11 Oct
2006
11 Oct
'06
3:57 a.m.
A samba I'm working on--
http://www.xscd.com/pub/music/audio/ogg/stephen-doonan_samba-1.ogg
For this piece, I decided to do all the recording in Rosegarden. I first
recorded a scratch (to throw away later) piano part to the metronome, to
get the (minimal) arrangement down to guide me, then I recorded the
percussion track, then the bass track and finally the piano track, all
in MIDI.
Then I used Rosegarden's MIDI mixer to balance the sound levels (to
where they sounded good to me anyway :-), and had Rosegarden play back
the MIDI to my external hardware tone generator (A Roland FantomXR is
what I used for this recording), and recorded the resultant audio
through an M-Audio Delta 1010 sound card back into the computer, through
jack (qjackctl) and back into an audio track in Rosegarden.
Then I exported the audo track as a .wav file, quit Rosegarden, opened
the file in Audacity (I love Ardour and Jamin, but I wanted to limit
myself this time, and Audacity is a fine application in its own right)
and normalized the audio, then exported it as an OGG Vorbis file. I
guess I could have just used the command-line programs normalize and
oggenc instead.
Then I tagged the OGG with easytag (nice program), with the Creative
Commons attribution share-alike license:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/
It's so much fun to create music, and so much fun to use the truly great
tools available in Linux now.
I wish I knew some local musicians (a drummer, bass player and maybe
another instrumentalist like a guitarist or sax player, to form a small
trio or quartet), but I don't (I live in a very rural area with not too
many musicians to begin with and no way to make a living at it), so I
just play all the parts myself as best I can.
Steve
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11 Oct
11 Oct
4:55 a.m.
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 01:56:00AM -0600, Steve D wrote:
Then I used Rosegarden's MIDI mixer to balance the
sound levels (to
where they sounded good to me anyway :-), and had Rosegarden play back
the MIDI to my external hardware tone generator (A Roland FantomXR is
what I used for this recording), and recorded the resultant audio
through an M-Audio Delta 1010 sound card back into the computer, through
jack (qjackctl) and back into an audio track in Rosegarden.
Then I exported the audo track as a .wav file, quit Rosegarden, opened
the file in Audacity (I love Ardour and Jamin, but I wanted to limit
myself this time, and Audacity is a fine application in its own right)
and normalized the audio, then exported it as an OGG Vorbis file. I
guess I could have just used the command-line programs normalize and
oggenc instead.
Interesting. I usualy record each single track at the highest volume
below clipping. Often I end up with headroom and I then normalize in
sweep. Besides allowing more voices when working with Om/Ingen, this
also makes for more fexibility working with it later, remixing, sharing
...
Then I tagged the OGG with easytag (nice program),
with the Creative
Commons attribution share-alike license:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/
Also in my toolbox. Nice to see you using my prefered license :)
It's so much fun to create music, and so much fun
to use the truly great
tools available in Linux now.
Yep.
I wish I knew some local musicians (a drummer, bass
player and maybe
another instrumentalist like a guitarist or sax player, to form a small
trio or quartet), but I don't (I live in a very rural area with not too
many musicians to begin with and no way to make a living at it), so I
just play all the parts myself as best I can.
The piano is great. The percussion is not stiff, which is good, but it
lacks the drive I associate with Samba. I think it's not tight enough.
The bongo(?) is a bit loud.
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Thorsten Wilms
5:09 a.m.
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 10:52:20AM +0200, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 01:56:00AM -0600, Steve D
wrote:
Interesting. I usualy record each single track at the highest volume
below clipping. Often I end up with headroom and I then normalize in
sweep. Besides allowing more voices when working with Om/Ingen, this
also makes for more fexibility working with it later, remixing, sharing
...
The piano, if not run through a compressor, can go from almost silent on
a single note or two to digital distortion with a full chord with bass
notes so quickly and easily that I usually am fairly conservative with
the sound card volume settings. The Delta 1010 is so silent that it has
not worried me much (normalizing later). :-)
Also in my toolbox. Nice to see you using my prefered license :)
I hope that Creative Commons licenses become very standard, widespread
and well-used.
The piano is great. The percussion is not stiff, which
is good, but it
lacks the drive I associate with Samba. I think it's not tight enough.
The bongo(?) is a bit loud.
I was so tired by the time I recorded the piano that I actually played
the piano the sloppiest. :-) The percussion is loose--like you say,
probably *too* loose, but I just wanted it not to sound too mechanical,
because after all, it's just my fingers playing a piano keyboard with a
percussion kit making the sounds. The bongo is a little loud. I was
influenced by a recording I just got of Ahmad Jamal (piano, with
drummer, bass player and guitarist). The guitarist I believe played the
bongos on some of the pieces and I really liked it, so of course I
overdid it. :-)
It's a work in progress. Thank you very much Thorsten for your comments.
I'll try to whip the percussion track into shape (and be more awake for
the piano part after a good night's sleep--it's 3:00 a.m. where I live
in New Mexico US).
-sd
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