Sachaczenski MUE332

This was a fun project to work on for me particularly because my friends and I would ALWAYS rap this song with each other throughout middle school and high school. I think it is such a fun beat to listen to, and even more fun to produce yourself and rap along to. First, I used audiotool  to compile the drumbeat followed by the bass line.  The TR-808 drum computer is very easy to use, and the chart provided in D2L allowed me to add in the funky beat with ease.  Next, I used the Tb-303 Bassline synthesizer to create the bass part. This was a little more challenging because I had made a few mistakes on which numbers correspond with which note values as I was writing it out for the first time. However, when listening to the playback, it was easy to point out and fix the mistakes.  After my instrumental track was completed, I uploaded it into Soundtrap to add vocals. However, the Soundtrap recording system was giving me difficulty with latency issues, so I decided to rec...

80's Music and Digital Drumming Class Notes  Late 1970's: Disco music was popular  1980's: Punk, Hip Hop, and R&B became popular.  - Sex Pistols, Michael Jackson, Run DMC, Sugar Hill Gang  New Wave Style - Paired punk elements with dance music using digital drumkits.  - Phil Collins, Genesis, Peter Gabriel  Use of drum machines to create beats - sets of sounds are played or programmed History of Drum Machines - Rhythmicon: world's first "rhythm machine" - Ace Tone Rhythm Ace: early playback device        - Linn LM-1 Drum Computer (1980) - Akai MPC-60 - Roland TR series - Yamaha RX and RY series  - Dr. Beat  Drum Machine Software - Logic - Audiotool   Digital drumsets or percussion instruments - First electronic drum kit solo recording: Graeme Edge's Moody Blues  - Pollard Syndrum (1976) one of the earliest digital drums used to expand sounds in a traditional kit - Simmons SDS-V (1981): Hexagonal pads, hard plastic...

Class Notes Music Notation Software: Finale, Sibelius,  Musescore , Flat.io ,  Smartmusic - If collaborating across different software, export as MusicXML file to keep formatting.  Extra tools in Finale and Sibelius: Worksheet creator (preinstalled materials for students) Exercise generators Capturing Graphics: In Finale and Musescore, you can use the graphic selection tool to copy a portion of notated music into other apps and software.  Windows Snipping tool: windows icon-shift-S Capturing Audio: Export audio as wav(uncompressed), MP3 (compressed) The quality of the audio and an uncompressed file will affect the size of the file Bit Rate: 192 Kbps Audacity and Soundtrap can convert audio files if needed.  Class Projects Hot cross buns in Flat.io  - You have the ability to share a link or embed the file like so: Create story board for found sound using measure numbers.  Write shot number, measure numbers, description of shot, and rough sketch of ...

Hello Everyone! For my Musique Concrete project, I produced the piece "Cat Concrete" inspired by sounds from my cat Sophie and her toys. You can give it a listen below! Laura Sachaczenski · Cat Concrete Take a look at the soundtrap file as you listen along  The first low short sound you hear is the word "one" that we altered in class last Tuesday. In Audacity, I  lowered the pitch and reversed the word. Next, I recorded my cat's meow. She  isn't very talkative so I was only able to get a quiet, short meow from her. In Audacity, I  maximized the sound by using the loudness  normalization so it was more audible and also  added reverb to it to give it a little more length. Next, I used her ball on track toy which is  the sound that strikes and then continues on for a bit. You'll notice that it disappears and  then returns, but is reversed when it plays back immediately after.       The next toy that comes in is her ribbon squea...

Hello world! Class Notes Resources :  - Tech Resource for Sound Technology and Development:  Soundbreaking - Garageband for Windows: Mixcraft HTML: Hyper-text markup language Digital Audio and Recording History/Development - Early Derivatives: Music box, player piano, orchestrion (see video below)          - Late 1800s: Thomas Edison's invention of the gramophone was the first time sound was captured, stored, and was able to be played back.   - Electronic age (mid 1900s): Magnetic tape recording, A track tape, cassette tapes -1980s: computer technology comes to the forefront,   bringing CDs and personal computers into popularity - Mid 90's: access to the internet became readily available  - Digitized audio became easily shareable Napster, Limewire Digital Audio and Recording - Loops: very useful because you have the ability to do time compression/expansion and alter pitch separately from that, can be used as ostinato - Sampling rate: tak...

  Hello World!! My name is Laura, and I am a Music Education major at West Chester University.  Class Notes Science of Sound   - Made up of: Perceptual Properties- how we label the acoustical properties. Acoustical/physical properties - Frequency (Hz):rate of oscillation of an object (cycle per second); the way an object vibrates.  Pitch is the perceptual property of frequency.  Humans can perceive 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz - Amplitude (Decibels):measure of the magnitude of the oscillations.  Volume is the perceptual property of amplitude.  - Envelope of sound How sound changes over time: attack, sustain, decay, release Articulation is the perceptual property of envelope. - Harmonic spectrum: presence of overtones within a sound Timbre is the perceptual property of harmonic spectrum.  Synthesizers and Their Use in Making Music - Robert Moog: created the Minimoog, a synthesizer used in the age of progressive rock (Yes, Rush, Bob Marley, Chick Co...