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don't know is this is already mentioned but
i just found an easter egg , giant one . :)
see the gif...
now we can drag whole folder in the pool thats great time saver!
if the Pool and the Take use the File names instead of Instrument names and "Master Take"
would fntastic
we are almost there ..
Thank you so much Andre !
Sa., 09.11.2013 - 11:53 Permalink
hello
if i understand correctly seems mac users has no problem with bigger size libraries
but i am on pc and big libraries are still the things that i have to avoid them
for example more than 20mb opening / saving etc. takes really long time..
i would collect to one big/master library all the importand stuff and use it happly if this available in pc too.
Sa., 09.11.2013 - 13:23 Permalink
Sorry for the double post above. Quite cumbersome to write on phone. We really need a "Delete Post" button.
i would collect to one big/master library all the importand stuff and use it happly if this available in pc too.
So, you build up large libraries in advance, right? You are collecting phrases that you eventually may or may not use in later projects.
I work different. I basically create new phrases for every new project. On a new project I first think about, what style and what mood I want to have, then about what already existing pieces fit this style, then I watch out for MIDI files of this pieces, if there are no such files, I make them myself, then I import these files into Synfire and other tools and make tests with the phrases, then I'm building things together. Obviously a quite cumbersome workflow. I need several weeks per piece. Maybe I should give your workflow a try. Building up phrases in advance.
Sa., 09.11.2013 - 14:06 Permalink
So, you build up large libraries in advance, right? You are collecting phrases that you eventually may or may not use in later projects.
yes exactly . i have category folders also
Bass , piano,guitar ,Arpeg+Seq... etc.
plus Melodical for the monophonic stuf and the Orchestral...goes on like this.
and i prefer to keep the imports in the one pool as much as i can..
(for example Basses in the one pool , pianos in the one pool)
instead of seperate pools ,with this way its easy to preview with different progessions assign to instruments etc..
actually i always start with this way.. library+progression+sound surfing/messing :)
Sa., 09.11.2013 - 18:01 Permalink
My libraries are organized by composer
then files under each composer are organized withthe name of the piece
i then drag phrases that i like into the open file i have just created
i think i now have thousands of phrases
i then sometimes randomly go to a library open a file, and drag in a phrase completely on a whim into whatever instrument i have chosen to begin building my piece
it doesnt matter if originaly the phrase was for a guitar or piano, i might drag that phrase into woodwinds just to see what it does.
I then sometimes randomly grab phrases from files of other composers to see if it grnerates something that fires off my imagination.
I then start putting together a harmonic sequence from a pallette dragging the chords in and listening to how that changes the phrases ive randomly chosen.
Its a lot of fun and nearly always the result is amazingly musical and pleasing to the ear!
Sa., 09.11.2013 - 18:06 Permalink
I also save the harmony parameter in the file with each piece.
Sometimes i might do something crazy like take the Harmony parameter from Jethro Tull's Bungle in the Jungle to start a new piece. Then I might drag in phrases from Beethoven, Stravinsky, and John Williams. You can get some amazing results doing this!