CC1 -Week 2 - Paper Sounds

For our first actual creative computing assignment, we were to record the sounds that a piece of paper could make, and then use tape effects, such as reverse, fade in or out, or cutting and splicing to make several samples up to 20 seconds in length. I promptly booked studio 5 and headed up there with Rode (cheers Darren) NT5’s. Once I worked out that I had no idea about how to get a signal from the desk to the computer, I decided to plug straight into the M-Box. After this I simply opened up Peak, set everything up, hit record and went at it like a bull at the gates, recording a variety of paper sounds. I had planned to go in on Monday, but when I got there, I barely had time to finish one sample before I got the call to go in to work – bloody Adelaide cup. So instead I was forced to complete the rest of my loops on Tuesday, within a two hour break between my lectures. After I had worked out that you had hit bounce after applying a plug-in, I came up with the following results.



Sound 1:
For this sound I recorded a paper being snapped (folding together and pulling apart violently). For this sound I simply cut and spliced and then pitch shifted it upwards – way upwards.

Sound 1











Sound 2:
For this I once again used the sound of paper being ‘snapped’ (although a different one this time), and then cut and spliced, and also reversed parts of the sound. I then massively downshifted it using the following settings:
• Render quality: max
• Pitch -2400 cents
• Effect blend 70%
• Smoothness 61%
• Tightness 85%

Sound 2








Sound 3:
For this sound I rubbed the paper between my hands, and then once again used the pitch shifter (I’m loving this pitch shifter aren’t I), and also used the gain change to remove several louder parts of the recording






Sound 3







Sound 4:
In this sample I flapped the paper, reversed a section, used a gain change to remove a louder section, pitch shifted it, and used an EQ to remove excessive low end noise created by the wind of the flapping paper.
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Sound 4











Sound 5:
This sound was of me punching the paper, and this time I did nothing to it except a slight gain change in a few places, and a plug in called the mad-shifta, as you can see below.

Sound 5












Sound 6:
The last sound is of me ripping the paper, which I chopped and pasted several times to make it longer and dodgier. I also pitched it downwards, changed the gain in a few spots, then faded it in. After this I wanted to do an automated EQ sweep, but as peak is not able to do this, I jumped into logic and automated a parametric EQ to do a waveform sweep over the loop.

Sound 6