Summary
- For this project, I was working in Soundtrap. I am still fairly new to soundtrap so I was just working around in it. I also worked on the song structure for our previous project. For my composition, it mainly consisted of piano, vocals and other tools.
Audio File Formats and Definitions
AIFF (Audio Interchange File Format): stores standard CD-quality audio; similar to WAV (Higher Quality)
WAV (Waveform Audio File Format): CD audio; can be saved with different sampling and bit rates; similar to AIFF (Higher Quality)
MP3 (Audio File): Used to store audiobooks and music on a hard drive; Close to CD-quality sound; the higher quality sound comes from higher bit rates which also take up more storage space
MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface): music data: notes played, when notes are played, how long each note is played, and the velocity of each note played; used to be able to exchange and use information between software and hardware programs; no actual audio data
All the audio file format information is found at: fileinfo.com
Song Used As Template
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN1odfjtMoo
- I chose this song (Zitte E Buoni) for Garageband to take apart because I personally really liked the song structure and think it’s a really good song. For my final composition, I did it in Soundtrap and I had a little difficulty with it. First off, I didn’t really have a verse and outro and intro with certain vocals and lyrics. I still made a good song. Personally, after making my song, I consider it a soft pop song instead of one exactly like the one I chose.
Soundtrap Tracks
My Composition
What I Learned & Problems I Solved
- From this I’ve learned that making a song is a lot harder than it looks, especially digitally. It’s really difficult playing piano or guitar on Soundtrap, but if I took a while to get used to it, I think I could make a really good song.
- The problem I solved while working on the assignment and making the song was not knowing how to use soundtrap very much, but I ended up learning some basic knowledge about it.
- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1C0pGsE4_DtFjEUrO6RUWL-f5BKsEubhG/view?usp=sharing