It's Finally Complete--New Refill: The Theory

The Theory

152 song files (76 for Reason 5 & 76 for Record 1.5)
-17 Chord files containing 82 chords, each in individual clips organized four different ways: by quality, type, interval structure, and type versus structure.
-12 Scale files containing 223 scales in individual clips, and 30 full scale maps that contain the scales plotted across the entire keyboard.
-12 “chords on scales” files that contain all the chords transposed and plotted across 30 scales where they fit.
30 more Chords On Scales files, one for each scale, that have the scales and chords transposed for each key.
-3 scale files that include every possible 5, 6, and 7 note scale organized by structure, mode, and transposed in modes. 1 file containing 30 full scale maps transposed for each key.
-1 Music Theory overview - a song file that works as a course covering everything from sight reading to time signatures, the circle of fifths, chord construction and more.
-2 pdf files: a companion to the music theory overview, and a chord & scale index listing the spelling for every chord and a cross reference of every scale.
Refill - 77.5 mb, total download - 88.6 mb.
Here's a song file in Reason and Record format that contains a few examples of different parts of the refill.

Now I'm off to use it-
Today marks 3rd Floor's first anniversary, how'd that happen?

Something Big On The Way.

I've been working on something for the past month and a half that I've never seen done anywhere else in a platform other than print. Ten to fourteen hour days staring at little tiny red rectangles and long strings of technical explanations of deceptively easy concepts.
Ok, back to work.

Wave Modulation

I wasn't sure what else to call it... (but yesterday was reminded that it's amplitude modulation, heh. Update: nope. It's filter modulation because the filter is what's being modulated BY the amplitude)
Got playing around processing audio sources through thor and fell into this one. It takes the audio and uses the incoming waveform to modulate it's own LP filter frequency, so the resultant sound depends entirely on the wave-shape of the instrument/audio it's hooked to, it'll be interesting to see what it does to regular audio, I haven't tried that yet.
It does some strange lo-fi things to drums, and gives a different character when inverted.
Threw in a panner for good measure, along with a cutoff pulse. Pan speed/pulse have adjustable rates on independent lfos, so the cycling can get pretty varied.
Wave Modulation

1985

Long overdue video.

The refill can be found here: 1985 Refill

5 Minute Instrument #3

5 Minute Instruments: #2, a la THX

So last week was the beginning of the series that youtube user MrBrandonPeoples and I started. Here's week 2.



Here's Brandon's video

5 minute instruments: #1

Last week I was messing around in reason and wondered what kind of instrument I could come up with if I had a time limit. One thing led to another and I ended up having a Youtube account and the beginning of a video series. I'll warn you now: I am by no means a video producer, so I expect the first few videos will be rather dry.