Week 6 Creative Computing - More Logic Skills

Isolation 2 (Slightly Dub)

I found it rather difficult to apply many of the new skills taught in the tutorial to a song that had already been completed. In order to try to demonstrate the techniques and make a noticeable change to the song, I've made some adjustments.....

Added the enveloper to the drums. I've overdone it to the point where there is too much attack but at least you can tell it is there. I found this plugin more useful on my own recordings.

Humanized the drums. The timing and velocity is just slightly randomized and I think it makes the looping a little less obvious.

I added reverb to the instruments so they sound a little more dub. Particularly the drums have a very fake cavernous effect (I chose this deliberately in space designer).

Redid the arrangement a little.

Last minor touch.... REPLAYED THE MELODY THROUGH AN ARPEGGIATOR! which I lovingly configured in the environment as per screenshot above. One note is converted to a chord via transformers and then tastefully arpeggiated [to hell and back] to develop the melody and add a minimalist flavour.

Reference: Christian Haines. "Week 6 Creative Computing - Logic Skills 3." Lecture presented at the Electronic Music Unit, University of Adelaide, 2 September 2008.