I used GarageBand to mix all of the sounds together to make a “Sick Beat.” Feel free to click on my tutorial video to see how I put this all together.
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I used GarageBand to mix all of the sounds together to make a “Sick Beat.” Feel free to click on my tutorial video to see how I put this all together.
Directions:
Make a sick beat, using whatever you can find on freesounds.org, and whatever you can record around you! I don’t care how long it is, just get groovy dood.
So I honestly thought I was going to be better at this… I dont know why. I have never in my life created music. I have zero musical ability. But I thought, “how hard can it be to make a cool sound?” It’s hard! Even with the free sound clips out there, meshing them together and getting them to sound semi decent is HARD! I have so much respect for people that mix music and enjoy this process. It is definitely not for me, and thats okay!
Shout out to https://freesound.org/ for providing me with all the audio clips I needed this week. And Audacity for being super easy to use. This one did take me about 20 minutes to create.
For this audio assignment I chose to make a sick beat. I am really into hip hop and always wanted to try this so I went to http://freesound.org to find sounds to enhance the beat. I only had to use three sounds which nice. Somehow the the sounds went on for like 6 min after the initial beat ended. I apologize for that, I tried to delete it but it did not work for some reason. Please let me know how the beat is if you end up hearing it. Thank you!
First off, I was inspired to make my sick beat by my classmate, Christina’s sick beat. I also used freesound.org to acquire all of the sounds I needed to make my beat, and I wanted to go for a much more techno-inspired beat for mine. I used 808s, distorted snares, and claps to make my intro, while for the last part of mine I took a clip of a song and distorted it, put a reverb on it, added some bass and adjusted a few more odds-and-ins to get my final result.
I really wanted to start with a standard 808 style beat, and to progressively build up the energy as best as I could. Let me know what you think! I had a lot of fun playing around with the sound mixers for this one.
(Also, sorry for the swear word in the song title, I saved it as that in my computer and totally forgot to edit it before I uploaded it.)
LOL! Wow, for some reason, this one was much much harder than I thought. The assignment was to come up with a ‘sick beat’ of my own. I used Audacity and literally made one noise with my mouth, tapped on my laptop and made another noise with my lips and let me tell you, trying to get all of those in a sync to sound ANYTHING like a beat is not at all easy! But… here goes…
For this assignment I was tasked with creating a “sick beat”. For this I wanted to tie it to my radio program project so I created a intro type song for our upcoming radio show. I used audacity and freesound.org to create and mash together audio to produce this medieval intro. I had a really fun time with this assignment because I love creating and producing new rap instrumentals on my free time and I found this as the perfect opportunity to do an assignment on something I already enjoy doing. The process overall was really simple as I am familiar with the software and I already knew what sound I was looking for. I am overall happy with eh way the sound turned out and I hope to maybe use it for our programs intro.
http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/sick-beat/
This “sick beat” was created with me recording the storm last night, converting it to midi, and making a beat with with sticks from the limb that fell on my car! I thought that was funny enough to create this with. I audio to midi’d the beat I made as well, assigning different frequencies to different parts of a drum kit, and then processed everything for a weird ambient, saturated feeling. I’m not sure if this counts as a conventional “sick beat” but I love it anyways.
Dude/dudette,
I am straight up ready to headbutt a cactus. Like I’m not talking soft, place-your-head-on -the-cactus kinda headbutt. I’m talking like all out “this is war” kind of headbutt. Just dropped like 5 hours in this project so you better like it or I will -insert empty threat here-.
Okay so b-wording aside, this is a cool project I did, and my first tutorial! I will begin with explaining the creation of the project, move to the reasoning behind my creation of the project, and then finish with the tutorial written out as well as how I actually created the tutorial itself which will obviously explain how I made mine as well.
My project was to take sounds that you record, around you, or sounds that you find on free domain websites like freesounds.org, and create a sick beat that you can really get down to. My reasoning behind creating this assignment was because I hated all of the other audio assignments that I had found in the category, and I wanted to do something fun. Growing up I was always making a beat on one thing or another, chances are that in high school there was at least one guy like me in the lunch room making something funky for everyone in their proximity to get down to.
So to do this project you need Audacity. Once you have that downloaded (which all of you should already because it’s actually amazing what you can do on that thing) simply begin adding tracks of recorded or imported audio. I’m not going to go too deep into explaining because I made a five minute video for that. In mine I made a recording of myself snapping, rubbing the sofa with my fingernail, banging the table, and tapping my Mac. I then cut, pasted, and chopped up the audio clips to go together the best. This was the most fun, but also time consuming part of the project. I’ll tell you what man, if I was getting paid for this stuff it would be super fun. But having to do this crap for free, ain’t my cup of tea!! Definitely hardwork for all five of the stars you get from accomplishing this project.
If I were to have to do this again I would definitely be much more efficient at this project, and try to make it longer by learning how to loop the tracks. Additionally I would probably try to layer more, as well as add effects to individual tracks. Lay the gnar folks, and remember to carpe diem.
Check out my video here:
Just Zaying…
Make a sick beat, using whatever you can find on freesounds.org, and whatever you can record around you! I don’t care how long it is, just get groovy dood.
Just trying to have fun with this project Audio Assignments Create A Ds106 Radio Bumper (4 stars) trying to challenge my self while having fun.
* My main objective for this project whether I finish or fail to finish this project is to learn more about using Audacity, learn how to manipulate sound and challenge myself.
I am not even sure I did this one right but is there any “Right” way have to have an introduction:
But this is how I did it:
2 . To Add a sound go to the bar very top of the “Green” bar where their of options such as File, View ect. Select “File” then “open” for the first sound.
3. To add a second sound go to the very top menu bar and select File >Import> Audio (this I repeated several times)
The result: Fantastic (of course)
I am really disappointed that I did’t really get to use this but I think that is is worthy to be noted:
I like this because there is a lot of little sounds making up a big group of sounds. No one sound is perfect but together they make up one good sound.
In this assignment I wish I would have been able to successfully been able to fad the sound in and out. From the looks of the sound wave I did’t get it quite right. I think the main problem was when I selected the section that I wanted to fade in on it selected such a big chunk of it. When I went to do the fade out it would not preform the action. I just want the reader to know every time that I write about something that was holding me back from the projects true potential that I did try several times before calling it quits. This project to me about 2 to 3 hours, I think I spent most of the time looking for sounds that would work together well. How do people find the perfect sound to mesh together anyway? I guess you would have to have some kind of musical genius. For this project as a side story I almost used the Media Editing lab and Vocal booth at the University of MaryWashington but when I got to the room someone was already using it. If we continue with the subject of Audio I would like to discover if there is any useful equipment that can be used.
