So, I recently started a new project, and planning and knowing the people I’m working with has consumed my brain. The planning and communication have been interesting mainly with us all having different work times and also all of our different sub genre preferences within the genre for the overall project. We first decided on Hip Hop which is very broad and only managed to centre our specific sub genre when we played around with traditional RnB with the strong jazz influence and all showed love for it. This although exciting terrified me personally as I have little experience in electronic music composition. This week then consisted of learning as much as I could on electronic composition to be of use to the overall team once composition begins. First the basics of Ableton was research in preferences and settings specific for MIDI configuration and mapping. Further into research we discovered that drum kits in Ableton are all on different tracks automatically but also can be rearranged by slicing a sample. Another drum technique for composing is the drum buss plugin which allows for tuning of the kick drum to the song.
This will become important later on so that the song can be all in tune by the end. Also learnt a lot into wobble and wavetable with their oscillators and choosing the waveforms and percentage of change. I also learnt the technique of sampling a sound to create a new sample (with vocals vowels tend to be clearer). You take the audio into simpler/sampler and it pitches the chosen selection and pitches it to the specified instrument (Ableton Push/MIDI keyboard). This was a crash course and once we further develop and start work hopefully, I won’t feel so out of my depth.
Learnt on Lynda.com Mars, N. (2016). Ableton Live: Producing Electronic Music. Retrieved from https://www.lynda.com/Ableton-Live-tutorials/Producing-Electronic-Music-Ableton-Live/474424-2.html
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