Reward Music

There are four instruments constructed from the frog sounds:

The opening boings are created with iZotope’s Iris2 program, taking a tiny sliver of the frog sound.   I enhanced that with Cableguys Filtershaper3 (which produced the great bloops of sound within those boings), with the Cableguys Shaperbox adding panning on two frequency levels and finishing off with Eventide’s reverb, Blackhole.  

The second is the warble that developed from those first boings, which is the original frog sound, now played through HALion down several octaves, and enhanced with PhoenixVerb and the Shaperbox Pan.  My intention was to get a sound which would ooze out of the first boings.

The third instrument is the frog sound developed from grain analysis with the Palindrome program, which is the woodpecker-like sounds at :47”.  

This was enhanced with a Soundtoys effect rack setting which included the Crystallizer, giving it the shimmering sound, and that was run through the Cableguys’ PanCake set on a random, rapid panning. 

Then finally the fourth instrument was developed from Padshop2, again just a tiny sliver of the frog sound.  That was run through Eventide’s H910 dual harmonizer, giving it the slightly out-of-tune chorusing effect, along with their Shimmerverb, producing the upper and lower perfect intervals.  

Finally, the second instrument from the original frog call (HALion) returns to finish out the piece, this time with an increase of the effect from Shimmerverb, a tweaked version of their preset “Percussion Splash,” hence the title of the piece.