Self Reflection
TransposE
You can minimise your workload by making plans in advance -steve b
I decided on the name when beginning to use the transpose tool in Logic X Pro
for my samples.
Finding the samples themselves was fairly straight forward,
I found lots of bits and pieces when looking through SamplePhonics, which is where the looping instruments came from and the koto sample.
Creating my own drum kit was a bit more annoying, because each time I created one
(a total of 3 attempts), it would disappear. From this I figured out pretty quick to stay on the same computer, after the several other rage moments from this mistake.
I put those together and made a short "Snippet" track, however because I did this weeks later, the koto sample had completely vanished... so I had to make do with that I had left (drum kit, and my looping/sample instruments).
Note to self -
you can minimise your workload by making plans in advance -steve b
The picture
Knowing near to nothing about photoshop this took
frustratingly longer than I had hoped - that and I left it half done for weeks...
I took an image of a city and turned it upside down so that it looked as if the city
grew from the sky.
At first I wanted to put someone walking from the front of the picture towards the
"sky-city" but the pictures I found just didn't mesh efficiently.
After coming back to it, I chose between a few panda mask photos. The one above
is the one I chose. From this I had to cut the background away including the body, luckily I had help for this.
I then placed it at the bottom of the frame and drew question marks.
Although this picture is no work of art, let alone something real from somebody who can actually
use photoshop, it's what I came up with to convey confusion, a lack of getting-it-together-ness, and
lost time.
Sampling
Sample libraries, there are a ton, most however require payment or are attached to another
DAW (which also tends to require money...). Regardless, there have been a few that
give freebies, the one that I used the most was SamplePhonics. This is where
I found my interesting loop instruments and pitched instrument (koto).
A sampling library I wish I had explored more was EastWest, unfortunately I only just found out about it, even as big as it is.
Creating a looped instrument was frustrating, but it more had to do with
the fact that I waited for so long and forgot/lost many things along the way.
When putting the looped instrument in, I could pretty much place it wherever I
liked on the keyboard, but when creating the pitched instrument, each note had to have the right
placement on the keyboard, after a couple of attempts figuring this out it began to feel quite tedious.
Looking for the note in each individual sample was...time consuming.
There was placement for the drumkit as well, but finding each piece was easier for this one as
usually it comes as a labelled package when downloaded, whereas the koto was missing a lot
of notes.
Overall it was an interesting project, and after this I'm going to aim
to get things done as soon as possible, or at least make a clear and precise plan to do so on another date.
I learnt more about sampling and how to translate it from the internet onto my
DAW, and a few ways to edit and change them. I look forward to playing around with this more.
