LOL.

I need to make a track called "Eighth Notes," composed of -- well, you know.

Maybe I'm being stupid, but what's so notable about writing a track using 1/8th notes?

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Maybe I'm being stupid, but what's so notable about writing a track using 1/8th notes?

it is 8 times as good as a track that uses whole notes

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Maybe I'm being stupid, but what's so notable about writing a track using 1/8th notes?

Nothing. All electronic music uses 8th note melodies. A funny audio clip of a guy making fun of deadmau5 for his overuse of punchy and distinct, low-ADSR doting 8th notes is making the rounds, and now trance crackers are harping on it as if they know what that means.

This is like going after the guy for his use of a 4/4 beat. (those are quarter note drum beats, btw!)

Why not start a quarter note drum beat thread?

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Originally posted by Ishkur Nothing. All electronic music uses 8th note melodies.

Not really. 16th note melodies are a lot more common, at least in trance.

16th note arpeggiation hasn't been involved in main sequence trance for years, and you know it.

8th notes are more common, and have been since anthems and breakdowns became the norm.

Don't split hairs.

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Originally posted by Ishkur 16th note arpeggiation hasn't been involved in main sequence trance for years, and you know it. 8th notes are more common, and have been since anthems and breakdowns became the norm. Don't split hairs.

Eh, whatever. I'm probably biased because my favorite kind of trance tends to be the 16th-note arpeggiated sort.

I think the criticism aimed at Deadmau5 is for having 1/8th notes with boring patterns (1+2+3+4+), loads of music uses 8th notes in general.

In other words, he's using what is essentially a pad (Stuart Price loves padding his tracks with that same kind of texturized 8th notes), as a lead. But of course in uninteresting patterns, I guess to make it feel more McProg.

That's not the first time a pad was used as a lead. The supersaw used to be a pad (Agnelli & Nelson - El Nino).

It's just a fad. Remember the whole multi-tap delay effect "twinkle prog" of Markus Schultz et. al.? Hell, I think Probspot was guilty of this, too. From this, to horrendously abused sidechain house, electronic music loves to go through its fads, and by fads I mean lazy production techniques.

nothing lazy about production, imo.

triplets < 8th notes

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