Mixing a recorded kalimba part into a soundscape in Logic using East West symphonic choirs and Guitar Rig for the 50/90 song challenge (50 songs in 90 days). Will be uploading the free finished version here for download: https://sabrinapenayoung.bandcamp.com/album/50-90-challenge-album

Logic Studio (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Below are three electronic music exercises that will help musicians, music students, and music educators work on their mixing and studio skills. As a music professor teaching sound synthesis I developed these exercises for my beginning Sound Synthesis students who were just beginning to use audio programs like Logic Studio and Garageband to create new music. Any musician can adapt and use these music exercises to work on basic audio skills, including use of audio effects, sound, noise, and music composition. I encourage musicians and music educators to adapt these projects to their own studios and classrooms as useful tools to expand their skills.  Project 1: Effects and Appropriation DESCRIPTION: Students use effects and editing techniques used in class to create a new piece using appropriated material. Students will learn to recognize different types of copyright licenses. Appropriated materials includes use of prerecorded ...

Logic Studio (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Try these Music Technology exercises to test your creativity or give them to your music technology students. I originally developed these projects as part of my Music Technology class at Murray State University. They helped developed both skills and creativity in the classroom. These are each worded exactly as given to the students. Feel free to borrow and improve on these assignments in your studio. MIDI EXERCISE Using a variety of musical and nonmusical sound samples and MIDI instruments, create two 2-5 minute compositions demonstrating: 1) Musicality  2) Originality 3) Variation 4) Use of 8 separate MIDI tracks (minimum) each song 5) Concept 6) Professional/Concert Quality 7) Use of at least 1 audio files (of any length) each song The two compositions must be of entirely different styles and should be concert quality material. Finished composition must be burned to a CD using a high-quality audio file and u...