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Some other things to do:
This one can work better if you actually finish the track first, or a decent part of it (so you have more to work with for the transitions).
But render the entire track, throw it into Slicex, or anything similar that will chop the track by its peaks. Preferably around a 16th note sensitivity.
At this point I lock the track so it loops for 1-2 bars before the transition (however long you plan on making it) then I'll sit there and punch my keyboard triggering random slices throughout the entire track. (obviously theres other ways to do it besides rendering the whole track, you can take the first bar of the intro, break, drop, outro, etc and combine them, then slice to save RAM)
This will obviously give the track a more edited feel rather then the cheesy vengeance swooshes. I like that you can take slices from the bass, lead, drums, essentially whatever you want from the full track and combine it to do a fill for earlier parts (helps build anticipation triggering 16th notes of elements that haven't even dropped into the mix yet. You can trigger a roll (never forget rolls can be accomplished in hundreds of different ways) or leave some silence and give it a more breakbeat feel. Just focus on being modest and effective when you do it, rather then bold and chaotic.
If you wanna take it a step further, you can create a fill for the transition using the slices, THEN render the fill and process that through w/e fx you choose.
Automate a reverb over the fill, pitch it, filter, crush, do w/e you want. Just be creative, and you WILL find something you like. I personally love using fills in my tracks with elements from the track, (rather then swooshes) because it just gives the track a more uniform feel. But I still will use a swoosh just to get to end of a track, and then I'll go back and redo the transitions. Otherwise theres no point having insane transitions in a track I'm not even planning on finishing.
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