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Chillstep à la DJ Shadow

ATMOSPHERICAL PAD

1 General

Chillstep combines two distinctive features under one hood: On the one hand there are spherical pads, which take over the melodic main role, while on the other hand heavy beats with mostly urban and experimental touch hammer against it. What both have in common, however, is the tendency that you need to listen, because at a tempo of around 70 bpm the danceability tends to zero.

2 Pad sound

The basis for the track is a pad, which we create with the freeware . The synth is ideally suited due to its excellent sound. Load the plug-in a little so that the sound is a bit less harsh. For the envelope, we set the to 60%, to 80% and and to 70%. So the pad moves a little. This way the pad moves a little.

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