Hey guys,
I’ve just put together a nice four bar progression it’s sounding really tight. The problem is, it isn’t gonna stay interesting for the duration of my track no matter how much layering and automation I do, it needs developing. Just wondering how you guys would go about dealing with this! Probably haven’t explained this at all well!
Danny.
hey man… Automation. If you have an interesting sound, then you are half way home. Depending on the type of sound it is, you will have to change it throughout the song to maintain interest. You can change the cutoff frequencey, you can even change pulse width. Anything really. But make it a slow gradual change over 4, 8, or 16 bars.
[quote]howiegroove (09/08/2010)[hr]hey man… Automation. If you have an interesting sound, then you are half way home. Depending on the type of sound it is, you will have to change it throughout the song to maintain interest. You can change the cutoff frequencey, you can even change pulse width. Anything really. But make it a slow gradual change over 4, 8, or 16 bars.[/quote]
Yeah Howie’s pretty much hit the nail on the head. If you listen to a lot of tracks out there, especially ones by pryda, axwell, ingrosso, and a lot of tracks in the beatport top 10, you will hear their tracks are fairly simple loops, the things that keeps them interesting and constantly moving is the ‘teasing’ that comes from automation, not giving everything away till the end of the main break. They’re constantly rising, constantly teasing, then it will get to it’s climax then be stripped back and start again.
Look at this video tutorial series, it will help:
[url=http://www.sonicacademy.com/Producer/Course/?contentId=2085&bt=Videos]http://www.sonicacademy.com/Producer/Course/?contentId=2085&bt=Videos[/url]