Sytrus

Now for my next project: The Sytrus.

This song, like most of my others, is inspired by the soundtrack to the ".Hack//" PS2 games. The music in those games is very electronic, and i swear to god the same drum line i used was in a boss battle in that game :).

So first i started out just making my sounds. I stared with the Default sytrus sound, an annoying beep that could probably kill anyone if they listened to it for too long. Then to make my first sound i changed the shape of the wave to a saw/square wave. I turned the skew up the tiniest little bit. Then i went to the FX tab, and turned on delay. then i changed the chorus to 5. After turning on the correct volume buttons, i had my first sound :D. This is the sound that arpeggiates throughout the whole song.

To make my next sound, I tuned up the skew a hair, and turned the Pre-Filter all the way down. Then i created a volume envelope and made the sound kinda wavey. It gets louder then softer throughout the beat. There were go effects used, just the above changes. This creates the melody underneath the arpeggio.

After i made my sounds, i created at melody for my first syth, and i really liked the arpeggio sound, so ,i used it. I had trouble thinking of a melody (like i always do), so i just played the arpeggios over and over and over again playing with the keyboard untul i came up with this little melody and i thought it fit perfectly.

Then i found this drum loop, and i really LOVE it. I didnt realize till just now that i used in my one of my other projects too... After the drum loop was put in i just added kick drum on the beats, to emphasize the bass more.

And thats my sytrus project. :)

Hope you enjoy it :D

Automation Project

Here is my next project, the automation clip :)

This one took me quite a bit of time, and it gave me alot of problems too :/ i started with the idea in my head that this was going to be kind of an eerie song, and so i looked for a pad for the background that would reflect what i wanted to make the piece feel like. I ended up finding the "Light Waves" Pad, and i decided it could sound kinda creepy with the right melody over it. over THAT, I found the "Oberheim Bass" sound and made the melody to go over the pad. I don;t know where I've head that melody before... but I've definitely heard it -_-' So i made that loop and added it and decided it needed drums, so i looked for a drum loop that would fit the pattern of my melody, and i looked and looked and looked (it took me a very long time) and i finally found "DL_AfterKill" and i liked it, but it didn't QUITE match the melody exactly, so i though "THAT'S WHAT EFFECTS ARE FOR!!! :D" SO i started with the pad, and put an automation for the Volume, and made it spike up and down very very VERY fast, and it sounded choppy and i liked it. Next i added the volume automation to the bass part, and then did the X-Y muffley thingy (i really don't know what its called) and recorded it, and it sounded WICKED COOL. NEXT i added delay to the percussion and i think it fits in to the rest of the piece nicely :) At the very end i made the layers just fade out, because it was time to finish it, and any other elaborate thing would just take WAYY too much time -_-'

(And i just realized how much i use weird faces in my posts >_>)