Hello,
I was hoping that people could offer advice/tips to a newbie on prefered ways of working to record a lead over a pre-created track (I'm working on psytrance). At the moment I'm drawing in or recording a basic pattern (using Cubase 5) and then trying to write the automation on the fly afterwards by playing the same loop over till I get somewhere near what I'm looking for. The thing is I can't really get the accuracy and control that I think I need to get it to sound good. Perhaps there is an easier way to do this that I'm missing, short of opening up all the relevant automation parameteres and tweaking them individually ... would an XY controller help, creative use of the arp...or creating/sourcing a collection of midi patterns to audition in my track ... Any help much appreciated.
Cheers
FM