Soundtrap

It’s the first day of Music Tech and I’m looking forward to experiencing the POWERRR of music technology! I am one of those people who inexplicably got through life with sub-par technological knowledge and understanding; I’m forever stuck in the 90s. Today I got some fundamentals under my belt in a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation … newly acquired technological term 😉 ). We used Soundtrap https://www.soundtrap.com to create our own tracks using techniques like automation for fade ins and MIDI manipulation. Below you can see automation in the 4th track and a mixture of wave files and MIDI files; the track also features a custom made drum loop and synth part using the MIDI keyboard interface at the end of the track. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1XYStddli5ZeR15TF9crhZ3z3BMuZ7FdN Here is the audio!

Learned a lot of Soundtrap mechanics and applied them which gave me a whole lot of creative ideas, though I’m far from knowing how to implement all of them. I was shown the setup of instruments, mics and MIDI keyboards to audio interfaces and then the device (which is most likely a computer) and can’t wait to start recording my guitar compositions into a music program and see what the program can do for me. It was easy enough to make simple compositions and I can see how this could be a fun teaching activity for me to use at schools.