End of the Year Wrap Up

This has been quite the year. I feel that I have really grown since the beginning of this year and the monsters that were my Ok Go and White Knuckles remix. I really brought myself back to easier styles of music and worked myself up from there. I took a look back at some of more successful projects from last year and used the good elements from those in my newer pieces. This year I also entered the realm of evolving drum loops and the mixer. The main inspiration for a lot of my music this year was Daft Punk. I always wanted to try to match their style but I couldn't quite figure out how they did it. In the process of making my third Poizone project, I discovered that Daft Punk occasionally uses the plug in Gross Beat, which soon became my secret weapon. In my final project I really tried to combine everything that I have learned this far. Noise Envelopes, Filters, Automation Clips, Frequency Modulation, etc. But my music will not end here. Over the summer I will be checking out indaba music and definitely want to participate in one remix project or another. Next year I will take a look at the music tech blog and possibly do some of the assignments. This year was only the beginning.

Poizone 4: Modal Chords Complete!

Here is the completed version of my Modal Chords progression. Gross beat, and Maximus were used on my main melodies, a Bass Booster was used on my inverted melody, and a Fruity Phaser was used on both the chords and drums. I compressed the drums specifically using a fruity limiter and then compressed the whole piece with another fruity limiter. Initially, I wanted the chords to be quiter than the melody. However, once in the mixer, I began to change their volumes and soon discovered that the peice in its entirety actually sounded better with the melody being a little softer than the chords. Enjoy!