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by sebosp 970 days ago
I would love to learn about this... Specially in the era of demucs, maybe some python automation to ableton live tracks that we can modify through the day slightly? I have playlist with dozens of 1+ hour videos on YouTube of psytrance and I find them so enjoyable, full of bass and good for focusing (granted there's the obligatory 1 minute muttering in the song of Terrence McKenna but OK, if psilocybin helped them create these amazing songs then so be it )
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Learn about synthesis. Specifically the relation between the harmonic structure of the saw and square wave and the properties of a resonant filter that can pick these harmonics out in various ways. For psytrance many of the sequences are sparse, have subtle glissando and slides, in phrygian, hungarian minor and other exotic scales with canonical forms and contrapuntal rounds often achieved by shifting subsequences a few steps forward or backward.
If you want to literally program music, I can recommend Sonic Pi. The current top comment describes the typical psy bass line in technical terms, which is enough to recreate it in code.