Having used Audacity last week to produce sound effects, today we moved onto something we can create music in. We were introduced to a program called Bosca Ceoil which is incredibly easy to learn but difficult to master. To make a song you simply choose your instrument from the wide selection, then click on the page to play a note. Each 'page' of notes is 8 beats so you set up your song in small chunks, with a massive choice of how each note sounds. Making a little tune is very easy but recreating 8-bit music proved much harder than I anticipated.
My first practice tune was simply adding more sound to each section as the song progressed. I tried a few different instruments to mix things up and try out a variety of sounds. In the end I used velohigh guitar, SiON drum-kit, chopper bass, Dis.guitar3- and voice o3-o5.
The second track was similar to the first in the way that more was added over time, but I dragged it out a little more and made more of a build up by having the start slower than later parts. This tune made use of the SiON drum-kit again, Polysynth pad and a special item called Digital 2.
The third and final track I produced was a more upbeat happy tune using a mix of the Aco piano, Midi drum-kit, clarinet and Dis.guitar3-.
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