Sketches: Making techno 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