Transcript Song Creations - Wake Forest University Computer Science

Songsounds
by
Shanee Aliya Karriem
This work was funded by National Science Foundation
CCLI Grant DUE 0717743; Jennifer Burg PI, Jason
Romney Co-PI.
The Concept…
The songs were
conceptualized years ago,
either already in song form
or as poetry…
but this environment helped
the ideas to become
tangible.
This work was funded by National Science Foundation
CCLI Grant DUE 0717743; Jennifer Burg PI, Jason
Romney Co-PI.
The Process…
In most cases the vocals
were recorded first (then rerecorded later) to establish
the key and experiment with
accompanying sounds.
This was done in Cakewalk
Music Creator.
This work was funded by National Science Foundation
CCLI Grant DUE 0717743; Jennifer Burg PI, Jason
Romney Co-PI.
The Process: Rewire
For a wider variety of
instruments and
effects, a Rewire
through Reason was
necessary…and fun!
First, insert the rewire
device…
This work was funded by National Science Foundation
CCLI Grant DUE 0717743; Jennifer Burg PI, Jason
Romney Co-PI.
The Process: Rewire, cont’d…
Then choose your
instruments/sounds in
Reason…
Finally, select Reason as
the output and choose the
channel that corresponds
with your instrument in the
Music Creator MIDI track.
This work was funded by National Science Foundation
CCLI Grant DUE 0717743; Jennifer Burg PI, Jason
Romney Co-PI.
The Process: Rewire, cont’d…
Once the two programs were linked, changes made to events
in one were automatically reflected in the other.
This work was funded by National Science Foundation
CCLI Grant DUE 0717743; Jennifer Burg PI, Jason
Romney Co-PI.
The Process: Final Steps
The completed audio was exported as a .wav file, then
imported into Adobe Audition for fine-tuning.
I tried to get it to sound as evenly blended and natural as
possible, using a Multi-band Compressor.
This work was funded by National Science Foundation
CCLI Grant DUE 0717743; Jennifer Burg PI, Jason
Romney Co-PI.
File Types
For editing, standard .wav files were transferred from one
program to another…
To transport to other listening environments (via CD or
mp3 player), it was necessary to convert the file to an
.mp3 file, to save space. (.Wav files can be huge!)
This work was funded by National Science Foundation
CCLI Grant DUE 0717743; Jennifer Burg PI, Jason
Romney Co-PI.
An Example…
“Gingerbread Daddy” by Shanee A.
Karriem
This work was funded by National Science Foundation
CCLI Grant DUE 0717743; Jennifer Burg PI, Jason
Romney Co-PI.