Music, Work

160th – 161st day

Yesterday was mostly reserved for moving house so I did not do a lot of work. But today, I actually managed to work in Bitwig and create a small piece of test music and a few sound effects. BitWig testing I created my own synthesizer effect for this and used a few free sound library… Continue reading 160th – 161st day

Music, Work

157th – 159th day

Working through a lot of music theory exercises today and watching a few Bitwig tutorial videos to get familiar with its features. I think this will be the last dedicated music studying day for a while, and tomorrow I actually create some minor music and sound effects. When I hit something in these Music Theory… Continue reading 157th – 159th day

Music, Work

155th and 156th day

I need to understand various things about music a lot better so I can produce better music and be more efficient. Music theory is actually highly mathematical, and its base rules come from mathematicians and not musicians. Our current 12 note scale is a equal temperament form that originates from china. Where the ratio between… Continue reading 155th and 156th day

Music, Work

154th day

The day was spent playing with Reason 7, Renoise and fixing some of my guitars. One of my 8 string guitars has a loose ground wire which makes it sound like radio static if I touch any of the strings, which is not very good for a string instrument. Reason, Ableton Live and Pro-Tools are… Continue reading 154th day

Art, Music, Programming, Work

49th day

Another day of fiddling with state machines, animation curves, events and rigging. Cleaned up all the crap animations I created for testing and actually set up the animations and movements of this particular robot in a sensible way. The body of the robot is tied to a rig and bone, animated in Maya, but the… Continue reading 49th day