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This is track 01, Arrival, remastered. Because there's nothing like hearing your music next to other people's music to make you realize ... yours is really quiet. :\

Week 01 - Arrival (Remaster)

Track 02 for Weekly Beats! It just kind of happened.

Made with/on/by/through: 
- Logic Pro 
- YMCK Magical 8-Bit Plugin 
- More beer than caffeine

Week 02 - I Don't Even Know

Okay, so I have barely any actual recording experience, and I just got my first two mics (SM57/58) like a week ago (should have bought a pair YEARS ago, not sure why I waited so long), so trying to record something for weekly beats was a terrible idea, and waiting until 4 hours before the deadline to even START was even more of a terrible idea. And my 1 bedroom apartment isn't the most ideal place for recording, what with ambient noise and all (central heating, computer fans, fiancé cooking dinner in the kitchen). That being said, I'm not entirely disappointed with how it turned out. Gotta get experience somehow, right? And I made it! With 8 minutes to spare! *phew*
Made with/on/by/through: 
- Logic Pro 
- My new microphones! (Actually, just the SM57)
- Scarlett 2i2 (my USB audio interface)
- Some beer, towards the end. (It gets a bit sloppier ... can you tell?)
- My Taylor acoustic guitar, and me playing it. 

Week 03 - Yours

Didn't have much time this week, so I just threw something together really, really quick. Like, I only spent about 2 hours on this, quick. Next week will be more fun.

Week 04 - Sattelites

Once again, I waited until 2:00 pm to get started, which only gave me 5 hours (in my time zone) to finish, and since I really didn't have any new ideas this week I decided to take an old track and complete it. This is from probably around 2007, and only the first 30 seconds or so was really there. It was originally for a video game ... that only really existed in my head. But yeah, this would have been, like, a seaside town, near the boats. Which is why I called it boats. But now it's more of a "piece" than a looping VGM background track. Also, the recorded parts are a little sloppy, sorry. 

But I seriously have to stop this last-minute bullshit. One of these weeks it's not gonna pan out for me. :\

Made with/on/by/through:
- Logic Pro
- A bunch of East West sounds (strings, guitars)
- Some Logic Pro sounds, shockingly enough (the percussion)
- Some guitar recording, some MIDI recording, mostly sequencing using the piano roll or TabIt (lol)
- A big ass sub from Quiznos

Thanks for listening!

Week 05 - Boats

Didn't wait until today to start, but it took me until today to get the idea to add spoken word to this track, and it turned in to something pretty okay, but the production suffered a bit.
Thanks to: Colin Mutchler for his spoken word/poem "Drugs of Choice."
http://ccmixter.org/files/commonsplice/19747

Made with/on/by/through: 
- Logic Pro 
- Alchemy synths, Stylus RMX drum samples, East West ethnic instruments and atmospheric noise 
- Colin Mutchler's spoken word, from the website above. 
- MOUNTAIN DEW BAJA BLAST followed by total sugar crash.

Week 06 - Wasted

Whoops! Forgot to upload the last, like, 4 Weekly Beats tracks to SoundCloud. But here's a good chance to see what days get the most traffic. Here's week 07!

I love my one word titles, don't I? Anyway, I decided to take part in the whole musique concrète, sound-as-music theme this week.

Fun fact: I had to do a musique concrète assignment about 7 years ago, when I was a freshman in music school. I absolutely hated it. Totally phoned it in and didn't put any effort in to it. Today, I'm strangely open to it...

Made with/on/by/through: 
- Logic Pro 
- Mostly Logic Pro sound samples, maybe some stuff from freesound.org
- Space Designer (reverb effects)
- FF Pro-Q for the EQ stuff
- Automation

Week 07 - Industry

The first section of this was actually intended for an online browser-based RPG I was commissioned on 2 years ago. They didn't like this track for the "fields" theme, but I did, so I took it and finished it. It's meant to loop, as you'll surely notice.

Made with/on/by/through: 
- Logic Pro 
- East West instrument samples (Goliath, EWQL Orchestra Gold)
- Stylus RMX Percussion
- FF Pro-Q for the EQ stuff (very little, EW samples are so nicely balanced with each other)

Week 08 - Amidst the Andalusian Highlands

Week 09 is an RPG track that somebody didn't want. But I liked it! So I finished it. 

Made with/on/by/through: 
- Logic Pro 
- East West instrument samples (Goliath, EWQL Orchestra Gold)
- Stylus RMX Percussion
- FF Pro-Q for the EQ stuff (very little, EW samples are so nicely balanced with each other)

Week 09 - Soaring Across The Plains

Just an old idea I never finished. Literally about 7 years old, I think. 

Made with/on/by/through: 
- Logic Pro 
- Alchemy Synths
- Stylus RMX Percussion
- FF Pro-Q

Week 10 - Block Diagram

Here's week 11. It's an unfinished track from the days when I was super in to the old (read: best) Final Fantasy games.

This track was pretty much done years ago, but I never "released" it.  Sorry, but I need a pass this week. I went away for the weekend, and didn't have the time I usually have to work on my track for this week. So this is my submission. I've actually been working on it on-and-off for a while, and didn't do much except for some fancy channel switching and MIDI arranging to make it "done" for the week. I WILL be back next week with something NEW. NOT a re-hash of old idea. Something FRESH, and from THIS decade. 

Made with/on/by/through: 
- Logic Pro 
- East West Samples
- Stylus RMX Percussion (maybe)
- College post-teen emotional duress (the best kind of inspiration-juice)
- FF Pro-Q

Week 11 - Unexpected Fight For Your Life

Heavily inspired by the radio tower climbing scene in Tomb Raider.

Made with/on/by/through: 
- Logic Pro 
- East West Samples
- Stylus RMX Percussion / Atmosphere
- Pretty much no mastering or EQing, sorry

Week 12 - Overcome Your Fears

Pretty proud of this one. Also inspired by Tomb Raider. 

Made with/on/by/through: 
- Logic Pro 
- East West Samples
- Stylus RMX Percussion / Atmosphere

Week 13 - Tibetan Tombs

Blip. Blip. Blip. Blip.

Made with/on/by/through: 
- Logic (lodgeBlip) Pro 
- Blips
- More blips

Week 14 - Blip

Count it. 

Made with/on/by/through: 
- Logic Pro 
- East West Samples

Week 16 - 16 To 1

I don't know where this came from, just kind of happened. It's a bit rough, since it's kind of a last minute thing, but oh well.

Made with/on/by/through: 
- Logic Pro 
- Alchemy Synths
- Stylus RMX Percussion
- FF Pro-Q

Week 17 - Voyage To Triton

Man. I don't even. Know. I put this week off until the last minute, sat down, had a beer, and made this. Jahen-Ru 2 U. 

Made with:
-Logic Pro
-Bunch of East West samples and Alchemy synths (I need new synths)
-Basically no effort in to mastering or mixing.

The summer portion of this challenge is going to be the worst for me. Gotta stop putting this off until the weekend.

Week 18 - Jahen-Ru

BWAAM

Made with/on/by/through: 
- Logic Pro 
- All East West Samples
- BWAAM

Week 19 - BWAAAM!

Really fuckin proud of this one. There's a couple seriously nerdy things in there if you listen for them. Like the part at 1:01.

(It's the rhythmic group of 2, 3, 4, 3, repeat. If you listen to the low notes, it also follows this pattern, but in pitch movement, going 2 up, 3 down, 4 up 3 down, repeat. The high strings do the same thing, except first they play a chord, then that chord is transposed chromatically up by 2, then down by 3, them up by 4, then down by 3, and repeat.)

Made with/on/by/through: 
- Logic Pro 
- East West samples, Stylus RMX samples

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