Wednesday, March 11, 2009

S.S. Pride and Joy (seventh project)

I have to be honest for a sec. I was dreading this summary of my song ever since I saw how much work I put into it(I kept notes while working, just over two pages of notes), so I decided just to sum it up instead of going into details because face it, besides Mr. Rabuse nobody is going to care. Without further ado here is my seventh project:



For the first Sytrus I made, I gave it a combination of two different waves, upped the BPM to 160, and created a motif using a modification of ParagonX9's "Chaaz Fantasy" (for details on it head over to http://blackhole12.deviantart.com/art/Sytrus-Synth-Creation-Part-3-75988419 and check it out) Then I gave it a unison, and come Chorus and Reverb(that may be way it sounds so industrial). This first one was not my pride and joy of the four. The second one was.

Started off by making it into a saw wave, then gave it a Lime Low Pass Filter, followed by taking away the chorus and giving it some delay with reverb. Don't know what I did to make sound so full but it works and I'm proud of it, maybe the answer is in the details. On to the next one.

This third one may be my second favorite with it being a little simpler than the last one. All I did was head over to the OSC tab and make a semi-curve (the best I could do with a mouse and a shaky hand) but it had a smooth button to smooth it out. Like I said this was simple. Now for the last, and certainly not least, Sytrus.

Unlike the previous Sytrus where I made a simple curve, I went nuts in the OSC tab. To avoid having this one sound like scraping metal I enable the plucker which made it sound like a guitar (in a way). That's it for the Sytrus, now for the hard part.

Originally I had the first Sytrus with the bass line as the bass for the entire song with the the other Sytruses (I think that's the plural) filling in the other rolls of one of my typical songs but that didn't work. so after so fiddling I had some custom stuff going and that didn't work either. But, since third times a charm, I remember a certain composer I heard once, He would use the same melody with different instruments so I decided to use the same bass line from the beginning for all of them. And in the end I have what you hear now. So, please sit back, listen, enjoy, and comment (since I LOVE comments).

EDIT: after Mr. Rabuse listen to my original song he told me I was missing something, DRUMS. They have been a staple in everyone of my projects and I have forgotten them, now then enjoy the new version, now with 75% more FPC.

ANOTHER EDIT: It is said that no battle plan survives contact with the enemy, the same can be said with songs and Mr. Rabuse. After some weird food metaphors I understood that the drums in my last version were random and bad, so after a complete redo on my part the drums were toned down to simpler ones. And after that Mr. Rabuse came by again and help me redo the melody of the song (out with the simple, in with the interesting). Now you have what might be my pride and joy of all of these.