Re: Got the MBOX 2 hooked up last night...

This is an old one. Aaron requested it.

 

I think Sundays can be "from the Vault" days.

 

This was back in 2007 when I first said "I could do this" with respect to making raps. I performed it at game nite. Aarons was there, but he has never heard the rap single that I produced.

 

 

Re: Got the MBOX 2 hooked up last night...

 this is a wierd track... I have been tinkering with this chord progression (code named ACOBASS) for about 5 years.

 

Today it gets the phaser treatment.... I have to admit today's is a little more angry/wierd than I expected it to be.

 

All I did was play ACOBASS on the keyboard and then mess around with which midi voices I thought were cool... there are literally hundreds of voices to choose from. I spent most of tonight's sesison playing around with the different voices I can use. what you are getting are the ones that MARVAA could theoretically remix and/or rap over.

 

btw I did BOOM drums and some backing ahhh vocals behind it.

 

 

Re: Got the MBOX 2 hooked up last night...

Haha this is beautiful.

 

I picked this one because I like the lyrics  and the potential use in Vespers type services. It is in  4 flats as well as 6/4 time, so it was the perfect candidate for MIDI-fying to find out what it really sounds like.

 

What is totally hilarious is that as I was playing around with different MIDI voices I decided to continue my theme of dance music... I added a "beat" to it even though it is basically in a  three count... so now we have two MP3's of the day ... REEEEMIIIIXXXXXX!!!!!!!

 

Day is dying in the west;
Heaven is touching earth with rest:
Wait and worship while the night
Sets her evening lamps alight
Through all the sky.

Chorus--
Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of Hosts!
Heaven and earth are full of Thee!
Heaven and earth are praising Thee,
Our Lord most high!
...

When forever from Thy sight
Pass the stars, the day, the night,
Lord of angels, on our eyes
Let eternal morning rise
And shadows end.

 

(Chorus)

Re: Got the MBOX 2 hooked up last night...

The trick to this one was improvising vocally what I wanted to score musically. I can explain it best by telling you the order of tracks made

 

TRACK 1: PERCUSSION = record my voice making a high hat sound (as a click track) chhh ch-ch ...chhhh ch-ch...etc

TRACK 2 = VOCAL = sing the tune from elementary school

TRACK 3 = improvisationally sing what I think a trombone part ought to sound like

TRACK 4 = improvisationally  sing what I think a counterpoint clarinet ought to sound like (then I realized it was new orleans jazzy)

TRACK 5 = MIDI trombone  = click on the virtual piano keys to encode what I was singing for the trombone (track 3) into notes

TRACK 6 = MIDI clarinet = same thing as track 5 but I struggled to turn track 4 into something useable. ... then I made it it up and scored two clarinets in the same track

 

When I mixed it down I muted tracks 3 and 4.

 

I just realized Aaron's sister is 5 foot two eyes of blue. WHOOOOAAAAAAAH

Re: Got the MBOX 2 hooked up last night...

aa, I would call this EP "dance tunes from the aughts and the 1800s"

 

I think I hit a wrong button and so I lost some of what I was doing... I have to stop somewhere... I was unable to clean this one up to my usual high standard of editing... kind of makes me mad at the machine for being confusing... so WARNING: THE END IS KINDA WIERD

 

the learning point today is that I can use midi to do trumpets... and I got better at editing harmony within MIDI.  

 

also shoutout to vancouver olympics!!!!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Re: Got the MBOX 2 hooked up last night...

My uncle in Raleigh- Durham has a book of Civil War tunes ... he had this one bookmarked just for me... "We Are Marching on to Richmond" ... so this is a Northern tune.

 

 

It is super hard to sight read because it is in four flats (the key of Ab) and has wierd Civil War rhythms (dotted eigth notes etc)

 

Computers make things easier ...  I entered it in and then sang over top. May not be that beautiful but I learned something about how to enter each note into the computer via the computer mouse.

 

 

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We Are Marching On To Richmond

Music and lyrics by E.W. Locke

Our knapsacks sling
And blithely sing,
We're marching on to Richmond
With weapons bright
And hearts so light
We're marching on to Richmond
Each weary mile
With song beguile
We're marching on to Richmond
The roads are rough
But smooth enough
To take us safe to Richmond!

chorus:
Then.......tramp away
While the bugles play
We're marching on to Richmond
Our flag shall gleam in the morning beam
From many a spire in Richmond

 Our foes are near
Their drums we hear
They're camped about in Richmond
With pickets out
To tell the route
Our army takes to Richmond
We've crafty foes
To meet our blows
No doubt they'll fight for Richmond
The brave may die
But never fly
We'll cut our way to Richmond
(chorus)

But yesterday
In murd'rous fray
While marching on to Richmond
We parted here
From comrades dear
While marching on to Richmond
With manly sighs
And tearful eyes
While marching on to Richmond
We laid the braves
In peaceful graves
And started on for Richmond
(chorus)

Our friends away
Are sad today
Because we march to Richmond
With loving fears
They shrink to hear
About our march to Richmond
The pen shall tell
That they who fell
While marching on to Richmond
Had hearts aglow
And face to foe
While marching on to Richmond
(chorus)

Our thoughts shall roam
To scenes of home
While marching on to Richmond
The vacant chair
That's waiting there
While we march on to Richmond
'Twill not be long
Till shout and song
We'll raise aloud in Richmond
And war's rude blast
Will soon be past
And we'll go home from Richmond
(chorus)

Re: Got the MBOX 2 hooked up last night...

Ok... a dance tune... basically the learning point is that I was able to get the keyboard hooked up via MIDI and thus I can do all sorts of stuff that doesn't require microphones.

I discovered the protools BOOM module, which is a basic but powerful a beat sequencer... so I can tell it to make a bass drum on 1-2-3-4 and snare on 2 and 4.... and way more complex sounds as well.

so I put the MIDI keyboard functionality together with the BOOM beat functionality... added some vocals... and created this little ditty... MARVAA yall ... PS the rap haha

Richmond sign at 2300 hermitage

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Re: Got the MBOX 2 hooked up last night...

Double portion today... I think I am taking Saturday night off

 

Actually a triple portion... sort of a  mashup... I almost didn't send it... soooo bad.

 

also, you may be wondering , "why chubby chicken?" ... well I tested a new mike setup today, and in high school the tech person always told us to say "chicken butt" to test the mikes... something to do with plosives.

 

anyhoo, it looks like I I will be able to use the TASCAM DP004 with the AT3035 condenser mike if I ever want to record outside my house

 

Enjoy!

 

 

 

Re: Got the MBOX 2 hooked up last night...

Best. One. Yet. (see attached)

 

Btw, I learned that this song was produced by  Dr. Luke Gottwald and mixed by Serban Ghena ... people who I had never heard of before but when you look at their wikipedia articles they have produced massive pop and hip hop songs that you **have** heard of, such as tik tok by Ke$hia.

 

Also, credit is due to youtube... I basically used these lyrics and  listened to this youtube link to understand the parts and to lay down the click track... maybe we can do this song at Park Ave sometime.

 

 

 

 

Re: Got the MBOX 2 hooked up last night...

Ok I was thinking of this song all day for some reason...

 

Then for the lyrics I read the wikipedia article ...and learned fun facts about the camp towns where railroad builders lived in the 1850s. They built train tracks by day and raced their horses in their free time and sang these silly songs.

 

Clearly I miss music night... I created a whole room full of people clapping and singing doodah.

 

 

 

 

 

Re: Got the MBOX 2 hooked up last night...

TRACK 4 ... Fairest Lord Jesus... yay for multi-part harmony!!!

 

 

you will notice that at the end of the song somone started chatting me on facebook and you can hear the little "pop" alert if you listen for it. I left it in there... for authenticity of course.

 

Also, I edited out one of the key signature mistakes that I made  And then I recorded the right note in there. A-MAZING.

 

 

 

Re: Got the MBOX 2 hooked up last night...

POST #3

 

Ok this one really sucks... it is experimental... but it proves that I can heavily edit all the tracks and shrink WAV files into MP3s

 

an explanation of the details follows, or you can just listen to the track and say, yeah this isn't as good as yesterday's.

 

1. I sang the do-re-mi scale and then cut it apart into 8 pieces on 8 different tracks. The first "mash" is all 8 notes being sung together. Then I used these 8 notes to construct your average C-F-G-C-Am-F-G-C... then I added "reverb" to make it sound like it was in a church. This is basically tube singing with audio tracks.

 

2. I created a wav file that was 3000K... after I downloaded Audacity 1.3.1.1(Beta) and converted the wav file to MP3, it was only 563K