Writing a Dance Track

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I gotta write a Dance Track for school (I'm studying Music Production) and MAN, that's alot of work! So much more work than making a band-style song. Writing wise, not so much, but production and mixing wise, damn that's alot of computer-hours. I got the groove, bassline and chord progression down, but I spend over alot of time on it. Literally days of just research, then another day or 3 of finding the best sound for JUST the bassline.

Anyway, it's gotta be finished in about 3 weeks, and I still gotta do the vocals and work alittle more on the progression and lead synth. I so hope that I can get a good (female) singer for this. It all worked out pretty well so far, and I'd hate to have the main vocals fucked up by a shy singer.

That's just what I wanted to share :)
 
Dance music -- its AAAAALL about the production. I'm still trying to figure out a lot of it. Compressor. A freind of mine said "don't let the patches control you" easy for him to say. He's been doing sound design for 10 years.

My stuff sucks. What do you use? I have logic 6, which I'm trying to figure out. In the meantime, I'm going to take myself as far as I can with Reason. I figure If I can make something that sounds good with reason, when I finally figure out logic 6, I'll be cookin'
 
I use Cubase SX 2.2 on an AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (512mb ram). And indeed, it's all about the plugs. L1 has just become my best friend, in favour of the RVerb.

I do belief that I've figured out how this kind of thing works though. You just got to have such an amazingly huge shitload of sounds, samples, synths, drumloops one-shots that you can get pretty much every sound you want. Then all you got to do is find the stuff that melts together when mixed, and your almost done.

It does still take a shitload of time though...and I haven't even started on the vocals yet.
 
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