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#21 Recreate the Plaid effect

Anyone with more than a passing interest in electronic music and production, will probably have come across the unique Warp Records duo called Plaid. Apart from the ambiguous nature of their band name, that by definition has no correct pronunciation, Plaid are well known for their rich vein of production, exploiting beautiful tones and textures, with a very healthy engagement with polyrhythms.

We are going to draw inspiration from one of their most admired tracks called, from the album. While it is conceivable that they could have approached the repeating synthetic/piano chord sound in a number of ways, we are going to concentrate on utilising the ZebraCM plugin,

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