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    Humanising in reason

    in Music Composition & Production

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    In edit mode you can use (W) to switch to the pen and draw in the velocities. Press F8 and there's a Note Velocity randomizer too. I never used ReGroove yet but it's supposed to work well. I manually move the programmed notes a little while "snap" is uncheck, just so that it's not aligned perfectly but I do it for every single note (when I do it). reGroove is supposed to do it all for me but I haven't invest much time in it. Might be worth it.

    Hz in phase with the BPM (Video)

    in Music Composition & Production

    Posted

    interesting. i dont really get it but numbers and math always confuse me

    Basically, the click of the metronome hits when the waveform is exactly at zero dB (at the same milisecond it touches the X axis). Kinda useless anyway lol

    Interesting premise--I suppose this provides a reason to pick one key over another with purely electronic productions.

    But I pick my key based on the timbre of instrument ranges and let that selection be independent of tempo.

    Yes but you know, if we stay within that idea, we could find for a same frequency more than a single BPM. First, we can double or halve them and it'll still be in phase, but also use triplets or dotted notes instead of a "normal" note like 1/128th (or 1/8th. etc..). That would make 3 possible BPM for a same frequency.

    But no, I really don't use any sort of rule when choosing a BPM, I go with the groove I have in my head... we're not robots ;)

    Talking of timbre and instruments, maybe you could help me. I'd like to try another useless idea and find the resonant frequency of an instrument (my acoustic guitar) and derive a tuning from it. Do you know how I could do it ? I thought about gluing a speaker on its back and record the soundhole while sweeping a sine tone. I dunno..

    Tho I wanna see this applied to detuning. How detuned should things be (cents vs key relative) for this to work on two oscillators.

    Yes I was thinking about it. What's cool is when you have the equations, Excell can become very handy. I keep the 2 oscillator things in mind.

    So... what exactly are you trying to achieve here? You're trying to make it so that your sinewaves for the root note of the key are at an instantaneous value of 0 on every subdivision?

    It's a nice maths lesson and all, but I hope you're not trying to suggest that this is a good reason to choose a key/bpm :P.

    Exactly. In this example it'll work with 256 subdivisions in a bar (if we consider half a cycle).

    I'm actually suggesting that it can be an inspiring reason to do so but nothing more. Like, it can be cool to try it for a tune or something, but no.. I don't make my music based off that.

    project file size

    in Music Composition & Production

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    I've never reached 50 MB for a 2:50 song. I have a 3:05 song that's 31MB as a WAV and 5MB as a VBR1 MP3. Yeah, it's probably just the sample rate that's making it that large. Check the export settings.

    Did a test and got 514 MB for a 2minute51 tune saved as a 64bit float/192kHz wav.

    Linux Multimedia Studio: A reasonable remixing tool?

    in Music Composition & Production

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    Linux sucks for music, the kernell was not develloped for music applications.

    I bet you dual boot and have an installation of Windows. 7 ?

    And I'll add add to your "what would I gain?" question: support, a lot. Technical support and an immense pool of knowledge with the users community.

    It'll be easier for you to learn tricks in those well known software. I'd say go with FL cause it's like 99$ and Reason is not worth it until you get the normal version which is around 4-500$.

    I prefer the workflow in Reason because I got used to it but you need to ReWire in order to use VSTs and it's damn complicated when you're not used to it.

    It's got a soundbank with a lot of instruments (including orchestral) that are fine to make good sketches but for the price differance, you could buy some good VSTs and buy FL.

    I dunno man, all the roads lead to Rome anyways.. except Linux's.

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