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How to set up MOTU Microbook II + Yamaha 10/2 Mixer + Genelec 8030?

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Send Main outputs from Motu Microbook (+4 dB signal) to Yamaha 10/2 Line channel 5/6, and set Gain to the grey area (+4 dB). The Level on 5/6 should be near 95%.

You may then connect ST OUT (+4dBu signal) to Genelec 8030 and set volume on Genelec to 10am from the left (0).

Ideal volume on Yamaha 10/2 would be ST 2pm and C/R volume, 11:30am.

 

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Turn off all input volume on mixer – mic, esp guitar input on mixer as it has noise.
Microbook MAIN OUT is .. +4 dBu line . so feed to 5/6 LINE , and choose Gain +4 (white area). Manual says ST CH LINE INPUT for 5/6 = GAIN range = +10 to -34.

 

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● “Consumer” gear (such as home audio equipment) usually has line inputs and outputs with a nominal
(average) level of –10 dB.
● Professional audio gear usually has line inputs and outputs with a nominal level of +4 dB.
● You should always feed –10 dB inputs with a –10 dB signal. If you feed a +4 dB signal into a –10 dB
input you are likely to overload the input.
● You should always feed +4 dB inputs with a +4 dB signal. A –10 dB signal is too small for a +4 dB
input, and will result in less-than-optimum performance.
● Many professional and semi-professional devices have level switches on the inputs and/or outputs
that let you select –10 or +4 dB. Be sure to set these switches to match the level of the connected
equipment.
● Inputs that feature a “Gain” control—such as the mono-channel inputs on your Yamaha mixer—will
accept a very wide range of input levels because the control can be used to match the input’s sensitivity
to the signal. More on this later.

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Song: The Darker Me JIDU

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Try sidechaining for pump:

http://sonictransfer.com/side-chain-compression-tutorial.shtml

http://www.musicradar.com/tuition/tech/how-to-create-a-punchy-pumping-bassline-550533

I still get jealous.

Stage 1:

Creating my own instrument set/pack for this song. Kontakt has a default behavior of -6db on new instrument load, so before creating, remember to AMP +6db volume for an instrument at Kontakt Tool > Amplifier section.

Creating my own snap sound, combing real snap from abin’s mic recording of my snaps, and merging with Nexus > XP SIngle Drums > DR percussions 9 mid c + 1oct. nice snap.

DR percussions 6 mid c + 2oct. nice snap.

Found a nice sound: nexus: xp drums singles – dr percussions 11 middle C area has a nice snap-like ambient sound that can be used in future music.

Sample kit only contains instruments that can be used, if its ambience and random stuffs, then it should not contain~~

The tambourine sound uses a Stylus tambourine + AudioDamage Dubstation > Basic 1/16 delay > Increased Regen. + Reverence Reverb (Austrian Concert Hall, increased Out and decreased Mix, increased Hi to 20000 and 6.0 gain) + EQ Hipass the whole output.

Sidesticks sound from Stylus.

– The perfect snare was obtained from the Jeric Vinyl Snare pack, combined 2 of them, and exported them as WAV files. Then I Supercharged them and EQed and manually automate volumes so they merge and fade nicely into each other, and I bounced it out. Before Supercharging and eqing again. Finally sampled into Jeric Darker Me kit.

– The perfect verse hat was created using stacked, Stylus + Superior drums hat (pitched shifted +4 semitones). (eqed).

The bounced wav was ‘Supercharged’ and ‘Rcompressed’ , Adjusting the ‘Attack’ and ‘Release’ values, to determine the ‘start’ and ‘end’ of compression respectively – for the desired length and pump of the sound. Stacked with another Stylus Tamborine sound.

– Jeric Reprise Snare is a stack of Jeric Snare + Jeric Vinyl Snare (eqed) + Jeric Vinyl Snare (eqed) to achieve a thick solid snare.

No bouncing since I built my kit.

Unloaded to rough_unload

Stage 2:

– Complete writing song melody.

– Work around the chorus, make it perfect, beats and arrangement , then work the rest of the song from there.

– Modify beats so it sounds more unique than any references.

– Modify key, chords and song structure as well

– Modify lyrics too

– Try extreme? extreme sexy or whatever

– Find a focus on the song, sweet? or read personal goals

– Design for or around Images and performances for the song

– What’s the point and focus of the song?

– Remember to find time to walk around for mouth arrangements and record them down, that’s where your ideas come from.

Stage 3:

– Attempt to record jeric language singing the song .. to get ideas and feeling, even arrangement materials.

– Added woodblock reverb new instrument into Jeric instrument pack. It is a percussion with EQ, Dubstation (delay), and Reverance Reverb eq.

  • Export the sound wav, and paste into Jeric Custom Sounds > Jeric Darker Me Samples.
  • Drag the wav into instrument editor in Kontakt.
  • Instrument should be 6.0 Volume at Instrument Edit Mode > Amplifier. (Kontakt automatically -6.0 for all instruments in settings..)
  • Remember to save, Kontakt > Files > Save as..

Finalize chorus vocals, perfect it and paste at right places.

Added a Nexus White noise effect to reprise.

Added phone dial tone effect to reprise.

Added tick tock noise for lyrics.

Recorded main vocals for the song.

Vocal edited ..

Bounced Superior drums here.

Decided to bounce vocals as well.

Bounced to rough_stage3_bounce.

Unload to rough_stage3_unloaded.

Stage 4:

Added Harp, and Piano Rifts, Celeste.

Added Nexus Matrix Bass + Custom LFO for the retro sound . 123 123. Saved into Cubase custom preset for XLFO tool .. called it Retro 123. Also saved to XLFO > Presets folder: C:\Program Files (x86)\VSTPlugIns\LFOTool Presets

Retro 123

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How to create and save your own sample instrument in Kontakt?

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Creating:

  1. Use the File > New instrument button to create (right panel)
  2. Hit the ‘Toolbar’ icon, left of the new instrument
  3. Select Mapping Editor
  4. Select and drag all the samples from the left Browser into the Mapping Editor, keep your mouse click down, and drag UP and DOWN to determine how many keys/zone to cover for each WAV. (looking at Tips below, you should create a folder for your instrument and for the WAV files, add a ‘Samples’ behind. i.e. ‘Jeric Darker Me Samples’)
  5. Toggle the Keyboard button at the Right panel > Top row of icons to see clearly where each key is at.
    1. Saving as (Patch + samples + use default sub directory)
    2. Not compressing for now, although early research says it loads faster (research says we can uncompress later but need to figure how in the future)
    3. Not creating monolith for now, for future convenience? Need to figure if we can unmonolith.

 

 

Saving:

http://www.native-instruments.com/en/support/knowledge-base/show/1034/where-should-i-save-my-custom-kontakt-5-instruments/

 

Consider clearing Database / check for duplicate files / instruments, especially if you had older Komplete and new ones

 

 

Tips:

Creating my own instrument set/pack for this song. Kontakt has a default behavior of -6db on new instrument load, so before creating, remember to AMP +6db volume for an instrument at Kontakt Tool (box/button/toggle) > Amplifier section. (Volume + Pan area orange knobs)
– Added woodblock reverb new instrument into Jeric instrument pack. It is a percussion with EQ, Dubstation (delay), and Reverance Reverb eq.

Export the sound wav, and paste into Jeric Custom Sounds > Jeric Darker Me Samples.
Drag the wav into instrument editor in Kontakt.
Instrument should be 6.0 Volume at Instrument Edit Mode > Amplifier. (Kontakt automatically -6.0 for all instruments in settings..)
Remember to save, Kontakt > Files > Save as..

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