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Getting your hand played ideas down as MIDI
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shachar
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Posted : Oct 10, 2008 23:58
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1st - practice your keyboard playing...
2nd - always records midi lines...from my practice i learned that a lot of the times, the first line that you just play for fun is usually a good one..
3rd - good ideas will always come, not always they will fit your track..learn to "get over" them..i heard lots of tracks that had too many good ideas.
4th - to learn how to "catch" the good parts is to define whats "good" from the first place..sometime you just need to listen your stuff over & over and look for those phrases that "pop out" from the rest.
5- rearrange is usually good thing unless you record a pro Piano player. fixing the timing & Velocity always help to get better result. the same for the Modulation & pitch wheel.
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Jeto
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Posted : Oct 11, 2008 00:48
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On 2008-10-10 23:58, shachar wrote:
1st - practice your keyboard playing...
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Good advice.. I'v been practicing basic chords and simple lines to get my fingers moving faster.
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-aeon-
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Posted : Oct 11, 2008 11:24
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practicing playing is not only great fun and good for composing, it's also really useful for getting good synth sounds. sometimes you listen to a patch and it sounds a bit boring, but play a few chords or arpeggios and it comes alive.
a synth is an instrument after all and it loves to be played... all those subtle timing and velocity differences which come from real live performance and are so hard to capture - they're the real magic.
i totally agree with shachar - yes, the first take is almost always the best one! and i tend to find that the very best performances happen when you forget you're recording, or you don't know you're recording.
i'm pretty new to Cubase (2 weeks!) but there is definitely a MIDI input buffer that allows you to capture all your jams, even if you haven't been recording at the time. it's called 'Retrospective record'... Preferences > Record > Retrospective Record. the buffer size lets you determine how far back Cubase should be 'listening'  |
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-aeon-
Aeon
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Posted : Oct 15, 2008 09:24
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just remembered - REAPER has a similar function... i don't know how it's set up, but i definitely remember something from the 2.4x manual... |
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Glitch_CapeTown
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Posted : Oct 15, 2008 10:31
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psylevation
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Posted : Oct 18, 2008 01:23
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On 2008-10-15 10:31, Glitch_CapeTown wrote:
CUBASE HAS AN AUTOMATIC QUANTIZE!!
it places ur off notes, automatically in the next 16th or 8th depends what ur quantize is set to
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Thats not the problem...I don't want it to lose it's feel, so automatic quantize is the last thing I'd want to use.
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PsychoCinese
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Posted : Oct 21, 2008 14:11
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In Nuendo for avoid lost ideas, i do first a 8 beat loop, with kick, bass and some drums, so i change the Cycle Record Mode on transport bar to Stacked, in that mode you stay on loop and everytime loop start again a new midi is start too, creating a lot of midi peaces in the same track... So you just need to choose what you want later...
Sorry for my english and hope this help
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@ktif
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Posted : Oct 21, 2008 15:56
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ansolas
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Posted : Oct 21, 2008 16:07
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