I completed feedback on my presentation and reflection. I<\/span> registered and set up my website, crmusic.co.uk, and website hosting is now live. I will use the website to upload the tracks I create and produce. The website will also show a portfolio of my work throughout my university course and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tuesday 11th March<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I have started reading a recently purchased book, Music <\/em><\/span>Production 2024+<\/em> (Swindali, 2024)\/ having looked at the chapters, I became interested in one in particular: Working With Loops and Samples. For the tracks that I intend to produce, I feel as if there will be a good reason to use loops, as title themes in a lot of video games I play have a very distinct split: they either use instrumental variants of popular songs from that same game or they have a completely original composition for the title alone. In Metroid Dread, the latter is true. For my track, I also want to make an original composition and only use a few samples and loops to get the desired result. My chord progression will likely be minimalist; therefore, I can repeat it a handful of times, taking the recorded segment and copy-pasting it again to avoid playing it again on a MIDI keyboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wednesday 12th March<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Plan for Thursday at college in the room booked:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Instrument Selection<\/strong> Composition Development<\/strong> Technical Exploration<\/strong> Publishing and Feedback<\/strong> Thursday 13th March<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Today in college, I hope to begin work on my track and get a minute done, while also exploring the Korg Triton’s library once more. I have already figured out whether or not I have a room booked, and I did not – but this is no issue since there are rooms free for the day that I can take anyway. Evan will be grabbing the Korg Triton from the other building and bringing it over to the David Hockney Building from Lister Building, so in the meantime, I will research how to detune instruments in Ableton 12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I have read the Ableton 12 Manual and come across the tuning systems segment: Taking the screenshots from the manual itself, there is a dedicated tunings segment in the core menu. I have a vast selection of different tuners to pick from, so I will take time today to look at what I can do. Perhaps today could be less about getting one minute of track done, and more exploring my options to then have a better understanding of what I have available come next week. I will see what I can do over the span of today, working to the best of my ability while not burning myself out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It seems that the tuners come with built in info boxes to help me understand them before I load and delete them if they do not fit. This is a wonderful addition that will cut my research time in half, as I can go look through them now and pick out the ones that stand out to me personally. (Currently still waiting on the Korg Triton to be pulled out, and also a lesson going on that I unfortunately have to attend).<\/p>\n\n\n\n While I understand very few of these words (due to being new to using tuning in Ableton), some of my choices to play around with are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Due to me being unable to use the Korg Triton today, I will be spending today and tomorrow looking at the tools available to me on Ableton so I can create the pieces I want to make.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For my Title Track, I have already found:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Airline Bass (Sounds, Bass), the reason I want to use this being its low, growly synth-qualities while not being too expressive, I could use this to perhaps start the song and give it a powerful build up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Glitch Sequence (Sounds, Ambience & FX), because this could help me create a small gap in the song where the music sounds like it has faded out after the Airline Bass’ buildup, but then I can lead into the actual track.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sounds I like, but will hold off on until I have an idea:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Warehouse Kit (Drums), I love the reverb qualities of this kit, and it would work well with the below sound to create a more industrial-quality track.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Machine Ambient (Samples, Ambience & FX), something about this draws me in because of how it isn’t properly playing any music, but it reminds you in narrative that there are plenty of machines around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Updated Weekly Project Reflection<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Explore the library of instruments on the Triton Rack Synth to determine which instruments to use for a song before recording. Plan to experiment with the MIDI keyboard to produce and evaluate sounds across different instruments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Aim to create a one-minute composition segment, potentially extending to two or three minutes. Set up chords, bass, and choir elements, focusing on choir arrangements. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Investigate methods to detune instruments in Ableton, inspired by the detuned stack church organ in a Metroid song. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Plan to publish the one-minute track as a work in progress on a personal website. Provide a link to the website for others to review and provide feedback on the ongoing projects<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10680389\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/751\/2025\/03\/image-6.png\")
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