BeatMaker 3 Explained

If you like to produce beats, you can't do much better than BeatMaker 3 in terms of sound and intuitiveness. In this BeatMaker 3 video course, production expert Eli Krantzberg will break down every section and component of the plugin and show you everything you need to know to get started immediately - from selecting and playing sounds to mixing down and everything in between. There are also plenty of great demonstrations, so you can hear it in action! These UJAM Beatmaker 3 videos are designed for new Beatmaker 3 users.

Videos

• Navigating Libraries & Presets (05:40) - See how the updated Beatmaker 3 interface is used to navigate through the various Beatmaker libraries, and how the intuitive preset tagging and search functions work.

• Playing BeatMaker 3 (06:15) - Learn how to trigger the individual drum and percussion sounds as well as loops, how to sync the loop triggering with your DAW, drag and drop the loops into your DAW for editing, use modulation and pitch bend to influence the playback of the loops, and more.

• The Kit Controls (04:00) - Explore a sampling of the variety of processed drum kits available in the various libraries, how the sweep slider influences low and high pass filtering, how the ?Special? slider is customized uniquely based on the genre of library, and how to use MIDI hardware to control the on-screen sliders.

• The Mix Controls (03:56) - Discover the Beatmaker 3 Mix Section, which features an under-the-hood 12-bus mixing console, 12 mix presets to choose from in each library, and user-definable mix and ambience control sliders.

• Styles (03:59) - Learn how to choose between the different groove combinations Beatmaker provides. Drum performances are organized into 20 styles with suggested tempos, and broken down into song parts, to help you put together your own customized drum arrangements.

• Customizing the Drum Sounds (04:20) - See how to change the sounds assigned to each of the kit pieces; how to either enhance or reduce the attack or sustain portion of each sound, how to alter the tuning of each kit piece, and how to adjust the dynamic response to incoming MIDI velocity.

• Customizing the Loop Menu (05:10) - Discover how to mix and match loops from the different style menus in order to create and work with a unique combination/palette.

• The Mixer (06:05) - Learn how to use this window to assign a custom ambience to your kit separate from the mix preset, adjust individual kit piece volume, pan, ambience amount, filtering, saturation, output routing, and more.

• Creating A Custom Drum Part (07:22) - Follow along as several of the Beatmaker 3 features are put to work designing a custom drum part.