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This one turned into a bit of a goldilocks situation. Three takes on roughly the same beat and phrase on keys, shifting around the various effect parameters and the playing intensity on the analog instruments. For me, the middle one was just right.
The beat is running through a reverse reverb, which produces an ambient effect marked by reversed samples of the drums. That produces the sweeping effect after each drum hit, most pronounced in the snare. I tweaked the effect until the reversed sounds play in time with the beat. Starting in the second section you’ll also hear a funky accented sound on the cymbal strikes, which is produced by messing with a noise gate on one of the drum mic tracks. It sounds similar to an effect called “pattern tremolo.”
The keys are a blended sound between a manipulated digital piano and the synth pictured (Sequential Prophet 10). You don’t see me playing because the notes were punched into Logic and routed out to the synth, where I adjust the parameters manually throughout the track.
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