Today we continued on our project 7. I started to mess around with the piano part in my piece. As i said before i am going for a jazzy sound and the piano will really make it sound great. I am having the sound degress down in a very fast pitch way so it sounds really great. Overall I am sad to say nothing really got done, but ideas grew and I think that by the time the new year gets her, everything will be under control and I should have a great piece.

Today we officially started on our project 7. The format I am going to use is AABA. I think this will work very good. The sound I am going for is a jazzy sound. The riff machine as well as the chopping tool made a really cool jazzy riff that I absoluetly love. Hopefully this will grow more and more throughout the week. I hope to add a really cool jazz piano part as well. I think it will turn out good.

Today we finished project 6 and started project 7. I am excited because we can do whatever we want with this project. Hope it comes out good!

After quite some time, my project 6 is finally done. I am very happy with how it came out. First we had to learn how to use the sytrus which took some time because it was a little overwhelming. Being able to be in cotrol of everything was harder then it sounds because now you had to make every choise on your own, and there were so many choices. Once we learned how to use the citrus, we used this machine called the riff machine. This gave us a ton of riffs that we could choose from. I chose one that was sorta of techno. At first i only had my riff playing in the beginning but that i decided to add some drums so i put a simple beat in the beginning and then a drum roll to start off my second stanza of the riff. I also added a cymbol every 4 beats to add some flavor. I think the hardest part of this project for me was finding another riff to contrast with my first one. My pattern was so unique that finding another one that sounded simliar to it was pretty difficult. I searched for some time, and then finally found one that I liked. Even though I found a good one, I still had to find a way for the first one to go into the second one smoothly. Finally I decided on a kick drum that had the four basic beats but then an added one on the 5th 9th and 12th step. I also put in a clap to start off my next riff. Once that riff plays it goes into the first one again and right before it ends, it repeats the beginning drum beat almoost copying the first part of my project. I like this alot, and i hope you do too!!

Today we started to go on our own and start our project. We have to find two riffs from the riff machine and put them together for at least a total of 32 beats. My first pattern is coming along good and I hope to get the second one done next time.

I have just posted my project 5! It is finally done and ready to go. Next class I will blog about my post and then it will be officially done and I will be ready for project 6.

The project number 5 was based on us using the vocodex which is a system in which you take a sound and change it to sound like something else. Once we picked out sounds from freesounds, we put them in the vodex and made them sound like whatever we wanted them too. My sound is of a girl singing a oo la la sound. After it was put through the vocodex, it sounds like a soothing high pitched voice. I started with the sound playing by itself and then adding a simple drum beat.The drum beat has 5 kick drum steps with a high hat on the 3rd 7th, 11th, and 13 steps. This created an upbeat drum beat to offset the slow vocoded sound. Then after the drums and voice play through twice, i added a different drum beat that is simply 9 kick drums that accidently went through the vocodex as well and turned out to be a blessing in disguise. The vocodex put a cool twist on the drums that you can really hear. After that, i started over with the original beat. However, i this time added a sound called onion string. It is really cool because it adds a little flavor to the beat. I also added some notes from the slayer. At first I only had one plain beat. But then i added another one that contrasted with it to sound really cool. After the notes play through twice, i decided to switch the beat up, so i chopped those same notes into a more "choppy" beat and I thought it sounded really nice. Once those notes play..the onion string comes in again by itself and kinda gets you ready for what comes next. After the onion string comes my original beat with the same notes as before. Then another onion string note plays and finnally, the ending note which is a lower version of the notes playing before. My project ends with the playing of an onion string and a backward cymbol. i really like it, and i hope you do too! ENJOY!!

Today I added a couple more cool sounds to my loop. I added a symbol and this sound called onion string in the middle of my loop and I think it should turn out great. The onion string came by accident when i accidently clicked on it. I am very happy with it. Although it is still developing, I think it will turn out to be a weird, cool sounding beat.

Today we continued working on our project 5. I addes some more drums with a little bit of a techno sound to liven it up. Right now my loop is almost done. At this point I am debating whether or not to add more, or simply end it..and if I want to add more..what to add. Hopefully I will have it done by next class or so.

Today we continued with our project 5 vocodex. I found a cool kind of eerie sound last class and I continued to work with that today. I added some drum beats and put some reverb on it as well. Sounds good so far, but still needs some work.

This project was my fourth and final project of this term. I really enjoyed this one because it focused on automation. Basically the sound i was looking for was a techno beat. Thats what I got. I simply put together a basic drum loop with a beat every four steps and then a clap on the 2nd and 7th step. After that I took the master volume and had the volume either go up or down when I wanted it to. Then i took the slayer and added a simple riff over the drums. I chopped it, and then did the same thing by adding automation with the sound. When you listen to my beat you will be able to hear the different levels of sound throughout the pattern. I think this gives it flow and makes it sound a whole lot better. After the slayer, i simply put in a simple bass part and made sure it flowed nicely. Once I heard it did, I was done with my fourth project, and with the techno sound I wanted..I was happy. ENJOY!!

For my third project our main focus was on effects. Although adding cool sounds such as reverb and delay was fun, you had to be careful because if there was too much reverb or delay, the piece would sound choppy and bad. Overall the sound I was looking for was kind of a pop/rock type of thing. However, when I started playing around with teh reverb, slayer, and chopp tool, I ended up with almost a symphony sort of sound. I started with four basic kick drums. Then, i simply added a little reverb to them so you could hear a little echo. Next i put in one simple clap on the 4th step and then some various hats throughtout the pattern. I then decided to copy my first pattern and tweek it just a little for my second one. They contrasted nicely and i had two cool patterns. The next thing I did was put a little delay on one of the claps in the second pattern so that they came right after eachother in a cool "clashing" way. After I had my two basic beats, and i had used the reverb and delay, I decided to liven things up a little bit by putting in some slayer notes. I put in a basic couple notes and then chopped them. This made a cool little riff over the beat. I simply played it twice through and then did a contrasting one. Although it wasnt pop/or rock, it was a really cool sounding beat that i liked. i was happy with the way the reverb and delay came out, and was finally done with my third project. However,after i posted it and listened to it I realized that i had 14 extra seconds of absolutely nothing untill the very end where there is a few randome notes. There is no reason for that and I dont know why it did that, so you may not want to waste the extra 14 seconds because theres nothing to listen to! Other than that, Enjoy!!

When i first started making my second project, I knew it was going to be a lot of fun because on this project, we were able to use the chopping and slayer tools. However, before I could start using them, I had to get a nice drum beat. I wanted this beat to have a country sound. That didnt really happen. To be honest, I dont know how my beat happened..it just did. After my drum beat was made, i started putting in some random notes on the slayer. After I had a nice mixture, i used a really cool tool called the chopper. In seconds I had an amazing sounding riff that went really well with my drums. Although it wasnt country, I liked it and decided it was good. After that, I did the exact same thing with the chopper. Except this time i didnt use random notes..I took the notes that were in my first pattern and just mixed them up a bit. Then once again I used the chopp tool and it was a success. Not only did I have another pattern, but there was just enough of the first one in it, that it sounded really good. I decided that during the second pattern I would take out the drums. This made it so you could really hear the second beat and that is what I wanted. Finally I threw in the first beat again and played it through. It made a cool little riff and I thought it was perfect for my second project. So even though it wasnt country, I think it came out fine. Hope you like it!!

When I first started making this drum loop, I was more challenged then I thought I would be. I really wasnt going for any particular sound. Just something that wouldnt get boring and you could listen to throughout the course of a song. I started with a simple kick drum every four steps. I then started to fool around with different cymbals, claps, and other drums to add in with the kick drum. I decided to go with one simple clap on the third step. I was aginst more claps because i didnt want my loop to sound like just a buch of claps. I also decided to go with a high hat on the first step so that the first beat would have a little more power to it. Finally I added a crash symb at every four beats and I loved the sound I got. After making a contrasting pattern, I thought I was done. I was wrong. When I listened to my contrasting pattern, it contrasted a little too much making the loop sound very choppy. My contrasting pattern consists of a snare drum every step and once again the simple kick drum every four steps. In my opinion this gives it a little pop to the beat and makes it better. After a little bit longer of messing around with various cymbals, claps, and other sounds, I ended up adding just one simple clap on the third step and a crash symbal on the first one. This made it so you could hear some of the first pattern within the second one. I finally had a good contrasting pattern. Now i was done, and ready to post it on my blog.