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Hyperpop techniques

The three demo songs share one kit and one approach. The chords barely move: a four-chord loop, often I–V–vi–IV. The interest comes from which layers play, how they sit around the kick, and texture.

• Sub with little attack and glide; ramped saw bass for contrast
• Pads, stabs and upper layers duck under the kick
• Chord stabs ride the off-beats; soft plucks repeat up high
• Hat-only stretches, then open hats; a muted, distorted snare
• Clicks, drops and a gamelan-like upper-mid pattern
• Vocal chops looped until they turn into a synth, echoes on the beat
• Short dropouts every few bars; chops alone over the drums
• Glide and distortion on solo leads; long echo and reverb endings

✦Ask

• "make the pad pump under the kick and let the chops come in alone"

›Type it yourself

• demo info soft-reboot explains where each move happens
• sample chop stay-tonight 4 slices a sung hook into playable chops
• glide 100 legato slides the sub · fx duck preset pump
• fx duck hold on keeps the dip down until each kick note ends
• fx eq high 4 highfreq 8000 adds air · fx eq mid -2 midfreq 500
• automate distort-drive at 0 1 · automate distort-drive at 8 4
• fx delay mix 0.3 on a chop track for echoes on the beat

≡Menu

• Ctrl-K › Arrange › demo songs › Soft Reboot › load song
• Ctrl-K › Effects › Delay · Reverb

⌃Keys

• In TAPE, click a track's M to mute it and hear a dropout

→Next

• guide demos · guide chop · guide automation · guide mix