End of the Year

today on the last day of college for the year i got a lot of writing done in the form of a small tutorial that shows how i built my music project in Cubase

i had one of the teaching assistants come over and read through and got a lot of good feed back from her. she even went as far as saying that it should be used for the next years class.

well that's it for the year.
Have a great Christmas and an even better new year

Monday (after the weekend)

today i finished a piece of music and have decided to call it "George Bush Makes me Laugh"
from what started as a piece of dark sounding heavy metal now works as a backing track to some "bushisms"

as it stands i still don't think I'm very good at the music side to this unit but i feel like i am overcoming this and as i practise i seem to be getting better and more confident.

after asking some of the class members and the tutor for there opinions about my work i am happy with what i have done.

This afternoon we continued with our work on Cubase as a class and i finished my research part of the assignment.
the research was fun we had to come up with a sort of dream home studio.
after finishing the research portion of the assignment i continued to experiment with what could be done with Cubase.
i plan to spend the weekend gathering samples and loops for for this project with a bit of work i should be able to bring in a DVD of samples and loops that should help with this task.
it helps that my dad can play a guitar so i can try to get some samples from him playing

Thursday

so the last 2 days we have been starting to learn Cubase.
Cubase is an audio sampiling and edditing softwear that allows the user to import and create loops of simple rifts that can then be used in larger projects for full music tracks.

here is a quick tutorial for matching the tempo in cubase to the tempo of your loop.
how this works is by setting the project grid to match your first loop.

(1) you will need to count the number of beats in the loop and make a note of it
(2)select the loop and go to the project menu and select beat calculator
(3)enter the number of beats that you counted in the first part and click on the At tempo track start button. this should set the tempo for the hole project from the begining.

that should be it

Monday Unit7 Start

Today we started on Unit 7 audio Sequencing this is a bit daunting for me as i consider myself to be tone deaf but i still hope to learn something from the experience.

I have used some audio editing software in the past but this was done without any guidance and was just cuting out sounds for use in a Mod for starwars empier at war( the mod was called Stargate empier at war)
I hope that this unit will be as interesting as the last one , i already know that i I'm going to fined this unit harder.

This morning we had to give a presentation on the websites we made for the last unit of study i think this went well for me as i was one of the only ones to have completed this task for our key skills.
the hardest part was that i went first at giving my presentation.

finished my website

today we finnished our websites
things did not go well witch is a real shame as i realy enjoyed this unit and think that i am quite good at using dreamweaver.

to start with i spent far to long trying to make the site do fancy things.
if i had more time or i could try again i would plan out my time much better and wouldnt spend as much of my time helping other members of the class.

another thing is that i didnt refer to the design bref enouf and as a resault i ended up rushing in pages that where needed like my forum page.
my plan originaly was to link to a proper forum with redirecting page warning the user but on reading the breff i realised that i needed to atualy design it

so here it is my website
click here

please be honest and tell me whats good and whats bad