Re: Please open up for discussion
- From: "J. P. Morris" <jpm@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 12:22:03 +0000
gjdagis@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Although I'm a vocalist and write some music I am NOT a "player'; I
> cannot actually play a keyboard for example. I do nothing but SING on
> stage; it's in the STUDIO where my role differs. I just bought a copy
> of Cakewalk's Home Studio so I am ready to start doing something I CAN
> do and that is enter notes and chords in quasi real time. Hunt and peck
> if you get my drift.
Cakewalk (and various other MIDI editors) have a piano-roll mode, which
allows you to enter notes with the mouse, and tweak them around.
Generally they will sound as you enter them and change note as you drag
them.. for unskilled musicians like me, this works very well, although it
still takes a fair amount of effort to stop it from sounding too
mechanical. (I've been doing this for about 5 years now)
Just a copy of Cakewalk alone would suffice for that, it will by default use
the built-in windows GM synthesizer which will be enough to get you going.
If you want to actually record it though, you'd probably be better off
getting some better sounds.
There are two basic ways of doing this:
A) Everything in-the-box
Get some VST instruments. I don't know what styles of music you're shooting
for, so I can't recommend any. I don't really like this idea anyway, but
that's just me. If all the instruments are being generated in software,
you could also record the vocals and any live instruments inside cakewalk
and mix it all down in software.
B) External synthesizers
This is what I do. I have a Roland M-VS1 for miscellaneous synthesizer and
mellotron sounds, a JV1010 with orchestral card for strings and brass, and
also a couple of analogue synthesizers, all controlled by Cakewalk using
MIDI. With a MIDI->CV converter, you could throw in some really cool
stuff, like a minimoog or a MIDI-equipped Prophet, Oberheim etc.
(This will cost a LOT of money, but it's what I'd do if I could afford it.)
To make this work, you'll most likely need a small desktop mixer and
probably some kind of multitrack recorder as well. It might be possible to
get Cakewalk to record the instruments it's playing via line-in, but I'm
not sure I'd want to do that personally.
An external HD recorder, or another PC should do the trick.. I go to tape.
A word of warning.. if you want to multitrack the synthesizers, you'll need
to be able to lock the sequencer to tape/disk, which Cakewalk Home
won't do. You have to upgrade to Sonar for that capability.
>
> Thanks,
> George
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