(first of all I am posting this partly because there's not a lot of posts about techno on this forum. almost all the posts I could find were > 6 months old meaning I couldn't comment. so I thought I would start a new thread. also it doesn't help that a lot of the videos I've found are from the 90s lol)
I started listening to Techno about an hour ago and something about it blew my mind, the way it's not too over the top, actually original and unpredictable (unlike the 4 hours of big room house I heard at the football game today), the way it's not just 16 stupid bars with "Big Room House Melody 1/1" until you get to the cliche drop with the same kick drum, etc. It sounds like an interesting medium between IDM / experimental / ambient EDM which IMO isn't really EDM since you can't dance to "beat-less" EDM and the more abrasive or "extra" genres (newer dubstep, hardstyle, etc) that I can't listen to for more than half an hour at a time. Also because it is a little more subtle, unlike, say, house, where the melody is constant and loud and the overly cheesy chorus is the only bearable part of the track (ok, I know it sounds like I am really hating on house music by this point, no offense to house producers meant lol)
Any advice on how to make this genre in a DAW (FL in particular)? From what I've read, it's very sequence based, so I'm going to see how much I can do with just moving pattern blocks around in FL. It seems like FL was almost made for techno since it is pattern-based. However, it also sounds like there is a lot of similarity in terms of rhythms- there aren't a lot of advanced rhythms. It seems also that there isn't much predictability overall- it's constantly changing, there aren't really any discernible choruses/hooks. It seems that the hardest parts of the genre are sound selection and choosing when to take elements in and out; any given element, such as a cymbal, trumpet, etc. has only 1-2 patterns, which come in and out throughout the track.
Submitted November 05, 2017 at 01:34AM by macbookprofan https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/7avn9q/looking_to_get_into_techno_production_advice/?utm_source=ifttt
Javier Rodriguez
Saturday, November 4, 2017