Song: 20girls dance song
Original song was 124bpm.. i wanted something longer.. so changed to 122bpm.
Stage 1: after finishing.. go through each MIDI track and recall the stuffs done and write them down here.
- Wrote the song with F, C, G, Am chords
- Nexus DR Downlifter Kicks 1 are cool for ending a song.. esp oct +2 c1 on novation.
- Lay the intro drum beats. (Nexus)
- Now the sweeps and noises and winds.
- Some good omnisphere sweets: club noise 1 for short raise, danish noizweep up for rising sweep (rise)
- Downsweep prologue to use LP bandpass cutoff, automate downwards.
- Long rise sweep – omnisphere roadrunner
- Chorus nexus pad, to adjust mod wheel values, go to Nexus > Mod > pb range + and -.
- Clap sound from LOL Erock method.
- Explosion sound from Nexus > XP Drums SIngles > DR Downlifter Kicks 1 > with HP filter.
- the chorus Nexus SAW Pad is a pb-range- of 31. the downslope gradient modwheel is drawn using the LINE tool.
- Using a lot of sidechain to make space for my lovely KICK out.
- Guitar: Always add a X-noise mono to guitar track to clean it up, HP the tracks to make space for bass and kick as you work.
- A lot of prologues (instruments) were use for the rise and down sweeps..
- Bounce to rough_bounce
- Unload to rough_unloaded
- Recording demo vocals for china in rough_demo_vocals
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Song: 我想了很久
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.
- Get song tempo. Should be 61.
- Starting song at bar 10, cos on average that should be a good enough for space intro.
- 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.
- Finish 1st verse and chorus piano skeleton.
- Decided to move the whole chunk to bar 15 instead.. imagined a longer intro.
- Added violin and cello, to solo the intro, don’t really like it.
- 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:
- Added dramatic Hit, explosive boom, and Snare which is basically filtered white noise.
- And then cinematic sounds for hihat replacements.
- Finally some standard drum sounds from Groove Agent!
- That’s it a short stage 2 so I can move onto the dramatic SOLO!
stage 3:
- 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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