This blog is part of my Lifelong Learning project, a spring quarter assignment for my Capstone Senior Design course. The blog posts will be an interactive way for me to document and reflect on my progress as I attempt (with some help) to produce my own electronic music track.
In the past few weeks I have done some searching online for tutorials and other information on how to go about my task, and I found one website that looks like it will be a tremendous help: http://howtomakeelectronicmusic.com/. Based on some information there, I decided it would be a good idea to purchase an entry level DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) software. I chose one of the more popular softwares, FL Studio, because of the abundance of community support for the program on the web. I've spent some time dabbling with the software and I've begun to get a feel for how to create sounds, form melodies, and mix multiple sounds together.
Having selected and purchased the FL Studio software, my next step was to finalize the length and genre of the song I'll be making. As a ballpark estimate, I expect the song to be around 3 minutes long, which is common for a radio edit of most EDM tracks. This length gives me ample time for build ups, break downs, and drops without pushing me to fill a longer 5 or 6 minute frame. As for the genre, I'll be aiming for something you can classify as house music, but really the final sound will depend on what I'm able to create and what I think sounds good. It might be more of a house-dubstep fusion, or it might be more trance-like.
Anyways, that is my update on progress from Week 2 to Week 4 of the quarter. I'll make another post this afternoon where I document any additional progress and do a short musical analysis of a song of my choice.
And of course, since this is a blog and the point is to have some fun with it - here's a pretty cool drum and bass track to get your Saturday going.
