Make some 1 second breaks

Just uploaded these tracks and am curious about your opinions. Please feel free to criticize. Comments on a technical level are also more than welcome.

Thanks for listening!

http://soundcloud.com/leak-music/lockdown
http://soundcloud.com/leak-music/moving-twelve

In ableton you can use sampler (or simpler) for this task. But as you already mentioned in your post the sound changes.

I heard melodyne has a different technology/approach to pitching sounds. Not sure though, as I never used it personnally. You should look into it.

This may or may not be very useful to you, but I found it quite inspiring. Burial claims he uses soundforge when arranging his tracks so he doesn't use a grid at all and manually places every drum sample as he sees fit. Doesn't necessarily have to be soundforge, most DAWs enable the grid to be turne...

This is really helpful and great advice. It would have taken so much longer for me to realize this on my own. Thank you for that!

theres not that much low mid in your tracks, but it sounds like it because you've got no high mids. Seems like I need to check the overall balance of my tracks and compare it to pro tracks. I guess I've been a little too enthousiastic with the LP filters then :lol: hehe. Maybe my sounds don't have ...

I can totally relate with Manzatour (OP). This is something I am struggling with in my tracks as well and find it very hard to overcome. It basically means rethinking my approach to making electronic music. Really helpfull pointers so far but hard to put to practice as I like using both softsynths a...

Thanks for listening! I've been changing those hihat levels several times already. It's always a thing I find hard to nail. About the bassline, this is what obviously reminds it so much about Subzero. I'm thinking of changing it completely (less notes, different key, different synth etc) so it will ...