Despite my traditional church upbringing, I was unfamiliar with the hymn The Love of God, by Frederick Lehman, when my dear friend Dena mentioned to me last summer that she had breathed new life into this hymn with an updated feel and a new bridge….
Simple Gifts is a Shaker song from the mid-1800’s, with a lively melody. Set to new lyrics as Lord of the Dance it has been a popular song in Catholic and other liturgical congregations for the last 30 years or so. American composer Aaron Copland has…
Finally, after almost a year hiatus, the Djembe soundfont has been rolled out. To recap, I had given up on it after getting far enough for my daughter’s backing track – still not very happy with the results. Then, a fine independent producer doing a…
I got the next two syllables in on Tuesday night – Gun and Dun. I saved the soundfont and tried to load it into the Creative Soundfont manager. No go. I’ve had this problem before with soundfonts with very large single instruments. This one is…
A couple of quick things that I learned tonight – I can’t figure out how to delete samples from an instrument in Synthfont Viena – I accidentally imported all of the Go and Do samples twice. I e-mailed the creator to ask, but then found…
It was a busy Easter, so I didn’t get much done in the way of music or soundfont creation. I did work a bit tonight, so wanted to report what I have learned… I’m now at the point where I’m turning all of my individual…
Well, I’ve just performed a velocity test playing a standard MIDI set of congas. When I laid back, almost none of my velocities were under 90. When I played more aggressively, I peaked the meter at 127 numerous times. My digital piano has three velocity…
Last night I finally finished the “slicing and dicing” of the samples. I didn’t keep accurate track (I wish I had) of how long it exactly took, but it was on the order of 6 hours. This does not make it more likely that I…
I began slicing up the individual samples tonight. It’s going to take a while – two hours worth of work and I’m not quite 1/4 of the way done. I’m using a freeware program called Audacity to do the audio editing. It’s pretty boring work, but I observed…
When the recording was complete, we had 14 different drum hits and one sound effect, each with 10-15 samples of increasing volume, each with 3-4 takes. That’s a lot of samples. The first step in mixing these samples down was to come up with a consistent mix and…
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