A cool sound can give you a tremendous creative spark. We will be using the sounds that we created from scratch in the last two lectures to make an original loop using sounds you make yourself using the Sytrus plug in.
Since the instructions for designing these sounds were done in class, I won't repeat them here. If you missed anything check out part 1:
http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs27/f/2008/043/7/8/Sytrus_Synth_Creation___Part_1_by_Blackhole12.jpg
and part 2:
http://blackhole12.deviantart.com/art/Sytrus-Synth-Creation-Part-2-75807999
but you must use your first synth- the saw wave and your second synth, the one with the pitch modulation envelope to create your loop. Here's mine (Note the post is quite descriptive. I expect the same from you) :-)
I started with my pitch bend synth which I call "Slight Scoop". It's a basic sine wave using operators 1 and 2 in octaves with two different delay times, chorus and some reverb. The pitch envelope is a single curve (only two points) from zero to center in the envelope. I linked the envelop to tempo so that the pitch scoop is completed by the second beat. This synth comes in at the end of my loop, and plays a three note sequence. Listen for it near the end.
Since I built the loop around this sound, I really worked backwards. I added some basic drums (with reverb treatment in the mixer). and a BooBass. The bass part follows the melody of my "scoop" sound. These bass an drum pattern begin the tune, but I thought they sounded a little naked. So, I added a Sytrus preset called Perc also doubling the melody of the scoop.
Now, onto the saw synth. To me, this sounded liek a lead sound that needed to rip through some arpeggios. So, I chopped up some long notes and come up with the fast arpeggio line that you hear come in after the bass and drums lay down the opening groove. I tricked this pattern out with a cutoff filter automation clip whicH I embedded in the playlist. Listen for the rising and falling of the cutoff filter.
I saved the scoop synth and it's three note line for last, mixed everything down so levels were even and faded out the end using another embedded modulation clip on the master volume control.
comments are appreciated.
Friday, April 17, 2009
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Project 5: Automation
In this assignment, you need to create a loop that utilizes a modulation clip for a parameter of any channel. It sounds more complicated that it actually is. Here's how it works:
1. Come up with a rough idea for a loop. Drums, some bass, maybe a chopped melody, whatever.
2. While you are looking at the channel settings of any channel, hover the mouse over one of the controls (I used volume). If that parameter can take an automation clip, the status window will show a red dot.
3. Right click the parameter and select "Create automation clip". The clip will appear in the playlist on the top.
4. You can tweak this by right clicking on the line in the clip and creating handles so that you can change the shape of the clip, or you can select the clip itself (in the step sequencer) and use the LFO (which is what I did).
5. Tweak away, and listen while you are tweaking.
6. Post as usual. Here' s mine: (note, your post should be this descriptive. Notice I didn't say "Here's my loop. I hope you like it!" because that's lame.
Automation loop
I was inspired by the pad sound "air chorus". I entered one really long note, and selected the volume parameter to create my automation clip. Once it was created, I used the LFO to make the volume go up and down really fast to create the choppy sound you hear. I made another automation clip to control the overall volume of the chanel so I could have a fade in at the beginning and a fade out at the end.
For the rest of it, the sound that came to mind was a Chinese inspired melody (imagine a pan flute playing this while someone is practicing their Kung-Fu moves in super-slow motion) with a funky bass and drum thing in the background. The guitar sound is the slayer set on auto chord with a chorus effect and a clean tone. It took about 20 minutes.
1. Come up with a rough idea for a loop. Drums, some bass, maybe a chopped melody, whatever.
2. While you are looking at the channel settings of any channel, hover the mouse over one of the controls (I used volume). If that parameter can take an automation clip, the status window will show a red dot.
3. Right click the parameter and select "Create automation clip". The clip will appear in the playlist on the top.
4. You can tweak this by right clicking on the line in the clip and creating handles so that you can change the shape of the clip, or you can select the clip itself (in the step sequencer) and use the LFO (which is what I did).
5. Tweak away, and listen while you are tweaking.
6. Post as usual. Here' s mine: (note, your post should be this descriptive. Notice I didn't say "Here's my loop. I hope you like it!" because that's lame.
Automation loop
I was inspired by the pad sound "air chorus". I entered one really long note, and selected the volume parameter to create my automation clip. Once it was created, I used the LFO to make the volume go up and down really fast to create the choppy sound you hear. I made another automation clip to control the overall volume of the chanel so I could have a fade in at the beginning and a fade out at the end.
For the rest of it, the sound that came to mind was a Chinese inspired melody (imagine a pan flute playing this while someone is practicing their Kung-Fu moves in super-slow motion) with a funky bass and drum thing in the background. The guitar sound is the slayer set on auto chord with a chorus effect and a clean tone. It took about 20 minutes.
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