Why I chose the sounds I did:
	When I was making this track I started by listening to a bunch of different sounds that were found in the sample and pack section of Ableton until I stumbled upon a basic drum loop that sounded lower fidelity and gave me the inspiration to make more of an ambient styled track. After I found this initial sample I found an interesting eerie sounding vocal loop which I chopped a piece of it to go over the top of the drums. I went through a similar process finding a few of the different vocal samples used throughout the track. One of the notable ones is the choir sample the starts at 24 seconds, I was looking at a sample of a choir because I thought it would suit the track very nicely in terms of the theme I was going for. This sample itself is actually two different  choir samples layered on top of each other to result in the final sound used, the choir that comes in at 43 seconds is the same one as before just with two notes an octave apart to make the sample sound more fat and powerful. Starting at 28 seconds I began to layer in other drum samples I found over top of the sample I was already using to add some variety to the track, this allowed me to make my own midi patterns using the drum rack. Later when I was making the track it felt like it was lacking bass, so in the sample I found a sample I a basic sine wave coming out of some synthesizer which I proceed to lower several octaves and distort giving the track a very clear bass sound which can be heard throughout. Overall the end result matched the more ambient theme I was going for.

Problems or questions that arose when making this track:
	Overall, I didn’t have too many difficulties when I was making this track, most of the problems I faced were due to my lack of experience with Ableton Live and music creation as a whole. In the past I have made some very basic tracks using FL Studio which gave me a basic framework for how I go about creating music but this is limited experience as I never dedicated very much time to it. But since I at least have some previous experience in a different digital audio workstation most of my problems revolve around me not knowing Ableton's user interface well enough. This meant that with a simple google search or browse of the documentation my problems could be solved. One of the problems I encountered was not knowing how to add audio effects to a track such as an EQ or reverb but after a simple google search I was able to figure out how to do these things. Another problem I had was with the time constraint of the assignment, when I was initially creating the track I was not paying attention to how long it was getting and ended creating something over two and a half minutes long. This meant that I had to shorten the track to meet the specification for the assignment and as a result the track had to have some elements of it shortened or removed.

A Little Ambient

Synths In The Rain

This is where all of my music for computer music 2608 will be uploaded

M2608_Iain_M