Elite Session Masterclass with Stoni Part 1

Originally Recorded in 2014

When you think of hard hitting hip-hop beats and with sophisticated melodies, there’s only one name that comes to mind. Stoni is a Brooklyn native who grew up listening to everything from Bob Marley and Stevie Wonder, to Prince and The Rolling Stones. Stoni is a Native Instruments product specialist and musical hardware trainer for the industry’s A-list music makers, using Native Instruments Maschine drum machine as her weapon of choice and Traktor as her weapon on her Dj sets. Stoni is taking music making to a whole new level. Watch the 2+ hour presentation Stoni conducted at our ground campus in San Francisco.

Part One:
1. Introduction to Maschine Studio
2. Tour of the software / Groups and sample kits
3. Explaining keyboard mode and transposing on hardware
4. Editing effects with presets
5. Loading up custom drum kits
6. Importing drum kits into various DAW’s
7. Importing outside samples into Maschine
8. Creating beats with Patterns
9. Fine-tuning samples, ADSR vs 1-shots
10. Loading up plugins
11. “Notes live in Patterns, Patterns live in Scenes.”
12. 2.0 improvement with digital mixer
13. Screens viewable on hardware