Creating Drive

Electronic Music Production // Dark Arts
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Re: Creating Drive

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innovine wrote:Make sure you are stretching things out in time... just listening to a 1bar or 4bar loop gets dull. Arrange so you have something different happening at 16 and 32 bars. There's a greater sense of anticipation and reward when your longer cycles complete (and the song enters new territory). Use risers, little bongo fills, swooshes and one shot fx here and there to keep it rolling. Subtle lfo's slowly (several bars) and gently modulating things can help it breathe and not sound dull, yet you don't hear it as a change really. Also, like mentioned, move your snare a tiny bit early and push or pull a few other elements.

this is key!!! I pretty much feel the same way about it, creating in 1 bar loop is insanely boring, start with a 8 to 16 bar loop and use DrumRACK (ableton) to really key in on those notes. that's what i've had the most luck.


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