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Where's Gavin been hiding? Blog Stuff 2/28/13 My thoughts and plans for today: Gonna post this on FB, BC, and SFF. (Everyone knows what FB is, but BC and SFF are social sites with blogs and chatting.) For about a month now, I’ve not been getting into blogging or chatting online as much as I used to. Daily I check all three of my social media sites, and maybe copy and paste or share some items, but I haven’t written an article myself, or spent much time in any chatrooms. It all started when I got deleted from SFF unfairly several weeks back. When that happened, I just started moving into other interests that I’d been ignoring. Later, when SFF found out my deletion was unfair, they re-instated me, but by then I’d just moved on and haven’t been that motivated to spend so much time online these days. I still spend lots of time on my computer, but lately I’ve been getting back into my music hobby. And I’ve also been taking care of business and chores I’d been ignoring. I’ve seen more TV too! Anyway, if anyone is wondering about me, that’s why I haven’t been around as much lately. Today, along with checking my social sites and emails, I hope to file my IRS return, and get new tabs for my truck. But I hope those items won’t involve my whole day. What I really want to do, is get back to playing around with my music. Yesterday, I uploaded onto Soundcloud (site for musicians to upload music) a version of a piece I’d composed a few years ago using Sibelius, (A computerized program for musical compositions and notation.) In order to make it possible to upload, I first had to convert the files to MIDI, then paste them into the MIDI tracks on Pro-Tools. (A computerized recording and video program.) Then, I had to reassign new instruments and adjust the sounds. Next, I had to do a mix. Then I had to convert the whole project to an MP3, so it could be uploaded onto the web. Sounds easy enough, but for me it was a lot of new technology! My problems come from trying to convert so many files. What comes out sounding good on one system, sounds different on another. When I do a recording in my studio, I can adjust it exactly the way I want it, and get it sounding fine. But when I convert it to MP3, then it always changes. Sometimes drastically! Then, I have to do a remix of the original files, and make a whole new MP3 that compensates for the previous problems. Once I get that right, and when I upload it to the web, I often have to repeat the entire process again! Making the music is not my problem. Recording it properly is, and then mixing, and finally putting it out in a format that can be shared easily. Anyway, I’m still having fun. And my plan for today is to do still another re-mixed version of the tune I put up on Soundcloud yesterday (Spudknucker’s Reveal), and hopefully it’ll sound better. Usually, I send my tunes out en-masse to everyone on my email list too, so folks can save them if they want to. But I’m not sending this tune out in emails till I get it right. I’m leaving the version from yesterday up, and will leave it there for a while. Folks might find it interesting to hear how the recording process evolves for me. I’m just an amateur at sound engineering, and I’m sure someone more experienced wouldn’t have any trouble doing what I’m trying to do. (But for them, it’s probably a job, whereas for me, it’s just something I do for fun.) Just letting folks know what I’ve been up to. GBU all, Gavin |
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Hi Meow! I have all the equipment, programing, and knowledge needed to do what you are talking about. But I'd just have to possess some form of the melody, either written, sang, or played. If you can get me one of those, then I'll do it for you. Let me know what you decide. GBU, Gavin
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