Today we learned about the cytrus tool. This is to add effects on to our music, and put them music we generated and use it in the riff machine, which generates riffs from a single note. I thought this was pretty cool, I used the riff machine for other projects but I didnt know you could use your own sounds to put into the riff machine, this was really cool for me.

For this project we had to use a vocoded voice and incorporate it into our song. This is my favorite loop that I have made this year, I like more of the metal music. So this is a metal theme obviously, and I was thinking it would go good in a rock competition, because of the phrases I used. For the second vocoded piece, I couldn't find it in freesound.org, so mr. Rabuse took me into a room and showed me the snowball mike. This is were I recorded myself fo0r the last part of my project. Enjoy!!!

Today, I finally finished the vocoder song, the only thing I need to do now is post it on to this site. This made me feel really happy because it usually takes me about a week or two to finish a song, this took like 4 classes even with the mess up I made. So tomorow I will be posting my project and starting on project 6!

Today, i had to start over on my project due to what happened yesterday. So I went into the riff machine to get started and what do you know, there is my second piece to my project! Apparently the riff machine keeps the riff you have just selected in its file before you choose a different one, and I hadn't set a new one yet, that made me happy. So all i had to do today was come up with a new drum loop to go with the second guitar part. That was really easy, all i did was listen to the loop and decide wat pattern to put a snare drum, tom drum, and cymbol sounds in. F or the rest of the class all I did was look for a voice on freesound.org to find an ending. That's all I need to do to finish this project. I'm confident that Iwill be finished with this project by the end of this week.

today, i found everything i need except the ending of my project, i think its pretty cool, it's got some kick drums, tom drums, snare drums, and really cool guitar from the slayer. So for my ending i was going to d o a vocoded person saying told you so. I went with Mr. Rabuse to the mike room, where i had to get off my FL Studio up in his room. But he didn't realize i hadn't saved my progress today yet, and accidentally didn't save it. I don't blame him, it was my fault for not saving it. But even with that said I need to start almost completely over, at least I have my beginning part that was saved yester\day, but that still stinks.

For this project we had to play with some automations! this was a fun assignment for me because I like special effects in music. So I chose a funky beat that would give people a feeling of up beatness and want to make them dance. I used the slayer wah wah sound for a bass line, a simsynth sound for a sort of drum loop. For my other instrument i used an fx instrument from the tool bar, and used the riff master tool which was a really fun tool. This is the first project i have had FL Studio 9, so this was a new feature from the program. You out a note or two in the paino roll, and then it makes a riff out of that, it's like the chop tool except more fun. So the things i automated were the volume, the simsynths cut envelope, and the mixers blood overdrive. I really like this loop I have created, so enjoy!!!! Sorry about the first one, it only copied the ending loop i dont know why.

For this project we had to play with some automations! this was a fun assignment for me because I like special effects in music. So I chose a funky beat that would give people a feeling of up beatness and want to make them dance. I used the slayer wah wah sound for a bass line, a simsynth sound for a sort of drum loop. For my other instrument i used an fx instrument from the tool bar, and used the riff master tool which was a really fun tool. This is the first project i have had FL Studio 9, so this was a new feature from the program. You out a note or two in the paino roll, and then it makes a riff out of that, it's like the chop tool except more fun. So the things i automated were the volume, the simsynths cut envelope, and the mixers blood overdrive. I really like this loop I have created, so enjoy!!!!