Captain's Blog Stargate day 1

Today I went over many different sounds of sytrus to find one matching my sound in my head, finding to my suprise nothing. This worked well however, for it inspired me more to just write the entire synth myself, and figure out my own sounds myself rather than be inspired by others noises. I chose to follow by the piano voicing in the band Athiest, a early 90's metal band that made very few slow piano songs, but I followed that mentality that if I could find a spacey, kind of air filled synth, I could write the piece. I found that the best way to do this is by using the sine waves. Unfortunately this is as far as I have gotten for today.

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." Ghandhi

SytruS

I was looking through the sytrus machine on Fl studio, searching through the presets for a good idea for tones, and I stumbled upon two, one which made me think of a techno styled bopping noise, and the other which made me think of making a chorus styled "ah" for the main melodies. I used a set form of AABA styling, leaving breaks in the main melody for random interlude loops. Most of the loops were created using the "Riff Machine" in Fl studio, creating little riff lines for the piece.While I was in sytrus I used the Volume and cutoff key mappings so that certain notes can be heard more clearly and so they cut themselves off faster into the actual piece itself. One of my main influences on this piece is that of a band by the name Planet X, which can be heard through the weird space bubbly noises throughout the song

SyTrus and Riff

I was looking through the sytrus machine on Fl studio, searching through the presets for a good idea for tones, and I stumbled upon two, one which made me think of a techno styled bopping noise, and the other which made me think of making a chorus styled "ah" for the main melodies. I

vocoder project

This is the vocoder project using the vocal line of a “sinister preacher” reading revelations, which gave me the idea to make a more metal feel to the song. I made music around the repeating line and used electric guitars and basses for the melody of the background music. I also added a few more vocal parts like that of the crows in the end and I made lines of what sounds like hellish groans in the back as well. I used primarily scratch noises and snare brush noises for this.

Today I finished up my vocoder project and created teh bass line to go underneath the rest of my music and my vocal line for the piece itself. The only thing it needs now is a little more touch up work on how the piece starts and stops with music.

Today I worked on the vocoder unit of FL Studio 9 and create music for the files of speech that I chose last class. I used those pieces to create a twisted slightly demonic sound for my music and put the parts together, while chosing different instruments needed along the way. This led to the development of using more than one part for the vocoder, which gave me even more to work with. Today my full agenda was : making the music behind the beast of the piece.

project 4

This file is influenced by the sounds of many different bands that I’d been listening to at the time like Aghora. The real automation clips come into play with the volume and slight pitch bends throughout the song. There is as seen in various dance styled themes a reoccurring kick drum pattern, that is followed up with other variations of drum kits such as brushes on the snare. The melodies come from many different pad sounds and instruments such as the piano. The biggest problem I had throughout the song writing portion was with the pads, where it became hard to find a way to quiet down the reverb of the notes.