PB Christmas Maschine and Electronic Live Performance Showcase – Sign Up Now

We’re excited to announce a special Point Blank Christmas Maschine and Electronic Live Performance Showcase at the Stag’s Head, Hoxton on Friday, 10th December at 6 PM GMT. During the event, which will celebrate the end of the academic term, our talented students from across our Music Production and Sound Engineering course and Music Production […]

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Making a Track with Native Instruments’ New Standalone Maschine+

In this tutorial, Anna Lakatos aka Anna Disclaim, a Point Blank lecturer and Native Instruments Certifed Trainer, shows how you can sketch out quick track ideas and build beat using NI’s Maschine+ and demonstrates how you can do all of this using additional music production hardware. Maschine+ is a sampler, a drum machine, a synth and […]

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Making a Track with Native Instruments’ New Standalone Maschine+

In this tutorial, Anna Lakatos aka Anna Disclaim, a Point Blank lecturer and Native Instruments Certifed Trainer, shows how you can sketch out quick track ideas and build beat using NI’s Maschine+ and demonstrates how you can do all of this using additional music production hardware. Maschine+ is a sampler, a drum machine, a synth and […]

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Watch Our Throwback Maschine Tutorial Pt. 2 and Enrol On A PBLA Maschine Course Today!

NI’s Maschine has grown from a groove-box and hardware companion to a comprehensive music-making software in its own right. When Maschine 2.0 introduced the mixer section, it was possible to create and mix full tracks without the use of a DAW. To celebrate the start of our upcoming 3-month Maschine course at Point Blank LA, we’re taking […]

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Watch Our Throwback Maschine Tutorial and Enrol On A PBLA Maschine Course Now!

NI’s Maschine has grown from a groove-box and hardware companion to a comprehensive music-making software in its own right. When Maschine 2.0 introduced the mixer section, it was possible to create and mix full tracks without the use of a DAW. To celebrate the launch of our 3-month Maschine course at Point Blank LA, we’re […]

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Point Blank LA Playlist | #3: Computo

Our PBLA playlist series shines a light on some of the talented people we work with at Point Blank Los Angeles. As well as giving them the chance to show you what music inspires them, they also let us in on what’s going on musically in their lives – their projects, releases, production methods and […]

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Native Instruments Announce a Huge Range of Updated Products

Today sees the announcement of Native Instruments’ latest line of upgrades and new products. We were invited along to their London headquarters to take a sneak peek ahead of the launch and we have to say there’s a fairly staggering amount of new bits and pieces to get stuck into. Frankly, it’s too much to […]

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Dance Legend Pete Tong Learns Native Instruments Maschine at Point Blank

We were delighted to welcome the legendary Pete Tong to our London school recently for a crash course in making music with Native Instruments’ Maschine. He linked up with our expert Maschine instructor, Paul Ressel, for an intensive one to one session. Check out the short video we made of his visit below, and don’t […]

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Join Us for Free Workshops at Point Blank x International Woman’s Day

Here at Point blank, we are committed to redressing the balance in music. It’s well documented that men consistently outweigh women at the head of festival bills, but there are plenty of influential figures trying to change this state of affairs, and we ourselves were delighted to back one such campaign last year. The tide, […]

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Monthly Round-Up October 2017: Octave One, NI Maschine, Prequell and more

We’re back again with another round-up of former glories, cherry-picking the brightest and best videos, interviews and offers from the past month. As always, our content is designed to help students and curious readers alike to gain insight and expertise in all facets of the music industry. To take this to the next level, head […]

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