Stealing ideas from presets
Maschine makes it very easy to apply your own creative stamp to preset sounds. Here’s one easy method Debate rages within electronic music about the legitimacy of making tracks using presets, and we don’t have the time or energy to get into that here. Whatever your opinion on the subject, it’s worth noting that Maschine’s Factory Library comes stocked with a lot of excellent, well-designed Sounds and these can provide a great starting point whether you plan to customise them yourself or not. Obviously, the easiest way to customise presets is to simply find a sound vaguely similar to what you’re looking for and then tweak parameters until you have something that suits your needs. However, as we’ll look at below, Maschine makes it easy to create Sounds that combine existing presets with our own unique sounds for easily-made hybrid results.