Brainstorm Blog #2

I’ve been making music on my computer for nearly 10 years now, and I’m very familiar with audio manipulation and effects processing. I’ve been recently exploring generative music, where I load a bunch of sounds or samples into Ableton live, and I have them triggered at random. Then I put a bunch of effects on it and have all the parameters randomized too. It ends up taking a lot of CPU power because nothing is predictable and so many effects are being changed and in order to put out a high-quality sound, it can sometimes use up to 90% of my CPU. But then I end up with really cool results, that I can further manipulate into a full song, or I can leave it as is and have it be a really abstract and weird ambient track. I was hoping I could do that for this project, but I have to use Adobe Audition. I’m not too worried about it though, I’ve used Adobe Audition before, I just think I won’t be able to make something as cool as I would be able to in Ableton.