Tuesday, December 15, 2009




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!!

2 comments:

  1. i like the loop, but i think the clap needed to be more frequent. i felt that there would be a clap on the fourth beat but it was the fifth? i think. but i really like your intro with the snare roll. this sounds like it could be used for the backing music for a pro group. Great Job!

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  2. Lovely,

    I thought the A section was brilliant, but could use more bass. I agree with Ryder that the clap could happen more frequently, or be more pronounced, but I think this can be accomplished by adding a bit of reverb or echo to it.
    The bridge section is crying out for automation on an LFO or some other kind of sweeping effect.
    Excellent job.

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