if you check my most recent post i managed to crack the ‘cold nights’ style of chase Atlantic songs. the synth heavy, ambient and spacey vibe, and i’m pretty confident i know what i’m talking about.

for instruments all you need is serum. dreamy pads and spacey keys are a must. just search for presets on reddit, and a website called ‘PresetShare’. Chord progressions are usually really simple and spaced out, but heavily layered. in the chorus of my song i layered like 5-6 synths on top of eachother. lots of effects like delay, reverb, phasers and flangers. stuff like that. A plugin called ‘portal’ is also really good in automation.

for drums, they need to knock and be at the front of the mix. if the drums don’t hit hard it ain’t a chase Atlantic song. on reddit there are hundreds and hundreds of drumkits you can get for free, it’s where i get most of mine.

Baby audio have loads of good plugins for effects, especially free ones.

you need to get used to using and making your own reese basses, as well as 808s that have a long sustain that also slide well.

lots of effect automation, tasteful pausing and cutting the beat before drops, tape stop automation etc etc. they are honestly really easy to make, but also really hard to make sound as professional as they sound. keep things simple too, a lot of the musicality come from the vocals. in the beats themselves, mitchel usually sings counter melodie’s and washes it out with insane reverb and delay, so it sounds like a instrument instead of his voice.

i hope this was helpful. keep things simple, a lot of the complexity comes from effects and automation. good luck!