Velocity Triggered Sample Offset
This is a great way to generate some unusual synth line patterns and tons of variation in your grooves.
Trance Gate
Time to get your glowsticks out. It's trance gate time!
Unusual Drum Samples And Technoish Loop
Bit of a journey on this one today but I thought it could be useful to show a bit more of my process when writing a drum loop. For this one I tried using some ideas from a Randomer video I saw a few years ago. The plan was to use samples that aren't actually drums and then make the loop from that.
Corpus Round 2
Corpus is such a sick tool. Get a short strike sound and go to town with it. Here's a couple sweet options to try out + a little reverb trick.
Sending Returns To Other Returns
Sometimes you need to look a little off the beaten path to make things interesting. This is a fun way to experiment with various sends and create rhythmic beds of noise for your grooves. Turn your boring stale loop into something vibesy and have a good day.
Distorted Echo Drums
Go fully ham on your drums with Echo. Crank the input and get yourself a big bucket of analog emulated distortion. Also here is a link to the 808s from Legowelt: http://legowelt.org/software/
Erosion For Adding Grit, Colour And High End
Erosion is such a useful tool. Ignore it at your peril! It can be used to add high end where there isn't any, grit and texture to bring elements to life and help them punch through in a mix.
Using Your Own Samples In Wavetable
An easy way to get an interesting sounding synth is to try sticking different samples in Wavetable and messing with the position.
Fixing a Muddy Mix
One of the most common issues with a mix down is the muddy lows and low mids. Often there are some unfortunate resonant frequencies in the kick, bass and synths that need cutting out. Let's take a look at how to do just that.
Sprinkling FX Over Your Track
Often the difference between an unfinished and finished arrangement can be something as simple as adding some FX with a delay to help with transitions and keep things interesting. Make yourself a rack of FX hits and go to town.