Assignment 3

The assignment at hand was to create a 1 minute techno song in reason and use samples produced with the program recycle.

I had a lot of fun with the redrum tool. I used techno kit 3 for my piece. I decided to lay down a consistent beat that added another element every couple of bars to produce a layering effect.

I think the hardest part of the project was introducing samples with the Dr. Rex player. I thought I would try to sample a piece with some vocals. In the end I chose a song by Nina Simone. (Having never heard it before I'm not sure how it ended up in my iTunes library) I threw in the vocal samples at various points in the song where there was another element added to the beat.

I threw in some neat sounding effects using the Thor synthesizer and also changed the tempo of the overall piece so it would fall into the accepted range for techno music.

Take a listen: