Wed Sep 13, 2017 10:43 am
Good work.
Okay everyone, time to dub it up!!
Conquering dub
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Thu Sep 14, 2017 2:12 am
This sounds really good. And it's made well too.
Good work.
Okay everyone, time to dub it up!!
Good work.
Okay everyone, time to dub it up!!
Fri Sep 15, 2017 8:32 am
Question about the drums, do you program them in the BBEditor or the SongEditor? In the Piano-Roll or in the step sequencer? Have you a method ?
Fri Sep 15, 2017 11:00 am
Yop,
I first tried with the BB editor, but it was a bit binary (not possible to be just before or just after the beat, or at least, I did not see how to do that), so I switched to the piano style window ("piano virtuel" in French, most likely what you call the piano roll?) that gives more shades in the drums play.
I have a drum pattern I use while writing the guitar chords and the bass line, a basic "one drop" pattern (snare rim and kick on third, closed hihat on each on-beat and off-beat).
When I am done with the bass, I work on the hihat pattern first, then on the kick (filling the spaces in the bass line, or not, it depens), then on the snare, then I add fills. Finally I remove some hihat or snare hits that a human drummer could not play during the fills (most humans only have 2 arms, AFAIK)
I often use the zoom at 800% and the 1/192 to introduce small shifts. Indeed, by analysing some drum parts of my favorite drummer (Carlton Barret and Leroy "Horsemouth" Wallace) with Audacity,, I realized that they did not play exactly on the beat, mainly in the fills (the famous "machine gun" effect of the drum boxes), I "saw" (instead of hearing them) the different velocities of the hits inside a fill. All those shades give life to a fill, and this is my inspiration when I create the drum part of a track.
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I first tried with the BB editor, but it was a bit binary (not possible to be just before or just after the beat, or at least, I did not see how to do that), so I switched to the piano style window ("piano virtuel" in French, most likely what you call the piano roll?) that gives more shades in the drums play.
I have a drum pattern I use while writing the guitar chords and the bass line, a basic "one drop" pattern (snare rim and kick on third, closed hihat on each on-beat and off-beat).
When I am done with the bass, I work on the hihat pattern first, then on the kick (filling the spaces in the bass line, or not, it depens), then on the snare, then I add fills. Finally I remove some hihat or snare hits that a human drummer could not play during the fills (most humans only have 2 arms, AFAIK)
I often use the zoom at 800% and the 1/192 to introduce small shifts. Indeed, by analysing some drum parts of my favorite drummer (Carlton Barret and Leroy "Horsemouth" Wallace) with Audacity,, I realized that they did not play exactly on the beat, mainly in the fills (the famous "machine gun" effect of the drum boxes), I "saw" (instead of hearing them) the different velocities of the hits inside a fill. All those shades give life to a fill, and this is my inspiration when I create the drum part of a track.
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Fri Sep 15, 2017 8:19 pm
Thank you for your answer.
Yes, "Piano-Roll" = "piano virtuel".
For my part, it's the bazaar, I have not yet found a satisfactory solution.
So I use :
1) the step squencer in the BBEditor for its ease of use which makes it possible to test things quickly,
2) and the piano-roll in both the BBEditor and the SongEditor when I have to get out of the grid, when I want to get finer melodic and rhythmic variations, or when a note exceeds the end of the last measure of the pattern.
With the BBEditor, I mix the three "Philosophies of pattern design" (https://lmms.io/wiki/index.php?title=Co ... _Sequences) depending on the advantages and disadvantages of each.
But when a project grows, the ergonomic limitations of LMMS are very constraining, in terms of legibility, and thus of ease of writing of a project (project easy to start, more difficult to finalize, at least, for me).
Yes, "Piano-Roll" = "piano virtuel".
For my part, it's the bazaar, I have not yet found a satisfactory solution.
So I use :
1) the step squencer in the BBEditor for its ease of use which makes it possible to test things quickly,
2) and the piano-roll in both the BBEditor and the SongEditor when I have to get out of the grid, when I want to get finer melodic and rhythmic variations, or when a note exceeds the end of the last measure of the pattern.
With the BBEditor, I mix the three "Philosophies of pattern design" (https://lmms.io/wiki/index.php?title=Co ... _Sequences) depending on the advantages and disadvantages of each.
But when a project grows, the ergonomic limitations of LMMS are very constraining, in terms of legibility, and thus of ease of writing of a project (project easy to start, more difficult to finalize, at least, for me).