Re: Composing
| From: | Sally Caves <scaves@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 17, 2003, 19:01 |
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Terrence Donnelly" <teresh_2000@...>
> I use the free Audacity program. It allows you amazing
> freedom to record separate tracks, mix them any
> way you want, and then export the whole thing as an
> mp3 (with another free plug-in), or as an ogg (which
> my son tells me is superior, but which has too weird
> a name for me!). Audacity lets you play existing
> tracks as you record new ones, which is neat. You can
> also import existing sound files as wavs, mp3s or
> oggs. It also doesn't have the 60-second recording
> limitation of the Windows Recorder. Your piece can
> literally be any length you want, with as many tracks
> as you want, until you have filled up your harddrive!
Tell me more about Audacity, Terry. Is it a program that requires your
moving your computer to your musical instrument (or vice versa), or does it
come with a synthesizer? Can you synthesize sounds the way Teoh does, and
if so, how many voices does it have? Or is it simply a digital recorder
with tracks? (I'd have to get a laptop to take it down to the piano). Or
is it both? That would be ideal, but I can't imagine that such a thing
would be freeware. I'd like to be able to have control, note by note, over
the instrumental tracks I lay down, so that I don't have to exhaust myself
playing a piece over and over until it's perfect. Then I would like to be
able to sing over it. I'd also like to be able to add "cool" effects, like
CoolEdit's "echo," and that sort of thing. What kind of software program
would do all that, and run on a PC? I've heard of some lovely MAC programs,
but those won't help me.
These are AUDACIOUS, Terry! The Elvis, I think, is my favorite.
Obviously, you can sing on audacity. How did you do the instrumental parts?
[Can I use this for my talk? :-)]
> The only thing it won't do is import midi files, but
> we got around that by plugging the speaker line into
> the microphone line and then playing the midi in
> WinAmp and recording it in Audacity. I also found a
> free midi editor (whose name escapes me at the
> moment), using which you can remove the melody track
> that a lot of midis have and keep just the
> instrumentals.
Hmmm.
> Of course, if you're recording your own music, you
> just need a microphone and Audacity.
Okay, I see. And a portable computer.
> If you wanted to import music from a CD into Audacity,
> you'd either have to use the patch cord method I
> mentioned above, or, if your sound card supports it,
> change the input device for the sound recorder to the
> CD player (my son can do this on his computer, but I
> can't on mine, hence the need for the patch cord).
Can you then sing over it?
What would suit me best is a program where I lay down the notes myself on
the computer, and have the freedom to record over it vocally. In a perfect
world, I would like to be able to make an .MP3 file AND burn it to a CD.
Sally Caves
scaves@frontiernet.net
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