STS 349 SPRING 2020 FINAL ASSIGNMENT

Drums, guitar riffs, pianos, buildups, and a sick bass line make this track EXPLOSIVE.

Sts349Mob Final

Based off of my favorite movie, Taxi Driver

Too Much Abuse sts349mob assignment 8 rough ver

Decided to download Komplete Start, and have been messing about with some of the sounds it comes with. Unfortunately, most of those experiments went basically nowhere, and I had to find a new idea to work with. Found a good piano in Komplete Kontrol and went from there.

The intro up to the tempo shift is pretty much final barring some sound adjustments. Everything after that is rough and incomplete. Don't know where it will end, but it will go somewhere.

Final (Working)

The roughest rough draft to ever exist :(

Rough Copy

I like this I think i need to read more about chords and fix them up a bit and make the focus change from the five bare repeat to the Chords more dramatic. The chords originally had really harsh attack but that was mitigated with an auto filter. I fill like the voices and ocean sounds added for the third and forth sections was kinda a cop out but I like it anyway.

STS 349 SPRING 2020 FINAL ASSIGNMENT Draft

I wanted to do something that was inspired by the soundtrack of Halo, incorporating an entire (but limited) orchestra of strings, brass, woodwinds, and percussion. I haven't had much time to work on it, so it is very unfinished. I still need to extend the piece, add effects, and mix it better.

Unfinished (HW8 WIP)

whoops uhh i guess i missed the prototype submission deadline but i guess this could work either way. samples are from the higurashi no naku koro ni character song "nano desu" (i have never actually watched the show or played the visual novel but i'm 90% certain hanyuu is baby)

this was actually a demo of the aforementioned hanyuu drumkit i made back in the 4th assignment only i decided to make it into an actual song. don't like how some of the samples don't properly overlap with each other but with the other tracks (in order of appearance: rump shaker (bass), analog sting (synth),  grit life kit(drums)) backing it up you can't really tell unless you listen very closely (please don't do that).

song8 (proto/final?) - HANYUUCORE

I slightly automated the volume of the four tracks to shift the focus of the song to the different section. The ping pong delay is shifted and changed throughout the song and there are two sections where it turns on. The one that ends the first section fades gradually to enhance the effect of the second second being formed from sparse pieces. There is an auto pan that shifts the quiet aaa aaahh part from one ear to the other and has automation on to compensate when the time signature changes. The Chords have an auto filter to remove some of the harshness when on the attack of a note as a reverb effect that comes on towards the end of both sections.
The waves sound have heavy eq on them to remove extraneous sounds and static. The master has a compressor on to remove some peaks.

STS 349 SPRING 2020 FINAL

DZ Final Arrangement

Final Assignment Thomas McAndrew

It is finished. It is final.

This track is comprised of five instruments: piano, synth bass, synth strings (as a pad), synth bells, and a drum kit. The piano and bass are the Atmospheric and Growling Bass presets from Komplete Start, respectively. The strings, bells, and kit are Off World Strings, Brushed Bell Hits Bells, and the SessionDry Kit. There is an additional track for crash symbol audio, which I used for the reverse crash and to deal with some odd trigger issues with the drum kit I'm using.

Most of the mixing was dynamics and sidechain, with a small amount of reverb, delay, and filtering added for taste. With exception to the drums, every sound is supposed to be soft and just gel together.

The general idea behind this track was to make use of non-common times. I experimented with this once earlier in the "one drumset" assignment, but now I have melodic instruments to help separate the time signatures better. I have technically succeeded (the best kind of success), as the majority of this track is in either 12/8 or 7/8. (There is a single transition measure that's in 8/8. You may think that's just 4/4, but it's not, and there are several music theorists willing to fite you if you disagree.)

I also wanted to utilize tempo changes, since they're pretty uncommon in our class. The automation in the Master channel in the picture is a snippet of the tempo modulation.

I wish I had access to a good set of brass samples in Live. Could have used a brass section in some places. I have a bunch for DirectWave, which is an FL Studio plugin, but would have needed to shell out $100 for the VST version of the plugin to use them without having to manually recreate every instrument in Live.

Thanks to https://soundcloud.com/david-rothenberg-530981395 for leading STS 349.

Final

Dead Sunrise - Composed by Ahmed Faisal

Vocals by Ahmed Faisal
Instruments 1-4 by Ahmed Faisal
Everything belongs to Ahmed Faisal
(Except for Album Cover)

Dead Sunrise - Ahmed Faisal FINAL PROJECT STS 349 MOB

STS 349 SPRING 2020 FINAL ASSIGNMENT- Gerald Cubero

Final-Merten

This is my final assignment. I implemented some guitar tracks of me playing through my kemper amp. One of the cool things I did was that I played slide guitar through my pedalboard and my amp and I reversed it and pitched it up to get that cool kind of vocal effect. I made this sound a pop songs of what you would hear on the radio today and what's on top 100 billboard in the U.S. This was a fun assignment. I used mastering and mixing techniques such as send and returns as buses to mix music and percussion level. I also used mastering tools like compressors and limiters on my master channel and also on specific channels like the kick and etc to smooth everything out. I kept the time at 2:31 because this how long a common track on the radio/top 100 billboard would look like today. Hope you enjoy!

STS 349 Final Assignment

A simple but sweet beat meant for relaxation. Made using bits and pieces from several sample packs and samples from YouTube. These samples were used as transition effects and to put together a drum kit, as well as providing the melody.

STS349mob Final Project - Steven Rodriguez

I began with an audio track from Cynamics and tweaked it according to where the clip was. In the beginning, I added a Nebulo sound effect and recorded over the clip to get that build up. After each transition to the next, more intense parts of the piece, I transposed everything by half a step (Manually transposed the MIDI). I added my own hihats to the first drum loop since it did not have any hihats and it would have been an awkward transition to the next drum loop. I added some transition effects and composed a light melody using muted noise and a more prevalent melody using lite model-C piano. I modified the audio by stretching it and transposing it back to how it began. I also panned the main melody to the left and the alternate melody to the right. I kept the drums and beats in the middle. There are eight tracks in all.

A Sudden Encounter (STS349 Final)

I wanted to make a piece that used some really funny voice cues.  Along with that, I used a ton of different samples to meld together something that combines different drum beats and sounds that I have come to appreciate over the years.  Enjoy!

STS349 MOB - Vivek Sreenivasan Final

This piece was inspired by the 2011 movie Margin Call, set on the brink of the '08 recession in which a large banking company discovers before everyone else that the market is about to crash. The decision is made to unload all of their worthless assets by lying about their value, and in doing so they precipitate the fall of the economy. Much of the film is spent in conference rooms in the early morning before the crash, deliberating and planning as the shadow of the oncoming disaster looms. I wanted to capture that sense of unease and foreboding, which has returned during the pandemic - both because of the disease but also again due to the economy. 

Who's that ringing the phone?

dealing with the devil's debt - STS349 Final Project

Hello, I had tons of fun making this and danced way too much to get it done in a timely manner, but here ya go! Enjoy!

STS 349 SPRING 2020 FINAL ASSIGNMENT

Thomas Pluta