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Song: All I want for Xmas is you 有愛就會實現

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Stage 1:

  • Cymbal swell, （cymbal roll) found to do it with Superior drummer, cymbal sound (Ride 3 , B2). in 1/32 quantize, hit every mini beat, copy and paste. After that, use a curve line to draw the velocity from light to heavy.
  • At bottom right of Superior Drummer, select instrument, Ride 3, adjust pitch accordingly.
  • After that at the Envelope section, switch to Attack, and move right as much as possible, to remove the hit sound.
  • Finished and bounced.

 

Stage 2:

  • Add guitar solo!
  • Add details~!
  • excite guitar solo parts.. some piano parts?
  • add pads from omnisphere > hollow and pure

 

stage 3:

  • vocals

 

stage 4:

  • mixing
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Song: Pretty Old Song

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This is a 6/8 song.. therefore when quantizing, you need to choose ‘Triplet’ version or else it will always go off sync.

So I used, 1/16 Triplet

Stage 1:

  • Get tempo 62, and laid out piano rift, and chords.
  • Working on a good intro. and first chord into the song.
  • stylus:Reset crazy stylus, select stylus > Mixer > Kit , then select ‘Multi’ after one second.

    apparently, stylus keeps forgetting or going crazy when used with jBridge, so when u have finished a Multi set up, save the whole Multi in /stylus_multis and load it when it goes crazy.

    Not a good idea to add EFFECTs to different stylus channel, will cause MIDI lag/delay later.

  • Got my nice kick from Superior Drummer. Now looking for nice snare in Addictive.
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Song: 2Sweet Fun Song 2

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Stage 1:

  • Building the chorus beats and bassline using Nexus only!
  • Created chorus lead here
  • Feeling like adding samples.. so.. let’s do it!
  • Nexus > Dance Leads > LD A simple Saw is a nice lead that connects between 2 notes.
  • Add vocal leads into chorus (skipped… unable to remember next day)
  • Bounce to stage1_bounce
  • Unload instruments to stage1_unloaded

 

Stage 2:

  • Feel like adding strings, ended up adding ‘Omnisphere > Steps of Eternity 1’ feeling good!
  • Remember to fix LEAD trailing missing note.
  • Working on intro and verse
  • “2Sweet” lick
  • Bounce to stage2_bounce
  • Unload instruments to stage2_unloaded

 

Stage 3:

  • Complete the skeleton

 

Stage 4

  • Improve intro and ending
  • Lovely guitar feedback from omnisphere is nice guitar feedback
  • Oink Oink from omnisphere is nice lead that connects between 2 notes.
  • Bounce to stage4_bounce
  • Unloaded to stage4_unloaded

 

Stage 5

  • Fills nicely.
  • Nexus > Xp Drums SIngles > DR FX 6 is thunder sound.
  • Nexus > XP Drums singles > DR Subbass – is subsweep
  • Added a funny dropping sound from Omni > Sinedrop > drops from any note!
  • Bounce to stage5_bounce
  • Unload to stage5_unloaded

 

Stage 6

  • Make bridge fuller, add piano?
  • Bounce to stage6_bounce
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Song: 2Sweet Fun song

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So after 7 months, they wanted the full version..

So resuming from stage 3…

Stage 4:

  1. Copy and pasted all the vocal parts for the song for the full song.

 

Stage 5:

  • Adding details to icing on the arrangement..
  • Bouncing to rough_stage5_bounce
  • Unload to rough_stage5_unloaded

 

Stage 6:

  • pads pads pads!
  • Omni > Synth Poly
  • Bounce to rough_stage6_bounce
  • Unload to rough_stage6_unload

Stage 7:

  • Mix!
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Song Arrangement Production: Runaway

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Stage 1:

  • Started working from final chorus.
  • Improved snare by stacking.
  • Added hi-spray to snare hit for digital feel. Nexus > XP Drum singles > DR Snares 4 > bp cutoff > atk, delay, sustain (reduce).
  • added blips by adding Nexus > XP Drum singles > DR hihats combo 8 > Filter bp cutoff > and added LFO effect to it to make it more random.
  • Added explosions to snare and hits for more drama. Nexus > XP Drum singles > DR Percussions 1.
  • Bounce to rough_stage1_bounce
  • Unload instruments to rough_stage1_unloaded

 

Stage 2: Pads

  • Omni nasal pulse phatty lead > plus EQ > plus high reverb = ghostly effect that stacks well with electric guitar rock song. Find a nice melody lead.
  • For effects, add Omni Something is about to happen and Omni Planning revenge.
  • Bounce to rough_stage2_bounce
  • Unload to rough_stage2_bounce_unloaded

Stage 3: Bombs

 

 

 

 

 

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Song: Dream Girls Friend

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Stage 1: Skeleton

  1. So I wrote the song last night before I sleep.
  2. Now I use piano to play out a rough skeleton of the song.
  3. Then I record the chords.
  4. Then I added v guitar and groove beats.
  5. Now I finished a skeleton.
  6. Now to get the right key for the girls, I used gong tong peng you as range reference, first I get lowest and highest notes, and try to set the whole song in the same range.
  7. -2 = B key
  8. Decided to arrange a bit but starting from the end of the song!

Stage 2: Reverse arrangement

  1. Added bass
  2. then added kontakt guitar, coldplayish, need to use pedal
  3. Bounce to rough_stage2_bounce
  4. Unload instruments and save to rough_stage2_bounce_unloaded

 

Stage 3: Vocals

 

Stage 4: Mixing

 

Stage 5: new lyrics and recording.

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How to configure Remote SL for Massive?

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  1. Head to Automap software and run it
  2. Check and make sure the ‘Massive’ plugin has been checked in ‘Software Setup > VST’
  3. Restart Cubase or refresh plugin once done.
  4. Load the new ‘Massive (Automap)’ plugin instead of ‘Massive’.
  5. Now the default setup might not be too useful for sound making, so we configure each
    knob by selecting ‘Mixer/Plug-in Mappings > Massive > Edit Mapping…’
  6. We add a new ‘Page’ of setup by selecting ‘Add Page’ in ‘Edit Mapping’ window.
    Now the Remote SL hardware will have a new page of tools when you left-hand scroll up
    or down on it.
  7. Next we start assigning each knob and slider. The knobs and sliders that can be assigned
    are the left 4 rows and the right 2 rows. The 3rd right row is for hardware/software communications. To start assigning, we can select ‘Learn > On’ in the ‘Edit Mapping’ window.
  8. Then we turn or slide the knob we want to use on the Remote SL hardware.
  9. Then we modify the parameter in the loaded ‘Massive’ plugin in Cubase.
  10. That’s it! Start assigning the sliders and knobs you want to use. Create new ‘Pages’ if you like.
    Remember to Save the Mapping into a file and back up, so that it can be used again
    in the future when Cubase or everything is re-installed.
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