On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 07:10:28AM -0400, Dave Phillips wrote: > About those drums: This was my first attempt sequencing audio loops. > "Sequencing" to me has always meant MIDI sequencing, but of course the > term now extends to the modern concept of audio/MIDI sequencing. So, in > order to stay ahead of my students, I decided to try sequencing some > drum loops and writing a song around the resulting pattern. I made some > interesting mistakes: for example, I have to use "snap to bar" and not > to the region end in Ardour, else the loops gradually get out of sync > with the metronome (I naively assumed the loops were neatly trimmed to > exact bar lengths). Modern concept and ahead ... first time I used drumloops was in 1997 and it would have been earlier with the right hardware ;) > I wasn't going to keep the "stumbling" measure, but it reminds me of the > kind of thing my drummer would do to keep me awake during the wee hours > of a gig. It usually occurs after we've had a "discussion" on our break > out in his van... Heh, that fits to how I perceive that fill quite well :) > More weirdness. After constructing the drum pattern my original plan was > to record a simple instrumental. Then words popped into my head, then I > was singing, then I realized the pattern was too short for intro and > outro sections, so I just said "WTF" and worked with what I had. Maybe > I'll lengthen the whole thing, maybe not. The recording really only > serves the purpose of giving me something to show to my bandmates for > them to learn the tune, so it's not nearly so completely constructed as > a live performance would make it. But sometimes I just get carried away > with Ardour... > > Did that make any sense ? ;-) Sure. Nice to have some background. -- Thorsten Wilms Thorwil's Design for Free Software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
