Project 6 Sytrus- Part 1

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.