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Please share any tips you have to adding variation to a dubstep or dnb track.
I was thinking in the way of keeping the same style and sound to the track, but changing minor things to keep it pumping you!
Maybe things like drum fills, note changes, filter automation/changes, fades. All that obvious but effective stuff.
Please share
samdam1 wrote:Please share any tips you have to adding variation to a dubstep or dnb track.
I was thinking in the way of keeping the same style and sound to the track, but changing minor things to keep it pumping you!
Maybe things like drum fills, note changes, filter automation/changes, fades. All that obvious but effective stuff.
Please share
yes, do those things
Change the bassline, change the drum patterns, note changes, etc.
Change the feel.
Drum fills and patterns for me. I get bored easily with stuff where the beat is exactly the same. I also try and change up the lead riff or pattern at the end of every other or every 4th line.
small changes in the bassline, little parts of instabiliyt and drum changes are the best way. obviously not to the extent of robotnik but its still a good place to learn
I find lots of subtle changes in the bass tone to work, copy the track and subtly alter the waveform or effects continuously throughout the track. I find smaller changes work best, makes the track more coherent than introducing an entirely new bass sound half way through the track.
change the lfo rate on your wobble for your bassline, pitch your bassline up an octave, change up the drum pattern slightly, add a synth layer overtop
or even the same bassline but do different types of modulations
or same bassline just run through a different style of filter with a different effect on it
samdam1 wrote:Please share any tips you have to adding variation to a dubstep or dnb track.
I was thinking in the way of keeping the same style and sound to the track, but changing minor things to keep it pumping you!
Maybe things like drum fills, note changes, filter automation/changes, fades. All that obvious but effective stuff.
Please share
Change stuff
For some reason I really suck at making different sections, so I like to rinse one bassline and then have like 8 different bass sounds playing it. That's always a good one. Hi-pass filter automation (freq and res) on an amen at the end of a section ftw. Also it's cool to just change a couple notes of a melody every now and then, I even sometimes just reverse the note sof a specific melody just to see how it works, sometimes it sounds shit, then others it's pretty sick. Also making new melodies with the same bass can work, or maybe just tweak your first bass so that the characteristics are still similar, but still noticeably different, so as not to avoid seemingly random switches but give it more listening appeal.
I think percussion is paramount to maintaining interest and providing variation in a track.
On non-brostep songs (or brostep songs if you like but i think the subtlety would be lost), automate filters and saturation on your drum samples and add subtle effects to them using return tracks. This will give your track's drums a more organic and interesting sound through variation. Pearson Sound and other more percussive based producers do stuff like that a lot to keep their tracks sounding interesting.
Also vary your drum sounds throughout the track, don't just stick with the same boring 4 drum samples. Add stuff, take stuff away, reverse some hits.
