Creating Beats; Fine-Tuning Your First Pattern - Native Instruments MASCHINE MK3 Getting Started

5

Creating Beats

In this tutorial, you will further enhance your tutorial Project and do the following:
▪ Double your Pattern and fine-tune it.
▪ Add a second Pattern for breaks.
Even though you 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, you will add a bass line in the next tutorial.
Prerequisites
It is assumed here that you followed the previous tutorials in chapter
Building Your Own Drum
▪ Open a Project (↑4.1, 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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5.1

Fine-tuning your First Pattern

You will start by improving your first Pattern using some of the powerful editing features of
MASCHINE.
Kit. In particular, you already know how to:
Project).
(↑3.3, Recording Your First
(↑3.5, Saving Your
↑3, First Steps
(↑3.2, Playing with the Pads).
Pattern).
Project).
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