Will Kolb's Blog

A 440hz lfo is no longer an lfo

Enis sremmurd (Sine drummer)

Making moves to make a simple drum machine app: It does not look good…Gotta clean that up, make it a bit more formal looking. I very much dislike the cartoony side of things. Honestly I think the audio side shouldn’t be that difficult, it’s really just a sinewave generator with a parallel array for the […]

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Loop-da loop

As it says in the title I’m pretty sure this is a beat from a cyberpunk 2077 track but I’m not sure which one…. Otherwise I added a sidechain compressor the way you’re “supposed” to in order to keep what you want emphasized within a bar emphasized. Essentially: Bass drum hits -> enable compressor (i.e. […]

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Lou-Oop

I had WAAAY more weird glitch effects on this one but I pulled it back. The snare still sounds too loud imo.

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Zap

Put the turret in game and nearly went deaf trying to make a good laser sound. I was trying to use electric with operator to make a good “wirrr ZAP” sound. But I ended up just making garbage that made my head hurt (Lower your speakers before playing) I also made a scorch mark decal […]

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Flute it up

I went into this then I found this bass sound and just kinda rolled with it I found a sound a liked and rolled with it (it a bit loud fyi) Here’s the synths (where the concert flute is a sampler) The flute is surprisingly nice is from the Abelton orchestral woodwinds pack: https://www.ableton.com/en/packs/orchestral-woodwinds/. That […]

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Loop-dee-Loop and Todo-s

I wanted to mesh paint (https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/getting-started-with-mesh-texture-color-painting-in-unreal-engine) a bit in unreal and thought “Oh I’ll just flip this virutal texture box” I have a pretty good pc (4090 24gb) I’m surprised its taking so 5+ minutes (but then again I’ve made NO effort to optimize any of my materials… That being said… I guess I made […]

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Touch ups

I spent the day listening to old gorillaz youtube videos while working. Once I hopped on abelton I tried re-creating “welcome to the world of the plastic beach” by memory: It turned out better than I thought after I compared it to the original. (You may notice the beeps from rhinestone Eyes I somehow got […]

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