Assignment #3

Assignment 3:

Due Thursday February 3, in the beginning of class.

The assignment consist of creating a small arrangement of guitar and percussion.

Your learning outcomes are:

1. Using MIDI files
2. Working with Impulse and designing your own drum set
3. Working with warping marks

Instructions:

Use drumloop, Guitar and House clips to create 3 tracks.

Assign Impulse instrument to the MIDI track.

Inside Impulse to assign the drum samples folder to slots in Impulse.

Audio FX: on Guitar add Compressor (ratio around 2.8, Threshold around -8)
Add EQ3 and Reverb. Play around with the settings to find a sound you like

Add FX to Drumloop. Find and document the effect settings.

On House add MIDI Simple delay. Try setting it on 3rd 16th note.

Play around with feedback and Dry/Wet

Consider adding Auto Filter and play around with the cut-off and filter's Q

Guitar track:

In case there are problems with initial warping you need to perform the following actions:

Remove leading or trailing silences by either clipping (use clip function from contextual menu) or by setting the Start Marker to the beginning of the song.

Locate the first clear downbeat. Make sure it falls on the beginning of the note.
In case there is a short segment of sound preceding the first transient market, such as a slow attack that we see in the guitar example, double click at the beginning of the note to create Warp Marker there. Right-clik the transient market to set the first bar 1.1.1 from context menu. Right click again and select "Warp from Here".

MIDI map:

Use MIDI mapping to trigger each track separately in the session view.

Use a MIDI slider or a MIDI dial to control continuously one of the two effects parameters of your choice on one of the devices.

Improvise by triggering the track and controlling the effects.
Record you result.
Render to audio and save.
Upload to the class Sound Cloud account (remember to mark your name).
Put a comment indicating the different sections in the final recording and special effects or points of interest.

Assignment 3 files available here:

http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~jacob/A3.zip