Sketches: Making Tech House live in MASCHINE+ with Dana Ruh | Native Instruments

Few people live and breathe music like Dana Ruh. This German techno powerhouse is not just a DJ and producer – she also runs a record label and vinyl distribution company out of her KMA60 record store in Berlin. Dana prefers playing over programming, and Native Instruments’ MASCHINE+ is the backbone of her live house and techno sets.

In this Sketches video, Dana Ruh crafts a beat from scratch entirely in MASCHINE+, using MIDI sync and on-board synths and effects like MASSIVE, MONARK, RAUM and the internal MASCHINE delay. She explains how to come up with new ideas using variation and using cutoff, resonance, and automation to give tracks dynamics and motion.

00:00 - Introducing Dana Ruh
01:30 - Recording drums in MASCHINE+
02:15 - Sketching a bassline in MONARK
02:47 - Using parameters to shape sound
03:13 - Improvising partters with variation
04:19 - Adding a melodic one-shot
04:46 - Adjusting sample length in MASCHINE+
05:48 - Using filter and RAUM reverb
06:30 - Recording effect automations live
07:01 - Loading vocal sample from USB

Check out the entire Sketches series here:
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