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Peaktimemelodic house: from progressive to electro

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Over the past decade the biggest dancefloors have resonated to the sound of progressive house: a hedonistic fusion of euphoric melodics, mighty chord progressions and chunky minimal-inspired beats. More recently, the sound has been merged with wonky Dutch-style electro for a new hybrid, embodied by populist purveyours such as Swedish House Mafia.

SM26 Mainroom Anthems joins the dots between the various related sub-genres to create a single collection that represents the sound of today’s mainroom.

Stacks of pared-down beats and minimal-infused beats underpin the collection, each offered with a range of variants (full, stripped, top-only) for unparalleled Sample Magic beat control. A generous serving of nu-perc and kick-free top loops round off the beatmaking armoury.

Basslines span the entire spectrum: from subby and techy throbbers through to bin-blitzing portamento slides and overdriven razor-blazers, all built for dancefloor destruction.

The variety is also reflected in the melodic folders. Music loops offer ecstasy-injected mixed musical phrases (containing multiple synths, bass and light percussive lines), many provided with alternatives for additional creative control. The stacked synth hooks, euphoric progressions and trance-tinted leads aim for hands-in-the-air hysteria. Where the mood felt right we eased them out across 4, 8 – sometimes even 16 bars.

And as always, we’ve provided 100s of drum hits for all-original beat-building, plus scores of stadium-sized FX to raise heart rates across the globe. A bonus folder of single-shot synth stabs are ready to be drenched in your reverb of choice. Load into a sampler, pitch and repitch, stretch and reverse for a multitude of all-new ear candy.

Some collections demand intricate programming, some rely on 100s of live recordings: SM26 needed just one thing: Big. Big sounds. Big ideas. And big melodies.

Enjoy.

The Producers

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producer tips01/ Layered kicks

Big, punchy kick drums are the foundation of the mainroom track. Maximim impact is achieved through layering. A common layering technique is to use a different sound to supply three different characteristics: attack, body, and depth (high, mid and low). The attack is invariably delivered by a sample that has a clear, sharp, clicky attack. For the body of the kick try one that has mid-range punch and crunch. For the depth pick a sound that extends well into the low end – 808-style sounds are ideal for this.

The skill to layering is sculpting the three sounds so they fit effortlessly together. In practice this means cutting the lows of the attack portion and rolling away highs in the deep sample. Tweaking the envelope settings will help to further gel each of the sounds. For the attack sample, use a short decay, while for the low end try a faster attack. When the three samples feel as if they’re kicking as one unified whole, send them to a single kick drum bus for additional (subtle) processing. Wherever possible, keep the layered kick drum in mono.

02/ Stacked synths

Layering is also the key to those euphoric Swedish House Mafia-style leads. Copy the lead line across several instrument tracks and choose wildly different sounds for each layer. Try different plug-ins and effects, as well as transposing the layered line an octave or two up or down (fifths and sevenths also sound good). If you have a chord line you can use a similar technique, placing each note of the chord on a different Midi channel with a different sound for each note.

03/ Stereo field

Take layered synth lines to the next level by maximising their stereo width. Set the most important constituent lead dead centre, with a second fed through a subtle stereo widener and the third through a wide stereo enhancer for a combined super-wide, super-size sound. Send all layers to a single stereo bus for further processing.

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04/ All tuned

Check the tuning of any percussive hits in beat patterns. 909 toms, for example, have a clear tonality. Try tuning them to the same key as the track, or so that they resonate alongside the bassline. Kicks are also tonal elements – experiment with their tuning in relation to the bassline and/or (preferably both!) the pads and synths.

05/ Pre-claps

Pre-claps rule. Just fire up a light clap sample and trigger it a few ms before the main clap/snare for added impact. Add another clap before the first for a super-fast triple hit. Compress the life out of the pre-clap to help the drums suck in all the right ways.

06/ Strip

Sparse mixes always have a bigger impact in the mainroom room. Don’t overcrowd your tracks with lots of different elements, particularly rhythmic ones. Keep the production simple, with each finely-honed part delivering maximum impact. Don’t be afraid to mute parts that aren’t contributing enough to the whole.

07/ Cut the lows

Keep mixes clean by using EQ to high-pass (or roll away lows on) all channels that don’t need high or low-end. This doesn’t just apply to synths and pads: in tracks where the kick drum provides most of the low end boom try rolling away the subby lows of the bassline so that there’s room for the kick to do its job.

08/ Break

If you mix and master your own material give yourself time for a break between the two. Mix. Rest. Then master. Rushing a track through the mastering process is a surefire way of undoing a lot of good work.

09/ Export. Re-import

For greater creative control over your own sounds, export loops, fx and melodies and then re-import them onto new tracks to be sliced and further processed (bit-crushed, gated, re-pitched etc) – not only to expand the potential of the loop within the track, but also to generate whole new song ideas. Saving sounds like this as you go along allows you to build your own personal sample library.

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folder setup /9accessingthe files

MainroomAnthemsfolder

Drum loops 128bpm

Top loops 128bpm

Nu-perc loops 128bpm

Bass loops 128bpm

Music loops 128bpm

Synth loops 128bpm

Drum hits & shots

FX & FX loops

KicksClaps & snaresHi-hatsPercussion

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equipment list /10inside the Mainroom Anthems studio

Empirical Labs EL7 FatsoEmpirical Labs DistressorClavia Nord Lead 2gSSL Stereo Bus compressorWaves SSL compressorSherman Filterbank 2TL Audio TubetrackerE-mu E4xt UltraAccess Virus TiKorg MS-10Mutron Bi-PhaseMutronics MutatorRoland Juno-60Roland SH-09Roland TR-808 x 2Roland TR-909Thermionic Culture Vulture

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Collection created bySami Liuski, Hy2rogen

Audio formatting by Chevy One

Demos by Sharooz and The Producers

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