This would form the fundamental drum arrangement which would carry throughout the track. Once I’d imported (drag and dropped) the drum one-shots into Captain Beat, the next step was to get a simple 4-bar loop going. I decided to use a mix of one-shot drum sounds from a Techno sample pack and some Roland TR-808/909 sounds which are built into Captain Beat. Claps from the TR-909 are always a winner in any form of Techno. For driving/peak time Techno, the kick should probably be snappy, not too punchy and able to cut through the mix – not unlike Trance or Psy-Trance in that regard. Thinking about the drum instruments and how they will affect the overall vibe is really important. Laying Down The BeatĪs Techno is usually drum-centric, I feel that’s a great place to start. However, if you aren’t familiar with them, I highly recommend looking them up here in our Captain Plugins Wiki as they’re very powerful techniques to add to your production arsenal. There was also a lot of mixing and and use of effects such as filtering, side-chain compression, parallel processing and other mixing tricks. The meat of the track was made using Captain Plugins, with the help of Mixed In Key Studio Edition. wp-content/uploads/2020/11/How-to-make-Techno-with-Captain-Plugins-Sample-Audio.mp3 How the arrangement looks in Logic and below is a clip of the example track. For this example track, which you can listen to a sample of below, I chose 130bpm and F minor. It’s usually produced in the 127-132bpm range and like most dance music it will usually be in a minor key. This means it plays into Captain Plugins strengths.
This style of Techno is quite melodic, by comparison to other sub-genres. It can be identified as Driving, or Peak Time and has been made popular by record labels such as Drumcode and Tronic and artists/DJs such as Adam Beyer, Nicole Moudaber and Christian Smith, to name but a few. Instead, I’m looking at a more contemporary style. In this tutorial, I won’t be tackling the original Techno sound. It scattered into sub-styles such as Dub, Acid, Ambient, Hardcore and more. As with much electronic music, Techno quickly evolved. It was pioneered by artists such as Kevin Saunderson and Juan Atkins. This new form of electronic music made heavy use of new synthesizer instruments, such as the Roland TR-909 and TB-3. However, Techno stamped its own identity in Detroit and Europe around the late 1980’s. It’s roots lie in the electro sound which was crafted in the early 1980’s by groups such as Karftwerk. Techno is undoubtedly the king of underground dance music. How to make Driving/Peak Time Techno with Captain Plugins Motor City Beats
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