Here are some less commonly discussed techniques that are useful in tons of genres! I’m using ShaperBox to demo everything because they wanted to sponsor a video but if you don’t have the plugin you can of course do automation and gating in lots of different ways. ShaperBox just makes a lot of it easier 
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In this video we cover:
0:24 Accentuating a performance’s dynamics
1:48 Sculpting your transients
3:28 Unique percussion technique
4:40 Gated texture layers on drums
5:58 Drawing ducks
7:31 Giving life to pads
9:12 Distortion automation
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