IN THE poiZONE

So this is the ADSR project. For the poizone lead I made Osc A a pulse wave, I detuned and Upped the pitch on Osc B. For the Attack I put it just below half way and it made it kinda sorta sound like a marimba. I was really happy with it :D Next I made a drum beat. I took the beat from the song Your Betrayal by Bullet For My Valentine. Then I made the PoiZone Lead part over that in C. Put some chords in the background, E, A, and A. And then for the second section I made a Slayer Guitar copy the drum pattern. I then made a little break type section with the drum just going every beat with a bass hit and the PoiZone going on the same pattern. Then I put the Synth back in. After this break I cut both the Synth and PoiZone out. I had the beat keep going on drums and then I added a breakdown-ish section with a new pattern on guitar. I bring back the synth after one time through the pattern. I also made the PoiZone fill in the empty space in the breakdown parts. I finally had it fade out at the end. I. Did. This. SOOOO. Fast. I am proud of how it came out for 2 days work on it and the post. Music Tech has been fun, thanks Rabuse, probably gonna be taking Guitar Ensemble next year. Looking forward to that :D

I WUB YOU ALL!

So this is the dubstep project. And just to get one thing clear. I don't like dubstep very much. So what I did was make a half time drum pattern going kick, snare to start the song. Also I made a synth lead that plays though out most of the song with Sytrus. Then I added the wobble bass and it's automation clip. I had to mess around alot to get the wubs going at the speed I wanted in most of this song. I made a few patterns for the wobble and then fixed them up with automation. The other drum loop I had was the same Kick snare pattern but filled in with hat hits. At what I thought was the end of the song originally I added a pattern from the PoiZone plugin and it didn't sound finished so naturally I added a tri-tone and added the wobble back for a few more measures. Then ended the song. Sorry this post isn't as detailed as some of my others. Anyway, I think this came out pretty good so ENJOY :D

Whatever Chords Are....

This is the post for project 6. For this project I started out just figuring out what key I was gonna use. I chose C just for simplicity. After I decided on a chord progression, put the chords into a cool little rhythm and used the preset from Sytrus called Smooth 3. Next I made a simple drum pattern with just the kick drum and a tom. Then I made the bass keep pumping out a C. For the next section I used some arpeggios on the plugin FL keys. I changed the drums and bass to fit the arpeggios. For the final section I had FL Slayer play the arpeggios and the piano do some background chords to fit the guitar. I kept the bass and drums the same. Overall I think it came out pretty good. maybe sometime I'll go back and record a real guitar track for the last section instead of the plugin but for now i want to move on to another project. A month on this one has taken it's toll on me :P

AWOL

This is the post for project 5a. This is my version of a song called AWOL by Broadway. I really just added the static as an extra to transition between the lone piano part and the lone guitar part. I just used the intro to AWOL as a constant throughout the whole loop and added a guitar solo over the piano playing the looped part. I ended the loop with the guitar harmonizing the piano and then fading out and the piano holding a C after playing the loop after playing one more time after the guitar faded out.

My Little Synths

I've just finished woking on project 5, so here's the blog post. I kinda went for a spacey theme while writing this just because that's how my synths came out. For the saw wave I made the envelope two hills which gave it a cool sound to it with the effects I added. The effect that I added was a chorus with an order of 5 with delay and a bit of reverb. I used this synth as a lead part in my loop. For the sine wave i left most of the settings at default. The effect that i used was a chorus with an order of 9 with delay and reverb. This was the rhythm part in my loop. For the lead synth part I wrote it myself rather then having a chopped or generated riff. When I wrote it initially it sounded kinda empty so i added a harmonizing part to it and it sounded much better. For the drums i went into FPC and found a pattern I liked but I can't find right now. Then, I wrote a pattern with chords that was later refined with the sine wave to be kind of a rhythm part. Also, for the synth patterns I transposed them 3 half steps up to make a easy second pattern before the bridge. For the bridge part I had the drums drop out 1 measure before and the rhythm faded out just before it started. I wrote a slower part for the saw wave synth. Then, I made a long held out chord for the rhythm synth to hold for the rest of the loop and that faded in over 2 measures. I had the drums come back in when I had the lead synth went back to pattern one. Finally I had everything fade put to end the loop.

Now You're thinking with Filters!

This is my blog post for project 4. This feel I get for the final product is very similar to the music found in a video game called Portal. For pattern one I went into the riff machine with slayer and kept randomizing until I got something that sounded pretty good and then transposed that 3 times in the pattern. For pattern 2 I went into FPC and took the pattern called FPC Hardrock 06 because I thought that it complimented the guitar nicely. For Pattern 3 I made a pattern for a rhythm guitar. For the final pattern I took the synthesizer 3xOsc and went back into the riff machine until something that worked popped up. Next, I added a master volume automation clip to make the track fade in at the beginning and then fade out at the end. Then, I sent the lead guitar through a filter to give it a more techno sound. I then added an XY-controller to the MODX and MODY filters on 3xOsc and made an automation clip with that. Finally, I doodled with the tempo and lowered it to 100 BPMs which really made it sound like that game. Overall, this project was extremely fun and I am very happy with the way it came out.



Here is an alternate version without the rhythm guitar and drums. I just wanted to mess about and see just how close I could get with this to being like Portal's music.

Update on Project 4

I started project 4 this week. One of the main reasons its not done is because I only had 2 days to work on it in class this week. Its coming along nicely and the only part left to go, I believe, is the synth requirement. So, yeah this project is one of the more fun ones if done. Sounds pretty good to me so far with the 2 guitar part and drums all done.