Maschine By Native Instruments

DJ Nu-Mark shows his toy instruments and lets us know why Maschine for him is the perfect marriage of the old-school hardware and modern “in the box” world.

Seriously, a basic layout could take you 5-10 minutes with Maschine, and a full production could be done in as little as an hour or two (of course that is if you knew exactly what you wanted).

• Dedicated controller with 16 high-quality pads, 41 buttons, and 11 rotary encoders for playing, recording, sequencing, automation and arrangement
• Over 5 GB of inspiring, studio-quality sounds with over 15,000 samples & 100 of patterns perfectly suited for electronic, urban & “indietronic” genres
• Extensive MIDI-mapping capabilities to control other hardware and software
• Works as a plug-in for any software sequencer supporting VST®, AUTM, or RTAS

Maschine Education Version

combines the flexibility of computer-based music production or groove production with the ease of a groove box (making beats) into one powerful creative tool.

Utilizing on board samples or your own audio files, MASCHINE’s symbiosis of hardware and software not only ensures a fast and fun work flow, but lets you easily turn your ideas into professional productions.

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General Interface Specifications

Width: 320 mm / 12.6″
Length: 295 mm / 11.6″
Height: 60 mm / 2.4″
1811 Grams / 4 lbs
2 displays with 64×256

The back lighting is also a cool feature, watching a beat play out visually is very helpful as you add layers to a project.

Maschine makes it a really fun process.

Make Your Beats That Are Awesome Sounding

Dubturbo Digital Music Production

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If you want to know how to make beats  then this will tell you how a new beat maker software is allowing people to make their very own rap beats, hip hop beats, house beats, dance or techno beats with ease.

Normally you would have a good home recording studio and/or music production knowledge to make beats like a pro.

The only other way that you can do this is by finding a good piece of software that can actually do it for you.

A lot of the software solutions out there are very good however they are  to require a lot of knowledge about music production.

Even with most software if you do not have any knowledge with putting beats together, you quickly find that you either can not make good sounding music or you will not be able to get the software to work at all.

Of course if you do some searching you will occasionally find some software that claims to help you make beats online, although a lot of it is very low quality.

If you want to make the sort of sounds that you hear in the charts you will need to find a good software which can cost a lot of money.

Dubturbo will show the complete beginner or the professional on how easy to make beats for your own house dance music, hip hop, rap or in any other genre .

With Dubturbo you can make complete songs, not just to make your beats and saving it in a wav file  creating a top quality pro sound production.

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Ok here is the link to Dubturbo but I do recommend this beat maker software for the price offered.

Check it out!

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Make Beats With Dubturbo Beat Maker

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or try ToonTrack VST plugin to make beats

Making Beats With Dubtracker Digital Music Production

DJ mixing for beginners involves playing a song, cuing up a second song, scratching it on the first down beat and taking out the first song.

Understand the basics of DJ mixing with information from a professional DJ in this free video on music production.

Expert: DJ Hurricane

Contact: www.scratch.com

Bio: Cliff (DJ Hurricane) Melerine is the Music Production instructor at Scratch Miami.

He has over 15 years experience performing, producing and engineering music.

Filmmaker: Paul Muller

Video Rating: 3 / 5

• Everything you need for professional podcasting, music production and digital home recording
• Get a full recording studio out of the box including Firewire interface, mixer, microphone, headphones, professional audio software and more
• High-resolution 24-bit/96 kHz, 2 In / 2 Out FireWire audio interface for Windows XP and Mac OS X operating systems
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Podcast Studio Firewire

Introducing the Radiolutionary FireWire PODCASTUDIO Bundle from BEHRINGER PODCASTUDIO comes with a studio-grade FireWire audio interface which includes the BEHRINGER Edition of Ableton Live Lite 4 music production software for PC and Mac computers. The package also features a professional 8-input mixer, high-quality headphones and a studio microphone plus cable, letting you go on air right away..with a Podcast Studio

Podcast Studio Firewire Bundle

After you have all the ground work done you’re ready to check your levels. Be sure that the levels aren’t pinging or in the red on the level monitors. You want it just below the red for a smooth but full recording with no distortion for easy editing. Make sure the beat or instrumental doesn’t overpower your voice. You want to be able to hear yourself when recording.

Now your levels are set and you’re ready to make a hit. I strongly recommend turning off all noise making appliances if sound proofing is not in your budget. The first thing to record is the hook because it sets the tone of the song. The verses should be recorded after because the hook gives off the energy needed to kill a beat or instrumental. After you have recorded the whole song, overdub the entire song keeping the best sounding recording. Don’t forget to ad-lib to add a little extra heat to the song.

After you’ve recorded all the vocals, its time for the fun part. Yes, that’s right, editing. It would be great if we all were rich and were able to pay a producer or professional recording studio to master our final mix. Unfortunately, most artists are not on that type of budget. That’s where an ear for music and a little extra effort come into play.

The first thing I would do is edit the levels of the vocals with no music, making sure that they all hit around the same area on the level monitor. Make sure the levels are just right and not clipping or distorting. After evening the vocal levels, mix the vocals with the instrumental. You want your vocals slightly louder than your instrumental just not over powering it or drowning it out. Once the dry edit’s levels are all even mix all tracks to one file and add a little reverb but not to much. Remember, the key is to make it sound as natural and as clear as possible. The final step is to normalize your new demo and burn it to a cd. Now you are on your way to getting your music heard, which will be discussed in my next article. So stay tuned!

P.S.

For all the artists reading this article who are not also producers or have access to beats and instrumentals, we realize how hard it can be to buy instrumentals on a small budget. Most of the time, it can turn out to be way too expensive for aspiring artists to buy beats with any quality. We provide that necessary heat to send your career to the top.

Also, for producers and beat makers, we have producer sound kits coming soon. All sounds are studio quality .wav files that are compatible with all beat making and production software such as fl studio and propellerhead reason just to name a few. Producer sound kits are inspired by Zaytoven, Drumma Boy, Polo da Don, Lil Jon, Timbaland, Kanye West, and more!!!