I find this music pleasant to listen to, there's nothing harsh or unnerving about it. I could listen to it multiple times in a row and not get too annoyed. It has a simple and memorable melody, and nice accompanying vocals. I enjoy this song and I think it's pretty good. It's probably one of the more well known doo wap songs, especially since it was used in the movie, "Cars," which is where I first heard it myself.

10SecondsBeautSound

I chose to add multiple layers to the existing forty seconds of sound I created from the half second of sound I pulled from someone's Ten Seconds of Beautiful Sound project. Using an equalizer filter, I changed the sound of the half second to sound more like a bass drum, which I layered on a second track, and used the same filter to make the half second sound more like a bass guitar and used that in a third track. I played with pitches on both the original half second sound track and on the bass guitar sound track, using repitch to do so. And then I played with the volume automation using a utility filter.

FortySecondComposition

I used a sample from someone's ten seconds of beautiful sounds project, a two measure, 93 bpm 80's rock beat drum samples, and the first four measures of "Titanium," by David Guetta featuring Sia, and created this piece. I changed around the order of notes, reversed notes, and re-pitched notes in those four measures to create the melody line for the rest of the piece. I added drum hits to the existing two measures to create another two unique measures, repeated that the entire song, then added or subtracted beats to measures throughout the entire piece to those measures unique. I also used volume automation on the drum line to add uniqueness. The bass line heard is created with that sample from someone's ten seconds of beautiful sound. I equalized to only get the bass (low frequencies) sound, then used repitch and different rhythms to give the line shape.

Lively Loops: Metallic Sunshine

So I used one of the pitched-sounding cactus clips to start with and I created a MIDI melody line on one track, creating an A section, B section, finishing with a reprise of the A section but a slightly modified version (A'). I took more percussive-sounding cactus clips (8 of them) and inserted them into a drum rack. I then created a thick percussion part underneath the melody, similarly showing contrast between section A and section B, with similarity to section A in the A' section at the end of the piece. This percussive accompaniment included lines acting as a kick drum part, and one acting as a sort of hihat part. The randomness is my piece in found in velocities of the melody notes in the B section. I randomly chose how many of the notes in the section I would change the velocities of, and then assigned random velocities between 60 and 127(without repetition) to each one of those random notes.

Roland Cactus Piano

I first took a sound clip called "druqks" and used that to create a string instrument sounding midi instrument to use in the demo. I used the ADSR controls to manipulate the sound to have the articulation and basic sound of a plucked stringed instrument. I gave the clip an attack value of 0ms, a relatively long decay value of 1.86s, a sustain of -15db, and a relatively long release time of 1.83s. Then I played with the pitch envelope, amplitude envelope, filter envelope, and frequency graph until I got a sound of my liking, something that I thought sounded like a stringed instrument. I also added an LFO at 4.89hz and 1.76 percent to give a little bit of a vibrato sound to the instrument. Then I took a sound wave clip called "basic sine" and did a similar process with that clip to create a bass drum midi instrument. However, with the ADSR values, I had a longer decay at 39.1ms, a sustain of -27dbs, and a release of 9.34ms. I kept the same 0ms attack time however, but used no LFO. I also used an EQ3 on this clip to cut off the high frequencies to achieve the bass drum sound.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1uwlJIfafY3vYygIIngTWslgM3KSbELxj

Two Sounds Demo

I used 6 different samples from the "Two Sounds" project- both of my own and four of other people's. However I changed the timbre and or pitch of a couple of them to get two other distinct sounds. I ended up with a theme followed by five unique variations. I not only changed pitch and timbre between variations, but also rhythm and volume. I alternated loud and soft for each variation, starting with soft in the theme. I also had two rhythmic tracks, a bass drum sounding one and another bubbly sounding one. I animated the volume for the bass drum so it got softer and louder as the melodic theme and variations tracks did.

Synth Variations

I feel I have already accomplished one of my best melodies this semester in this piece. I look to spice up the chorus a bit the second time around and possibly add some reverb to the verses.

Final Project Work In Progress

I used recorded samples of different instruments around my house and used them in all but a few of my tracks, in which I used a kick drum sample found on a web site and a sample of my own voice. I took from the critiques of my work in progress, and changed things in my piece based on those. I added layers and new sounds to my verses/A sections to thicken the sound, and added piano to the choruses/B sections to thicken its sound as well. In addition, I made the choruses/B sections longer, and shortened the verses/A sections in order to emphasize the stronger of the two parts.

Ben Maier