3 hours ago · Music · 0 comments

I'm getting into production music tracks for commercial purposes, cues, and stuff like that. This is the project I've been working on for a couple weeks, and the similarities to house music are pretty interesting. Specifically, house music made on the MPC, where you can't really have tails going over and smudging into different sections. So it's a world of 8-bar sections, one idea, fundamental melodies, and succinct information. All of that is house music, especially when you look at it from the vantage point of an MPC. You have eight-bar sections where you're adding and taking away. You build it up, take almost everything away, then you bring it back at the end, and that's essentially what a cue is. What I've not seen one single person talk about is the fact that the MPC is kind of the perfect environment for it. When you're--like me and have only an hour a day to make a track in the morning, you really, really, really have to make that count. That's where the MPC works, just because…

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