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.
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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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
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
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!
First of all I’d like to thank you for taking the time to put together this series, it’s been very helpful.
2nd: You make it all seem so darn easy
, when to most people it really isn’t. When I attempted going through this whole series there was still something lacking when I applied your tips, and I’m not quite sure what. I noticed it from the very first tutorial, I played your kick, snare, and hat pattern with nothing else, and those 3 elements alone felt like they had more drive and energy than my kick snare hat pattern. They felt like a solid foundation to build everything else on. I feel like I couldn’t achieve that solid foundation, and as I’m sure you probably know the rest of the track building process suffers from that (or maybe that’s just me).
So my question is if there should be some sort of relationship between the kick, the hat, and snare to give it the right feel. I know about tuning the drums to match key, but I don’t feel like that’s the problem. For example, should snares peak below 200Hz or something? I noticed your snare was quite a bit lower than a majority of my samples.
Thanks
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.
Hey Mo Volans, is there a chance to get this track as mp3? It really got me
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
Really nice tut!
Always had problems making my tracks progression more interesting, and you really helped me out alot here.
To actually see it visually instead of only hearing what other producers do in their tracks, increased my understanding of fills a bunch.
so thank you very much, and looking forward to checking out your other tuts!
Keep it up.
v1ncent