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This tutorial made me subscribe to SA. Vince Watson is an amazing artist and I’m looking forward to more tutorials from him. Also would really like to see more tutorials from underground artists. Some suggestions: Derek Carr, Marquis Hawkes, Stephen Lopkin etc
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Really enjoyed this tutorial. It was both informative and inspiring…thank you! The way you explained the reasons for your choice of sounds, your workflow including the mixing process etc, was really helpful. Highly recommend this to others…and yes I love Detroit techno even more!
Sorry for late answer. As a general rule, you should of course always check your mix in Mono anyway, but wide pads can be an issue sometimes…its just a matter of finding a balance between gain and width that your happy with in both Mono and Stereo…whatever you do, dont use compression on it, youll just kill the dynamics and that lush warm stereo image will die, so be careful but use your ears. 
Thanks Mundelator, i think I need to do another tutorial with just the nuances and accidental harmonincs haha…but to answer your question, sometimes I myself do not overthink it and just play it without consideration of the note structure. Its only afterwards when I analyse I realise what I did, and thats absolutely the best way to go about finding these harmony’s…following the rules too much wont help you discover them too easily unless you are an extremely skilled player…which i’m not, but what I am good at is finding melancholy between harmony’s. Best advice I can give you is to just keep playing and playing and experimenting with roots v augmentation.
Thanks Flavvio, glad you enjoyed it
Nice one Michael, thanks
very cool and informative course
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Vince, great course! You are a very good teacher - even without your Sonarworks, lol
It’s terrific how you intro’d the genre. I live in Toronto, a mere 4 hrs drive from Detroit - and yet at age 46 I never knew Detroit Techno existed. How can that be? I’ve since delved into playlists on Spotify - and yes, I’m looking forward to listening to DnA and your other works!
Here’s my first take based on your tutorial - but certainly not the last!
https://soundcloud.com/marztecheque/2020vision
Thanks for doing a superb job highlighting this very cool retro genre that definitely seems classic and timeless.
You are a great teacher and I will now go back and spend more time too on your other Sonic Academy tutorials - keep them coming, Vince - and please send us pics of your new Garden Studio… lol
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One of the best courses on the academy. Being from Michigan, loves me some Detroit Techno!
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A question: Why don’t you group the channels? Instead of routing everything to a normal channel?
I think I mentioned it, perhaps it was on a previous course. It’s basically for UI purposes and so I reflect an analog console as much as possible in terms of steps.
amazing course, Vince - again, props to you and I like youR DnA album - i listen to it here in Toronto on spotify cheers and happy holidays etc
What a beautiful course, I learned a lot, great song!!
Great!!!
One of the best dance tutorials I have seen. Very impressive!
Excellent sounds
Superb tutorial. Some great techniques for making complex parts gel really well together and a different way of approaching composition and arrangement . Love the track too!
Great tutorial but I’m unable to open the DX7 Plugins to go into the presets and edit them as the VST gives me an error saying I’m trying to open with a different version. I have V Collection 7 which includes the DX7 plugin.
You probably have a more recent version of the DX7 Arturia plugin installed, Arturia plugins are not compatible between collections version to my knowledge. After opening the project, you can replace any track that has the DX7 plugin with yours but then I believe you will loose the patch. Give it a try anyway.