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19:46 Music
19:57 and then have to do something about
20:02 (unidentified song) unidentified
22:25 All right. And looks like everything is working. So pondering what to do as far as songs. Trying not to repeat too much of songs that I've done in the past, which, unfortunately, these really were kind of a limited optio...
23:18 (unidentified song) unidentified
28:39 All right.
28:48 (unidentified song) unidentified
32:18 All right. Nothing has started smoking yet, so that's a good sign. All right. That's great.
32:44 (unidentified song) unidentified
36:18 Yeah. All right, a little change of voices here.
36:35 (unidentified song) unidentified
39:43 echo cover which hopefully I will do some something like justice to
39:54 written many years ago, actually, when it was obvious which direction the slope was on the line, but we hadn't yet really even begun to embrace the idea of just how far down on the zero...
40:10 was, but yeah, and to be a little more cheerful.
40:22 (unidentified song) unidentified
42:55 Yes. All right.
43:10 (unidentified song) unidentified
46:36 Good clean fun.
46:42 What the words of such things say about my subconscious, that's always a fun.
46:47 Let me ask you a question for... All right.
47:02 (unidentified song) unidentified
55:51 Alright, be interesting to see. I'm guessing that Jessica will end up listening to this cause she seems to listen to most of the ones that make it to Facebook, assuming this did make it to Facebook, which I will get back...
56:21 columns it was unhappy about that it might be doing so today.
56:24 I'm just pondering what to end with. And, anyway, as I was saying, if Jessica does listen to this, I used to do that song for her a long time ago, far away. Perhaps we'll bring back a memory or two. And I am just indecis...
57:21 (unidentified song) unidentified
1:00:37 I guess that's it. And everyone, thanks for listening, thanks for tuning in, and have a good night.
0:00 The Gambler — Kenny Rogers
2:05 Alright, and I wanted to do a experiment related to this. Let's see how it goes. Powering up the voice prism and I guess the easiest way would be to send main control keyboard keyboard to it and indeed it does seem to be...
3:52 7 and 8, I would go assign to 30.
3:55 which is going to be on page 2! Um. And it's not that I'm suspicious or anything, just saying, 35 and 36. OK. 78, 35 and 36. meanings OK, that definitely didn't work. What is sending to it that would be feeding back like...
6:54 the
7:04 So that obviously did not work. Why is it?
7:07 Signing SLink 35 and 36 to seven and eight, feeding back. I think, what is the possible feedback path there? One obvious thing to try. My vocal mics are definitely going to the TC Helicon. I can see the VO meter moving. ...
10:25 Although it doesn't sound to me like that output is in stereo so maybe
10:29 Maybe that is not a stereo appliance which would mean that I could just put it where the 6400 was which would be nice. Alright so that means I would put the 6400 on it there. And then check one-two.
10:53 Om
11:04 That doesn't seem to be working much.
11:07 So it's definitely more than acoustic feedback. There's some sort of signal.
11:25 path feedback via which the 6400 is getting fed like main out or something. Let's see here, if I pull the main out fader, sure enough, the signal falls off. Oh, no. Right. OK, signal does not fall off. But what if I gene...
12:03 Seven is normally the synthesizer foldback.
12:06 Buzz for the band. OK, now I'm just starting to all fall into place.
12:12 So if I were to go over here and turn this up now...
12:20 Ooooh! Which was the whole point of this experiment. OK, so seven. So I should save this scene as radio 2.1.2. And I will save it ... That actually just renamed the scene on the disk. So what I actually I'm going to do i...
13:26 Okay, which gives me a patch that has harmonization, so that I can do things like this. On a warm summer's evening on a train bound for nowhere I made up with the g initially We were both too tired to sleep so we took tu...
14:10 which effects engine is yeah send that to the reverb because it's gonna need it alright
14:20 On a warm, on a warm summer's evening on a chainmail from nowhere I met up with the gambler we were both too tired to sleep so we took turns a watching out the window into darkness too poor my love it took of us and we b...
15:02 I'm getting tangled here alright
15:07 The Gambler — Kenny Rogers
21:08 Let's see.
21:11 Ooooh you gotta know when to fold, oh know when to hold, oh Know when to rock away know when to run You never can draw money When you're sitting at the table There'll be time but not for counting When the dealing's done ...
21:42 Um...
21:54 You've got to know when to hold them Know when to fold them I do wonder if I should Look into getting a slightly newer model of this appliance. This one is from I think 20
22:12 2005, I think.
22:16 You've got to know when to hold on Know when to fold on Know when to walk away Know when to run You never count your money When you're sitting at the table There'll be time enough for counting When the dealing's done tha...
22:53 Anyway, the nice thing about that is it gives me a quickly mutable Harmony engine. And I will look into, but there's a newer version of that appliance with the stack of miscellaneous stuff I have here. It shouldn't be to...
23:29 High Grade Ore — Sheer
26:54 All right, page two.
27:00 High Grade Ore — Sheer
29:23 All right, let's warm up the multi-track deck here. Pondering whether I wanna actually turn on both computers just in case there's anybody out there listening and I can get commentary as I work on this, okay, gonna do th...
33:26 Okay!
33:42 So I want a new session, and this would be from the songwriter. One floor with piano. Okay, and this would be Sheer, and we'll save this as aut one One. Hg. Can we wait a minute? While the computer thinks about it. And t...
34:38 ... was worth the man, now mine are nuttin' more. He beat a human,ern vine, j daring, to a free man's must I kids are Whilembus My stars they Until he found that asteroid, and in it entered the law. He min'd forty kilont...
35:08 Okay, we're gonna want mono vocal check, which hopefully I'm armed for. We'll see interfaces input seven. Check one, two, check one, two. No, it does not look like I am.
35:26 So what I need to do is hop over here, go to patching, inputs.
35:31 The USB is gonna be... uh, so I guess it's actually, it's outputs ip direct outputs USB 7 should be patched. OK, there, there we go. And, let's... let's roll them. And 2 and 3 and 4 and 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 1 and 2 an...
36:04 High Grade Ore — Sheer
40:05 That went badly. Okay, let me see if I can somehow secure these. I don't remember if this keyboard is metal or not, does not appear to be. Okay. Probably what I need is some tape. Okay, be right back. All right. The Wond...
41:19 High Grade Ore — Sheer
48:47 Two and three and four and one and two and three and four and one and four and three and three and one and three and four and one and two and three and four and one Well that wasn't horrible, and now let's see if we can ...
50:02 !
50:12 All right, come on.
50:18 All right, um…
50:44 Okay. Let's try this again. So we need to punch that up. Let's see.
51:07 Music
51:34 Let's try this again.
51:41 🎶 researching new Transgender piano music 🎶 Still looking... Ummm, ok le-
52:01 First of all, before punching up the vocals, since we've got it firewalled and it's still not working, let's try adding some compression. And also let's add just a smidge of verb on the keys. Not a lot, just a tiny smidg...
52:27 High Grade Ore — Sheer
53:22 still trying to get the beat
53:29 High Grade Ore — Sheer
1:01:03 I am saving it, in the take vault and I'm also going save the file. Disarmed and enrolled take.
1:01:25 Thanks For Watching!
1:01:28 So that's not quite the right timing on that.
1:01:33 High Grade Ore — Sheer
1:02:44 Okay, I wonder if I should mark on the sheet here which ones are which phrase. Because I can see this project might go multiple days. Okay, so that one is C, that one is C, that one is C and then these two are C and that...
1:03:23 High Grade Ore — Sheer
1:10:53 $1, $2, $3, then $4, then $1, then $2, then $3, then $4, Office $1, then $2, then $3, then $4, Log $1, then $2 and $3. Alright. That take I think I'll work.
1:11:06 So, the next thing I gotta do...
1:11:09 Um, all right, there's at least a couple more instrumental parts that I can see definitely wanting to have. Um, and we'll see where this goes. But I'm going to start out with oh, geez, what is the player that um, the con...
1:11:53 No, definitely not contact. Although, that's an amusing idea. Hey, I got to try this. I got to try this. It is so wrong. And yet, got to know what this would sound like. OK, so brief delay.
1:12:10 Well, the computer loads it up and...
1:12:25 Thanks for watching.
1:12:39 I mean, I think it might be UVW Workstation. Let's try that. Double click to open browser. Yes, yes. OK, so we want to start out with good old Sunburn, Sunbird.
1:12:58 I haven't yet decided whether I'm gonna do chords, notes, or both. This is likely to...
1:13:07 a lot of... alright
1:13:13 🎶 Let's see where that goes.
1:13:40 Boom.
1:13:43 High Grade Ore — Sheer
1:16:06 um
1:16:10 High Grade Ore — Sheer
1:17:19 Let's try that again.
1:17:23 Music
1:17:50 All right, try that again
1:18:03 Okay, somehow we got switched in modes there.
1:18:21 All right. And roll them along.
1:18:29 Thank you very much.
1:18:38 Remusy noises. I am going to check on Remus. What is wrong Remus? Did you hurt yourself? Oh, let me see your walk rings. I know, I know okay I was real.. Why is my nose not too weird? Alright.
1:19:48 Which ones do you named after?
1:19:54 All right
1:19:58 I'm actually going to bring
1:20:07 Back in the bedroom there. Are you there?
1:20:13 High Grade Ore — Sheer
1:21:17 Dr.
1:21:25 High Grade Ore — Sheer
1:28:58 Well that was uh, bit of a haul ... Okay so...
1:29:18 Save that for sure, cause I don't ever have to do that again. Okay, how about, yeah, let's see, about, a little bit of.
1:29:28 B3
1:29:35 so uh, oh, i think i might have borrowed
1:29:41 of the power from that at some point for something else. Uh yeah, I think I did. Okay, so I need to... Actually I probably don't need the controller for this.
1:29:53 . . . . .
1:29:56 Let's see how that fits
1:30:19 High Grade Ore — Sheer
1:31:26 Just for the recording it. Then we'll bring it back down.
1:31:38 Now Loeffi was a working man But mine had nothing more To beat human jets And last old nights were crony and short Until he had found that asteroid And entered into a war high grade all
1:32:13 2. Three, two, one, two, and one, two, three.
1:32:41 Try Guys!
1:32:47 Hehe, hehe. All right. And yeah, go ahead do me one more time.
1:34:17 High Grade Ore — Sheer
1:35:15 Roll it.
1:35:19 High Grade Ore — Sheer
1:42:53 ...2 and 3 and 4 and 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 1 and... ...
1:43:00 OK. That's coming together. Nice little B-3 part there.
1:43:04 which then the next question is what does I think
1:43:10 Maybe the next reasonable thing to do is to read
1:43:13 the vocal part. Hopefully I can just do and we will see. OK, here we go. So, I have dropped There, I have vaulted, I should say, I didn't drop it. The old vocal part, and we're going to roll it.!!!
1:43:37 High Grade Ore — Sheer
1:46:28 I think give me some pre-roll.
1:46:33 Let's go. And dropped him 40 kilotons of high-grade ore. The radar station checked the course and checked it even more. OK, we somehow missed the record part of that. And drop them forty kilotons Of High Grade Ore
1:47:09 artifact own issues are recording between
1:47:13 a great patients and I would be the deer in headlights effect where one
1:47:29 um
1:47:36 High Grade Ore — Sheer
1:50:26 Okay. Let's uh... try that again. Starting from there.
1:50:32 High Grade Ore — Sheer
1:53:51 Yeah, I'm sure you're-
1:53:54 (unidentified song) unidentified
1:54:54 Let's add a second vocal track. Create. That obviously was a stereo. What did it do? Track, new, mono audio track. Okay, I see, it's just putting them in the wrong place. Okay, disable that. in the...
1:55:21 This, we'll go ahead and throw CLA vocals on this just for consistency and input 7
1:55:29 And there we go. Let's RTZ here and see how this goes.
1:55:43 (unidentified song) unidentified
1:56:37 I'm going to try that.
1:56:42 (unidentified song) unidentified
2:02:28 and let's try that again
2:02:35 Blatants of high-grade ore A fusion drive burns anything – that's what they use them for So piece-by-pieces should be fed toNER form Brothers D gravels Stuart Blatants
2:03:00 Soatters Cash
2:03:03 J And these 40 kilotonns of High Grade oil The Assentain reported something odd about this log They say Saul Webber Murphy tried to cut that hack
2:03:47 Let's try this again from there.
2:03:51 (unidentified song) unidentified
2:05:40 www.lindsaycananda.com
2:05:44 (unidentified song) unidentified
2:08:03 so you
2:08:11 (unidentified song) unidentified
2:09:26 Let's...
2:09:35 if we can throw down a few little licks between the...
2:09:40 Alright, rock n' roll.
2:09:48 (unidentified song) unidentified
2:16:52 Alright, let's see how we're doing. And, let's see here. I might wanna add another vocal part just to that tail end. That bit that I sang that last time. So, let me go ahead and do that now before I forget what I did. Ok...
2:17:33 (unidentified song) unidentified
2:19:12 I'm working sheets elsewhere to free up the subtractive synth, and let's see if I can find. There were two different sound effects I wanted to add in here, if I can find them. known.
2:19:39 That's one of them. And the other one is radio dial, which I can't...
2:19:45 Remember, where is? I knew I have it somewhere. All right, so let's actually write down, just so I have some clue. Distress call is D23.
2:20:07 and radio dial I thought radio dial was right next
2:20:10 What am I doing to it? Am I like hallucinating? No, there it is. All right, 31. So let's go ahead and not lose the mouse. All right. Let's go ahead and...
2:20:36 Figure out where those go. I remember they were early in the.
2:20:39 the verse so let's
2:20:45 (unidentified song) unidentified
2:22:39 bit just to make it stand out a little more. And we'll go ahead and mark that track radio dial. And we will also go ahead and mark it's gone.
2:22:49 comments with Novation
2:22:52 31, so I can find this later. Those of you who own Novations will notice that none of these patches are where they are on your keyboard. That's because I've modified them. But this particular one has very little modifica...
2:23:10 We're listening to this 20 years from now. I'm trying to reproduce this, which is a difficult thing to imagine. OK, and then the other one is destructfish.
2:23:19 It's called. Which I'm
2:23:22 trying to figure out where did I want to drop that.
2:23:25 Mm-hmm
2:23:28 Think yeah, I think after the I'm using my last vacation days
2:23:32 that's what I saved it for, is where that goes, so we'll...
2:23:38 (unidentified song) unidentified
2:27:05 tracks for the distress channel instead of- We'll nuke the stereo one. I'm just getting muted, I'll recycle it later. But.
2:27:18 And the idea here is I want two different.
2:27:21 Notes. Ow! That'll work. OK, I want two different notes. Okay. Good enough.
2:27:30 And I want them panned left and right. Yeah, okay, here we go. Roll it. Okay, so that's one, and then the other one.
2:27:59 Is that one okay
2:28:03 So the other one comes in a little later. OK, so then what I want to do is pan those hard, not hard left and right, but pretty hard left and right. Will mark them
2:28:35 Distress L. Novation, D23. And distress R. And that's one of those...
2:28:48 (unidentified song) unidentified
2:30:19 May it be what I do.
2:30:25 and head it out the door. I'll take my last vacation day. That's what I saved it for. Deer up you've got, then here I take for the bass, commander swore that That rock will smash a hole in us a mile wide Ohio. Ok, I actu...
2:30:57 For star lead Riff Novation do 15
2:31:06 and then we're going to go ahead and throw in and it won't be that loud.
2:31:15 In the final mix, obviously.
2:31:18 I called it in and headed out the door. I'll take my last vacation day. That's what I saved it for. OK. And we actually don't want to start recording out there. We want to start. Dear Roth, you got them. I'm going to sta...
2:31:55 but that should be in three and four
2:31:59 So there you go. Okay. of all.
2:32:30 I need to start the recording a little earlier because it missed the beginning of the riff. And second of all, it will need
2:32:41 (unidentified song) unidentified
2:34:49 The End
2:34:59 Okay, so we're gonna add a little little bit of
2:35:02 the brass part here
2:35:09 (unidentified song) unidentified
2:36:16 Because I feel like going up the octave there did not work
2:36:24 (unidentified song) unidentified
2:40:14 I should. OK, let's go ahead and throw in...
2:40:18 And so what we want to do here is add another.
2:40:28 another stereo audio track which will become the part so this is gonna be that cord Journey 7 which we are gonna need input 3M4
2:40:51 (unidentified song) unidentified
2:42:53 Yeah, yeah, I know. CPU overload.
2:43:00 (unidentified song) unidentified
2:44:33 Yeah, I'm low, which I don't at the moment have. Let's see. Where would it be? 114. OK, so I need a program 114 into the clock here. 114, there we go.
2:44:51 (unidentified song) unidentified
2:45:45 This will do accent, pad, and novation. What did we end up using? D34 circuit motion. All right, now that saves this whole mess. And then the other qua, OK, I'm going to go back to the top and see what I feel like it nee...
2:46:19 (unidentified song) unidentified
2:49:01 stereo pair the stereo audio track um in three and four and we'll we'll decide where to throw it in but that's a another accent
2:49:25 (unidentified song) unidentified
2:56:28 All right
2:56:31 then the other thing I wanted to show there's several things
2:56:34 Actually, I wanted to note on that. The first thing is the trumpet, I need to look at the velocity data, because there's something not quite right about it. Let's see here. Alright, and the other thing I wanted to do on ...
2:57:20 (unidentified song) unidentified
2:58:24 The second cello part, a stereo instrument track. And that's definitely good old Vienna. And that is, the first cello part is basically just a bass part. And this is the solo instrument, which I'm not sure exactly what I...
2:59:02 The End
2:59:05 The thing that enough tracks that... Alright. So I think nothing else, let me... Well, there used to be a light that would warn if anything was armed. Okay, well, that works too. All right. Thank you very much.
2:59:54 🎵adventurous piano music 🎵 These men, it's time to shut the moon, A year, maybe four, of F, All right, I like that
3:00:37 let's try that again
3:00:45 (unidentified song) unidentified
3:08:18 Alright, a couple little fixes, one, that third vocal part I did is not coming out probably because it was much lower gain than the other two. So let's add the same vocal processor to it, and then let's listen again to t...
3:08:44 (unidentified song) unidentified
3:09:58 All right. So that's going to need mixed, which is going be all kinds of fun. But for now, what I am going to do is bounce it so I have a RUF to send to Lee to see if he's amenable to the idea of putting on the album. An...
3:10:41 It's possible that it needs more solo-ish stuff.
3:10:45 I'm not sure. But the bones are definitely there, whether it needs additional thinking as maybe some guitar finger picking type work, maybe some electric guitar. I do not hear drums on it.
3:11:08 I don't think it's meant to be, I mean maybe like some wire.
3:11:12 a brush snare or shit, I'll see whether Bruce thinks that would be appropriate. But definitely not anything heavier than that. And I think a heavier rhythm section would interfere with the melancholy of the song.
3:11:34 Hi Remus, you are a good dog. You're not a melancholy are you no you're not a colleague
3:11:39 It all. Good boy. Good boy. Hopefully I'm not destroying stuff.
3:11:46 And it's not as bad as I thought, it's 7 minutes and 46 seconds long. They will never play this on the radio anywhere, that is a given. But this song is not intended to be like a radio cut.
3:11:59 this is definitely more kind of a for the fans.
3:12:07 I am I'll be very curious to see Lee's reaction. He didn't didn't like the first one I did
3:12:13 But that was just me and a guitar, and I'm not very good at guitar. It definitely wasn't then.
3:12:20 And I also, I feel like there's definitely more...
3:12:24 variety to this one because you know I've got the the C like the big it goes between A and C and they
3:12:35 It also has that thing at the end where it does the...
3:12:38 Gee, um, thank you.
3:12:44 It does be interesting to see. I think I definitely like the feeling of motion.
3:12:48 The finger-picking arpeggios on the guitar mixed with the bass riff— and the keyboard part between the verses— gives it whether it's enough to keep the listener interested for seven minutes and 46 seconds. That I don...
3:13:22 So I'm going to go ahead and email this to Lee.
3:13:25 And tell him this is extreme rough. Alright, so, Lee Hart and my note is high grade or. I'm messing around tonight again with a grade or a recorded bit that I like enough that I think after cleaning up I'd like to use it...
3:15:37 All right. And then I will attach to that.
3:15:41 So hindsight is 2020. And then I'm going to share October 21st, bounced files. And oh, I bounced as a Wave. That is not going to attach to an email very well. Let me bounce it again. Bounce to disk. This time, we'll do i...
3:17:34 I think we'd have a lot of fun, and I could certainly pay him his coin rate.
3:17:39 Actually, lower than mine. But, uh, I don't know. I think that some of it is just kind of not wanting to come down out of the great, cold North and, uh, you know, meet with starstruck science fiction fans who want to wri...
3:18:02 And if nothing else, I think it'd be really fun to
3:18:05 and then to play around with some of the stuff that we did, or the stuff he did with the last superhero on earth. I think. Which is a great piece of work, really. And yeah.
3:18:27 Mean it suffers a little obviously the equipment. He was using at the time is very 1980s
3:18:32 computer sounding with, kind of, the FM but the songwriting is just amazing. And the whole, you know, its…
3:18:38 It's got a whole story going on. It's got a lot of, it's funny.
3:18:41 of course, being Tom Smith. It's battering time. All right, well, that time I think we bounced it to a format that I can actually attach to an email. We'll see in a second here. Hey, look, there it is. OK. It's still wor...
3:19:08 I don't know if he's going to get that out. I think actually this is one of those times when one should not email someone.
3:19:14 I think it's 11 megs that is a little bit out of the range of what I'm willing to email. Okay so what we need to do is put our web server and send him a link, but it needs to not be a public web server, which that's what...
3:22:33 an MP3 documenting the making of
3:22:36 which, who knows, could be entertaining to someone. Anyway, yup, talk to y'all later.