2013/07/28 13:29:45
polarbear
i actually was meaning to report back here that I did a couple days ago, and they did :-) awesome people. loving it so far. 
2013/07/29 00:08:01
Brando
Excellent.
2013/07/29 02:13:38
forkol
polarbear
... if you listen to a lot of modern pop music...  for lack of a better description it's like "shimmering sparkles" that come in during the choruses. that description sounds awful haha. but listen to stuff like katy perry, lady gaga, kesha, one direction, rhianna. they all have it. it's not really real percussion, but that's the only way i'd know to describe the sound since it mixed in with the drum beat and picks everything up and makes it seem faster during the chorus.


It seems that from a dance/pop music area, nobody has directly addressed your question, so I'd thought I take a shot.
 
What you area really looking for is called FX (effects), and specifically called transition effects, especially a set  of effects called risers.  They are called that because they typically rise in pitch and tempo, and are used as transition sounds, to go from one section of a song to another.
 
There are may companies that produce FX loop packs, some of the more well-known are:
 
Loopmasters
Vengeance Sound
Sample Magic
 
Also, it's not to difficult to create your own from scratch.   If you have a sampler like Kontakt, then it's easy cut up and paste samples in small parts, then play them back with rising pitch, tempo, filter cutoff, delays, etc.  Here's an example that's done with Ableton Live that you could also do in Sonar with a decent sampler as well:


Breakdown/buildup examples
 
Hope this helps!
 
 
2013/07/29 11:21:21
polarbear
thanks for the input forkol. you know what though it's not the rises i'm looking for, it's actually during the chorus. you know what's funny though. and while i'm loving chromaphone for all that it CAN do, i just went back and instead of going from memory, i went and listened to a few pop songs to hear exactly what i'm talking about, and it's almost always just hi-hats and/or shakers haha.
 
for example:
 
Kesha - Tik Tok - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP6XpLQM2Cs (starting at 0:58)
Katy Perry - California Girls - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F57P9C4SAW4 (starting at 2:10)
 
stuff like that. i bet I'll find what i'm looking for in that  BFD Percussion Expansion pack once I really get to dig into it.
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