Tuesday, May 8, 2007

CC 1 - Week 8 - Processing (2)

This week we had to do the same as alast week, except incorporate another programme, SoundHack, to help further our sound manipulations. We started by using the programme "Orator" to record the quote "We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us." We then used 'Peak LE" Cut cut out, loop, assign to a section of the keyboard, and save 5 - 8 different syllables from the quote. This had to be enough to fill up the whole keyboard with different noises. We then had to open "SoundHack" and either speed up or slow down, change the pitch of, or just generally manipulate the syllables further, then save them. Lastly we opened "Reason" , using the programme " NN19" to set up the keyboard and record a song using our new manipulated noises.
This week was alot easier for me as i understood a lot better what i was doing and have actually managed to post something this week. Just my luck something on the blog will die and it wont work properly. I can send you the sound through email if this is the case!

ccompweek9yea.mp3

1 comment:

Darren S said...

Coming up with some nice stuff and compositional ideas. I suggest that the last step of your audio chain (ie: you have finished mp3 ready to post), plop your mp3 into Audacity or something similar, and listen through a few times, tweaking the gain to just before it is hitting red. Once it is as loud as you can get it, export that as mp3 and post. Try loading your posted piece into Audacity and check the gain to see what I mean.
I like it!