Automation is Cool

For pattern 1 I just went into FPC and chose Metal 7 as the drums to play throughout the song. Then I went to SimSynth and put it into the riff machine. After a while I got a 4 measure pattern that I liked a lot. I cloned the Synth pattern and put it up 3 half steps. I added a bass to go along with both synth patterns. For the automation I used the cut off frequency of the SimSynth. I started it low and then after a bar I put it up a little and dropped it after another. I kept that pattern through that automation. Finally, I made a steep drop in master volume to end the song.

Chopping Project

I used the transpose function to make the guitar and bass sound like they were in a Drop C tuning and made a 3 measure long pattern of just chugging.

For the 3 measures before the synth came in I had the guitar start the chugging and had the bass do the same to make it sound a little deeper and more full. The FPC drumloop goes throughout the entire song and doesn't change, but I really like how it compliments the rest of the song. I used the chopping tool on C with the PoiZone synth to make the synth part that comes in on the 4th measure. After 3 more measures I added a 1 measure guitar fill made with the chop tool to bridge the transposition from C to F. The F part goes on for 3 measures and then I let the drums continue though a break for the other instruments for 1 measure. When the instruments came back they were back in/on C, continuing the same pattern. After 3 measures I let the synth and bass drop out. I made a shortened pattern for the guitar to stop the song. I had the drums cut out just before the final 4 guitars note came out to end the song.

First Project

 While making this drum loop I was thinking of sounds I hear while listening to simple punk rock. With the fill I tried to make the time stop a little bit and introduce the bass drum in as the new main drum for the contrasting pattern. The 1st pattern I used had a kick drum on every beat and the hi hat being hit every other beat. Also in this pattern I added a little pattern of ride hits on top of the kick and hi hat.The alternate pattern to this kept the kick drum and the ride hits the same and added a 'clap' on the first beat and removed the hi hat hit that was there. Also the hi hat is hit three times in the 3rd beat. The contrasting pattern I made took out the ride cymbal completely and moved the focus to the bass drum and tom. The bass drum takes the same pattern as the ride cymbal had in the previous pattern.The tom gets hit with the bass drum in the first 2 beats and on the last hit in the measure. The last pattern is used to ed the loop only using the first two beats of the previous pattern. What I tried to accomplish was to create a completely contrasting pattern that sounded really good together. ENJOY! :D

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