The 40 greatest synth sounds of all time… ever! Guitar Lesson: Creative Power Chords. Perfect Balance: Arrangement from the Engineer’s Perspective. In this tutorial we’re going to look at a method of arranging the song from the engineer’s perspective, so that when you fire up your sequencer or go into the studio, you know what to do to make your song cohesive from the get-go.
Note: this article contains embedded audio that will not display in a feed reader. Click back to the site to read the tutorial with audio, or download the audio files at the bottom of the post. Digital recording and the ever-increasing popularity of programmed music mean two things: it’s easier and easier to jump straight into recording a project with less and less thought, planning and consideration put into place. You can hear this on a lot of the electronic music that’s out there. The composer may have got the forward movement right, with a composition that moves ahead and retains the interest of the listener, but the vertical movement—the depth of the song—remains ill-conceived. Creating Ambient Music With Logic’s Delay Designer. The idea of using delays or loops in ambient music goes back over 50 years to the time of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, where tape loops were used to add special effects.
Musical pioneers such as Steve Reich and Karlheinz Stockhausen continued experimenting with tape loops, and the technique became even more popular following the work of Brian Eno and Robert Fripp in the 1970's. Today, we rarely see musicians using actual tape loops, but we have numerous digital tools at our disposal that allow us the freedom to experiment with techniques passed on from modern ambient composers. In this tutorial, we'll look at one way to create an ambient music-scape using Logic's Delay Designer as a 'tape loop'.
For the purposes of this tutorial, we'll keep our setup relatively simple. First, we'll create 4 new Software Instrument tracks in the Arrange window.