Monday, 26 March 2007

Week 4 - CC

For this week, I simply used the samples from the previous “paper samples deformations” and sequenced a 12-bar drum beat and an intro!
After importing all the .wav files I had from the last session, I used the two tracks “Chafe Deformed” and “Wave Deformed” as intros, however, as shown in the score, the “Wave...” enters in the 3rd measure. I left these two unchanged and just in the last bar of the intro; I added some effect to the “Chafe…” by deleting 4 parts of the track. Each of the deleted regions had duration of 1/32nd. For the sequence to be precise and quantised, I needed to switch to “Grid mode” and set its value to either 1/16th or 1/32nd.
I cut a region of the .wav file “Pull from 2 sides deformed” with duration of 1/16th and took a treble percussive sound out of it. Playing a kind-of “Rumba” rhythm, I used the “grabber” while holding the button Alt to copy and paste the same sample I had made in a quantised figure and make a rhythm pattern. After having the first 4 bars, I simply copied those 7 more times till the end of the sequence.
The initial tempo was 120 and I changed it to 90bpm.
For the bass drum part, I applied the same procedure of the hi-hat (treble perc.) sound but on the file “Scratch deformed” and I patterned a different rhythm. I also used the EQ and the compressor on this track since the region I had chosen had too much of high frequencies; it was supposed to be the bass drum.
For snare, I used the file “Rumple deformed” with duration of 1/8th playing on beats 2 and 4 of each bar and having rests on the 1st and 3rd beat. This time, I didn’t copy-paste anything. I just deleted the 1st and 3rd beats of each bar so the snare part was not a simple repetitive sound. I used the compressor on this track as well.
As sort-of a solo!, I utilised the file “Tear deformed” and just made a pattern on it by deleting several regions of the track with durations of 1/16th, 1/32nd and 1/64th. At the end of this particular track, I applied a fade out.
The score for this sequence is as shown below:



And this is the final audio result:

1 comment:

Darren S said...

Great sequence, Sanad.