I think im pretty much done with this project (im already working on something else). Ive posted the result below, and I will discuss the details after our next class (I cant remember the settings or details). So, that will be coming ASAP.
Friday, March 25, 2011
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Envelope and LFO Stuff [3-10]
I have the most of my project done now. What I have left to do is some levels mixing, and possible run parts/all of it through the Maxiumus plugin. We only have access to the demo version, and I barely know how to use it, but it makes things sound so much nicer.
The song is pretty electronic, with slightly more complex synths. I used a sample I made on the demo version at my house, and alot of filter automations to make it more bareable. Ive been trying to stay away from filter automations because it makes it much harder to notice the ADSR stuff, but i did all that last project, so I know how to use it. I used it all in this project to, but the filter makes it less noticable.
The song is pretty electronic, with slightly more complex synths. I used a sample I made on the demo version at my house, and alot of filter automations to make it more bareable. Ive been trying to stay away from filter automations because it makes it much harder to notice the ADSR stuff, but i did all that last project, so I know how to use it. I used it all in this project to, but the filter makes it less noticable.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
ADSR
I have to admit I didnt put the most creativity into this project. There are four poizone synths. The transitional synth is very simple. Evenly spilit between the two oscillators and some noise. LFO and envelope both play with frequencies A and B, amplifier fades in, low sustain, high release. Next comes in my "L" synth. The amplifier hasnt been changed much, but in the envelope, the attack is at about 25%, decay is at 70%, sustain is at 0% and release is about 100%. The unison is at 2 and polyphony at 4. The next synth supports the "L" synth at points. It is really simple; pulse/sync settings in the oscillators, trance gate used, and the amplifier and envelope sections are both used. Amplifier - A=65%, D=80%, S=30%, R=65%. This gives it a quick swell. Envelope has a relatively high amount, A= 40%, D/S/R= 100%. Last is my favorite this time around, and of course it is pretty simple. I used it as a pulsing bass. The trance gate does the pulsing. Amplifier; A= 45%, D/S= 100%, R= 90%. Envelope; Amount= 75%, A= 70%, D/S/R= 100%. Thats really about it this time. I did have some problems with clipping in this project, im going to look on the internet about that, I know Imageline has some really simple videos on youtube about basically everything.
Afterthough; I should have moved the very last note up a step, and added one more kick at the start of that note (making it a triplet). Im not going to waste class time to change this, export, and upload again...
Afterthough; I should have moved the very last note up a step, and added one more kick at the start of that note (making it a triplet). Im not going to waste class time to change this, export, and upload again...
Friday, February 18, 2011
Poizone Project
This project contains a total of 5 poizone synths, two of which are layered together. The drums are very straight forward, drums + reverb + EQ = drum loop. The song starts off with two synths. The simpler of the two is actually from 3xOsc, its just using one oscillator. The other is poizone, I used the trance gate, the LFO on FRQ A and the velocity tracking is all the way up, but im not so sure its doing a whole lot. The cutoff and resonance knobs are facing eachother, the PW of both oscillators is about 45%, and the unison is at 4 with a little detune. Oscillator B is tuned down a bit too. A few seconds in the 3xOsc keeps going and a two layer synths come is with this stupid little thing mean to keep it from getting TOO boring. These two synths are also very straight forward. Only oscillator A, no noise, keyboard and velocity tracking are at about 65% for both synths. The main difference between the two is cutoff and resonance. One is at 40% and 70% while the other is at half that. A little later thigns change and what your hearing is a cymbal played in reverse a couple times with some pitch change (automated). The original synths come back in here. The 3xOSc synth sounds different at parts due to cahnges in the filter settings (fruity filter). Things start to get busy again and the only snth I like here come in. Poizone again, all osc A, 100% PW, cutoff at 100, resonance at 0, no traxcking (I know, I did nothing). I played with the amplifier (fade in, resonate out) and set the LFO (destination = cutoff, very high amount, very high rate, and sine wave shape). I ran it through the stereo enhancher (one of my new favorites)and obviously the delay bank. I have a synth play a note in the background at the end, its alot like the very first poizone synth in the song, just different filter settings. I found it difficult to use the velocity tracking since one one of my riffs really utilized different velocities enough to make a noticable difference.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Poizone Project [2-15]
I have decided to scratch all the synths and such that I had been working with and just come up with new ones. There was nothing wrong with what I had, it just wasnt fitting together well. So my new synths are a bit more basic and the overall piece has a slower feel to it. This project is pretty dull in my opinion, just like all my other projects, but im just going to make some changes then put it up here. I dont have all the time in the world to really put some thought into this. Ill have it up here after next class hopefully and ill be able to describe how I made the synths then.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Poizone Project [2-06]
So far I have came up with a few synths. Three are from poizone and I have some others, I am not sure what im really going to do with any of them. I really didnt plan ahead and come up with any ideas before I started toying around with the plug-in, so the synths that i have are pretty basic. They dont take along time to fade in, the trance gate isnt used in a really complex way, little delay or any other modulations that could really limit the synths flexibility. There still is movement with each synth, just nothing that is designed to fix only one purpose. As always I had to use some effects and filters to shape the sounds a little. the poizone isnt my favorite plug-in so far but it is nice to have filters and a trance gate and delay and all that right there for you to try out. If I remember correctly I also have a single drum pattern, but that will probably not fit into whatever I decide to do with these synths (unless I decide to form everything around the drums ofcourse).
Monday, June 14, 2010
Peter Gabriel Remix
Its been a really long time since ive been on the blog, took forever to remember my password... We did that really long Gravity Remix project but most of us were to stupid to know its a terrible idea to stream our project peices from Stublic... Sorry Mr. Rabuse.
Anyways, my remix. I didnt particularly like either song choice for this time around, but I decided the Peter Gabriel song had most interesting stems. I started off this project by rejecting the vocals and then playing each stem in reverse (used the option in Edison). I Loved the way certain parts of that sounded. I used these parts at various parts of my remix, most notably the intro. I put a TON of effects on this remix. More than I have ever used by far. My new favorite tool is the Multiband Compressor. It is exactly what ive wanted all year, you can do practically anything with it. And I pretty much used it on every little peice of this project. I used plenty of delay, panning, and pitch automations, and practically every other tool/effect I could think of at some point of this remix. I really cant name all the effects I used, but im trying to name the interesting ones. I used phaser on the bass which easily turned out nicely. I used a delay effect on the synths which wasnt totally neccesary, but I liked how it came out.
I had two big problems on this project. I had a ton of static from pumping too much through all the different channels in the mixer with the mess of all the effects. But this wasnt actually a problem at all, when I exported all the noise was gone. I remembered when first opening FL Studio in class and listening to the song by Zircon I was amazed to hear alot of static in a professionals work, but when I exported that (to get a free MP3 of a really nice song) I remember the noise was gone, so why shouldnt it do the same for my project? My other problem was that, even though I had so many effects and such to make the stems sound much fuller, I had a sound that really was missing something pretty important. I listened to the original a few times and decided I had no choice to add the vocals. I only put them in sparingly, where it was really needed. The effect on the vocals is also courtesy of the Multiband Compressor, I used the radio preset, but I had to open up the filter a little to make it a bit clearer and less harsh. The female vocals also have the M-B.C. on them, but that was only a slight effect I came up with. I put that on the vocals to make them more full and interesting, along with delay. I also added a second bass line at parts to try to fill in the silence. The riff I came up with is fine in my opinion, and the placement is pretty good, but I only had ten minutes to come up with the sound in Sytrus (maybe should have tried BooBass) so im not entirely happy with it, but its the very basic idea of what I wanted. I felt I needed it because at points the supplied bass stem wasnt really contributing much low end. I think my bass line goes well with the background synth (the one that also ends the song), and if I had a few more minutes I could get it to go perfectly, but oh well, my class time is done.
Ive posted my remix along with a music video of the original song (since most people did the other song choice). This is an old song so I figure the stems I used were recreated or cleaned up or something, because they were alot sharper (brighter?) and duller sounding (if that makes any sense).
Anyways, my remix. I didnt particularly like either song choice for this time around, but I decided the Peter Gabriel song had most interesting stems. I started off this project by rejecting the vocals and then playing each stem in reverse (used the option in Edison). I Loved the way certain parts of that sounded. I used these parts at various parts of my remix, most notably the intro. I put a TON of effects on this remix. More than I have ever used by far. My new favorite tool is the Multiband Compressor. It is exactly what ive wanted all year, you can do practically anything with it. And I pretty much used it on every little peice of this project. I used plenty of delay, panning, and pitch automations, and practically every other tool/effect I could think of at some point of this remix. I really cant name all the effects I used, but im trying to name the interesting ones. I used phaser on the bass which easily turned out nicely. I used a delay effect on the synths which wasnt totally neccesary, but I liked how it came out.
I had two big problems on this project. I had a ton of static from pumping too much through all the different channels in the mixer with the mess of all the effects. But this wasnt actually a problem at all, when I exported all the noise was gone. I remembered when first opening FL Studio in class and listening to the song by Zircon I was amazed to hear alot of static in a professionals work, but when I exported that (to get a free MP3 of a really nice song) I remember the noise was gone, so why shouldnt it do the same for my project? My other problem was that, even though I had so many effects and such to make the stems sound much fuller, I had a sound that really was missing something pretty important. I listened to the original a few times and decided I had no choice to add the vocals. I only put them in sparingly, where it was really needed. The effect on the vocals is also courtesy of the Multiband Compressor, I used the radio preset, but I had to open up the filter a little to make it a bit clearer and less harsh. The female vocals also have the M-B.C. on them, but that was only a slight effect I came up with. I put that on the vocals to make them more full and interesting, along with delay. I also added a second bass line at parts to try to fill in the silence. The riff I came up with is fine in my opinion, and the placement is pretty good, but I only had ten minutes to come up with the sound in Sytrus (maybe should have tried BooBass) so im not entirely happy with it, but its the very basic idea of what I wanted. I felt I needed it because at points the supplied bass stem wasnt really contributing much low end. I think my bass line goes well with the background synth (the one that also ends the song), and if I had a few more minutes I could get it to go perfectly, but oh well, my class time is done.
Ive posted my remix along with a music video of the original song (since most people did the other song choice). This is an old song so I figure the stems I used were recreated or cleaned up or something, because they were alot sharper (brighter?) and duller sounding (if that makes any sense).
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