Adding movement to your supersaw trance pad breakdowns

Adding movement to your breakdowns

Incase you have been under a rock all year and have not heard my music then you will already know that I have a knack for the classic techno and trance.

Hey my twitter handle is @oldskooltekno my email address starts with teknooldskool . So as you can see I am very fond of the oldskool style trance and techno the kind you did not hear on the radio unless it was a college radio station and it was 3am in the morning.

A bit of history

So while I may be a product of the 80s and grew up in the 80s and fell in love with techno and trance back then from the onset. I know its not 1989 or 1992 it is actually 2018.

For the most part recent producers and modern producers of today do not use or implement these long evolving breakdowns you have come to know,like Rank1 or Tiestos rendition of adigio for strings.

Why add movement?

The reason you will add some movement to your pads in the way of harmony ,and some use of tension is you want to create some catchy evolving uplifting type pads for your breakdowns.

If you just leave the pad as is as you hear it it will sound bland and boring.

The Trick revealed

So the trick here is to program your pad write some chord progression for it. The chord progression is used was Bb,F,G,Eb . The next thing you want to do is draw in your velocity. As I have stated many times no musician will hit the notes on his instrument with the same force,the same velocity the same length of time and be on key each time,or may be a few seconds before the beat.

So you get what im saying you want your pad to be as real sounding as possible.

So program your pad ,think of a key to write in,draw in your velocity,so it sounds like a real orchestra. Then duplicate the track and write some harmony notes to add some movement.

Have a look at my video below. I left of lot of these details out in the video as I wanted to make this video short. So always check back to this blog for more information or just leave a question in the comments.

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