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Audio Arts – Week 4 – “Outside the Square Pt 2” – 25/03/08

Starting sound: Creaking noise created from rubbing paper together (consists of five similar samples of varying length).

In Cubase:

First – Death by Ice:

1. Duplicated all and reversed half.
2. Duplicated all and pitch shifted half down an octave.
3. Duplicated half and pitch shifted half up an octave.
4. Duplicated all, added duplicates to the ends and reversed duplicates.
5. Auto-panned each group of five at varying speeds.
6. Used delay and a step filter on each group of five.
7. Reverberated master out.


Second – Death by Acid:

1. Pulled 1st transient from sample 1.
2. Pulled several transients from last sample 5.
3. Reversed 1st one and added to end.
4. Time stretched this to double its length.
5. Duplicated this and pitch shifted down an octave.
6. Arranged snaps from sample 5 as a rhythmic compliment.
7. Ran all through a “bit crusher” while modulating the sample depth over time.


Third – Death by Ants:

1. Duplicated Sample 2 of the 5 five times.
2. Tuned each sample to make a C7 Chord.
3. Ran result through a fuzz unit.
4. Cranked the mid and high-end gain, dropped the low.

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Reference:

Grice, David. “Audio Arts – Week 4 – “Outside the Square Pt 2”. Lecture presented at EMU Space and Studio 1, Level 5, Schultz Building, University of Adelaide, 25th of March 2008.

posted by David J Dowling @ 7:07 PM