CC1 - Sem 2, Week 11: Integrated Setup (3)
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Anna Slynn - Vocals (Anna Mix excerpts 1-4)
Lizzie Gregory - Trombone (Electrombonic excerpts 1-3)
Darren Slynn - Electronics, Software manipulation, keyboard samples
Where do I start? Audio Arts and Creative Computing meld and Plogue continues to expand and unfold. Each exploration I discover new ideas for the project, Electrombonic (we think).
Couldn’t figure how to monitor only a single line through the headphones whilst FOH (output) is still happening, eg Plogue loopers, samplers and Live (final, live performance mix). Tried fiddling with the fader cross and the cross fader but couldn’t quite get it. Hold on! I think I just figured it out! Honestly, it just came to me. For next week’s blog perhaps.
For snipping and massaging the samples before loading them into Plogue or Live I used Audacity rather than FScape. It worked really well for what we're doing. Figured out how to get regions but couldn’t figure out how to export them. Then pondered whether I really wanted to and realised not. This way I know exactly what I’ve recorded in a short snippet. If it’s a reject, forget and record the next sample. Trim, normalise, fades in and out (if applicable), export as sound file. Easy.
I started utilising monitor inputs more this week but found the lack of a control surface frustrating. If a sound source is routed to 5 different processes, into 5 stereo channels on a mono mixer (10 all up), you have 5 stereo channels out. You can mix this within the mixer control panel, but how do you control two faders (say 3 & 4) at once? “ You use a stereo mixer! “ I hear you exclaim. Better try that.
Having the pleasure of playing with other musicians was fantastic and I'm reasonably happy with the material we’ve created and where things are heading. It also exposed the flaws in my setup which I hadn’t encountered or thought of when plucking a guitar string, tweaking and tuning the software instrument solo.
Need to shuffle a few things around to make the beast more manageable (read, playable). There are quite a few (million) options so it’s also a matter of remembering where I've put things. It's really like taking a crash course in a new instrument. Luckily, one I built myself!
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References:
Haines, Christian. "Week 11: Integrated Systems (3)." Creative Computing, October 18, 2007.
Ableton 'Live'. 2007. http://www.ableton.com (accessed October 9, 2007).
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