Play DJ & Make A Song

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With audio programs, making a song from scratch suddenly becomes really, really easy. Programs like GarageBand come with their own loop selection, but if you are using a different program, try downloading bass riffs or back beats and go to town! Or download beats from Youtube- wherever. The challenge is to make a song without recording anything yourself.

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I saw this assignment and immediately knew that I wanted to do it. I was inspired by a prompt from a discord server to “Introduce

For my second rework assignment in DS106, I wanted to revisit the song I made for the “Play DJ & Make A Song” assignment. I

This week, for one of my audio assignments I chose to Play DJ and Make A Song. Music has always been a part

With audio programs, making a song from scratch suddenly becomes really, really easy. Programs like GarageBand come with their own loop selection, but if you

Play DJ & Make a Song

I’ve created several songs, but never posted any publicly. Here’s the first! Let’s make it go viral (psych) –


http://ds106daas.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/20180219-2100-Recording.mp3

Above is the media file to a song that I mashed up from a few of my favorite soundtracks on Logic Pro X on

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Assignment: Play DJ & Make a Song: 4 Stars

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So I decided to do the make a song assignment. Here is a little 80’s themed track I put together using FL studio. All custom

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I used a drum machine called Hydrogen to make this beat. I actually made it when we first started doing audio assignments, and I really