Showing posts with label Logic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Logic. Show all posts
Monday, June 7, 2010
Monday, February 15, 2010
Marching Too
New tune: MarchingToo.mp3 It is a bit of a "march." There's a crescendo at the end so listen all the way through!
This has one of my first attempts at non-trivial drum fills/rhythm change-ups.
A real song would throw on some sort of non-trivial melody and maybe some vocals. But I'm sticking with it being a "march" and calling it a day (weekend+day).
Monday, January 25, 2010
Dancy120
I remixed some more freesound.org samples into a 120 bpm dance jig.
Song here: dancy120-cut3
The samples I used are attributed to: h.quinius (dutty grains.aif)
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Freesound remix
I've been lurking on Freesound.org for a while now. I like their idea so much I've contributed and have not one but two t-shirts to show for it :). It is a site dedicated to reusable-for-attribution sound samples. I enjoy poking around listening to bits and pieces. I'm weird that way.
To this point I've never used any of the samples. Usually in a search result I start one looping and play others on top. Much like using them in a song... sometimes the result is useful as an inspiration for something else.
Today however I found three samples right in a row that sounded neat superimposed, just by themselves. So I pulled down the samples and did a little tweaking. The result is freesound-remix-1. This reminds me of Amon Tobin. Here's a screen grab of the Logic-work necessary to get this put down: freesound-remix-1-screen.
Freesound is awesome in that it keeps track of the stuff you download so you can attribute really easily. Here are the samples I used:
Update: I posted to the Freesound forums to announce this little intro.
Friday, December 18, 2009
ABDF Hierarchical Pattern (Dancemix)
First tune on next album/set. I need to learn how to get off of one phrase and into another or something... abdf-hier-dancemix
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Butte songs...
Here are some of the first reasonable sounds generated by "Butte". These are MIDI sequences which I pulled into Logic and created mp3s for. All the notes are auto-generated. I didn't touch them! Sounds neat to me:
Updated: 12-7-09
Updated: 12-8-09
Ok, Ms. Anonymous/Mom: how about this one?
swirlybounce-4mom.mp3 (note this was hand-edited so it isn't really 100% auto-generated any longer :)
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Multiwalk
"Multiwalk" is the title of the first song I've created I'd consider decent enough to ask others to listen to. I think it's been cooking long enough that I should stop tinkering with it and see how it ages. I'm reminded of an art teacher I had once that said (I'm paraphrasing) "the difference between 2nd graders and adults is that 2nd graders know when to stop cutting." Or something like that.
The idea behind this song is a series of intertwining "walks" that lead to a near-miss crescendo then resolve with the pieces moving apart again. Well, that's the idea anyway. In practical terms there is a dominant piano piece and bells piece. The piano part has two main modes and is colored with flourishes along the way. The bells part is really a faster mimic of the piano part but does have some changes, not only in tempo. Background for the whole thing is a cello and other slow background, almost, drones. The crescendo section is not quite emphatic or lined-up enough. So you're left feeling (at least I am) that it "just missed." I do like the plaintive squeal in there though...
I produced this in Logic Pro 8. I think it took something less that 6 months of calendar time. Real editing time would be on the order of days, though. Along the way I've produced probably 4 or 5 different versions... each with a different feel to the bass/slow lines. At one point I had a staccato, almost military sounding drumbeat going on behind it. After some feedback I tried using a cello and dropping the drums (except for the flourishes). I think it works the best so far.
Enjoy "multiwalk." I'd love to learn your opinions.
Update: early version with drums.
The idea behind this song is a series of intertwining "walks" that lead to a near-miss crescendo then resolve with the pieces moving apart again. Well, that's the idea anyway. In practical terms there is a dominant piano piece and bells piece. The piano part has two main modes and is colored with flourishes along the way. The bells part is really a faster mimic of the piano part but does have some changes, not only in tempo. Background for the whole thing is a cello and other slow background, almost, drones. The crescendo section is not quite emphatic or lined-up enough. So you're left feeling (at least I am) that it "just missed." I do like the plaintive squeal in there though...
I produced this in Logic Pro 8. I think it took something less that 6 months of calendar time. Real editing time would be on the order of days, though. Along the way I've produced probably 4 or 5 different versions... each with a different feel to the bass/slow lines. At one point I had a staccato, almost military sounding drumbeat going on behind it. After some feedback I tried using a cello and dropping the drums (except for the flourishes). I think it works the best so far.
Enjoy "multiwalk." I'd love to learn your opinions.
Update: early version with drums.
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