Week 2 - CC1 - Modular Programming

We explored Bidule further. I did the tutorial as directed and came out with an instrument and I used that to create this.

Download music file.

I used last week's experimentation with the spectral plug-ins and combined it with this week's techniques (oscillators, ADSR Envelope). Following the tutorial was easy enough, but I still am rather confused about how it is supposed to be done (or how to do it differently from the tutorial). So I was rather struggling in understanding which plug-ins to use and what to connect with what. As the result, it turns out to be too similar to the tutorial's instrument.

Aside from that, I created a sound file with 6 layers of sounds. Three acts as "background" spectral sound, and three were the tones generated with the 16 Steps Sequencer. The result is not too bad, aside from the fact that I got a massive headache after doing this. But the sound generated sounds like aleatoric music.

Here's the image of the canvas. The red plug-ins are red because I took the screenshot with my computer's Bidule file, which does not have that particular plug-ins.


And here's the bidule file.

References:
Front and Back. Bidule Tutorial 1: A Simple Synthesizer. Accessed: 11 August 2008. Available: http://relivethefuture.com/choronzon/bidule-tutorial-1-a-simple-synthesizer/

Haines, Christian. "Week 2 Music Technology CC1 Tutorial - Modular Programming." Tutorial presented at the University of Adelaide, 5 August 2008.