Creating Fills to Add New Instruments and Elements

Sep 21st in Arrangement, Logic Pro, Production by Mo Volans

This screencast looks at an ongoing project that is now near completion. This stage looks at how to create different kinds of fills to introduce new instruments. It also shows how a little programming can help introduce new sections of your track.

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Author: Mo Volans

Mo Volans has been releasing tracks for well over a decade with many of the world's top electronic labels. Having worked with a long list of high profile artists, he has enjoyed top ten success on numerous of occasions. Mo records under the names MoHawk, Twisted Air, and Openair and also writes music for TV and film. 
Mo is also a prolific writer and journalist writing for publications such as Music Tech, Remix mag and EQ.

This project is now winding up and the next stage will look at mixdown, mastering and delivery. Hopefully this series should give you some insight into producing a dance track or remix. Obviously all the techniques demonstrated only show one way of doing things and I'm not claiming this to be a definitive guide.

The Logic project is included in the playpack and is exactly as shown on the screencast. It only uses stock Logic instruments and plug-ins, so should load on any system.

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    Rey September 23rd

    Hey mo, im really into ur tutorials, in my opinion they are the best currently in audiotuts+.com.

    I have a question, and is not related to this topic.

    Is there a way to change the velocity on a channel or even the attack of a sample without having to use the ultrabeat?

    Regards

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    TC September 25th

    Hi Mo,
    I like this tutorial – but I was thinking, if this is one of the final ones in a chain of tuts working on the same track, it would be great to have them al consolidated somehow.

    Could you provide the URL to the tuts that are involving this track?
    Or is it so simple as to just search for “Volans”, nd then all your tuts will be about this track?

    Cheers;
    TC,
    Norway

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      Mo Volans September 25th

      Hey TC I’ll ask Adrian if he can make a post or area where you can grab them all.

      In the meantime you can click on my name in any tutorial of mine and get pretty quick access to the tuts in this series.

      Glad you have enjoyed these!

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    Scott September 25th

    Thanks for this great screencast. I came across AT+ from NetTuts and though I’m a web designer, one of my interests has always been in music production. I feel I learn the best from screencasts, so this was really helpful to see this approach for fills and gave me some good ideas.

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    Rick October 28th

    Hey Mo Volans, is there a chance to get this track as mp3? It really got me :D

    btw: I’m following almost every tutorial you made so far and they really help me out to improve my electronic knowledge and simply producing better music. There’s a alot of stuff i didn’t even recognized before…so thx for sharing, man

    greetings from Germany

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