This thread is to share random ideas, tips and techniques that you use in your music production to help others who may not know that technique and possibly even between us develop some interesting new techniques.

Feel free to post audio/video clips to help explain your examples.

I’ll start the ball rolling with ideas on how to make your synths/basslines have more movement.

So you have your oscillators, firstly you can detune one or all of them a few cents to make them out of phase slightly, this with give you wider sounds and some movement as the wave forms go in and out of phase due to the slightly different wavelengths of each oscillator.

Another nice way to get movement is to apply a light notch filter that’s automated to move up and down the frequency spectrum. I find this is best done subtly on top of other movement techniques just to add a little extra dimention, and normaly used under a more prominent filter sweep such as a band pass which would also be automated but to give the main filter movement effect.

A slightly different type of movement you could do is to assign a sine wave oscillator to the pitch of you main oscillators and again only having it slighly effect the sound and only moving the pitch slightly. This will give a vibrating movement, kinda like when you hear a resonating bass that seams to wobble (not so mcuh as a dubstep kinda wobble) but it will very subtly add an extra vibration to what would otherwise be a flat tone.