5 New Projects!

My first project is called "Beautiful World." The objects I used were my new Muk Luk shoes.

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My second project is called "Peace It Together and is basically a montage to Peace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPW6otz26Pk

My third project is called "Inspire! Motivate!" I took the instrumental of teh song "Spaceship" by Kanye West and put a motivational speaker over it and added some visuals. Its really a sports motivation type of video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh1EqfQYvtA

My fourth project is called "Your The Teacher." For this project I spent 15 minutes talking about the basics of synth sound design in terms of music production

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIuX8MuIA7E&feature=youtu.be

New Projects!

I just finished the That's Not What I Heard project and Words + Image project

 That's Not What I Heard was really fun to make because the gun noises are a synthesis of sounds I recorded to sound like machine guns. I panned them in various directions to get a fuller stereo width and to give the machine guns a fuller, more realistic sound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGNaWBaQfpg

The Words + Image project was also pretty fun because I was able to use one of my favorite poems. The poem is The Road Not taken by Robert Frost

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdiBsGNnsGs

Timber Music Video

I recently did the audio for a cover of the song Timber, by Kesha and Pitbull. A good friend of mine, Louis, recorded the vocals and I worked on the mixing/mastering.

Here is a link to the music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZFzFw22Vlc

48 Hour Shoot Out Video and Cover Song Contest

Last week I participated in the 48 Hour Shootout film contest that OU holds every year and here is the video my teammates and I made!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAHZXuaw1kw

Beck Remix and Trickster Archetype Montage

This is a "retro house" remix of a Beck song I did called "Don't Act Like." Its only instrumental and mainly focuses on the melody.

I have recently been listening to a lot of funk house (like uppermost, gremly, etc) so i wanted to do something older and retro. I used one of my favorite vst instruments called the Roland P8. I made a nice retro sounding patch with it and used that to make the chorus melody. For the bass I used another one of my favorite synths Harmor. It was a preloaded preset but I added some extra resonance to the bass to give it a more melodic feel. As I was making the song the melody didn't sound too funky so I just kept the melody as it was (from the MIDI I got) and added some simple transitions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG1di0gd5Ro&feature=youtu.be

Also here is a video montage for the Trickster Archetype I made

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU_fXY-Qhtg

The Sounds of Wall-E

https://soundcloud.com/djghostowl/fx-1

These are twelve sci-fi sounds I made and here is how I made them.

Sound 1 “Kat”

to make this effect I used an additive/subtractive synthesizer called harmor. It is a simple saw wave with a cut off frequency at 60% and a low pass resonance at 40%. What gives this effect the kat like “meow” is low frequency oscillator modulating the pitch envelope with a triangle wave. The sound is supposed to be a cat and can be used for cartoon cat sounds.

Sound 2 “Impact”

To make this effect I also used harmor. It is a sine wave pitched down 2400 cents with an 808 like volume envelope a small vibrato effect added with ribbon distortion hard compression reverb and a delay effect. This can be used as a sound effect for something big hitting something else, basically a huge sci-fi impact.

Sound 3 “Robotic fart”

This effect again was made on Harmor. It is a saw wave modulated by a custom formant cutoff filter and a custom formant resonance filter. This sound is also pitched down 2400cents with a rubber distortion added. This sound can be used for futuristic robotic things like in transformers when the robots are transforming.

Sound 4 “simple riser”

This effect was made using a triple oscillator. It is basically just 2 saw waves with a rising pitch envelope and a double unison chorus effect. This sound can be used in cartoon for when things are moving upwards to aurally illustrate movement.

Sound 5 “cops!”

This effect was also made using a triple oscillator. It is a sine wave and a triangle wave in unison with a sine wave low frequency oscillator modulating the pitch to give it “that woo woo” sound. This effect obviously was made to model a police siren and so it can be used in place of an actual recorded police siren sound if someone wanted more control of the sound.

Sound 6 “digital shatter”

This effect was made using a triple oscillator. It was two square waves that had their volume envelopes modulated by a square wave low frequency oscillator. Then to make it sound cooler I added a little bit of reverb to it. This was made to sound like something “digital” shattering, like a floppy disk or a CD. It could also be used as a very retro impact.

Sound 7 “Digital fix”

This effect is simply the digital shatter effect except reversed backwards. I did this because thought it would be a cool effect that could be used in tandem with the digital shatter effect to make it seem like time went backwards and whatever was shattered magically rejoined.

Sound 8 “Alien Landing”

This effect was made using harmor. It is 2 sine waves and a square wave that all have a lowpass filter modulated by a low frequency oscillator with a downward sloping pitch envelope. This effect was clearly made to mimic what an “alien landing” would sound like but can be used for anything space related.

Sound 9 “chip tunes”

This effect is a a simple square wave with a short volume envelope a little bit of reverb added and a heavy delay. This effect can be used in video games especially retro video games that want to mimic an 8 bit sound.

Sound 10 “Wall-E”

This effect was made with two saw waves. The first one was detuned by plus 20 cents and the second one was detuned by minus 20 cents and on top of that I added a downward sloping envelope to the pitch. This was my attempt at creating something “Wall-E” like or something that sounds like a machine breaking down.

Sound 11 “Downward spiral”

This effect was made with a triple oscillator. I used both white noise and pink noise and basically put a downward sloping envelope on the triple lowpass cut off filter and put a square wave low frequency oscillator on the volume envelope. This was very similar to the “Alien Landing” fx I made except I used white and pink noise. This could easily be used for a landing type effect.

Sound 12 “Robot punch squeak thing...”

This effect was made using a triple oscillator. Its just a sine and square wave with a really short volume envelope and a really short rising pitch envelope. Personally I thought it sounded like a robot punching something so it could be used as that.  

Sound Library

This is a sound library of natural sounds I recorded at the Alden Library.

1. Alden Library: First Floor Water Fountain: (1:01)

2. Alden Library: Library Steps: (0:10) 

3. Alden Library: Pages Turning: (1:24) 

4. Alden Library: Opening a DVD box: (0:01) 

5. Alden Library: Second Floor Door opening: (0:06) 

6. Alden Library: Typing: (0:01) 

7. Alden Library: Closing a book: (0:02) 

8. Alden Library: Hole Puncher: (0:03) 

9. Alden Library: Mouse Clicking: (0:09) 

10. Alden Library: Second Floor Library Ambience: (0:17) 

Th recordings can be found on my soundcloud in one file titled "Library Recordings"

https://soundcloud.com/djghostowl/library-recordings