Looking and playing around with some arps for trance production, what are your favorites? Currently I'm playing with Chthulhu and Logics native arp

Edit: I would prefer a midi fx one like chthulhu where I can route it into kontakt

Hey guys, so I've messed around with sidechain compression before and my buddy showed me a track of his where he didn't use an actual side chain compressor just Nicky Romero - Kickstart on a bus. I don't understand how he applied this and made it effect other tracks

1.Could anyone give me a quick instructional on how to set something like this up and how to apply it to the other tracks?

2. What settings with regards to volume etc do I need to apply to the kickstart bus?

3. How would you route various busses like Bass, Leads, Drums through this?

Thanks for your help!

Ok so Jason Ross just released a beautiful track called coaster!

What has he done to create these chords, what I'm picking up on is some sidechain compression with some reverb/delay? Can you guys help an amateur learn how to replicate that sound please? What sort of reverb/delay does he have going so it echos back at you when the chords aren't playing like that

Also If he has reverb/delay going how does he have the chords so cleanly bouncing to that rhythm?

Thanks so much for the help you guys are awesome, here is the track, drop starts at 2:37

The the stuttered/gated vocal effects. Any plug ins you guys know what would do an excellent job? Or am I stuck using Logic's shitty native plugins

What would you leave the pads at out of curiousity?

So I've been composing my tracking with all the tracks near - 20 dB and leaving the kick near 0 dB. When I master the track should I turn down the kick to near the other tracks volumes?

Hey guys,

 Was wondering if anyone could help me out with the design of my white noise and risers. Right now I'm using sylenth to create the white noise and I find it has a gritty aspect to is even after applying shitloads of reverb and delay etc. Same goes for my tonal risers when I change one of the oscillators in sylenth to a sine wave. What is your approach for creating a breathy smooth white noise in your tracks?

What audio units do you use? What do you use to generate your white noise?

Thanks appreciate it

Thanks! It did a lot