Keeping It Simple with Scarr.

Scarr. is the brainchild of Yash Salvi. Pune based electronic music producer and one half of Feeling Sunsets, with friend & partner Sachin Menon (aka HAEN). Together they both also co-founded Soule Studios - a production house & mastering agency.

Yash was doing his undergrad in Media & Communications when he realised music was his way and dropped out to pursue a career in music. Drawing inspiration from artists such as Ford, Kina, Kasbo, Eden, Tourist and the likes, Yash’s music can be described as easy going, emotive-ambient electronica. 

2020 was a milestone year for Yash, with a slew of independent releases as 'Scarr.' and his & Sachin’s debut EP - Moved as Feeling Sunsets got picked up by Silk Music (now known as Monstercat Silk), receiving high praise from listeners the world over.

Currently, Yash is working on an EP and live set for his solo project, a second album for Feeling Sunsets and a second EP on Monstercat Silk, that just released a day ago. We caught up with him in the middle of all this to get an insight on his production workflow and process.

“My production process is very simple. It’s all about using the right sounds & samples to make everything fit than over-processing any of it later on. I’m always on the lookout for sounds that I like and then experiment using them..”

He shows us one of the tricks that he does on most of his tracks using the stock Ableton reverb and its freeze function to create big sustaining atmospheres that fill up space and sets the ambience to his tracks. 

Here’s how you can do the same:

1. Add Ableton’s stock reverb on to your channel
2. Set the Dry/Wet signal to a value between 20-30% based on your taste
3. Enable automation for the Freeze function and draw your automations on to the clip channel as shown in the video
4. Enable the Reverb unit’s Device On/Off automation and draw automations where the reverb turns off just before the end of each clip and starts again with the next clip

You can do the following technique with any audio sample. Check it out -

1. Double click on your audio sample to open clip view
2. Under the clips Warp settings, go to Preserve & select 1/16th duration to start with
3. Enable No-Looping ( -> ) for the preserve setting
4. Adjust the envelope box amount to your liking as shown in the video. This acts like a gate
5. You can further play around with the same 3 settings to get different variations from the same sample

1. Duplicate the audio sample you want to another channel
2. Hit Ctrl/Cmd + R to reverse the clip
3. Layer it with the original sample clip to get more harmonic textures

1. Go to the clip automation section on your audio clip
2. Under Envelopes select Clips & Transposition to enable automation on your clip
3. Mark your automation points for the clip to pitch up or down as per your liking