Rolling My Own
Lots of progress on Plastic Fantastic lately. Went over the script some more, tallying up the SFX and music pieces, adding notes about what might work. Did the shower scene. (Ooops. I-m-a-g-e-s i-n m-y h-e-a-d...) This involved layering in a few more patches, including a nicely sequenced "Hello Mr. Franke." Some of you may recall Christopher Franke was a member of Tangerine Dream - one of my all time fave groups - for two decades. He also did the music for Babylon 5. In an interesting piece of serendipity, I am also using a patch called Babylon which is a groove (rhythm) "inspired" by Babylon 5.
But even more fun was creating some patches from scratch. At one point, Jake swats the bots and they go "pop." That was easy, a matter of selecting the right percussive noise source and running it through a filter and reverb. The other one was more interesting, the sound of the shower turning on. I wanted to emulate the squeak of a rusty valve followed by the sound of water spray. This made use of several oscillators, intermodulation, multiple filters, and lots of envelopes controlling the time behavior of same. How did I do?
Started into the next scene, where he relaxes a while. Found a funky, old-skool groove to represent the self-satisfaction of the bots.
Add 4.7 hours and we're up to 22.1
But even more fun was creating some patches from scratch. At one point, Jake swats the bots and they go "pop." That was easy, a matter of selecting the right percussive noise source and running it through a filter and reverb. The other one was more interesting, the sound of the shower turning on. I wanted to emulate the squeak of a rusty valve followed by the sound of water spray. This made use of several oscillators, intermodulation, multiple filters, and lots of envelopes controlling the time behavior of same. How did I do?
Started into the next scene, where he relaxes a while. Found a funky, old-skool groove to represent the self-satisfaction of the bots.
Add 4.7 hours and we're up to 22.1