Automation in Ableton Live and FL Studio: Everything You Need to Know in 2024 🔥
Automation is key to interesting electronic and dance music. Before the software revolution; mix engineers who wanted something to change at some point in the song had to manually move faders and knobs. Nowadays we use automation in modern DAWs. If we want something to change at a given point, or over time, then we can simply draw […]
The Ultimate Guide to Build-ups
One key feature of electronic dance music is build-ups. They certainly exist in other genres of music (outside dance music), but in EDM, the use of build-ups is highly important to the track’s structure. Dance music relies on three main elements: tension, energy, and groove. What do build-ups create? Tension. In this post, I’ll share […]