Justice! MIDI studies creative assignment

Justice Lisa Lane-Collins 3 ‘ 57 The intention was to recreate the backing track to a rap by MC O2 (a local and as of yet undiscovered talent) using better quality audio programming (the original is made in fruity loops). Once satisfactorily recreated, I intended to add my own touches here and there and record better quality vocals over the top. To recreate the various tracks from the fruity loops session in Logic, I made several tracks and, using the step editor, entered the relevant MIDI data. Choosing from the assorted synthesizers that come standard with Logic, I attempted to match up the data with sounds similar or the same as the sounds from the Fruity Loops session. This proved to be a nightmare. Drum and bass tracks were easily recreated, as were fruity loops ‘strings’ tracks. More complicated, synth effects with obscure names like ‘adventure and ‘gnome’ however were impossible to recreate in Logic. By ear, I could identify that notes played by the ‘adventure synth’ were in fact, fifths and thus, I was able to more closely recreate the sound by writing the adventure part in fifths. The ‘gnome’ sound however was harder to recreate with the note seemingly sliding up an octave within the first second of being sounded. I attempted to fiddle with synth settings a little bit to more closely resemble the sounds I desired but found it to be some what ineffectual without knowing anything about controlling the synths. Once I had settled on compromised synth sounds, I arranged them by ear into something that would be suitable to rap over and used a little volume automation to ease the transitions from no sound to sound in some places. The arrangement no longer resembles the arrangement of the original track as the rapper was dissatisfied with the sounds I found in Logic and opted to stay with his fruity loops version thus rendering it unnecessary for me to retain his song structure. Also rendering the addition of vocals unnecessary (and I had run out of time). N.B. I would have an MP3 of this piece posted but I don't know how to post MP3s on blogger. The MP3 will be up as soon as I find out.