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No notable production

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Ask Tomorrow:

Very little production, the track was difficult to listen to due to me disliking it.

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No notable production occurred.

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No notable production occurred.

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Ask Tomorrow:

Developed the chorus, which is split up in 2 parts: EDM section and Breakbeat section.

Developed Intermission, stripping back the mix to pave the way for Verse 2

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Start of Study Block 1

Use my insights from Year 1 to understand my new goals.

Create a PROPER routine for the Multimedia Diary

Submit my best work for both Formative and Summative assignments.

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I collated ideas of what combination of genres I could play around with. Knowing my personal style, I'm best at mixing genres with Hyperpop.

Genres that I usually mix with Hyperpop are metal, rock and EDM subgenres like Futurebass and Glitchcore.

I want to experiment with new genres, such as DnB, Country and Acoustic pop. This will broaden my practical skills as a producer.

One track will be a remix of Tsubiclub's "Laced Up". They shared the stems online copyright free, which really helps with the quality of the remix track overall because I'm not ripping stems through a third-party site.

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An example of an "In the Box" signal chain

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Ask Tomorrow:

Improving the first hook with ear candy such as bit-crushed transitions

Developed Verse 2

Used multiple peripherals to mix current stage of track

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Ask Tomorrow:

No notable production

Broken Nose:

New collaboration with my friend, an RnB-inspired track.

Creation of intro, verse 1 and chorus

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Ask Tomorrow:

A full revamp of the track. Inspired by ericdoa's "Search and Destroy", I wanted to make Ask Tomorrow more electronic-based and catchier.

Development of new main melodies used throughout the track

Verse 2, build and hook 2 + outro

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Saw a demonstration of drum machines such as the Roland tr-909 and the tr-808.

I entered Ableton to use drum kits that emulate the 808 and 909s. Since I use these kits quite often they are great for starting with a default/ base kit and then modifying through audio effects to achieve my own sound.

Applying my knowledge, I imported my first track in my EP and overdubbed an 808 drum kit, which was quite fitting as my track is partially hip-hop inspired.

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I learnt that starting the process of making a sound is easy when beginning with simple elements, from the waveform to the FX.

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An example of extensive automation in my track

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During the early days of Jungle, digital samples weren't available, meaning the main source of sampling was from CDs

I found Origin Unknown - Valley of Shadows pretty interesting in terms of quality, structure and polyrhythmic features in the intro. It sounds like sine-square synths are used but I'm not 100% sure of the origin.

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Sine waves are one of my favourite waves to base my sound off of. It can be warm or cold, with an audibly "round" timbre. This makes for some very clean synths after adding character and processing.

My Tweet Pluck features a low attack, low hold and long release. One could relate it to a guitar pluck but in a different waveform.

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Broken Nose:

Created the bridge, pre-chorus, chorus 2 and outro.

Bridge features a rhythm switch from 4/4 rhythms to triplet-dominant melodies.

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Playing around with auto-filters or LFOs bring a lot of life to a track. For example, raising a high pass frequency knob before a chorus section can make for a basic but timeless transition technique.

LFOs are a decent alternative to manual automation in a DAW. Using LFOs especially for sound design can keep a synth consistent in its unique sound, unlike manually automating parameters.

This means that one can save a lot of time using a lot of LFOs for sound design instead of manual automation.

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Display of processing used for my synth.

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OneRepublic: Dreaming Out Loud

Autechre

Boards of Canada

Aphex Twin

Gonima

Connections to other genres:

Frank Ocean, John Mayer.

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Example of synth sound design + resampled SFX to smoothen a transition between sections in a song

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Resampling the drop synths to use for the second hook

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Simple guitars stacked for loudness effect