Week 6 - Synthesisers and Sound Trap

This week, we learned about synthesisers and how we can manipulate a sound’s colour. We can change the colour of a sound through oscillators (sine, square, noise, triangle, saw). Oscillators change the flow of sound which in return create different colours. I like sine the most so I used it during my exploration of sound trap. On top of oscillators, there are effects that change the quality of sound for example, I used tremolo and rotary. I find it cool how we can use two oscillators at once as well as using multiple effects on top because it allows for a lot of experimentation

We then used a program where we created drum patterns. It was very confusing to use at first but it was interesting. We could manipulate the tone and volume of the drum to replicate an actual drum set.

After learning both, we then were given the task to create a work that uses both a synthesiser and a drum pattern. Thus, I attempted to create a beat influenced by Love You sung be Christian Padovan. It was fun but it was abit frustrating at times because when you played the note on the keyboard (computer), there is a short delay so it is hard to play the notes in time. Thankfully Sound trap allows you to edit the notes you played so after recording the overall idea, I moved notes and changed durations to make it sound like the original melody. I like the lofi kind of style so I used 7th chords and synthesisers that created a relaxing sound. I wanted the drum pattern to be not busy and simple

I was just gonna add the audio file of what I created, but it didn't let me, so I made it into a video, so I was able to experiment video editing as explored last week. Don't have any high expectations, I just added two photos of sunsets that took. Don't mind the poor quality

The video below is the original song! I discovered it when watching the legendary American TV Show "Cheers" I highly recommend watching it hehehe

This lesson was very fun as I was allowed to create what ever I wanted to. I think activities like this would be effective in engaging students with music production. I wished I did something like this in high school.