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MAKING MELODIC TECHNO PLUCKS IN FL STUDIO

elodic techno would be nowhere without plucks. Often heard scattered among the genre’s distinctive fluttering beats and driving bass lines, plucks really help in crystallising a track’s sound and applying a final layer of vim and vigour. Plucks can be used as single-note grooves to slap on some additional funk flavour or as arpeggiators to give listeners the full trance experience. They also work well as one-shot melodies, perhaps intermingled around with three or four other melodies, complete with

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