Loops
Going into this project I didn't have anything in mind. I just started listening to loops and tried to see what I liked and I tended to gravitate more towards the relaxed sounding ones. Because of this I wanted to make a little challenge and take one of the more relaxed loops that I liked and turn it more intense. I did this by pairing it with more intense loops and modifying them to make them more like how I wanted them to, especially with distortion. In the picture showing the general project, the yellow loops are the ones where I messed with the volume in a more specific way, the orange ones are the ones with effects(some with effects aren't orange if there are other non-general effects) the purple ones are loops I chopped up to fit better, the green and yellow ones next to each other I used a loop with an instrument that I liked and I completely changed the notes so it would fit better in the song, and the blue ones are the loops that were just left alone.
Alchemy
For this project I knew going in what I wanted it to sound like. Usually I have a certain idea and go into a completely different direction, but for this project I went into it wanted to do a funky 70s sounding beat and ended up modernizing it just a little bit with elements like the techno drum. It also probably helped that I originally was working on two different projects at once. Like the last project I did have some difficulty with panning as I couldn't hear it as well, but I also found out about quantization, which helped tremendously with making my tracks more organized and helped it to flow better and sound better.
Chapter 3
For this project I didn't really go in with a plan. I just mainly wanted to make sure to use as many elements as I could. That originally made it sound super incoherent and not like a joined, flowing song at all, so I had to do a lot of editing later to make it sound like a song with elements that worked together versus one that was just a mismatch of random sounds and instruments.