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Techno effects and arrangement
Deborah De Luca perfoms on stage at Medusa Festival
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Lastly, you’ll need to add effects to the track. Effects sound more natural when they’re made from existing parts in the track. Create return/ auxiliary tracks with effects processing plugins, and send your percussive parts to these tracks. The results can be recorded to new tracks, and processed with filters, delays and reverbs.
Once all of the main parts of your track have been created, begin arranging. The best way to learn to arrange is by studying a reference track in the same style. Some techno tracks are built with more of a loop-based approach, and rely less on a traditional song structure. Some modern techno, for example tracks by producers such as Eli Brown, Space 92 and Deborah De Luca, incorporate more melodic elements and defined arrangement structures.