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How many instruments do you use per track?
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wizanda
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Posted : Oct 27, 2009 17:41
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Freeflow
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Posted : Oct 27, 2009 17:49
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It depends on the track 
and how good you are in knowing what is needed to make it feel complete.... Its difficult, but give it time and it will come...
most crucial is the timing in the arrangement...
Put focus on that, you can always change sounds later on so go with the flow...
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Ascension
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Posted : Oct 27, 2009 18:14
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I'll put down a number, just my opinion, but I think it's hard to make an interesting psytrance track with less than 20 different sound channels.
In the end, the only thing that matters is how you use them. Some people who are good at composition can do more with less sounds. http://soundcloud.com/ascensionsound
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Freeflow
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Posted : Oct 27, 2009 22:42
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On 2009-10-27 18:14, Ascension wrote:
I'll put down a number, just my opinion, but I think it's hard to make an interesting psytrance track with less than 20 different sound channels.
In the end, the only thing that matters is how you use them. Some people who are good at composition can do more with less sounds.
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Yeah but then with "less sounds" it makes me think of layering to get a full and rich picture..... so even with less sounds you still need more channels sometimes 
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Ascension
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Posted : Oct 27, 2009 22:52
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PoM
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Posted : Oct 27, 2009 23:50
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i like when it s a bit like a real band ,batterie (beat) basss guitar (bassline) 2 guitars (leads) synthetiseur(pad and fx)... the more sound playing at same time the more thin the production is in many case cause you can t use big sounds. |
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XuN
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Posted : Oct 27, 2009 23:57
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21... every track...
Seriously... every track has a different number..
Some of my tracks got like 20 tracks, and some 60... no rules...
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Nectarios
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Posted : Oct 28, 2009 05:05
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Funny thing is the latest minimal (kinda) techno stuff I do is more channels than the trance stuff I do which sound a lot busier, arrangement wise, but they are not.
Good To Be Alive was something like 24 tracks. I wanted to make a tune that is based on a long sequence of a bassline (it was 4 bars long!).
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Ascension
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Posted : Oct 28, 2009 14:36
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On 2009-10-28 05:05, disco hooligans wrote:
Funny thing is the latest minimal (kinda) techno stuff I do is more channels than the trance stuff I do which sound a lot busier, arrangement wise, but they are not.
Good To Be Alive was something like 24 tracks. I wanted to make a tune that is based on a long sequence of a bassline (it was 4 bars long!).
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That's my fav track of yours from the album, I've listened to it dozens of times- could definitely tell this
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Nectarios
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Posted : Oct 28, 2009 16:31
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cheers mate I was humming the bassline in my mind all night long when I was working behind the bar. I rushed home to write the midi file as soon as I got off work (6am in the morning!) cause a bottle of 7 year old rum, would definitely erase it from my memory by the time I woke up the next day. Writing a 4 bar arpeggio bassline, piss drunk, is not an easy task...
Its one of my favourites as well
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Nectarios
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Posted : Oct 28, 2009 17:08
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Ascension
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Posted : Oct 28, 2009 17:19
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I actually bought that cd (along with ekoplex's) when Basilisk dj'd at a festival of ours in late may this year. That track is my fav to listen to while driving to work watching the sunrise in the morning
/feeling good about buying music
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Zoopy
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Posted : Oct 28, 2009 21:35
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On 2009-10-26 14:45, Zero-Blade wrote:
For a decent composition? Nah, look at it this way - decent composition means that it's good, but not very good and definitely not the best. Leave that. For a great unrestricted composition you should have as much sounds as for the track to sound complete and as little as to not create chaos.
Don't restrict yourself to asking questions like 'how much sounds should i have'. Rather, start working on the track and add sounds you like and fit into each other and try to change them constantly so the whole track doesn't come out sounding the same.
The music - it's all in your mind!
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Posted : Nov 1, 2009 16:24
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I tend to have heaps of tracks. I love switching back n forth between leads, always bringing in something new. I also have stuff on low volume going on in the background which only gets noticed with a good listen. I feel it gives a bit of depth.
It's about personal preference tho and what you want to do with the track. I hate minimal so I try n go polar opposite 
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Pythagoraz
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Posted : Nov 4, 2009 12:21
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The intelligent way to do it is to use as few tracks as possible, but with great and entertaining sounds in them of course.
Personally We are not that intelligent and our TimeDrained tracks usualy end up having around 150 tracks. :-/
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