Using the Ableton Live instrument "Drum Rack" create a 12 bar drum beat with 3 patterns - 4 bar intro, 4 bar middle, and 4 bar outro.

Drumming for Pros

Create a 1 minute rhythm composition (at least five sequences) using Ableton's Drum Rack.  Create an original drum kit by recording sound/noises from your environment (8 minimum) with BOTH audacity and your phone. Edit them down into uncompressed samples using audacity. Alter and shape them within the drum rack using BOTH Ableton Simpler and Ableton Sampler. Consider NOT using the default tempo (120 BPM).

EveryDaySounds

Create a 1 minute drum and bass composition using Ableton Live. Sound design a bass instrument using the ableton analog instrument starting with the initial default setting - make sure to use both oscillators and all of the following: Envelope, Filter, and LFO to create your custom sound.  Use your custom instrument to create a bass line and add a drum track (using any available kit). Make at least 3 separate clips each of bass and drums and create a varied composition that uses different combinations of the clips. The changes I made were that I changed the frequency and used mixing with delay.

Wingard Quentin Assingment3 Drum&Bass

Create a 1 minute drum and bass composition using Ableton Live. Sound design a bass instrument using the ableton analog instrument starting with the initial default setting - make sure to use both oscillators and all of the following: Envelope, Filter, and LFO to create your custom sound. Use your custom instrument to create a bass line and add a drum track (using any available kit). Make at least 3 separate clips each of bass and drums and create a varied composition that uses different combinations of the clips. The changes I made were that I changed the frequency and used mixing with delay.

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Call and response is a succession of two distinct phrases usually played by different musicians, where the second phrase is heard as a direct commentary on or response to the first (see video example below). Sound design 2 patches by tweaking presets useing two different synthesizer instrument for each voice played over a chord progression using a polyphonic 3rd synth.  Mix and match Ableton Analog, Operator (FM synthesis), or Wavetable - tutorials are linked below. Create a musical phrase with the first synth patch and answer with the second synth patch.  Loop 3 times with slight variations in either the call or the response (or both).  For the chord progression make sure you choose a polyphonic instrument that can play more than one note at the same time so you can play a chord.  A drum and bass track is optional but encouraged if it enhances your project. In the operator, I changed the decibel level, coarser it, and fined it. Then in the wavetable, I moved the envelope, used the sync addictive, and set the wave position at 31%. In the analog, I changed the decibel level, the pan, changed the slope, the octave, and adjusted the detune.

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Create a 3-4 minute sound composition. Use midi and audio effects to add complexity. Mix and master your arrangement.

Mixing:
1. Panning - fan out the mix
2. Leveling - adjust volume of each track (don't go over 0db)
3. Compressor - add power
4. EQ Eight - carve out frequencies 
5. Bussing - audio effects (reverb, delay) using sends and returns
6. Select all mixer tracks and lower volume of all so that signal peak of the master track has 6db of headroom below 0db (keep master volume at 0 db)
7. Export audio as WAV or AIF, 44100Hz and turn normalize off

Mastering:
1. Create new live set
2. Drag and drop mix into audio channel in arrangement view
3. Add audio effects to audio channel
4. Reverb - choose room preset and set dry/wet
5. Glue compressor - mastering make it loud preset
6. Multiband dynamics - multiband compression preset
7. EQ Eight - final touches
8. Limiter - upper ceiling preset - set ceiling to -0.1 and add gain
9. Export Audio - 44100, normalize off

Sound Composition

Write, perform, and create the sound design for an audio essay. Tell a story, spin a yarn, inform us on a topic that interests you for 7-10 minutes. Topic is completely open to what interests you and you feel passionately about. It can be a personal story, fiction, non-fiction, research/education-based, on political or social issue - anything really as long as it is within the framework and spirit of a traditional radio narrative. This is your story and should be told using your voice, include an examples of ducking, vamp, and the use of silence for dramatic effect. This work should be designed with the intent of broadcast as an editorial essay on National Public Radio and should be a succinct and powerful work that will be professionally produced and edited.

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