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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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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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VST: FX Teleport

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If there are problems seeing the server, sometimes you need to restart FX Teleport server on the remote machine. And then also click on the ‘Options/Tools’ icon. use ‘ping <ip> -t’ on both computers to estabish a connection.

 

If it’s a Parallels Machine, make sure it has its own IP address by using a Bridged network instead of Shared.

 

Give it a static IP.

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Song: 我想了很久

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focus:

  • vocal
  • melody
  • touching
  • lyrics
  • style
  • music

 

vocal editing priorities:

  • feeling
  • diction
  • style/skill (end of slice pick)
  • volume (adjust – sounds soothing to ear, mix well into music)
  • vari length pitch (crossfade sources, bounce and do)

 

 

With the above in mind, let’s do this piece.

 

Let’s try to do this one really fast.

Started 1:29pm 28th May 2013.

  1. Get song tempo. Should be 61.
  2. Starting song at bar 10, cos on average that should be a good enough for space intro.
  3. After a 5 minutes of thinking, song should be: verse intro, verse, chorus, solo, chorus, verse ending. And sort of free play at certain parts.
  4. Finish 1st verse and chorus piano skeleton.
  5. Decided to move the whole chunk to bar 15 instead.. imagined a longer intro.
  6. Added violin and cello, to solo the intro, don’t really like it.
  7. Added guitar strum, nice. Added guitar pluck in verse, nice too.

Ok I totally missed my mark, rested nearly 2 weeks of meetings.

So I continued and and finally reached stage 2.

stage 2:

  1. Added dramatic Hit, explosive boom, and Snare which is basically filtered white noise.
  2. And then cinematic sounds for hihat replacements.
  3. Finally some standard drum sounds from Groove Agent!
  4. That’s it a short stage 2 so I can move onto the dramatic SOLO!

 

stage 3:

  1. The solo! Very beautiful mix of orchestra, electro, and Addictive Drums, custom drums, saved as preset both in Song Folder, and in MusicData on Storeroom. Always save in 2 places!

 

 

Oh no, it’s 6th July! 1 month.

Anyway, discovered a new sound in Omnisphere – Rumble Impact Vertigo – by turning on just Ancients, it can sound like spaceship landing.

I’m currently at Stage 7, adding pads and fx into the track. Headed to Omni, and selected Genre > Ambient. Then browsed through EACH instrument and run through chordworks, and see which fx fits.

 

another nice fx: time travel

Life on the Barrier Reef – use only Chaotic Glock

 

omni – ode to mr newman arp – ebowed piano pure only – sounds very interesting when tempo changes.

 

since this is a fully self made arrangement, during mixing, just deal with volumes with references, not sound by sound or instrument by instrument, general volumes.

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