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.