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My first track, made using Freesounds (obviously), feedback?
Started December 14th, 2006 · 4 replies · Latest reply by Halleck 17 years, 11 months ago
This term I took an "Audio Art" option for my course at uni (I'm studying illustration and animation), since I've wanted a chance to get into writing music for a while, and the tutor for it recommended this site. I composed a track consisting of 5 parts that goes in a cycle through 4 moods I experience: boredom, nervousness, happiness, and frustration, looping back to boredom. I'm happiest with the "happiness" and "anger" sections (they're gabber, and gabber's easy to write, even for somebody with literally no musical experience like me 
). I'm least happy with the nervousness section, but there we go.
Get it here. Sorry, but Yousendit's my only option for uploading, really.
This was all made using just Garageband on the uni's Macs (as well as Audacity if I needed to reverse, time-stretch, or do anything else to samples), so obviously I was severely limited in what I could do and the quality/mastering are probably terrible. Also, again, i have literally no experience or actual knowledge of musical theory, so please don't be too harsh in your criticism.
I'd also like some pointers as to what software I could progress with. I actually own a PC (so having a Mac only program as my main option was a bit frustrating...), and have no musical equipment. I'd also like not to spend a huge amount of money (if any ) at this stage, since I'm still learning. Something with an interface similarly simple to Garageband's but just with more power and better synths etc. would be ideal.
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I used the following sounds:
Plagasul's tape rewinding
Some of Walter Odington's hihats, snares, kicks, and a bass synth
Various from patchen's Generative Pads and Drones Vol. 1
monkeykube's brass rise
Jim Purbick's slow mid tremolo rise (I think)
Ianhall's crash cymbal (I think)
lewis's hi-hat hit
Bitbeast's snare
adcbycycle'spot falling (just for one percussion hit )
One of the roland tr-909 hihats from altemark's pack
VEXST's Amen Break
Sleep's bomb
Funhouse's snare
Juan's wrapping paper with laces
That's as many as I can list; I just know I'm missing a couple of percussion hits. I took very many things rather randomly to use, and tend to rename files for ease of identification and organisation, not to mention that I didn't make this on my own computer (i.e. don't have the files here as I post) so i can't identify them so easily. Even with all the files I've downloaded listed I really can't pick out all the ones I actually used in this, sorry. 
I also used samples from Evil Dead II that I recorded myself. I'm not sure if it'd be legal to upload them here, but if it is I'd be very happy to do so and give something back to the community!
I would, but that would require me to be more specific with the sounds I used than I'm able to be. 
Next time I'll keep better records of what I used.
Cool, downloading now...
BTW, Have you tried looking through your attribution list? http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/usersAttribution.php
Freesound automatically keeps track of everything you've downloaded. The problem is figuring out what you didn't use out of that.
Edit: I like this, kind of glitchy in a cool way. I like how you start the glitch thing a bit slow and then speed it up, hard to describe. Something interesting and new happens at least once a minute, it's enough to keep things fresh. At ~4:00 things get freaky with those samples. I like how it ends the same way that it starts. Overall very nice, although not the sort of thing I'd lisen to on a regular basis. (I'm guessing that wasn't the point anyway.)