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

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

TestTubeTestificate

Recent comments

David Rothenberg