..Before I blog the next step, I want to explain a bit more about the piano and drums (or “Drunsh” as I like to call them)..
I use midi instruments a LOT. Usually VST plugins. Midi (or “Musical Instrument Digital Interface”) is basically a controller that triggers samples. A midi instrument is a bank of sampled sounds.
Basically, when you’re recording midi, you’re just recording data, telling the computer when, how loud, what key, e.t.c, to trigger the samples.
For piano I use “Ivory grand pianos” from Synthogy. It sounds very nice and there are 3 to choose from; a Bosendorfer, a Steinway and a Yamaha concert grand.
The Yamaha is brighter and will cut through the mix a lot easier than the other two pianos. But that doesn’t mean to say that I don’t use the other two. I used them in some of the songs I have on itunes.
For this song in particular I used the Yamaha because I want it to sound a little more “poppy”.
For my DAW (Digital audio workstation) I use cubase 5 and since I have changed computers (watch video blog 13 to find out why I changed computers) I have started having problems with midi! It seems to be recording it before I’ve even played it!!?? I know, IMPOSSIBLE! It’s something to do with the internal system clock on the motherboard, or something like that. So it records but then puts each note in the key edit a bit before the beat. I also suspect some midi jitter going on, but I won’t go in to that.
So anyway, long story short; I can’t find a way to fix it so all I do is click and drag the whole track a couple of milliseconds back, after I’ve played it in, so that the notes are closer to the beat.
So, that’s the piano.
Then there’s the “Drunsh”
Again, I use another midi instrument, this one’s called ezdrummer. Good sounding, easy to use drums.
After I’ve finished recording the midi for the piano and drums, I then do a bounce of each track, which basically renders all of the samples into one audio file (or in this case two stereo audio files, one for piano and one for drums).
I tend to bounce down the midi instruments as soon as I can because they tend to eat up a lot of RAM and CPU. I then save the project, then save it again under a new name, delete the midi files, discard the midi instruments and import the new bounced down audio files, that I have just created, into the new project.
That’s it for now, more later…
… Antes de bloguear el siguiente paso, quiero explicar un poco más acerca del piano y la baterÃa (o “Drunsh” como me gusta llamarlos)…
Uso instrumentos midi un MONTÓN. Normalmente plugins de VST, Midi (o “Interfaz Digital de Instrumentos Musicales) es básicamente un controlador que dispara las muestras. Un instrumento midi es un banco de muestras de sonido.
Suelo hacer una renderización de los instrumentos midi lo antes posible porque tienden a comerse toda la RAM de mi CPU. Entonces grabo el proyecto, grabo otra vez con un nombre nuevo, borro los archivos midi, descarto los instrumentos midi e importo los nuevos archivos de audio arrastrados, que acabo de crear, al nuevo proyecto.
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