Project 7

For project 7, this was a rather lengthy project for me. I started by taking a default synth sound on sytrus and started changing the operator settings untill i liked them. I wanted a very full sound so i put the chorus on 6 and i used 6 operators customized to how i wanted them and then i ran those through 2 different filters, a high pass 2 filter and a low pass. I also had each operator designed to do a certain thing. the first two are just basic filters using a sine wave and a triangle wave. The next two i made custom waves. I wanted a different sound, so for the next one i used a saw wave with the pitch envelope down an octave. For the 6th operator i used a triangle wave that has the pitch envelope up an octave. Next i added some echo to all of these and then made the wave lenth quickly rise and sustain then quickly cut off when the note was ended on the volume envelope. I then put this custom synth through the riff machine. I got alot of riffs that i wasn't happy with, but eventually i used one and started to write the bass line but i couldn't tell which note to use because the riff was completely all over the place. I used another riff that the riff machine made on throw dice. I changed the chord progression by moving sections and deleting others. For the last section of the riff i made that myself to tie it back together. Since i wrote the chord progression, it was easy for me to put in a bassline using the ebass on slayer. I then chopped the bassline. I had to come up with a customized drum beat because i couldn't fin d one to fit my song, so i used a mixture of bass drum, 2 highhats, crash, clap, and snare. I needed a middle section so i came up with some chords and then played them on the piano using the record feature, added a bassline and then a drumbeat similar to the one on the first section except with a different highhat. I added 3 different drum fills from FPC, then a layer of 5 cymbals at the end of the song. I hope you like my song.

Project 5 Vocodex

Project 6, Sytrus

For this project, i used a customized sytrus synth with 3 operators, effects, and a filter. I used the riff machine to come up with two different parts that would be used through the sytrus. I used an A-A-B-A pattern. I came up with a somewhat busy bass line, which was very difficult to come up with because the riff machine's pattern was cool but very hard for me to follow the chord changes, so i tried to figure them out by ear and then i made the bass line using the ebass on the slayer channel and used the piano on the record setting to put in the bass line. the second riff machine pattern was much easier to follow and was easy to make a bass line, i also used the piano to write it. I decided that this project needed a more simplified part, so i added the simsynth and put in long drawn out notes to complement the intricate sytrus and bass part. Last i added a rock beat on the drums and some fills and ended the song with a layer with 5 different crash symbals

Project 5 day 3

today i looked at a different synth called the autogun, and i found a cool very clean synth. I used the synth sound to do an arpegiaded pattern that i came up with last time. Then i found a latin drum groove and put it with the synth sound, but i recorded the synth pattern by using the keyboard and not dragging the notes so it recorded not at the 100bpm but at about 120, so ill have to re-record it. Im also using a vocoded preacher that i found awhile ago with the panner setting.

Project 5 day2

Today i worked on the vocoder project for the second time. I found out when i opened fl studio and tried to open the project i worked on last time that it had gotten deleted. So this time i spent tiem looking for the previous audio clip i had of a preacher and then came up with an organ part using the sim synth.

Project 5

Today i worked on finding some more audio files to use with the Vocoder. i found one with gospel music and one with a preacher and im thinking of running them both through the vocoder to see what it sounds like, but it may not be very good. I also came up with a chord progression on the Simsynth and put 2 automation clips on it similar to my last project.

project 3, FX

For this project I mainly used the clone tool, layer tool, and lots of FX. I started out with a chop tool using 3 octaves and then put a bass line under it. I chopped the bass line and added a rock drum beat from FPC. I then figured out a mid section of the song, I wrote a minor part for the lead gutiar and had a bass with distortion playing a line lower and i used the layer tool so that i could change it up after a bar and then go back. I used this layer tool technique for the first part of the song when it changes notes. After i got done writing, i added some FX, and i added reverb to the drums and phaser to the guitar.<