On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:36:41 +0100 (CET) Cedric Roux <sed@xxxxxxx> wrote: > ----- "Folderol" <folderol@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > the same time playing a click track in a loop for timing. All the > > synth parts > > are my own voice patches in one instance of Yoshimi. > > what do you mean here? "own voice patches?" You recorded the sound > of your voice and derived midi instruments of that raw material? > (sorry, probably dumb question, maybe you won't even understand it) Nono :) Yoshimi is a softsynth and like most softsynths the sound 'packages' are usually referred to as voice patches - this stems from the early analog synth days when sound generators, effects etc. were linked together with real audio patch cables. > > cutting the lower frequencies that the mic tended to boost > > you can speak at a bigger distance from the mic, like 10cm and more. > I also used to sing very close to the mic but with some distance, the > raw sound is much better. You get rid of the "proximity effect" and > need less EQ later on. Well, my 2c. I'm not an audio recording engineer. Unfortunately this is not an option. I live in a rather noisy environment with little prospect of improving the situation so use a close-mic approach to get a decent signal-noise ratio. > Do you play with a keyboard? I mean a MIDI piano keyboard. > I ask because what you, and others on the list, do with a linux box > is impressive. And I wonder why I can't do the same. Maybe input > tools I sometimes think. Tools matter a lot. Or maybe it's just > talent. :-) Yes. I have two MIDI keyboards, and very occasionally use them together but more often use just the lower one which has a nicer action. It takes time to get things organised just the way you want them. I started out in 1990 with just a Yamaha SY22 keyboard, and developed from there. The first thing was getting a computer based sequencer so I could make multi-part compositions. Then I added a Roland Sound Canvas to get more (and better quality) sounds. About 10 years ago I got into using softsynths as well, and slowly integrating it all. I've found it makes a lot of difference if you have a room where you can keep everything permanently set up so you just switch it on and go! -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
