10 Easy Tips to Help You Master Your Groovebox (Akai MPC & Maschine)

[@SamRisien]

Great vid bro. I purchased the Maschine and Studio One 3 at the same time coming from Cubase/Nuendo/Reason... Was confused how to move forward but now its clear... Master the Groovebox!

[@mistawil]

Been using maschine for a while but you can always find helpful tips on these. Thanks!!

[@JAv2305]

Great tips

[@urbanfabric]

Preach. Great advice for everyone who creates music!

[@hiphopteknition]

Great video. Very informative. These are all lessons that i learned the hard way lol

[@Altruwest]

Atleast you know though! Glad you found it informative fam.

[@jerzboybeats]

Glad I revisited this. Especially now since I have an MPC live.

[@vladau4676]

I'm looking forward buying a MPC live, what are your toughts about it?

[@AdventurousInsight]

Great Video!

[@kruz702]

Thank you sir, excellent info. Also, I finished the book. Very valuable wisdom, God bless you as well.

[@Altruwest]

Thank you fam, I really appreciate your support and feedback, Be Blessed!

[@PeterKeaneMusic]

excellent stuff - thanks!

[@soundbankzmusik4749]

Man this so valuable it also helped to confirm that I've been going in the right direction. I also am reading your ebook thank you so much and stay blessed!!!!!

[@MarcoCastilloWorld]

Great tips! I'm not new in music production, but I got recently a groove box Akai, so I'm exploring new ways to make music, thumbs up thanks for the video!

[@sosickhcdrums]

What an outstanding video! I’m really digging your channel and I appreciate the knowledge, insight, and encouragement you give. thanks for all the help man. God bless!

[@tequilanylon334]

Great comments! I will be sending people the link to this video.

[@garnetbey7400]

thanks bro i always talk about i need to become better with my mp studio, an watching this clip really shown me the real importance of why i need to, thanks agin bro, your clips always continue to give great info, an agin thanks for sharing the knowledge...

[@garnetbey7400]

all around good info, from start to end...

[@kb420ps]

Great video. This is all good solid advice!!!!

[@ellisdews4651]

Good stuff! Basic, but often overlooked.

[@MakingMadBeats]

Tip no. 10 is so true. I always catch myself tryin' to mix in my Groovebox straight ahead 😆... Indeed, it is so much easier to mix in a DAW. Thx for your channel, 1nce again!

[@JEFFMAN90]

MetaphorHipHop If you don't mind me asking, what do you use for mixing?

[@MakingMadBeats]

Hey! I use Logic for Mixing.

[@JEFFMAN90]

MetaphorHipHop Oh nice. Once I get good with my Maschine I'll probably get FL studio for mixing.

[@rogercooper5895]

Needed to hear this!!! Thanks a lot man.

[@dwaynemusik]

i just got maschine and since im so used to using a daw and working in a liniar way its a humbling experience trying to learn it lol your naming your parts is so true!

[@QueMusiQ]

I'm 100 percent the other way. Went from being a vocalist to BAM! Got a maschine like 6 years ago for my birthday. I was messing with it for like a couple years before I got a DAW, and now I never go to the DAW for mixing. Time as I'm done making the music, I've already panned everything, have plugs on everything, and there's just no easy way to just export everything (I don't think) with everything not panned and not full of plug ins. Feel like there should be a button or something.

[@jamilboricua]

QueMusiQ Try the VST version of IL Edison on you master output to track out your beat single instruments one by one or track out different patterns and import those patterns into Acid Pro for further manipulation of your audio files.

[@QueMusiQ]

jamilboricua I mean, yeah, but it doesn't seem to add any functionality beyond Maschine. I've recently started learning how to better use studio one to make things easier. Like, make the beat in Maschine, then import Maschine into studio one later for mixing faster. I just need to create better preset templates that align with how I work.

[@anxiousmindmusic]

I was exactly the same and now I struggle to go back to linear for a mix 😂

[@DylanBuckle]

I agree 100% with everything and thankfully I already do nearly all of these apart from the 16 levels tip.

[@SoundsAndGear]

Dope stuff bro as always. Totally agree with a lot, especially working in audio, you know that's my preference for many reasons lol.

[@Altruwest]

Yessir! Thanks bro

[@felixpersson9154]

Great video Jay! Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Regarding the tips, my favorite is "Save often!" haha love that tip, absolutely essential. I think I save every minute, hate when the DAW crashes ;)

[@fzgn]

Wow amazing perspectives. Thanks for the amazing points. You're a very smart man. Thanks for the inspiration.

[@ryanatx]

Thank you my friend for the great tips especially on the volume levels set for vst's. I follow a lot of what you mentioned just based on past experience. I'll work strictly in standalone and use Logic for mixing. Sticking with the same groove box is the best way to go. You get your money's worth and will be able to master all of the functions. I have an MPC Studio and I can crank out a banger pretty quickly just from knowing the software, menus, and button layouts.

[@rain_irl6460]

your videos are always very insightful man.....im about to buy my first mpc and ill definitely be rewatching this when it comes...thank you

[@TouchToneDSG]

I love this video so many good tips thanks for the knowledge man

[@georgedavidla]

Thank you for your knowledge, man. I learned a lot today.

[@lordtoranaga]

good advice

[@creativedecysions]

New here and I like your channel bruh, informative, insightful, good, so thanks.

[@TheNewCons]

Love your videos, man. Big help thank you!

[@MRTONYRAW]

Very Informative. Good Job Man

[@dresmith891]

Great Info!! Altruwest..

[@JW--wu8md]

Nice video

[@anxiousmindmusic]

First video, earned a sub 🖖

[@crazzylee]

What I found is that once I learned how to play the drums my beats concepts in mind came up. What I mean is that my ideas don't come across like beat boxing they're more adjacent to a live drummer. So what I did is I looked into how to enter and exit patterns like how a real drummer would do it. I've come to the conclusion that I'll buy a nice digital drum set or add triggers to a real drum set to put songs together for that not so perfect drummer sound cause there's something about that live players feel. Same goes for other instruments. I'm considering the EWI digital wind instrument too.

[@dwaynemusik]

i dont care what you talk about its always on point! i wish i could get your parlament ,funkadelic, g funk grooves

[@TElectrik]

thanx great advice! peaceluv

[@NutritionalZero]

As a like 11th or 12th point... Do we find it's better to have multiple tracks at various stages of doneness, or to work through a set of tracks in parallel (create beats for all tracks, then go back through and put a scratch bassline on each, etc.), or to concentrate on one track solely until it's pretty much done?

[@JAv2305]

What about a dj mixer ?

[@jamesw2831]

Very informative. I subscribed. What DAW would you personally suggest for a Groovebox user? I have an AKAI MPC Touch. Almost listed it on Reverb when I saw that the Groovebox DAW isn't complete

[@Altruwest]

Thanks for reaching out. I think your DAW choice has more to do with how you would like to manipulate the audio from your Groovebox and less to do with the audio source itself. I think if you're into automation of effects then you should look into Studio One or Ableton as you can do some really interesting things in both of those DAWs. If you're keeping it basic and just recording audio, you can do that with any DAW these days. I'd need to know a bit more about what you plan on doing with your DAW besides recording audio and mixing in order to provide more insights.

[@sub4037]

great advice homie!!! did it use to be Fmajor???

[@Altruwest]

Thanks fam, and yea some folks still call me F Major! West Up and Be Blessed!

[@magadan4626]

Yes, but with regards to board number 10 - when I did everything on groove box or hardware tools and start transferring all material to DAW, it turns out a completely different mix (song) .... Maybe not worse, but it's different, not like thought of when working with groove box ...

[@JEFFMAN90]

If you have a Maschine do you really need a DAW just for mixing? The Maschine 2 software has a mixer in it.

[@Altruwest]

Yes you still need a DAW if you want to do a proper mix. Maschine does not have audio tracks, nor does it have plugin delay compensation nor full scale automation. You could create a great sounding track in Maschine with its internal plugins and processing, but ultimately if you plan to do a real mix, you should not rely on Maschine. Mixing plugins alone would create some delay issues and other problems. You should always mix with audio stems because its allows you to work with static content as opposed to dynamic content which can change based upon the CPU behavior.

[@anxiousmindmusic]

Altruwest great answer. I 'pre-mix' in Maschine and waste a lot of time 😁

[@SteelerY360Nation]

Altruwest - Thanks 🙏

[@MrAnselm77]

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[@QueMusiQ]

Why the hell doesn't Maschine friggin' save automatically??!?

[@_VIP.NIC_]

Standalone with maschine? :D

[@Altruwest]

Yes as opposed to using it as a plugin within a DAW, learn how to use the standalone application first.

[@petergthecreative8461]

G[o]od Morning Jay! We appreciate those 10 keen insights, on groove machines (I'd argue that GrooveBox is likely a trademark belonging to Roland), but be careful that you try to utilize a pertinent device descriptor instead of a manufacturer's (e.g., Roland's) trademarked product line name, when you intend to convey a generic descriptor ( e.g., drum machine) in your otherwise, easy-on-the-ears tutorials you're creating and uploading here. That way, we're not distracted by the unnecessary GrooveBox GrooveBox GrooveBox GrooveBox GrooveBox GrooveBox GrooveBox GrooveBox GrooveBox GrooveBox GrooveBox GrooveBox GrooveBox redundancy in your generously informative tutes.😆 Blessings to you as you further refine this awesome channel. BigUps! -Pete

[@XHALE303]

Nice tips, but i didnt name 1 sequence in 30years, also because u couldnt on the old gear, & never caused any problems naming songs & sounds is enough 4me, but hey whatever works 4u

[@AT-eh2eo]

Lol rule number 1!!!!!!!

[@leekotvfilms5236]

Gems were dropped

[@christopherhinesel3341]

Show me what your talking about. Beginners dont understand nothing you said. Didnt even show the machine and what buttons to push or nothing. Video not helpful for a beginner.