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Final Cycle

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I have now finished the tracks but its now time to make sure everything works fine together, this will be a cycle but no design this time, it will all be based around fixing it all ready for the performance, making it all fit and rehearsals. The test cases are:

  • Does the performance work within 5 minutes?
  • Does it all sound right within the overall theme?
  • Does it sound like separate 1 minute tracks?

Rehearsals will start soon after parallel is due so I’m excited to get that done and my essay is almost done as it gets closer to the hand in. Next week I should be all finished in terms of development! Woot!

Starting the Fifth Cycle

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With physics done, the battle theme was finished quite fast plus the samples also fitted this type of fast pace. So now that is finished I can move straight onto the next theme which will be the ending theme for the performance, I’m kind of glad it’s coming to an end for the design since it is getting a little boring and repetitive. The essay is killing me but it’s at about 6000 words now so I’m very close to getting it finished.

The test cases for this cycle is:

  • Does the track sound like an ending theme?
  • Does it fit in with the overall theme?
  • Does it have at least 6 different transformers?
  • And does it fit the full one minute?

That is all for this week and I’m so excited to get this finished

 

Starting the Fourth Cycle

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The Dungeon theme was super fast to finish within only a week, it was the best one to do and I enjoyed it a lot. So now we are starting the fourth cycle which is going to be a battle theme, there’s not a lot to talk about for this one aside from it being fast paced. The test cases are:

  • Does the track sound like a Battle theme?
  • Does it fit in with the overall theme?
  • Does it have at least 6 different transformers?
  • And does it fit the full one minute?

I’m on about 4000 words for the essay and as my physics is now finished I can focus on the essay.

Milestone Achieved!

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I’ve now completed my first two milestones:

  • I have all the samples I may need but I am still free to get more if I need them, I achieved this before christmas but I didn’t record it.
    • These samples can be found here: http://woolyss.com/chipmusic-samples.php
  • Secondly I now have my cheat sheet finished and ready to use, you will be able to see it below:

Basic Syntax

  • d1 – 9 for different tracks and t1 – 9 for transitions.
  • Dollar ($) followed by a keyword.
  • “sound” to play a sample.
    • sample name is the file name.
    • to specify which sample in the file use “:” followed by the number of the sample.
  • e.g. d1 $ sound “bd”
    • d2 $ sound “bd:3”
  • e.g. t1 anticipate $ sound (samples “bd:1”)
  • # for sample modifiers.
  • ~ to rest/ no effect.
  • “hush” to silence all tracks and “dX silence” to silence the X track.

Functions

  • “rev” – reverses the pattern.
    • e.g. d1 $ rev (sound “bd bd sn bd”)
  • “every X (trans Y)” – transforms the samples every on the X beat.
    • e.g. d1 $ every 4 (density 4) $ sound “bd bd sn bd”
  • “slow X” – slows the samples by X.
    • d1 $ slow 4 $ sound “bd bd sn bd”
  • “density X” – speeds up the samples by X.
    • d1 $ density 4 $ sound “bd bd sn bd”

 

  • “foldEvery[X,Y,Z] (trans D)” – Transforms the samples every X, Y and Z beat.

 

  • e.g. d1 $ foldEvery [1,3,5] (slow 2) $ sound “bd bd sn bd”

Modifiers

 

  • “pan trans” – pans stereo sound by the trans

 

  • e.g. # pan sinewave1
  • e.g. # pan “0.0 0.5 1”

 

  • “vowel trans” – formats the filters to make samples sound like vowels

 

  • e.g. # vowel “a o e”

 

  • “shape trans” – adds distortion to the samples

 

  • e.g. # shape sinewave1

Transitions

  • “xfadeIn X” – fades the new samples in over X beats.
    • e.g. t1 (xfadeIn 16) $ sound “bd sn sn bd”

 

  • “anticipate” – Builds tension over 8 beats and then drops into the next set of samples.

 

  • e.g. t1 anticipate $ sound (samples “bd sn sn bd”)

 

  • “jump” – sharply jumps to the next set of samples

 

  • e.g. t1 jump $ sound (samples “bd sn sn bd”)

Hello world!

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Welcome to my live coding blog, I will be posting here with my coding tip-bits and results along with some syntax as an appendix.

I will post an overall update every Sunday and I will post occasionally during the week with updates on the 365 days of tidal!

I may even link some music I make, depending on how it goes.

Daniel