Complextro question

[DJens]

DO you know what sounds much much better than this whole complextro shit? Subtlety and intricacy. COmplextro is such a contradiction. It is just horrible glitched acidy synths with generic percussion, nothing overly complex about it. Try and build a subtle percussion based track where the percussion constantly evolves in a delicate way, much more complex and interesting to listen to.
But yeah, a golden bit of advice was given earlier: play with adsr.
add slide and/or portamento to the notes, end the notes slightly before the next note triggers to prevent nasty overlaps.

hope that helped and didn't sound too condescending.

I agree that a track with more percussions and hats with different velocitys and shit is much more complex than an kick snare kick snare electrobeat and I hate the term 'complextro' too, but when the term falls most people instantly know what you're talking about

good points mentioned here, to prevent overlaps you could also try sticking with your synths between kick and snare / snare and kick.

[VirtualMark]

I have to disagree - as with any genre its very easy to do it badly! But to make any type of music well takes skill and patience, whether its complextro or realistic percussion.

[rymebox]

I hate the term 'complextro' by the way, just call it electro house

I did this tune a super long time ago, so pardon the drums and stuff, but another thing I've learned is to use real instruments often as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHj0U2H5Dzc

[wormcode]

I hate the term 'complextro' by the way, just call it electro house

Haha Electrohouse is an equal misnomer though. Not very electro or house sounding. Electro is that afrofuturism sound, house is smooth and classy. Genre names are funny these days. 'Fidget' probably takes the cake though!

[NinjaEdit]

I just want to point out that complextro is just one kind of electro house, in which timbral changes are a part of the composition.

I've been working on some complextro. The process I've been using is to render some one shot bass sounds, at whichever note sounds good, and chop bits out to arrange into a bass line.