WebAudio Daily Agenda - Year 2
Monday 8/30 - Friday 9/3
Finalize your Music Video lyric choices. FInalize tempo, mood, tone. You have this week to produce a usable version of your song for Film Production next week starting on Tuesday 9/7. Make your studio reservation ASAP. Your song must include Reason sequenced music and also live recorded music. By Friday, submit to me the following
- A .mp3 of your song with the title of song as the file name such as Song_Title.mp3.
- Song must be minimum 1 minute and maximum 3 minutes - anything under or over these limits will reduce your grade.
- Song must include MIDI sequences from Reason
- Song must include live recorded portions using Pro Tools
- Basic structure of song - no adding bars or changing tempo after you submit the file on Friday. You can enhance the song by adding/removing parts but don't change the bar and tempo structure.
Thursday 8/26
- More about Reason
- Using the Tools Window > Groove options
- Using Redrum to trigger a vocal
- Using the Vocoder - an equilizer or use for one sound source to modulate another sound source
- Basic music structure - as prep for the song you will start creating next week
- Tempo bpm
- Note values - whole, half, quarter, eigth, sixteenth, dotted notes, triplets
- Time signature 4/4, 3/4
- Key signature
- Treble and bass clef
- Typical structure 4/4, 3 chords
- ABABB - Intro | Verse | Chorus | Verse | Chorus | Chorus | Outro
- Ben Harper: Steal My Kisses
- Jingle Bells
- American Idiot
- Journey: Don't Stop Believing
- AABABB Intro | Verse | Verse | Chorus | Verse | Chorus | Chorus | Outro
- Beatles: Yesterday
- Somewhere Over the Rainbow
- ABA(B)CAB Intro | Verse | Chorus | Verse | (Chorus) | Bridge or Middle 8 or Solo | Verse | Chorus | Outro
- Beatles: Let It Be
- U2: Elevation
- Corrs: What Can I Do?
- ABABB - Intro | Verse | Chorus | Verse | Chorus | Chorus | Outro
Tuesday 8/24
- You can now log in with your accounts. Let's reconfigure the new accounts for Freestyle stuff - all together
- Safari Bookmarks
- Import Bookmarks into Firefox and Chrome
- Dreamweaver Server Connection
- New folders
- Documents > Project 5: English, Design, WebAudio ; Documents > Project 6: English, Design, WebAudio ; etc.
- Sites > project5, project6, project7, project8
- More about Reason
- Combinator controls - programming the generic buttons, knobs and wheels to control parameters of the devices inside the combinator
- Using the Tools Window > Tools options
- Quantize - make human performance more precise
- Pitch (Transpose) - altering many notes higher or lower in pitch
- Note Velocity - more control of volume for individual notes
- Note Lengths - precision values for note durations
- Legato Adjustments - adds smoothness to a musical phrase
- Scale Tempo - changing how fast your music is played
- Alter Notes - really useful for creating drum fills
- Automation Cleanup - removing automation nodes that don't really make a difference so that les CPU cycles are required to create the music
Friday 8/20
- Alumni Discussion Panel 11- 12 or 1 - 2 in the Film Room
- More about Reason modules
- Delays - this can create a whole new feel to beats or patterns by adding echos that die away
- Phasor - useful for make long notes interesting or for long patterns in Dr. Rex
- Scream 4 Distortion - distorting a dry clean sound
- Combinator - like an empty box in which you can put in many modules to create a unique sound and then play that combinator as a single instrument. Best to start with included Combinator Patches to see how they put together a particular new instrument.
Wednesday 8/18
- Welcome back and what's new
- More about using Reason
- Automating parameters
- Usng Advanced Reverb as an inline effect OR as an Auxiliary Send/Return by rewiring modules to mixer
