Started messing around with ReWire today, man I love it, big up to the Renoise devs for implementing it. Now I can use both of my fav music applications at the same time. Which are, in case someone hasn’t been paying attention, Cubase and Renoise.
Recorded a short vid of my first attempt.. the result of it at least, a quick beat mock-up. I didn’t think about recording until I had had already made the beat and merged all the cuts and whatnot, so it doesn’t look like much… But hey! ReWire!!!!
New site updates/features… first off I made a Tutorial page, I thought it’d be a nice thing to gather those I do in one place. There’s only two at the moment, but once I make a new one I’ll put it there as well. I usually make them on request, so if you’re wondering about something in particular regarding Cubase, Renoise,Wavelab, some VST/VSTi, or maybe even Photoshop, drop me a line. If I can help you and I have the time, I will.
Second thing.. A music player, J from Bluevibe reminded me about Soundcloud yesterday on twitter. I had totally forgot about it even though I signed up during it’s beta phase. So today I promptly uploaded some tracks, both on the Kvartersakuten account and the magOwl one. I will try to fit in at least one player here, just need to find some good spot for it, but for now I’ll just include one in this post.
Another short one, could have made it even shorter tho if the capture program allowed me to edit it without messing things up. So sorry for the dead-time in it here and there.
Oh and yeah, parts of this is made to import the vocals into Renoise later on (i.e. the cutting bit). Just ignore that if you’re not using Renoise. An if you’re using Logic or something else, I’m sure there are corresponding steps you can take there.
1. Line up the original tune (I’m not gonna show you how to count bpm… go google) to it’s bpm. Make sure it’s tight all the way through, which might take a little trial-and-error. If you can’t get it tight all the way .. well that’s a whole other video.
2. Line up the accapella with the original tune, and make sure that stays tight throughout as well.
3. Make a note of the original bpm and then change it to what you need it to be.
4. Timestretch the vocals to you bpm of choice, try to keep it relatively close to the original, or it will sound like shite. (no need to do the beat, only did it to make it easier to hear for the vid). As you see on the vid, Cubase has an original/input bpm value and an output one in the timestretch dialogue, that’s why we noted down the starting bpm before. Make sure both have the correct value.
5. Cut the vocals up into manageable pieces, and check the beginning so it doesn’t start early, like it does in the vid. If you forget, the intro will go off beat, and we don’t want that.
6. Bounce the individual parts down and rename them to something useful.
