UV#14 Making a track from scratch in Ardour 5.9 with synths and guitars
791unfa vlog #14
In this livestream-like video I'm sitting down to realize a musical idea. In previous unfa vlog videos I made music as an example to teach you about tools and ideas. Today I'm doing music I just wanted to make, and let you look and listen as I go.
This is not a tutorial, it's gone through minimal editing, and is an experiemnt to see if this kind of "raw workflow" videos can be a good idea. I'm thinking about actually separating this kind of stuff as a separate video series, possibly done in a livestream fashion, with live chat and all of that. Let me know if you're excited about this idea or not.
For example a big part of this video is me solving problems that naturally show up when I work. And that is one of the essential things to do when making music with a computer - solving problems.
Timestaps:
00:00:00 - Wet hair introduction
00:01:31 - Excerpt of the music that we'll have in the end of this video
00:02:01 - Setting up the Ardour session
00:06:00 - Setting up drum MIDI routing and troubleshooting stuff
00:11:45 - Talking about my current video capturing audio setup (and fixing issues)
00:14:40 - Synthesizing drums with ZynAddSubFX
00:21:25 - Recording drums with a MIDI keyboard
00:25:28 - Recording electric guitar for the intro
00:35:25 - Recording vocals
00:41:35 - Synthesizing a lead with OBXD
00:44:25 - Setting up Ardour for a MIDI control surface
00:46:15 - Composing a lead synth melody using a MIDI keyboard
00:48:08 - Talking about a System of a Down concert I attended to recently
00:49:15 - Working on the lead synth and it's melody
00:56:05 - Creating a crash cymbal with ZynAddSubFX
01:07:50 - Recording more drums with a MIDI keyboard
01:10:03 - Adding a ride cymbal
01:12:55 - Tweaking the hihat
01:14:30 - Making a drum submix
01:17:25 - Tweaking the snare
01:21:15 - Tweaking the kick
01:22:00 - Working on a bridge
01:29:00 - Working on drums for a bass drop
01:32:00 - Preparing to record an electric bass guitar
01:35:55 - Recording bass guitar
01:42:20 - Programmimng a bass synth with ZynAddSubFX
01:45:15 - Transcribing a recorded bassline into a MIDI sequence
01:48:20 - Working with pitch bender automation for ZynAddSubFX
01:54:10 - Tweaking the synth bass
02:00:50 - Tweaking the electric bass guitar
02:06:20 - Recording electric guitar for the drop
02:18:20 - Fixing lead synth timing
02:20:05 - Listening through the whole thing and final thoughs
02:22:50 - Drums lowpass automation
02:25:40 - Snare reverb automation
02:27:37 - Snare gate
02:29:50 - Tweaking the bass synth
02:31:00 - Final playout
Links:
http://ardour.org/ - official Ardour website
http://zynaddsubfx.sf.net/ - official ZynAddSubFX website
http://obxd.wordpress.com/ - official OBXD website
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