From the course: Remixing Techniques: Arranging and Song Form
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Adding synths
From the course: Remixing Techniques: Arranging and Song Form
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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Referencing the original or demo version of the song5m 7s
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Listening to stems and deciding on the musical direction3m 42s
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Time stretching stems and creating a sketch arrangement11m 18s
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Developing the drums and bass11m 10s
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Adding synths10m 30s
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Working from the hype backwards4m 27s
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Arranging the rest of the song5m 40s
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