CC 1 - Week 4 - Cubase

This week we had to use cubase and, creating 4 different instruments, write a song. In the beginning i had a little bit of trouble getting the sound to work, but, after that, the instructions i wrote down from class seemed to make it pretty simple. I used cheeze machine, harmonizer, and the drum kit to create a failry simple tune on the keyboard. I started with a simple melody, then adding some funky basslines, harmonic backing, and a simple drum beat. Overall, apart from the annoying crashing of the comptuer about 5 times, i found the exercise fairly simple, as setting up and exporting was similar to that of Pro Tools etc.

http://www.mydatabus.com/public/rewind/CUBASEDONE.mp3

http://www.mydatabus.com/public/rewind/cubase1wk4.cpr

CC2 - week 2 - Modular programming

This week i had quite a bit of difficulty with the tuorial, seeing as the computer i was using shutdown TWICE! Grr! I have definately learnt my lesson about not saving! Anyway, i managed to finish it, and the first picture shows the result of what i did. I couldn't complete one of the parts of the tute as i did not have a MIDI keyboard thing. But i still read it and reckon i have a pretty good idea of what to do. For my piece i used the base from the tute and played around with almost every modification, causing the computer to actually freeze a couple of times, but i guess that was the only way i was going to learn. I decided to use the 16 step sequencer 2, and p[layed around with the notes until i found a melody that i liked, as opposed to just moving them on the first 16 step seq. I also added two different effects, the 'Freeverb' and the 'TwoBandDistortion - 0', i changed the levels until it suited me and then recorded. I was pleased with what i came up with. Overall i found it difficult but whorthwhile.

http://www.mydatabus.com/public/rewind/firstblog.bidule

http://www.mydatabus.com/public/rewind/secondblog.bidule

http://www.mydatabus.com/public/rewind/audioplogue.wav

http://www.mydatabus.com/public/rewind/ccweek2.wav

AA2 - Sound Design

This week we had an environmental focus on what sound is. i decided to do my assignment at my boyfriends house seeing as its in the country and he has quite a few animals, so i knew there would be a lot of 'environmental' sounds, as opposed to more 'suburben' noises. Rohan decided to join me, and, whilst doing my sound study, very thoughtfully decided to sit next to me making stupid noises. As you can tell in the picture the only way i could make him stop was by kicking him, which, unfortunately, only made him sing louder. I also had other noises to incorporate, including the kitens running around and play fighting, birds in the trees, cars going past, and background noises, which included a chainsaw and cooking noises coming from inside the house. Unfortunately i had nothing to record it with, so i just tried to make my pictures and graph as detailed as possible. Overall i found it pretty simple and (almost!) relaxing.