Enhancing Your Synth Lead Patterns: Tips for West Coast Beats

Here are three things that I do to make my synth lead patterns for West Coast beats better. All right, so the first thing you’re going to want to do is overlap some of your notes so it gives you a gliding effect when you use your synth lead. So if you look right here, these ones are overlapping and they sound like this. See how it kind of like glides from the note. Now the second thing that I do is try to utilize space. Now if you look at this pattern right here, it’d be really easy just to kind of make them all overlap, but sometimes utilizing space makes it way more bouncy and catchy to the ear. So I think the lead that you hear in this video is available in Summer Nights 2, the analog lab bank that me and Lifestyle dropped. We can buy our brother. And lastly, something that I do is a fake pitch bend. So let’s say you don’t have a MIDI keyboard and you can’t use a pitch wheel or anything like that. Doing this little trick can help you get that same effect. So what you do is you just go over to your synth lead and you just add a little note like this and you just make it super short. This way is going to glide up to that note and then come back down very, very fastly just like how you would on a pitch wheel. Shout out to the official, he’s actually the one who put me onto that too.