Techno Song Progress 12/10

At this point I had to stop and thing about how and if this song would be used and how much time I really wanted to spend on it.

After deciding that this song would probably be used in menus, it was worth finishing to me, but not worth putting way too much time into it.

So I worked on another shorter song that I'll post about later, but finished this one up by cleaning up a lot of stray notes, doing some mixing, having the intro of the main techno section pan left and right, and filling in the last experimental section.

Take a listen:

Techno Song Progress 11/22

For the week I worked on this my focus was on building out the main techno portion of the song.

I added a fader effect to the techno sound, and a drum and lead track. I worked on some cleanup and mixing a bit to try to clean up some of the mess.

After the main techno loop I put together some loops at the end as kind of a separate section to see how it sounded.

Take a listen:

Techno Song Progress 11/17

After getting the main techno chord loops decided, I started building the song out a bit more.

I started out with an introduction using samples from a really cool additive synth plugin Loom mixed with some violin sounds. Then to cut into the techno portion I used a hit I created from another project and led into it with some random drum hits.

For this version I put in my basic techno loops that I showed in a previous post, and added a rough bass idea.

Take a listen:

Brainstorming Music Ideas Part Four- Hybrid Rock Song

The fourth attempt at a quick sample was a bit more difficult for me to put together, but I had some fun playing around with different effects. It's faster moving and more noisy, which is where most of my challenge was. After getting the basic song form down I really had to choose my sounds carefully because it quickly got muddy.

The song starts of with some pad patches I tweaked and layered, followed by some reversed piano layered leading into the main section of the song.

I used more of a standard rock drum set and beat using my Strike plugin.

Here is the Hybrid Rock Song:

Brainstorming Music Ideas Part Three- Slow Velvet Song

The third attempt at a quick sample was pretty clean and simple as well and gave a bit of a different feel. This started with a repetitive two notes with just the bottom note moving, and the rest of the song builds on that to complement.

Here is the Slow Velvet Song: