And the Most Overused Word in Electronic Music Today Is...

[timothyallan]

.... Phat

[abl385]

dubstep

[dokx]

Compression

[Mint Invader]

dubstep

(Insert other genre)step

[Mint Invader]

That sounds so "Commercial"

[LoopStationZebra]

Compression

Oooo. This is good.

[LoopStationZebra]

The reason I picked semitones is because it's the fashionable dish de jour.

Everywhere I turn - especially electronic music blogs, of course - people are talking semitones.

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It gets really bizarre when dance music producers get all geeked about semitones. I mean...uh...it's a bit like AC/DC deciding to add a wonderful series of 5ths into their latest piece. (ie. No one fucking cares).



Semitones. bah. Fuck them. FUCK THEM ALL.

[pepezabala]

Google says
Semitones: Aproximadamente 1.040.000 resultados (0,10 segundos)
Dubstep: Aproximadamente 40.300.000 resultados (0,14 segundos)
Warmth: Aproximadamente 55.900.000 resultados (0,15 segundos)
Phat: Aproximadamente 278.000.000 resultados (0,10 segundos)

[Tarekith]

I was going to say side-chain.

[Mint Invader]

Ableton

[pulsoc]

"on the fly"

[LoopStationZebra]

side chain

on the fly

Yes, yes YES. Both over used. Side chain in more ways than one.

[Mint Invader]

Lol remember 8 years ago when the big one was "Gated Synth"

[squelcht]

Ableton

Nice.

[razorblade]

Sidechain

Wobble

Supersaw

Analog