Anvil studio

Music Creation

Using Anvil Studio

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Using Incredibox

It is best to download it from their website

http://www.incredibox.com/ Anvil Studio is a Digital Audio Editor programme that you can download and use for free on your computer

These are the controls in Anvil Studio Play, rewind, stop and record

Track time

Tempo

Metronome

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Track Instrument

Track Volume

Track Balance

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The default instrument is a Grand Piano, but you can change this

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You can click on the keys to hear the notes

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To add a note just click on one of the squares.

Drag it to the right to make it a longer

Drag it up or down to change the note

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To change the instrument click here

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You can add more notes to make a chord or a longer tune.

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You can pick from 128 different instruments

Pick one and listen to it, then try another until you get the sound you like

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You don’t have to have just one instrument at a time. You can add a new track for others

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The new instrument track will be added and again it will have the accoustic grand piano as the default.

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Go back to edit track 1 ( Notice we have changed it to a celesta instrument.)

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Now press “ctrl +A” to select all these note, and “Crtl + C” to copy them

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Go to track 2 again and press “shift + insert� to paste the copy onto this track. ( make sure the track has been rewound so it will be at the start. Paste will copy it to wherever the black line is.)

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This time change the instrument to an “Fx” instrument called Echoes”

The two instruments will now play in harmony

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You can add as many new tracks as you like

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We will use this new one to change some of the notes from the other two tracks.

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Change the instrument to a “pad” sound. We have changed it to a “choir” sound

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Dragging out the top note in each bar will make the Choir sing a long note while the Celesta and the Echoes tracks are still playing short notes.

Play it and see how the sound is starting to get “richer� and less like a computer sound.

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Copying and pasting this way will allow to build up a rich sound.

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Copying and pasting to the right will extend the length of the music.

Every new track can be built up separately without any copying and pasting to let you have different instruments playing different parts of the tune.

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Re-mixing existing tunes

You do not have to create every note yourself. The website “freemidi.org� allows you to download existing songs in midi format.

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This is the tune from the Movie “2 fast 2 Furious�, downloaded from freemidi.org.

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Each track plays a totally different set of notes

Track 2 is just the notes for the tubular bells instrument

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Try changing the instrument to another one and see how it alters the tune as a whole.

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Or you could try leaving the instrument the same, but changing the notes. Try raising this note a little

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Suppose you liked the section of Track3 between 28.07 and 33.26 on the timeline.

Just drag with your mouse to highlight this

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You can now use “ctrl + C” and “shift + insert” to paste it into a new song and use it in your own composition.

Remember to check the terms and conditions of any site you use and to acknowledge the original writer.

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Using Incredibox Once you have got some short pieces of music, you can either record them as .wav files on Audacity and them import them as samples into Soundation Studio, or you can save them as a midi file and import that into a “Midi track� directly onto Soundation Studio ( The blue tracks .)

You continue to edit the midi tracks in soundation studio if they are imported as midi files

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