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We drop into episode 329 with the intention to create a Melodic house track in the style of anjunabeats & Sill For Talent from scratch, we bring down the BPM to 120 BPM and compose all the elements from complete scratch in from of your eyes.
We fist setup the acoustics to a flat response using Sonarwokx sound ID
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
2:54 We compose and design the baseline using Logic pro Alchemy
4:34 De add accents by using polyphonic tricks layering notes
10:50 Recording an ethereal lead using Logic Po Alchemy synth
15:11 Mixing the elements we just created
19:18 Recoding mid low keys to add presence
21:39 Layering a creative pad in the background
23:55 Final Thoughts
May the sounds be with you!
How to Make Melodic House Like Stil Vor Talent & Anjunadeep in Logic Pro
In episode 329 of the Live Electronic Music Tutorials, Mikas builds a melodic house track from scratch in real time, drawing on the deep, hypnotic sound of labels like Stil Vor Talent and Anjunadeep. Working at a laid-back 120 BPM with pre-programmed drums and a custom bass patch as a starting point, he shows the full creative process — bassline, lead, mid-low keys and pads — built almost entirely inside Logic Pro’s Alchemy synth.
What you’ll learn
- Designing a deep, Moog-style melodic bassline with glide and a long decay in Alchemy
- Using sidechain compression to lock elements to the groove
- Adding polyphonic accent notes layered an octave up on separate instruments
- Recording an ethereal, reverb-drenched lead and capturing happy accidents
- Carving space with EQ so the lead and keys don’t clash
- Building presence with mid-low organ keys and layering atmospheric pads
1. Set up a flat monitoring chain
Before touching the music, Mikas switches to headphones through Sound ID Reference so he has a flat frequency response to work against. He keeps the pre-programmed drums deliberately raw for now — percussion mixing is saved for the final phase, so early decisions aren’t coloured by an unfinished balance.
2. Lay down the melodic bassline in Alchemy
The foundation is a custom Alchemy preset called “Melodic Bass” — a Moog-flavoured sound with a longer decay and a rolling feel. He plays in the keys, lightly quantizes them, then joins notes so they spill into each other and activate the patch’s glide between pitches. A key tip he stresses: he rarely reaches for new plugins. Staying inside one synth and mastering its presets means he gets better and faster every session, rather than constantly switching tools and slowing down.
3. Lock the groove with sidechain compression
To give the bass movement, he pushes a fairly aggressive sidechain (around a 5:1 ratio) but raises the threshold so the pumping isn’t overdone. He’s happy to let the filter stay closed on the opening bit, accepting it for the first section rather than forcing it open everywhere — a reminder that not every bar needs full brightness.
4. Add polyphonic accents an octave up
For movement and funk, he replicates the bass idea and adds accent notes shifted up twelve semitones (an octave), placed on a separate instrument with its own preset. He tweaks the filter, adds a touch more vibrato, widens the stereo image slightly, and adds delay (catching himself when it gets too heavy). He also fixes timing: comparing the two layers, he nudges notes that weren’t sitting in the same place so the variation lands cleanly after the first three keys and keeps the loop from getting boring.
5. Record an ethereal lead through huge reverb
He creates a new bus loaded with a big-room reverb at 100% wet, then plays bell-like, harp-ish chorus keys into it. By giving the notes a bit more length he can capture melodies more easily and loop on top of them. This is where he embraces happy accidents — keeping a delay-soaked phrase that “just goes perfectly in there.” He notes that a lot of modern melodic house (he name-checks Nora En Pure) leans on grooving elements without a strong lead, so adding one piece of real melodic substance is what he’s after.
6. EQ the lead so elements stop bleeding
The lead lives mostly in the top end, so he cleans it with EQ — cutting the low end entirely and shaping the top — because the chunky keys were bleeding onto it. He also pulls back some of the intense decay and release so the sound is tighter and the parts sit together rather than masking each other.
7. Add presence with mid-low organ keys
To move from a good track to a great one, he adds richness in the mid-lows — the pads, brasses and organs he loves. Using a vintage tube EQ he adds body around the 100–400 Hz region for a warm, “churchy” organ character, then removes the low end so it doesn’t fight the bass. He keeps just the body so the organ can drop in cleanly underneath the rest.
8. Layer creative pads for atmosphere
Finally, he simplifies one of the key melodies down to just two notes and turns it into a creative pad, choosing a spacey, fully-open chorus patch as a vanilla background texture. Pushed up the keyboard and sitting behind everything else, the pad fills out the arrangement — the kind of atmospheric layer that defines the Anjunadeep and Stil Vor Talent sound. From here, he spends a few more hours mixing on the speakers with the sub to turn the loop into a full three-to-four-minute track.
Get the project file: Want to start with the finished session, patches and arrangement already in place? Download the template → for Logic Pro X, Ableton Live or FL Studio and build your own melodic house track even faster.
