PlayStation VR owners who grabbed the recently released PS4 virtual reality title
Track Lab can now create songs and performances to share with the world, add effects and mix it up using
Track Lab's intuitive interface for musicians to create your own masterpiece!
Below are some Track Lab PS VR tips courtesy of
Little Chicken Game Company Creative Director
Tomas Sala, to quote:
Basics
Track Lab essentially deconstructs musical beats so they become something you can create out of simple building blocks. It isn’t meant to act as an instrument for which you use sheet music, though you can do that. It’s intended to be an improvisational tool, a fun way for you to fool around and play with musical building blocks.
You create by trying things out and simply having fun. You build physical and visual structures that represent a beat, and Track Lab makes sure that what you do sounds as good as possible. Once you’ve built your beat, you get to mix it, apply effects and summon your inner DJ.
Core building blocks
Let's break down how you build beats. It’s incredibly simple and intuitive once you see it in action, and only requires three elements to understand.
1. Pulses: Every beat in Track Lab is essentially created by pulses of light traveling through a grid and hitting musical samples. Every time a pulse hits the sample, the sound gets played. Shaping the path of these pulses and the placement of the samples is what creates the beat.
2. Samples are the notes and beats you’ll use to create musical compositions, as simple building blocks to be stacked, lined up or placed in patterns. The interaction between the samples and the pulses is literally your music. There are almost 2,500 samples in 16 different styles to play around with.
3. Optics aren't about making sounds, but are building blocks that allow you to manipulate the pulse itself by splitting, diverting or blocking it. With the optics you can go from a simple loop to a complex multi-layered composition. There are optics for blocking or alternating pulses and even logic gates that lead to intricate arrangements.
Game mode: Evolver
Evolver mode is where we mix gaming and music creation using the core concepts...