User Guide

8 Creating a Song Using Scenes
Now that we have created a few Patterns for both our drum kit Group and our bass 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. In this tutorial, we will:
▪ Compose Scenes by combining together the Patterns we created in the previous tutorials.
▪ Get familiar with Scene handling and prepare our song for production or live performance.
▪ Discover various MASCHINE tools for performing live.
Prerequisites
We assume here that you followed the previous tutorials. In particular, you already know how to
manipulate Groups (↑5.1, Selecting Another Group) and Patterns (↑4.2, Adding a Second Pat-
tern). If you have any doubts about these tasks, please refer to the corresponding tutorials be-
fore proceeding!
Furthermore, we assume that while following the previous chapters you accumulated a reason-
able amount of Patterns for each Group (at least three or four Patterns per Group). If this is not
the case, we invite you to do it now — you will need them to compose your song!
In case your tutorial Project “My First Project” is not open, please open it now:
►
Open the tutorial Project “My First Project.”
8.1 Creating Clips in the Arranger
In this section we will prepare a set of Scenes. The place where you organize Scenes is the
Arranger, located in the top right part of the MASCHINE window. The Arranger provides you
with unlimited slots. Each slot can contain one Scene.
Creating a Song Using Scenes
Creating Clips in the Arranger
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