Live Loops
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
At first, I tried using a MIDI keyboard, but it wouldn't work for my computer. So, instead, I used Musical Typing to write the entire beat. When I started making the beat, I wanted to make a trap/rage style beat, which is incredibly synth heavy. All of the synths that I needed were in Alchemy, but the stock drums in Logic fit the overall vibe of the beat more than those in Alchemy. For the bass, I had to make the low end stronger because it was too quiet for what I was going for. I used a summing stack for the snare in the B section, which consisted of an actual snare and a sound effect that sounded like TV static. For the "Dusty Keys" synth in the A section, I added a vocoder to it so that it sounded more airy than what it was originally. After a few EQ tweaks and automation changes, I was done after a week.