From the course: Remixing Techniques: Arranging and Song Form

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Adding synths

Adding synths

From the course: Remixing Techniques: Arranging and Song Form

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Adding synths

Now it's time to add some additional synth parts. I'll begin by adding the texture-- synth pads, things of that nature. Create a new MIDI track. And I will move towards some of Ableton's built-in synth sounds for this portion. Right away I'll move to the Synth Pad folder and this Amped sound, just by its name alone, is intriguing to me, so I'm bringing this in, and take a listen to it. (music playing) It's a very vibey spatial sound. I like it. (music playing) Go ahead and lay that in. And I'll start right round the first chorus. (music playing) That works. It almost has a Brian Eno-type vibe, which I like. And again, a nice 8-bar region here to work with. And I already know that's a chorus part, and I'll quickly distribute that to the other chorus sections of the song, and taking a quick listen. (music playing) Excellent! I like the sound, but I'm going to apply a very cool remixing technique that you actually hear in quite a few songs, even on the radio today: side chaining a…

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