I started playing with Sound Tracker on Thursday and spent a good chunk of time yesterday trying to create one "song" that actually sounds decent. I think I am to that point now. The arrangement isn't set in stone, as the lyrics have yet to be written…. but changing the arrangement is easy once the pieces are there. I would have done the vocals yesterday but when I went to dig up my microphone, I realized my cat chewed through the wire… which means it doesn't work and I don't feel like fixing it.
I followed the "Keep It Simple Stupid" school of thought for this first attempt, having never worked with tracker software of any kind, and not being a musician or a composer (at least not practicing in anyway), I figured that was my best bet.
The music is all mine (though I am sure pieces of it are influenced by things I have heard and I just don't realize it). The samples used to make the sounds of the instruments, however, are not mine, as I only own one musical instrument and have no means of recording it (acoustic guitar). Most of the music was worked out on guitar first, and then mapped into the tracker software.
The samples I had to work with were not "in tune" with one another… and I don't tune by ear all that well… so the guitar and the bass may not be perfectly in tune with one another… but it is pretty close. I think I spent about 1hr nudging it this way and that until it sounded reasonably in tune.
This is a work in progress. As soon as I get a new mic, I will record vocals and rearrange the piece to accommodate them. Don't expect anything spectacular here kids… I am no professional.
| Reverend Jim / Working | 1m38s (1.57MB) mp3 |
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