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Create a super-sized sweep, step-by-step
Computer Music, Tue 2 Jun 2009, 12:21 pm UTC

Step 2: We copy this sample, place it in front of the original, then reverse it to create a fade-in/fade-out effect. It's good to have a lot of dynamics in your samples: it makes things more dramatic and gives them a bit more 'shape'.
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