All I started today was playing with Sytrus and coming up with "my sound". I didn’t really know what I was doing, but I navigated through all the little switches and shaped up a cool sound. Its kind of space-y and has a delay. I really like the mid and low pitches but the high pitched notes remind me of video game music so I'm trying to stay away from that. Since it has the delay on it I’m planning on doing short notes spaced a good distance apart to utilize the delay. I’m kind of imaging watching the stars glimmer in an intense way, each shine being this sound, at an almost random pitch. If I need to (and I will) I can do something like the guitar solo in some Muse songs and a few other riffs by other various guitarists. I’m thinking if (when) I need to speed things up I will do some fast transposing riff with random "tapping" of the high notes. I’m sure that will be nice. But, I’m still stuck working on the vocoder project, so hopefully I can finish that up and get on to this project.
Still I have not had the chance to work on the vocoder project. I didn’t like that project anyways. This is much more fun. I’ve got two or three riffs from the riff machine saved using the synth sounds from the Sytrus. I feel like it will be pretty easy to put them together. I need a bass line for this. The drums are simple and something else is needed. I feel if I get that done all ill have to do next is put the pieces together and export. I’ve already got alot of rough automations and effects and short transitions in mind and experimented with but not set in stone. I feel like I never have this class and when I do it is for only 15 minutes. I don’t have much else to say with this, feel its going good, but still have to do the vocoder project so I'll be busy.
Today was pretty productive I would say. I added in a bass line that is ran through the vocoder a little (I turned down the effect to avoid too much fuzz). It matches with the kick drum very well but transposes with the synth riff from the Sytrus. I repeated the A-A-B-A pattern again but with distortion on the main synth sound and the bass. The distortion on the synth fades in and then holds while the drums start back up. Then I put the little intro riff in again at the end, but with distortion and thats all I got. I’ve just got some tweaking left I think. I’ve changed the very beginning from fading in volume wise, I added in a filter shift. I added in a preset synth sound from Sytrus and put a few long (crunchy?) notes in towards the beginning to help with the transitions. I don’t know if those will stay for the final piece though. I am suprised to say i dont have much influence in this project. Just what comes to me by playing random notes on the keyboard with the synth sounds selected.
Today i finished this project (hopefully). I mostly made a few small changes. Mostly small timing changes. I changed the vocoder effect on the bass to . I also added "fruity fast dist." to both custom synth sounds and the second Boobass channel (which barely does anything through the song). I have the second Boobass playing the bass line of the A pattern deeper in te mix of the B pattern. I didnt feel the two patterns fit together nicely so I kind of cheated. I also added kick drums to go with the main bass line in the B pattern. I put a flanger effect on the bass, a small but nice effect. I edited the snare drum pattern i had slightly. Its a bit more apparent at the very beginning and the change doesnt make a big impact on the rest of the song. Im hoping that everything is in this post somewhere... I have alot of unused automations and channels laying around in the file so its hard to tell if I missed any details. Hope someone likes it...
Monday, November 23, 2009
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Can't wait to hear your project. You have certainly given it a lot of thought.
ReplyDeleteWow, that's pretty long but insanely good.
ReplyDeleteI'd buy that if you put it on an album.
Good job, Josh. :)
I like the ambient noises that match the bass lines perfectly. All of the voice parts seem to go together very well to create a creepy almost movie like theme. Very well done.
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