April 24 - progress on my work!

April 24

For the past couple of weeks I have been working on creating a mix using recordings I'm making using virtual instruments.

I decided to do the song Canon in D Minor by Pachelbel because it's a pretty simple song, and there's a version of it online broken into multiple parts, which I can copy and then put together in Audition. The goal is to record all the parts by myself using that website and then make my version of the song.

I started by doing the simple harmonies. Through listening to the song, I picked out the notes:

	Pt 1
1	A#
2
3	G#
4
1	F#
2
3	F
4
1	D#
2
3	C#
4
1	D#
2
3	F
4

Then I mapped those notes to the virtual online keyboard:

	Pt 1	Pt 2
1	A#	7
2
3	G#	6
4
1	F#	5
2
3	F	R
4
1	D#	3
2
3	C#	2
4
1	D#	3
2
3	F	R
4

And recorded it using the violin on the online keyboard. It sounds like this:

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Then I did the same thing for the second harmony on the cello, and it sounds like this:

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Then more violin notes:

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And all together it sounds like this: 

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So far, my backing tracks put together with the melody and drums sound like this:

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:) :) :)

I'm going to keep working on recording my own parts (although that keyboard is pretty hard to use for faster parts :(... maybe I'll use my piano at home, but it's pretty out of tune.. but hey maybe I can learn pitch correction in Audition!), to hopefully make a full on song with this.

THINGS I LEARNED, THOUGH:

-cutting audio precisely so they play in sync
-playback looping
-adjusting left/right audio balance
-this is really fun


:')