• Continue to work on my production skills
• Release 2+ singles/EPs on MA Music
• To work on promotional and marketing strategies to help make my music and profile as successful as possible this year

If you listen to the way the pitch bends and over/undershoots the target, it sounds to me like he's accomplishing that with the pitch wheel, rather than using a quarter-tone scale.  You could get even more accuracy by setting the pitch bend range to +/- 1 and automating the pitch bend in fourths.  Cool track!

I think he's using a mixture of pitch bending and the quarter tone scale. Or he could have a really long legato going on within his synth.

Ableton's reverb has always done exactly I what I need. I tried ValhallaRoom for a bit and it was good but it sucked up my CPU and I figured I can do the exact same stuff in Ableton's reverb which doesn't kill my pc.

To do it properly wouldn't you need two instances of whatever plugin?
one at normal pitch, the second at +0.50 to get the full range of notes.

That song was really neat by the way! Thanks for sharing that. It had the middle ground of arabic tone quarter notes, and creepy dissonant quarter tones.
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It would sound weird if you did that. Too much difference would cause weird mud and that. But maybe I'm confused and thinking of creating a track that is up by 0.5 of a semitone. I think that's what you meant anyways?

No problem man! He's a dope producer with a really interesting combination of vibes.

I can't say what makes me different but personally I don't let it bug me and just make what I enjoy. Of course, I do enjoy trying new and weird things in my music that I haven't done before but whether it's unique or not is subjective so I don't worry about it. Aslong as other's enjoy it aswell, I'm happy.

They're not almost completely different actually. Bare in mind they both stick with the same or similar chord progression. "Fuck Gravity" has a lead in the intro which is exactly the same as the big, main lead in the drop, just low passed. It's kind of hard to hear but it's definitely there. Then it uses a little break fill right before the drop to give some indication of change occuring. Similarly, "A Little More" slowly builds up elements from in the drop using low passes, etc to make it sound nice to our ears because we understand what's about to come of the track. Also using typical build up elements usually indicates there's drop about to happen. I also want to say they obviously stay in key, which makes it easy for listeners and makes it easy to sound natural. Of course you can do key changes but they requires a little more of chord progression manipulation or fills to make it work correctly.

In conclusion, it's about building up elements and creating an anticipation for the next part. Best options for easy, natural transitions, is to keep a chord progression that's the same or similar, mainly starting with the first chord being the main root chord of the key you're working in when the next part begins, maybe slowly introducing a melody line that will be the main focus of a second section.

I hope this helps