Thursday, October 29, 2009

project 4, automation

On this project I had alot of fun messing around with the automation effects. I came up with a basic minor line for the simsynth and then added a straight up rock beat from FPC. I added a drum fill every so often, sometimes four to eight bars apart, and added alot of reverb to the fill. I wrote out a middle part using the chop tool and a 3octave minor part. Then i added the automation. I used the sim cut envelope and the sim emphasis envelope first and put in different points and found what sounded good. After i did that i put in a panning automation that happens every other four bars for four bars. It gives the solo/midsection a bounce back effect i really like. Also, the way the cut and emphasis envelopes are set for the first part of the solo, it sound like a steel drum which i liked.
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Project two, chop tool, FPC, transpose

For this project, I worked with FPC, and the chop tool and transpose tools. I looked through most of the chop tool options and i settled with trance 6. I used a relatively long progression for the verse, and shorter ones for the two lead guitar parts. Then i found an FPC rock drum beat that i thought would go with the guitar part. Next i added a bass line that followed the guitar notes and then used the chop tool. When i was coming up with the fast guitar arpegio pattern, i used a minor arp. then down a whole step to a major, then down a whole step to another major. I also changed some of the notes to add in flavor notes i might play if i was really playing the pattern. The next arpegio pattern i used different chop tool options to make a different progression with major, minor and sevenths. Then i finished the song with the begining riff and a drum fill that i used several times in the song.
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Monday, September 14, 2009

project one, drum loop

When i was writing this drum loop, i had some trouble coming up with ideas. I decided on a straight rock beat with 1/8 notes on the high hat snare and kick drum, but i wanted to change it up so i added an open high hat on the and of 3. I used the FPC style kick and snare drum sounds and i also used RD high hat. For the first fill i decided that i wanted some toms in there so i put a building and panning snare drum that leads to a decending tom fill. The next part of the project i had 1/16th notes on the highhat for a fast rock beat with 2 kick drum hits on the 3rd beat. My second fill i used the toms and kick drum to make a bounce back like fill, and i combined the fill 2 with the snare part i used in fill 1 to transition into the end of the song.
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