Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Project 9: Phrygian Tune


Final project of the semester! After this semester ends, I'll be making up me own stuff outside of class. Thanks for the wonderful support, Mr. Rabuse! :D

Any this project is basically is in Phrygian tuning, where the bass continually plays the C note while everything else plays in Ab...basically. It was an entertaining piece indeed.
The drums are FPC of course, but instead of using one single, seperate loop, I combined two different loops together to make that awesome noise.
Yes, the PoiZone was used plenty of times in this piece. I certainly ejoyed using the delay sound, making the synth echo throughout the song.
The synth that went along with the guitar solo in the middle is actually the guitar solo in reverse. It had some weird result, but somehow it worked out.

That's basically it! More music will be posted in the future (maybe not as fast or slow, but somewhere in between), and hopefully everyone will enjoy them!

Till next time!
-Billiam

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Project 8: Me First "Dubstep"


THIS IS FINALLY DONE!
Took me a while for me to complete this. Especially when I was gone for vacation.

To me, I wouldn't entirely consider this as "dubstep". I would note this as more as a Techno tune than anything else. Then again, it can be noted as any other genre for all I know and care.

I used a BUNCH of 3x OSC in this one, as you can clearly hear. I had slight trouble making the wobble noise (say like the bass in the middle of the tune) like dubstep artists make theirs. I used FL Slayer for guitars and also the bass you'll throughout. I also managed to balance out the sounds sort of equally so none of them would seem quiet all of a sudden (like in some of my other projects). I am a bit iffy on the ending, kinda feeling like I could of edited it or even improve it more in some way. I only used PoiZone once in this, and that's mainly heard as the bass that comes in at the end.  It is a preset, mainly because I deleted the one I had in there "accidentally" and I didn't feel like doing it all over again.

If you wondering how I got the talking robot thing in the song (saying stuff like "Are you read?", "1, 2, 3, go!", etc.), I used the Speech synthesizer channel. It's not entirely hard to use; just basically put down some text and it'll say it out. You can adjust the pitch and the rate it'll say it, which might be only flaw about using this channel.

So there you go. That's another project completed. Onward to the next one! :D