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Set up your amplification inside the audio tool. Find a sound source of your choosing. Run the sound source through each one of the effects processors below. Create a short description of the sound and functionality of each FX tool. Once you have completed the descriptions of the FX, test out the three modules listed below. Provide a brief description of their functionality.
 * 1. Plugins and Effects**
 * Pitch Delay-applies a tempo-synched pitch echo
 * Delay-applies a tempo-synched echo
 * Crusher-reduces the sample rate and bit resolution
 * Stereo Detune-pitches audio into stereo panorama (detunes and delays)
 * Reverb-stimulates the effect of being in an enclosed space (adds reverb)
 * Phaser-modulates frequency of audio single. creates a sweeping effect
 * Tube-distorts the audio signal
 * Flanger-takes audio signal and mixes it with a delayed, pitch-modulated copy of itself. creates a sweep comb filter effect
 * Splitter-Splits one input into three outputs
 * Merger-Combines three outputs into one input
 * Slope-Filter that adjusts bandwidth

For each example, create a brief written synopsis of what you are hearing. The objective is to get this type of sound in your ear so that you will be able to replicated the genre. Post your notes on your wiki. MOST TEMPOS BETWEEN 120-130 BPM Cybotron-Clear: Medium tempo, synths, bases, drums, wet sounds, vocals, a lot of phasers, randomized order, scattered vocals and verses, solo toward the end Plastikman-Spastik: Drums, medium-fast tempo, phaser effects, focused primarily around drums, fast then slow, changing beats, some synths, sometimes clear bass drum Cybersonik-Technarchy: Bass, synths, drums, medium tempo, synth pads, some vocals, keeps coming back to main riff, sounds like a dance song. Model 500-Off to Battle: Synth, drums, bass, medium tempo, sounds like a synth-bass line, upbeat--less electronic in the beginning, generally a constant beat, flanger effects, except for some parts Inner City-Good Life: Synths, very 80's, vocals, lead vocals, more like a singing song with lead vocals, not just instrumental, separate from many other electronic songs, drums, bass, generally constant beat, verses and choruses (intro and outro too) Rhythm is Rhythm-Strings of life: Piano, synth/s, drums, lots of effects, very odd chords, different drum beats (changing), medium tempo, lots of different sections, wet sound (lots of reverb) 808-Pacific State: Synth, synth pads, vocals, odd "sound events", drums, medium tempo, bell/chime instruments, horn instruments, mostly constant drum beat which changes a few times, bass, song made up of drum beat with soloing done by other instruments. The Orb-Little Fluffy Clouds: Speaking vocals, synths, synth pads, harmonica, drums, very odd, using sound files, song very much based on "little fluffy clouds" vocal speaking area, fast tempo, not very constant sections, airplane A Guy Called Gerald-Voodoo Ray: Vocals, drums, synths, wet/reverb, looping vocal files, generally a constant beat/section, medium tempo Orbital Chime: Synths, bass (synth), drums, "happy" sounding, generally a constant beat/section, medium, tempo, repetitive
 * 2. Listening Assignment:** Go to the following youtube playlist. Listening Examples
 * Tempo
 * Types of Sounds used
 * Instrumentation
 * Form

**Techno**:

 * The term techno** has been used for many kinds of electronic music. Here, it is reserved for the abstract variation on House . Whereas house grooves smoothly, techno kicks furiously. `Techno is a harder edge driven dance music that has the same rhythmic patterns as other house genres but uses a harder synthesizer and a harder sample' (Hosh Gureli), featuring mechanical beats and found sounds that range from apocalyptic sirens to sampled TV and movie dialogue. It was founded in Detroit in the early '80s.

Techno is pure electronic music, originally designed for dances, that combines the sound of classic German electronica with an american Urban feel. The music emphasizes the machine sound of electronic drum machines, especially the Roland TR-808, and often is based around repetitive riffs played on bass line sequencers like the Roland TB-303. Usually with no vocals, Techno uses the 4/4 beat structure and eight bar repeating structure of house to build predominantly percussive tracks that use purely electronic sounds.

Techno features an abundance of percussive, synthetic sounds, studio effects used as principal instrumentation, and, usually, a regular, 4/4 beat usually in the 130–140 bpm range—sometimes faster, but rarely slower. Some techno compositions have strong melodies and bass lines, but these features are not as essential to techno as they are to other dance genres, and it is not uncommon for techno compositions to deemphasize or omit them. Techno is also very DJ-friendly, being mainly instrumental, and produced with the intention of being incorporated into continuous DJ sets wherein different compositions are played with very long, synchronized segues. Although several other dance music genres can be described in such terms, techno has a distinct sound that aficionados can pick out very easily. In **the early eighties a trio of pioneers in Detroit began merging the sounds of synthpop and Italo-disco with funk. Juan Atkins, Derrick May, and Kevin Saunderson** were high school friends who went to dance parties where the music ranged from Kraftwerk to Parliament. They listened to an influential radio DJ, The Electrifying Mojo, who played European imports alongside Prince and the B-52’s. In 1983 Atkins and Richard Davies, aka 3070, released the hit “Clear” under the name Cybotron. Techno was born.

Techno orginated in detriot (middle class town outside of detriot) -invented by three students in belleville -downtown is desolate -after the 67 riots, major companies left -residents who remained in Detriot were dehumanized and disempowered because the city could no longer sustain the office -automation, computerization, robotics, and technological advances in manufacturing fueled the city's precipitous loss of blue-collar jobs (the same development that would pave the way for techno -Juan had an idea that he way going to have a record label at 13 -the rhymic structure of the grooves was new, raw, and improvised and had energy -influenced by Kraftwerk -Kraut-rock brought into the idea of rhythmic essence of rock music (machine-like compulsion) -Krautrock "German jazz rock fusion music" -Chicago also became Detroit's "big brother" in terms of techno music (Chicago did house music) -1988, Detroit's style became popular -they were pawns for a bigger game, which was develop a new level of dance music and a multi-billion dollar industry and to develop there own musicians in the communities, and needed them as a guideline -some people who were involved in the creation of techno might not have been fully credited -people in the U.K. enjoyed Detroit techno, started raves -when music changed in the U.K. and moved its way back to the U.S., they thought the sound had been "bastardized" -Some did not like rigid techno music

**Replication of Genre**

Genre to Replicate:

Key Musical Elements that need to be Replicated:
Musical Element Instrument/Patch to use for element: Drums Musical Element Instrument/Patch to use for element: Synth Musical Element Instrument/Patch to use for element: Bass Musical Element Instrument/Patch to use for element: Another Synth

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Form:

 * Create a brief outline of how you will set up your piece. Describe what you will be creating in each section. Keep in mind the genre you are replicating.**
 * Intro A B A**

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 * Audiotool techno song:**