Your Own Drum
▪ Open a Project (↑3.1, Opening Your
▪ Use the pads to play the Sounds of the loaded Group
▪ Record a simple Pattern with that Group
▪ Save the current Project for a later use
If you have any doubts about these tasks, please refer to the previous tutorials before proceed-
ing!
In case your tutorial Project "My First Project" is not open, please open it now:
Open the tutorial Project "My First Project."
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4.1

Fine-tuning our First Pattern

We will start by improving our first Pattern using some of the powerful editing features of MA-
SCHINE.
Kit. In particular, you already know how to:
Project).
(↑2.3, Recording Your First
(↑2.5, Save Your
↑2, First Steps
(↑2.2, Playing with the Pads).
Pattern).
Work!).
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Creating Beats
Fine-tuning our First Pattern
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