July 14

Yesterday we spent a lot of time working on making our virtual instruments. Jordan and I made a bunch of progress with looping the saxophone samples we made, but had a ton of trouble getting the files to open in reason. The file types are a real pain coming from Audition, and it looks like soundforge would be a better program to use. We also had trouble getting our octaves to work right, and eventually just got stuck and had to go back to watching tutorials.

THIS AFTERNOON WAS LIKE CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dr. Burg hooked us up with two macbook pros, so we were able to use loop editor and make loops SO much easier than we could in audition. We're still having trouble getting those files to loop consistently when we bring them into reason. What. A. Pain.

In other news, Jordan and I have made significant progress on both our sampler patch and our synthesized instrument. The hope is that the two will sound similar (we figured having a goal set for our synthesized sound would be helpful). It shouldn't be hard to tweak our synthesized instrument and have it ready by tomorrow afternoon to present.

It amazes me how much progress we were able to make despite serious frustrations.