Hey Ffanci! The good thing about project "droning" is that all tunes are designed in such a way so as to not require you to listen through *all* of the tune. You can start and stop at any point in the tune. I would say that I focus more on structure, then sound design. But at the same time sound design is central. Sounds like a contradiction, but let me give you an analogy. Imagine someone making figures out of clay. They focus on how their figures look, what kind of emotions they convey, but they don't think too much about clay. But at the same time clay is at the basis of it, and they actually do have to care a lot about the quality of the clay, how it is handled, etc. But it is such a basic part of the process that they don't already pay much attention to clay itself. So, same with me. Sound design is such a basic integral part of electronic music, that you are engaged in it without focusing on it anymore. Sound is your clay. I don't use automation too much. I might be using automation in FL Studio if I need a very complicated process to generate interesting sound. In Linux working with automation is difficult, although sometimes I used seq24 for some automation. But generally I either use my pd patches <http://louigiverona.com/?page=projects&s=software&t=puredata>, or I play it live. I also use kluppe <http://kluppe.klingt.org/> a lot, might use paulstretch <http://hypermammut.sourceforge.net/paulstretch/> for some sounds sometimes (although generally paulstretch doesn't work well with most sounds, so I use it very rarely). You can see that a piece like 270 actually consists of a lot of separate pieces. How they come together is a challenge. The better I approach this challenge, the better the track sounds. The most difficult thing, though, is cleaning up. When you are working with pads and strings and longish sounds, resonating frequencies could be a huge problem. Half of the time you are playing around with equalizers and multiband compressors to remove offending frequencies, this is sometimes very tough work. Hope that answers your questions! Ask more if you want to know anything else. On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 10:11 PM, Ffanci Silvain &lt;silvain(a)freeshell.de&gt; wrote: -- Louigi Verona http://www.louigiverona.com/