odyssey: Laying down tracks
MUMW By NESTOR GULA
Although i t i s great fun, there's no escaping the fact that recording music on a home computer is a time-consuming activity. You have t o record each track individually. The usual sequence i s drums, bass, guitar, keyboard and then vocals. The order between the Ituitar and keyboard,
= M E or whatever other instruments you want to throw i n , i s n o t t h a t important, though. Putting t h e rhythm section down first is crucial. Trying to sync up a drum beat to a meandering vocal or guitar track is next t o impossible. Some
professional software packages have beat correctors that will sync up your sloppily recorded vocals and guitar to the heat. Cheating, ehl I t really does make sense to lay the rhythm down first - this represents the foundation o f the song, so get this down and out o f the way. To keep y o u i n t h e groove, most recording software packages have a metronome built in. Activating this produces a steady rhythm from your computer's speakers. This sound will not be recorded on your track. Setting the time also helps you keep everything together as you go along. With many systems, latency is a huge problem. Latency is the delay between telling a computer to do something and then having it perform that task. This is best exemplified by early desktop publishing programs that ran on 20 MHz systems under Windows 3.1. There was a delay between when you hit the key and when the letter would pop up on the screen. Even now, when the system is overloaded t h i s phenomenon occurs. When you are recording music and this happens, i t is excruciating because i t
screws up the timing. You can always
second to a full see' the note to when I pletdy unacceptali.: not monitoring what 7 , , take s o m e t i m e t o c a r e f u l l y g e t e r sound I want from whatever instamcmt r m using a n d t h e n o n c e I a n U
shift what you recorded t o correct this
little time lapse. Where this latency really rears its ugly head is when you want to monitor what you are recording. I f I am recording a bass track on top o f the drum track. I will usually turn off the metronome a r: just listen to the drums to play my bt,. If I am sending my bass signal directl, into the computer, not playing through my amp, I will not hear what I am playing. If I turn the monitoring on. my bass sound will usually lag by about half-a-
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