Thursday, 12 January 2012

First Experiment with Instrumentation

Futuristic Audio Logo Link to Soundcloud


I have been messing around with Logic express seeing what instruments and synths I could play with.  For my first attempt I had a futuristic brand in mind:

  • innovation 
  • communication
  • technology
So without much research into this at the moment I was going with my gut when choosing the sounds.  This first experiments was mainly about the instrumentation and choosing sounds that I reckon are appropriate to the three buzz words. I used a bit of general music composition knowledge and made sure the sounds it choose were not too similar and would compliment each other, i was baring in mind treble, middle and bass to give an all round sound.

The first instrument is a digital bell using a synth called "Crystalline Spheres". I used one note C4 and added some delay to make it sound like it was ringing once. This was the treble

The second instrument was Clubby Velocity Chords.  I used one long note in Csharp2. it was quite subtle vibeing chords plusing like electricity. This was the middle frequency.

The Bass instrument came in last this was a Chirp Synth Bass. I held a deep C3 note, which also pulsed.

To create a sort of background ambience I added 2 instruments:

The first was IDM Elements 01.   I held one long C2 note which produced several sounds at once, a combination of static and old vinyl scratches and high pitched pulses, these noises all sounded very technical and created a swooshing sense to the logo.

The second ambient sound was Falling Star Synth, also held one lone note in Csharp2, this of course sounded like a sparkling whoosh through the air, which could be interoperated as sending a message through space.


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