Maschine Courses Website Launch

Producertech are proud to announce the launch of a brand new website, offering quality online training for NI’s powerful groove production studio, Maschine. The courses on offer range from complete guides, covering all areas of the software and hardware, to courses focusing on certain styles of music, like House and Glitch Hop, as well as a Producer’s Guide to Music Theory, with many more courses to follow.

The new site has a sleek look and intuitive functionality, working well on all browsing devices, such as smart phones and tablets, making it easy for students to access courses from wherever they are in the word, at whatever times they like. Plus, all of the courses come with accompanying downloadable materials, such as the Maschine projects from the course and bonus packs of Loopmasters samples and Maschine kits, with all core courses also providing written notes and the theory course coming with practice projects and answer sheets, enabling students to practice their newly-acquired skills.

The two latest courses on the site are made by Producertech head tutor and course creator, Rob Jones, a certified software trainer and accomplished producer. The first of these, on House production, shows how to make a lush, deep house track, from the initial beat creation, to the composing of all melodic parts, arranging and mixing the track, right through to exporting the final master. Visiting the course page on the site allows access
to both a free sample lesson from the course, as well as the final, completed premaster of the track, which was exported directly from Maschine, with no additional processing or use of the DAW.

The second course is truly the first of its kind, aiming to deliver tutorials that explain the main principles of music theory and apply them to the relevant stages of dance music production. Topics include song key, scales, intervals and chords, with numerous examples of how all of this knowledge is used to create basslines, leads, pads, arpeggiated sounds and much more. The course comes with comprehensive written notes, so students have a permanent reference to everything covered in the tutorials, as well as a load of practice sessions, with accompanying guides and answer sheets; these allow students to practice identifying the key of a bassline or chords sequence and then making musical parts to go with them.

The Complete Guide to Maschine is a detailed look at every aspect of the software and hardware, going through each of the main areas, such as Pattern creation, making and editing Sounds and Groups, working with Scenes, Sampling, using Plug-ins as both inserts and send effects, and also bonus lessons on using Maschine as a MIDI controller for Ableton Live and how automation works in the DAW. This Course is now fully updated to Maschine