One thing that's taken me a long time to learn is to never underestimate the 2 beat loop. You can chop a vocal or an instrumental sample into a 2 beat loop at just about any point, and straight away you've got a really nice rising and falling effect that you can put in the background and it'll add a crazy amount of energy to the track. Or you could make it a main feature of the track - you can keep automating the effects applied to the loop to make them keep constantly changing, that way they don't get too boring. My favorite is to put a slow (2 or 4 bar) LFO filter over it to keep it 'pulsating', but pretty much any effect works :)
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Going Loopy
One thing that's taken me a long time to learn is to never underestimate the 2 beat loop. You can chop a vocal or an instrumental sample into a 2 beat loop at just about any point, and straight away you've got a really nice rising and falling effect that you can put in the background and it'll add a crazy amount of energy to the track. Or you could make it a main feature of the track - you can keep automating the effects applied to the loop to make them keep constantly changing, that way they don't get too boring. My favorite is to put a slow (2 or 4 bar) LFO filter over it to keep it 'pulsating', but pretty much any effect works :)
