A sneak peek into the musical kitchen
Currently I am working through my musical playlist from 1 to 170 by doing 10 songs every monthly radioshow.
Next show will cover numer 81 through 90 and one of the songs in there is too multilayered to make a succesful representation as a single musician.
So how do you solve that?
Well, you can get additional musicians (mostly vocalists) to play along or you can pre-record the additional layers.
And that's exactly what I do. Mind you, that is rather laborious when you have to do it without sound musician or permanent studio.
This is what the kitchen looks like (click for larger version):
And that's what on the touchscreen on the right (click for full-sized image):
And this is before I've added the acoustic and electric guitar layers. The MIDI guitar layer will be deleted from the track before it's finished.
Choir MIDI track will also go. That's what all the vocal layers at the end are for. The soprano voices (2) were the hardest, they are really at the top of my vocal range. Others are 2 basses (that don't do the exact same line) and one tenor.
Gotta love Digital Audio Workstations, although they're not always equally easy to use. Getting the vocoder track to do what I want took me more than a day.
Next show will cover numer 81 through 90 and one of the songs in there is too multilayered to make a succesful representation as a single musician.
So how do you solve that?
Well, you can get additional musicians (mostly vocalists) to play along or you can pre-record the additional layers.
And that's exactly what I do. Mind you, that is rather laborious when you have to do it without sound musician or permanent studio.
This is what the kitchen looks like (click for larger version):
And that's what on the touchscreen on the right (click for full-sized image):
And this is before I've added the acoustic and electric guitar layers. The MIDI guitar layer will be deleted from the track before it's finished.
Choir MIDI track will also go. That's what all the vocal layers at the end are for. The soprano voices (2) were the hardest, they are really at the top of my vocal range. Others are 2 basses (that don't do the exact same line) and one tenor.
Gotta love Digital Audio Workstations, although they're not always equally easy to use. Getting the vocoder track to do what I want took me more than a day.