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I was a MA/MST student at Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Accoustics.

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2010-11-28

I've made some more progress on my 220a song.  I'm trying to do
everything in ChucK, from sound design to sequencing.  It's pretty
rough, but I think I'll end up with something satisfactory in the
end.

I made a dinky four-sound drumkit with envelope generators, white
noise, reverberators, and a sine oscillator.  And there are also pitch
slides.  Gotta have pitch slides.

I still need to sequence out the bassline and a little solo section.
I also made chords which should pan around the listener but I've been
working at home and haven't tested if it actually works on a real
four-channel system.  We'll see soon enough.

Maybe if I had another week to focus just on this I would be able to
make something better, but again maybe that's not the point.  I've
been forced to figure out a lot of simple ways to get roughly the
effects I want in doing this assignment, and even if I don't reuse or
adapt this code I think it was a good exercise to go through.

Of course, there are other projects that I need to take care of very
soon.  It doesn't help that I've been a bit sick the past week.  But
I'm sure it will all pan out in the end, one way or another.


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