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

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

Project 8...PREVIEW

<NOTE: This project is not yet the actual thing! It is still being under construction.>
Just wanted everyone to get a taste of what's coming up in the next project. It'll definitely be longer and have additional stuff thrown in.

Comments would be lovely
-Billiam

Project 7: Dorian Jam

Basically part 2 of the chord lesson, only in Dorian (bass-line playing C throughout while everything plays 2 semitones down, or Bb to be exact). It was really interesting coming up the Sytrus synths once more, coming up with amazing instruments. I presume these different sounds will come handy for the upcoming lesson. The bass does drops down a semi-note mid-way through the song and also as the last note in the end, having this somewhat of an interesting sound.
I guess the flaws I had in this was probably how the other instruments get silenced a little as they each came on, especially when the "uplifting" synths kick in (as you can tell it drowns out the bass for a brief moment as it plays). I also probably could have turned the bass synth down more. Maybe even made the song longer as well.
But hey, it was interesting making this tune up, especially in the mid-section where guitars kicked in. The clean sounding one was actually an FL Slayer Slap Bass I think, only played higher. I then cut up the part I had down for the clean sounding "guitar" and put it in at separate times, making it sound awesome.

That pretty much sums it up, so comment you can...or want to...
-Billiam

<EDIT> Embedded music player is back up running again. Sorry for the confusion and/or what-not. :|

Project 6

This was a rather interesting project i made. It sort of has an ambient feel to it, i think more towards the second half. I could at least faded the "little-bit" annoying riff first and then the others in the ending of the 1st half. It does have the chord variation to it, as heard in the beginning, and I tried my best to at least make the riffs go along with the chords. I would like to say that it was a blast coming up with the various synth sounds, especially the first one that comes up in the second half. I mainly used some delay effect to it, and used the appreggiate alteration thing (found in the spot below the "Riff Machine" in the drop-down menu in the piano roll), making this really interesting sound. The bells in the end I used the reverb and some other thing that fades in slowly to make this interesting, odd sound and just normalize it as the last note was hit.
I suppose the overall theme was kinda of like a spaceman leaving his planet, then goes off in a mesmerizing journey through space. Then in the end, as he lands on another planet, he gets ready to explore this new world as the final note is hit in the end.
I had a blast with this one. Let me see what else I can create...
:3

-Billiam

Project 5: Fun Time :3

I was mainly influenced by the beginning chords of Muse's "New Born", the chords being E minor, A minor, G, and B. It made the tune have a very interesting and dark feel to it. I also decided to throw in the static sound synth in for additional creepiness. The song sounds overall very cool.

Comments would be lovely!
-Billiam

Project 4: The Ray Charles Riff

This one was fairly simple, yet it took me quite some time to work on it. The riff may sound familiar to you cause it's famously heard from Ray Charles "What'd I Say" and The Doors' "Break On Through (To the Other Side)"; it's one of my favorite riffs of all time. I mainly used the reverb most of the time on the guitar and I believe the synth as well, but I turned off the drive (whatever it's called) for that one little section of the song. The volume controls were fun to handle for me.

That's about it. This is another longer song created, and I think as I progress more, it will probably be even longer.
Comments would be lovely!

-Billiam