Accents/Helicopter Shots Of The City - 040115

Sponsored by "Last Played 2015".

Well, that was enjoyable! My roadtrip was postponed until the afternoon, which gave me a few hours to play around with.

ACCENTS

Solved the problem with the trailing decay. It was caused by putting the HALion Synstrings part through a long pre-fader reverb. Tracking the part (and the reverb) to audio in CE5, using the Phonic Firefly/Behringer Xenyx 1202 solved that problem and I can edit the audio to end exactly where I want it.

The track is now ready to mix/master.

HELICOPTER...

Had great fun "dubbing-up" the MIDI drum parts. Much trial and error was required, but I got there in the end. I realised that I need to set up a separate set of FX for each drum part, as sharing FX  between parts didn't work out for me. I wonder is there a limit to the number of FX channels I can have in CE5? Guess I'll find out tomorrow...;-)

Regards,


djp

Helicopter Shots Of The City - 281014

Sponsored by "The Boomtown Rats".

Programmed a strings-y MIDI part in CE5, using the Yamaha DX100/Phonic Firefly/HALion One SynStrings. Edited in CE5.

The track is now ready for the next stage. Time to move on.

More work tomorrow...

Regards,


djp

Accents - 251014

Sponsored by "Bob Dylan".

Busy day today. Programmed a variety of MIDI parts in CE5 using the Yamaha DX100/Phonic Firefly/HALion One Vintage Kit and SynStrings/Prologue Trill Pad. I also edited the various vocal parts in CE5, to fit in better with the MIDI parts I'd programmed.

The track sounds really good now. I'm at the point of either adding more elements to it or leaving it be. My preference is for the former, so that I can have scope for dubbing things up. I'll have a go at this next week.

Another one nearly done...

Regards,


djp

I Am A Shadow Of Your Former Self/Iye - 260514

Sponsored by "40s Music".

I was going to do the devil and all today. But the real world intervened, so I had to make do with what I did, which is what I did...

...SHADOW...

Played the track for the first time in months - I'd forgotten what it sounded like, to be honest - and decided that it needed a stringsy synth part, so I programmed up a part in CE5, using the Yamaha DX100/Phonic Firefly/HALion One SynStrings. There was a lot of trial and error before I finally decided on the voice to use. I then decided to track it to audio using the Behringer Xenyx 1202. Audio cleanup in AA3 and inserted into the relevant project file in CE5.

I have an idea for an extra element to the track, but I won't share that with you for now. Enigmatic...

IYE

I decided to start a new track, but only got as far as programming up a rough beats track in CE5. Ran out of enthusiasm (for today), but I will come back to it. Pwomiss...

Regards,


djp