CC 1 week 10

This weeks exercise was to edit a vocal sample using the Effects room and Image Synth room from the program MetaSynth. Above is the final wave of the sample below. [1]

Meta Synth Sample

After opening up my vocal sample I copy and pasted it until I had approx. 40-50 seconds worth of vocals. Each copied section was then treated separately in the Effects room, one particular effect I enjoyed was one that involved what the manual described as shuffling and discrete envelopes. This particular effect had a number of even segments, each which could be raised or lowered, in the sample there are two sections in which this effect was utilised and which gave these sections a bit of a rhythmic feel. The last 10 seconds of the sample was edited in the Image Synth Room. This room created a lot of problems, the main one of these was that if only part of the wave was selected to be effected by the Image Synth, on rendering this selection the rest of the wave would be lost. One way around this problem was to have the full wave saved as an aiff, then use the Image synth and render. After rendering copy this wave, open up the full wave that had just been saved and paste the copied Image Synth room part where desired.

All in all these two rooms in Meta Synth give an amazing wealth of effects. Even though there are a couple of little glitches, under normal circumstances, (this means not being restricted by a lecturer to only use this software, he must like to torture students), these glitches are not a problem and can be easily worked around with the help of other software.[2]

[1]Wenger, E. 2005, Meta Synth 4.0, http://www.metasynth.com
[2]Haines, C. Lecture "Creative Computing" at University of Adelaide, 17/05/2007