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jslomba, since you are online, have you done the drum tracks for Blissful Rapture?

jslomba wrote:

Hey guys, I'm really sorry for the delay on the Blissful Rapture drum track. They've been doing lots of construction work near my house, and the noise outside makes it impossible to record anything without lots of background noise. Feel free to use the MIDI drum track you were mentioning, since I probably won't get a chance to get a good recording anytime soon.

Well, I'll see if I can record drums though I don't have the set atm. Or else, techno, any way you can record?

technoguyx wrote:

I don't play drums. Well, other that jamming in a tiny kids' kit at times, but no, I don't play, or have decent samples either. 

LOL, but can't you install Addictive Drums again and try that out, 'cause I don't want to resort to a MIDI unless we really have to? 

If you can do that, it'll be great. However, I'm not too sure about the compression as well. We might end up with a worse result than jslomba's recordings. Anyway, do try and see what you can do about it.

EDIT: Sorry I didn't mention this earlier, but is there absolutely no chance of you getting hold of Addictive Drums again and re-installing it?

Last edited by DIY (2012-09-16 01:39:33)

hpotter134 wrote:

technoguyx wrote:

Maybe we could take samples from one of jsl's actual tracks, to then use them in a tracker or a VST plugin.

I tried it here. It's not authentic sounding as when jslomba actually plays it...but it beats the usual midi. What do you think?

Hmm, is it on tempo and to the melody? Seems a decent job; when I have the time to mix it with my rest of the mix I made. Thanks for this.

hpotter, have you checked out my e-mail? If you haven't, please do so soon and send me a reply. Hope you can do them soon.

And please do not share the message here by any means as I don't want those links to my songs shared with the public (I still dunno if it is going into my solo work or not;  the very best I'll keep for myself, but that depends on how the songs will sound when FC records it). Really we shouldn't be sharing any of our Noteflight scores from now on, even if they are composed specially for the band as our fans should definitely not be able to have a listen to the MIDI before the songs are actually released.

I haven't checked out hpotter's sampled track until now. It sounds pretty decent - at least enough to assure that it'll work after a bit of polishing.

The most noticeable flaw is that the snare is too quiet, I'd use a stronger snare hit sample. Maybe one from the latest tracks (OOtP etc).

You could also make it sound a bit less machine-like with some humanizing - essentially randomizing the velocity levels a bit, and moving some notes randomly (by miliseconds). I know that FL Studio has this feature.

I'll see if I can make a sampled track myself in FL9 this week, but that's in an old beat up notebook that tends to crash with intensive applications like FL Studio, so I can't guarantee anything. 

EDIT:

veggieman001 wrote:

If you're not going to release the Noteflights, can you at least release some sort of sheet music perhaps in a PDF as a bonus file included with the album download when it comes out? I'd love to play the songs myself too.

I see nothing against this, as long as there's demand for sheet music - and I'm sure there will be.

Last edited by technoguyx (2012-09-21 20:29:57)

hpotter, could you please reply to my e-mail...

I don't want to delay the recordings further because if they are, I'll be recording all the songs I linked you to on my own and those will be going into my solo album instead.

hpotter134 wrote:

DIY wrote:

hpotter, could you please reply to my e-mail...

I don't want to delay the recordings further because if they are, I'll be recording all the songs I linked you to on my own and those will be going into my solo album instead.

Sorry it's taken me forever to get back to you. Lot's of stuff's going on. The program I use is "Hydrogen Drum Machine", if you want, you can do the drum samples yourself...it's not that hard, but it takes a while.

I'll see if I can do them myself if I have time with the trips I'm still making, solo album recording etc. And please record guitar for the songs I told you to...

DIY wrote:

Replied to you via email, techno.

Thanks for the info, that's really useful for the rest of us...just sayin' 

DIY wrote:

Replied to you via email, techno.

I noticed. I'm pretty sure all your tracks for my songs (none have piano, I believe    ) are done.

DIY wrote:

hpotter134 wrote:

DIY wrote:

Replied to you via email, techno.

Thanks for the info, that's really useful for the rest of us...just sayin' 

It's about bass recordings; I seriously doubt you need to see that. And you seem to be able to reply to these but not my questions about recording/drum sampling... 

Yeah...it's all about the timing...I had a minute to spare today 

I still can't give a definite date; we ideally should get our Internet in a week or two, but our economic situation has been quite unstable lately    After that it'll be a matter of setting up a basic Ubuntu Linux audio rig, and I'll record all necessary tracks.