December 8, 2009

i essentialy got nothing done today. i could not find a riff machine pattern that i liked and after a while of tinkering i realized that one of my sounds got changed and the only way to get it back was to clsoe the project and revert back to my original. ugh...

December 4, 2009

today, i experimented with alterations to my sine wave sound and came up with something that i think will work well. I threw it into the riff machine and used the trow dice option to try to come up with something good but i havent found anything yet.

Vocodex project

hey guys, this is my project using a vocoded voice in the the vocodex on FL studio 9. I used the machine 2 option in the vocodex for the voice, and based the song off the pitch the voice is in in the vocodex. I have a pretty simple bass line and some riffs that were made with the chop tool and by me. The drum loop is a jazz loop the i edited slightly to make it fit the song better. enjoy!

November 19, 2009

My project is finally starting to come together like I wanted it to. I transposed the 2 main riffs, bass part, and vocal part up a note today and made some cool new vocal parts that fit well with the song. I'm thinknig that the project will be done by the end of next class because all I really have to do is write an ending and I already have an idea for that. Oh, and I got rid of the clicking sounds my song was making today, which is a plus...

November 16, 2009

Today in class, I continued to work on my vocodex project. I workerd out that boringness problem by adding a new drum beat and a new melody that alternates with the old one. I also decided that I'm going to transpose the voice, riffs, and bass part to give the overall song allitle more depth. However, I didn't quite get to that this class because I was having problems trying to transpose the voice and will probably work it out next time.

November 12, 2009

Today in music tech, i worked on creating a background part for my vocodex project. I seem to be having some trouble with finding things that fit well with the vocal part. I think i got a main riff, drums, and bass line down pretty well, but i still need to find something that will jazz it up a bit. It just seems kind of dull...

Project 4- The Autogun of sweetness

Hey guys, this is my fourth loop for music tech. In this one i used a new feature in FL studio 9 called the autogun. it has all different synth sounds in, saving you time and effort to make a cool synth sound. I used the autogun to make the first riff you hear in the song, then added a panning modulation clip to it to give it a little more technoy feel. Then i added a simple drum loop and bass line (which uses the same notes as the autogun riff so i think it might be kind of hard to hear). Next, i chopped a guitar sound to make that first faded in loop and changed the simple drum beat that i made to one from the FPC. The next loop that kind of sounds like somebody whistleing is another sound from the autogun. Towards the end, i wrote another riff using that whislte sound and put the first autogun riff underneath it. I transposed each of those riff up one and that alterantes a few times, each time a new instrument comes back into the mix starting with bass, then the simple drum beat that i made, then finaaly the FPC drum beat. The song ends with that fade in, chopped guitar sound (also transposed up one and a crash symbol hit to end it off. I hoped you noticed that this loop is a bit longer than my others because i really tried to finished my ideas and draw them out so you can get the full feel of what i was going for. As for the autogun, i think it is a pretty cool tool to use when you are in a hurry and need a sweet synth sound, but you dont have as much control over the sound as you do in something like the Simsynth plugin. Well, enjoy the loop!!