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Tuesday, June 5, 2012

A Chord is the A Chord

This project is mainly a chord project but it has its "dubsteppy" roots. The Chord is obviously in the key of A and the progression goes A E D E. I used Poizone for six sounds. Two are the bass sounds. There is the SYN Krystal TC, BAS No Attack Saw ToTc, RYM AnaloG ToTc, RYM HiHat Groove ToTc, LED Dwarf TC, and Bas Liquid Form ToTc. The LED Dwarf TC is the melody sound from the beginning to the end of the song. This pattern varies in the chorus. The base pattern that the whole song, that is listed above, also follows with this melody. The RYM AnaloG ToTc is the distant background sound that follows the chord pattern. The drum pattern remains mostly unchanged. It is composed of the DNC_Kick, DNC_Hat_4, and the Clap Basic. The Rym HiHat Groove ToTc is the pattern to complete the drum beat. During the chorus all sounds play at the same time. After the chorus is a simple bass rhythm with the RYM and the drum beat. Then its a bass build up followed by a low grade drop. I used Gross Beat for the Dubstep part. After that drop it's another chorus. At first I had originally finished the song there but I felt that it needed something extra. I wrote another chord/melody part with the SYN Krystal TC. There is another dubstep like part followed by another chorus with the bass pattern still the same. 

Friday, April 27, 2012

More Chords!

I find that this chord project vastly surpasses my last one. Firstly I composed a simple drum loop so match the chord progression nicely. I created a catchy bass loop from Poizone's BAS Ringo MC that starts with the 'outside' notes on the chords in the scale of G. Towards the middle to the end-ish of the song there is a variation of the bass with a series of double stop notes. Moving on to the synth: it is Poizone's SYN Phaz TC. In the key of G there is a chord progression G D Em C. To make the song tolerable there is variation within the inner notes of the chord. In the chorus section (I guess you could call it that) there is no variation. At the end it ends with the original bass pattern.

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Inspirational

I can definitely say I've heard songs with this chord progression but I can't seem to place any. Maybe the inspiration came subconsciously from some deep compartment in my brain that has heard this before. The Bass consists of 3 Poizone plug ins, all with their own uniqueness. The main sound is the Poizone Synth. First of all I started with a bass line with the C G A(m) F chord progression. I built off of that with the sythn and some arpeggio sounds later on. The drums have some Dance + Club sounds. The drum beat is very closely related to 'Look At Me Now' by Chris Brown. There is a build up and it stops short for a quiet bass part with drums. 

Monday, March 26, 2012

Take The Night Remix

At last I have finally finished! This song took perseverance and focus. The song was a blast to remix as well. The song is a mixture of Pop and Dubstep. I created a simple 4/4 drum beat with variate hihat patterns. I choose a 4/4 drum beat because it is a popular choice among mindless Pop songs. The dubstep part was largely influenced by my main man Skrillex. He is my dubstep hero. The project is largely influenced by Slicex and Grossbeat. I would slice a part of the various sections of synth or bass and since the articulator wouldn't function properly I had to make due with what I had. Once I was equipped with Grossbeat, my life became so much more simpler. Grossbeat was largely impacted on the Vocal, Synth, and bass parts. I left the FX unchanged as there was very little of it throughout the song. I created several volume clips to mix the intro properly also. There are remarkable similarities between the original and this but I made sure to 'remix' it quite profoundly. I would also like to thank Mr. Rabuse for helping me throughout this long project.

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Let It Flow

It's been awhile since I've last posted due to the fact that I'm remixing Take The Night. I'm really hoping that turns out well in the future. However, for now I'm posting this alternative dubstep type song. It took two hours flat and consisted of two 3x Osc's and two SimSynths. There is a basic underlying drum beat that never changes. I also tweaked around FL Slayers settings for an acoustic sounding guitar. I call the song Let It Flow because the more I put into it the more it seemed to all flow together. Also, there is semi-long pauses of synth that makes it an all around sort-of easy going, laid back, chill song.

Thursday, January 19, 2012

The Wonders of Spare Time

I made this in my spare time a long time ago during music tech. I touched it up and am posting it now.

More Dub!

Back again, again with more dub. Except this time is sounds like techno, maybe it is, maybe it isn't. It is a matter of opinion. I don't know any techno artists so I guess that there is little to no inspiration. I used the SimSynth two times for two different sounds. They sound close but one is distinctly deeper. I used the DNC Kick, FLS Hihat 04, and FLS Snare 05a. For synth one I also used a Cut Off envelope, Emphasis Envelope, High Envelope, and Band Envelope automation clips. The into starts really slow on one note with a slow drum pattern. As the song progress's, it picks up the pace slightly and then breaks into a cheasy synthy riff with no drums. After two play throughs it comes in again with the drums. A steady 1\4 kick pattern. The cheasy riff comes back with a lower octave and the envelopes. The song slows down and comes back to a bridge-type section with SimSynth 2 . After that is a spinoff on the cheasy pattern and finally an outro consisting of both synth's.