Creating Girly-Pop in Logic Pro 

Working on the project formula involved actively listening to Girlie pop genre. After the initial listening session, we noticed that the music in Espresso draws on a 80s funk/disco style genre, incorporating instruments and sounds popular to that era, but in a post modern retro feel that is saturated with girl-pop vocals.  

To recreate the style, we used DAW Logic Pro. 

The sound patches we set on using to re-create the retro 80s funk/disco style consist of synthesizers, synth strings, synth bass guitar, UltraBeat synth drum kit groove using funkie boogie kit, and percussion claps, sound patch from the ES2 sampler for the lead, Logic analog bass synth,  Roland SRX Dance library for synth strings, and the Korg M1 VST plugin 80s FM bell pad, and Sweet Tynes electric keyboard patch. The funk guitars were recreated with Session Guitarist Electric Sunburst deluxe and Chris Hein Guitar library. 

The bassline groove is an imitation of the bassline from Sabrina Carpenter’s Espresso. 

The lead patch, called Custom Lead was generated using Logic Pro ES2 and was copied from Espresso melodic lead melody

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The  harmonies center around D minor, E minor, and A minor. The sound patch chosen for the harmonic language is from Korg M1 sound library called Sweet Tynes. The Bell Pad patch was used to recreate the counter melody from espresso so that it was as close as possible to the original sound patch. 

The drum-kit uses a looping groove to recreate the original funky groove beat of the 80s the girly pop style. 

The funky rhythm guitars were simulated with Chris Hein’s Guitar library and Session Guitarist Sunburst Deluxe. The digital synth patch was used from Roland SRX Dance library to create a similar type of 80s synth sound. 

You can find the audio track we made in logic here 

You can find the session files in our google folder here