[LAU] seeking a creative songwriting solution.

[Karen Lewellen]

Oh I so Love Neil Diamond!
Not a windows user either, which is why I expressed non-windows solutions.
still, I quite like your idea of working with an instrumentalist.
Did an arrangement once by using other arrangements to create what I needed.
these days I am writing more of my own material however.



On Sun, 15 May 2022, david wrote:

> I think possible to do - record voice into Muse, Rosegarden or Ardour, add 
> tracks using other instruments or MIDI synths.
>
> I don't know what Windows offers. Maybe ProTools could do that? I have a 
> friend that writes songs using ProTools now - before that he used FL Studio. 
> He plays no instruments, so he sets up beats and other such in ProTools, 
> records his voice into it. He doesn't do anything involving music scores.
>
> I understand that Neil Diamond had some of his great initial song successes 
> well before he knew how to read or write music. He worked with 
> instrumentalists on albums by singing instrument parts as he wanted them to 
> be.
>
> On 5/15/22 13:19, Brandon Hale wrote:
>>  Hello Karen,
>>
>>  I mean, I think you should just go for it. You could totally record your
>>  melodies, and then fill them in with a DAW of your choice. Then, take what
>>  you've written to a notation software.
>>
>>  If you're on Linux, maybe Muse or Rosegarden would work for you, as they
>>  have notation built-in. If you don't care about notation built-in, Ardour
>>  is a great DAW for recording and processing.
>>
>>  If you're looking for software that will notate for you based on what
>>  you've sang, I have to admit I don't know of a good one on Linux to do
>>  that. Sonic-visualizer can track pitch of frequencies, so maybe that's
>>  where I would start, but maybe someone else has a better solution. You
>>  could always go the old-fashioned way and just dictate what you've sang
>>  later, after you've recorded yourself and fleshed out the orchestration
>>  around your recording. It's also good practice and can be fun and give you
>>  unsuspecting results, which can be nice. :)
>>
>>  Let me know if I've answered your question,
>>
>>  Brandon Hale
>>
>>  On 5/15/22 6:24 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
>> >  Hi imaginative folks,
>> >  honestly, I do not have a direct Linux box itself, I use shells, because 
>> >  I have yet to find an adaptive workable tool...but I suppose scripting 
>> >  is possible.
>> >  That being said, an idea in another Windows environment may work as 
>> >  well.
>> >  what I am wondering is this.
>> >  How possible might it be to  use  your singing voice for composing?
>> >  what I mean is to sing the parts into your software of choice, then  
>> >  using that software to first add the orchestrations, playback etc., then 
>> >  produce that music in printable form?
>> >  The last task is less important for the moment.
>> >  getting my pieces out of my head, and into  arranging and composing 
>> >  form is though.
>> >  thoughts?
>> >  Karen 
>
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