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Importing Extracted Vocals Into Logic Pro X Live Loops
Having extracted Mr Flash’s vocals from The Message with iZotope RX 8, my next step was to import them into Logic Pro X and convert them into Live Loops. I’d never used Live Loops before, but it turned...
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Fixing The Groove And Adding A Beat
One of the challenges of doing this using Live Loops in Logic Pro to resequence lines of dialogue from The Message is that the relationship between the start of each vocal line and the beat varies...
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Introducing The Step Sequencer
I wanted to use the Logic Pro X Step Sequencer for this assignment, partly because I wanted to learn how to use it, and partly because step sequencing was one of the requirements. So today I converted...
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Oh God!
My bespoke workflow is highly intuitive, based on whatever subconscious thoughts and ideas come to me. The next idea was to use granular synthesis in Alchemy to manipulate the sound of a female orgasm....
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Time For Some Bass
Today it was time to add some bass to my remix of The Message and I started off by checking out the original bass riff. Here’s what it sounded like, thanks to iZotope RX 8’s Music Rebalance function:...
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Background Ambience And “Good Dirt”
To retain some of the grittiness of The (original) Message and make my remix more sonically interesting, my track needed some “Good Dirt”. I also wanted some continuity so I added a background texture...
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Adding Some Melodic Movement
I’m pretty happy with the way God Is Smiling On You has come together, but there is something that I feel is missing, and it’s a sense of upper register melodic movement. The original song had a...
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Remix Heaven
The big day has finally arrived and it’s time to record my Live Loop performance of God Is Smilin’ On You. Most of the performance is spontaneous and improvised, but I had some specific ideas about the...
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Fixing The Mix of Exquisite Blood by Damian Barbeler
The aim of the Fix The Mix assignment was to remix an existing work using the original stems in order to fix it. We were given four options to make marking fair while allowing for different skill...
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Emotional Turmoil
My artistic vision for this work was to create a through-composed track using melodic riffs that came to me while going about daily life and represented how I was feeling at the time. I was partly...
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