Today was a rush because we didnt have the space on our harddrives to save our sound booth files. some of us got around this by using the desktop as a tempory storage space this helped but i used my laptop that helped because i now how to use my laptop and have higher admin rights on it (something that i like is to be in control of my computer)
by the afternoon i had finished the project and taken all the screenshots and done a wright up for them.
now im looking forward to the weekend as i have had a long and frustrating week.
Thursday, 28 January 2010
Monday, 18 January 2010
Monday
I have been a bit bad and haven't updated my blog since December so i decided that as we have just started another unit of study i should post about what has been going on.
during the MIDI sequencing project i ran in to a few problems to start with i only have 1GB of hard drive space on my college home drive this is a real problem because when using Cubase after editing an audio track that track is saved with the edits as a .WAV this became problematic extremely quick as the project folder would grow to extremely large sizes.
another problem with using Cubase was that any MIDI drum beats that i created myself would not be converted during the mixdown proses. There was a work around for this problem but the resulting sound after this was not as good as before.
After the snow had stoped and we all got back to classes we were given a new task to remix a MIDI track of our choice. This task was meet with the same storage space problems as the last task. (i need to invest in a new USB memory stick (thanks to who ever found mine and didn't turn it in))
we also ran in to a host of new problems regarding the Cubase software the most annoying of these were that any MIDI tracks that i made would not mixdown and i ended up having to hand in my whole project folder.another problem that the class ran into was that after choosing a MIDI track and changing the instrument and then selecting a new MIDI track would reset the last track making it impossible to remix the project the way we wanted.
all in all i think that this project could have gone better despite how well it started and given the choice i would have chosen to use a different software package
this morning during Key Skills we were studying the use of capital letters in sentences this sort of thing is helpful for me because its the sort of thing that i do tend to over look when writing.
after break we had a look at adobe sound booth and how it worked it reminded me of how cool edit worked and so i felt comfortable with it straight away. i would have liked to have spent more time looking at this software and I'm hoping to be able to use it again in the future.
after lunch and for the rest of the day we started on our latest unit "Recording"
our goal is to buy a dream recording studio with an imaginary £10,000. this started with john giving us a rough guide as to the sort of items we should get for our studios including hardware and software. i spent the rest of the day looking at the difference's in microphones and amps to give myself a better understanding of where my money would be going tonight i will put together a spreed sheet to help balancing the spending that should be fun relearning excel functions (i wounder if excel still has a hidden Easter Egg.
during the MIDI sequencing project i ran in to a few problems to start with i only have 1GB of hard drive space on my college home drive this is a real problem because when using Cubase after editing an audio track that track is saved with the edits as a .WAV this became problematic extremely quick as the project folder would grow to extremely large sizes.
another problem with using Cubase was that any MIDI drum beats that i created myself would not be converted during the mixdown proses. There was a work around for this problem but the resulting sound after this was not as good as before.
After the snow had stoped and we all got back to classes we were given a new task to remix a MIDI track of our choice. This task was meet with the same storage space problems as the last task. (i need to invest in a new USB memory stick (thanks to who ever found mine and didn't turn it in))
we also ran in to a host of new problems regarding the Cubase software the most annoying of these were that any MIDI tracks that i made would not mixdown and i ended up having to hand in my whole project folder.another problem that the class ran into was that after choosing a MIDI track and changing the instrument and then selecting a new MIDI track would reset the last track making it impossible to remix the project the way we wanted.
all in all i think that this project could have gone better despite how well it started and given the choice i would have chosen to use a different software package
this morning during Key Skills we were studying the use of capital letters in sentences this sort of thing is helpful for me because its the sort of thing that i do tend to over look when writing.
after break we had a look at adobe sound booth and how it worked it reminded me of how cool edit worked and so i felt comfortable with it straight away. i would have liked to have spent more time looking at this software and I'm hoping to be able to use it again in the future.
after lunch and for the rest of the day we started on our latest unit "Recording"
our goal is to buy a dream recording studio with an imaginary £10,000. this started with john giving us a rough guide as to the sort of items we should get for our studios including hardware and software. i spent the rest of the day looking at the difference's in microphones and amps to give myself a better understanding of where my money would be going tonight i will put together a spreed sheet to help balancing the spending that should be fun relearning excel functions (i wounder if excel still has a hidden Easter Egg.
Thursday, 17 December 2009
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
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, 14 December 2009
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.
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.
Thursday, 10 December 2009
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
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
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, 7 December 2009
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.
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.
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