Pitch it, distort it to add harmonics, stick it through ring and frequency modulation to mix it with other versions of itself, and you really can synthesise every element of a track from scratch. For a practical challenge, make everything from one source sine signal. Not only will this give you a completely different perspective on your existing track, it’ll also give you a different way of working and force you to commit to what you’ve made so far. Take out your razor (the tool in your DAW, we mean), and start hacking up the audio, timestretching it, pitchshifting it, and loading it into samplers. Take a track you’ve been working on, save a new version and render every single element out to audio. You’re the ultimate computer musician - a piano-roll hero wielding a mouse and a MIDI keyboard… but that can get old fast. Use your production skills to bring the sonics more into line with your chosen genre and you’ll likely find that the result is a more flavoursome piece of music. Maybe you’re making tech house tunes, but does that mean you absolutely need to use tech house sample packs? Instead, try a pack from a completely different genre and see how it changes the music you make. Are you an ardent sample pack aficionado? If you’ve spent hours trawling through soundware libraries like we have, you’ll realise just how blurred the lines can be between the sonic building blocks of two genres.
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