Style: House

BPM: 132

Production time: 1 day

Comments: This is my second Ableton Live “experiment.”  This time I tried to do everything using Ableton’s soft-synth collection.

The bass drum and snares where programmed using the Operator synth, and passed through a compressor and some EQ to add a little more tone and punch.  The hats and percussion section was put together using some presets (boo!) from Impulse, Ableton’s drum machine.

All the synth sounds, from the arppegiated swirly synth to the bass sounds and gritty synths were also programmed using Operator.  Various high and low pass filters were used to make the sounds a little more dynamic.

The bouncy synth that runs throughout the track was also programmed Operator, but I added a bit-crusher to it to make it sound more rusty.  I also messed around with sidechaining a compressor (right, I’m about 7 years behind everyone else) to make the synth duck in and out in tangent with the kick drum.

I think that’s about it.  The track does suffer from a lack of crescendo (snare roles, crash cymbals and general hype synths) – but blame that on my excitement about wanting to move on to the next track…