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Dezdon
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Joined 08-28-2006 status: Pro |
Hello All,
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5pinDIN
Total Posts: 11891
Joined 09-16-2010 status: Legend |
Trying to “fix it in the mix” can sometimes be frustrating, especially when you’re doing so with MIDI data. In some cases, it’s better to commit to audio, and edit that instead. Since you’re dealing with a solo performance, it should be a lot easier than when you have to deal with what effect the editing might have on other instruments in the mix.
Removing unintentional pauses is something in particular that editing of audio is good at. If you want to try the concept, see:
I guarantee it’s a whole lot easier than when tape editing blocks, razor blades, and splicing tape were the only available method. Â :-) |
MrMotif
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Joined 10-02-2002 status: Administrator |
Without hearing what you have created it’s impossible to know how crucial your gaps and timing discrepancies are. Are you playing to a click? If so, you should at least be recording within, say, conventional time signatures and not… 4.25/4 etc! If you’re not recording to a click, try it! Clicks can be your friend and you can go in front of and behind the click perfectly fine so long as you don’t actually lose a whole beat and totally forget where you are. If you don’t like playing to “tick-tack-tack-tack” etc try recording a simple drum pattern to play over; just to help you stay on top of things. You can also just quantize certain bars or sections if you want. Also experiment with different quantize strengths. Note edit can be a bit of a blind alley after awhile but the occasional nudging can be useful, especially if you can nudge a note that’s supposed to be at the beginning of Bar 4’ say, but has actually been played at the end of Bar 3. In situations like this it can be murderous to tighten things up and a small amount of judicious note-editing can work wonders. Also, try recording at a much slower tempo. This will probably provide greater accuracy and then when you speed the song back up to normal speed you’ll be surprised how tight it’ll feel. Another thing to try is some ‘comping.’ Record your song on a bunch of different tracks and see if you can copy and paste one really good performance from them. Don’t be too afraid of Pattern recording, either. A Pattern can be 16 measures, or 32 etc etc, so you’re not strapped into recording your song in 4 bar sections or anything. 5PinDin is quite correct in saying audio can be - somewhat ironically! - a more forgiving medium these days but if you want to remain in MIDI for sound flexibility’s sake, amongst other possible reasons, hopefully the above will give you some things to work on. Aside from just ‘practice more!’ Music ain’t supposed to be easy! Hang in there. |