[alphx]

So I am currently working on a cover/remix of a track from a movie which i wont say right now. but its a really chilled out track originally. sorta melancholy... i want to remix it into something dancy, but so far all i have done is rewritten the original melody, added my own everything. then in the end as a sort of build i took it from 110bpm to 170 and made it dnb ish (a genre i am VERY unfamilliar with, i just sorta went with the flow). The track is mainly piano. and i want to make it more synthetic once the bpm spikes... any ways of doing this that are subtle? rather than just stopping the piano and starting the synth?

Sorry if nothing i said makes sense. I am posting right before i go to bed in hopes i get some fresh info for tomorrow. anyway, i can send the wave file to you if you wanna hear it but you probably dont so dont worry about it.

MAX

[clarkf]

Hey Max. Sounds like a cool project.

If you want to make the track more electronic sounding?
Try a bitcrusher on the piano. Maybe some extra effect, stereo filter delay..?
You could also layer in a electro sounding synth under the piano, filter the piano down
with automation and let the synth glide trough.

Many possibilities, indeed there is.

[leftfoot]

You could at the end of the piano section automate some kind of fx or modulation on the piano and gradually increase the wet and make it spiral sort of out of control until it abruptly stops with a small delay tail........ then kick in the synth

[scyn]

Originally Posted by alphx

The track is mainly piano. and i want to make it more synthetic once the bpm spikes... any ways of doing this that are subtle? rather than just stopping the piano and starting the synth?

Try transforming the piano sound into x, and then make x evolve into the more synthetic version. So the piano becomes a new sound, and from that new sound comes your synthetic sound. I guess one way to do it would be to gradually increase the Wet on a vocoder that's on your piano track until the sound becomes something else. Obviously you could have an fx chain and also bring up the wet/dry of other effects so as to further morph the sound of the piano. Maybe see what happens when you modulate the piano with the synthetic version, and conversely - modulate the synthetic version with the piano version. You might need additional copies of those tracks so they aren't modulating each other in a kind of feedback-loop.

Do the same thing to the synthetic version, but just in reverse. Hopefully you can find a middle-ground that sounds very similar for the two instruments. Might be best to bounce those two tracks down and layer the converging sections and play with some automated EQ bands to properly blend the sound.

[Solipsis]

How about using a sort of sweeping sound and a phaser building up in frequency? That could signify the increasing intensity so that the faster tempo is more expected. Additionally you can choose to gradually fade in the treble of the DnB breaks, then when they are introduced for a few bars and the sweep up / FXing transition is completed you can drop the rest.

Just some ideas, I've never actually done something like that so it'd be good to get this confirmed first.

Good luck!

[alphx]

Thanks for the replies guys. currently unmotivated to work on the track but i will get back to it sometime. and i will follow your advice