Saturday, February 26, 2005
untitled part one...
This song (untitled at the moment) started with a beat created in Hydrogen. Initially, I wanted to use this with Rosegarden, which is both a MIDI and audio sequencer which also imports Hydrogen song files. Things were going well with that (for a different song - Thinking Of You), until my attempt to record a third track of audio on top of two drum tracks (from Hydrogen), and two acoustic guitar tracks. Anytime I pressed record, the song would start in the middle of the song. I couldn't find a way around this, so I gave up on Rosegarden for the time being. The song was re-recorded in Sonar in Windows (needed to be done and e-mailed on Valentine's Day). I had some problems with Sonar, since I hadn't used it in while, but while not great, the job was done. I continued my Linux experiment with Ardour, which is an audio multi-track which doesn't do midi (I gather).
There's supposed to be a way to sync Ardour with Hydrogen using JACK, but I've not figured out how, even after reading this. I'm using Hydrogen 0.8.2 (instead of 0.8.1 mentioned in the link), I think, and the Jack transport slave option seems not to be available in audio preferences.
I'll figure it out eventually. What I did instead was something like what I used to do in Cakewalk/Sonar with the Hammerhead drum program in Windows; I'd program the beats first, then separate each instrument and export the patterns to wav files. Import the wavs (one for each instrument) into the Cakewalk tracks where they can be looped, edited and panned into some sort of arrangement. Here I did the same with Hydrogen, though some patterns contained more than one instrument. These were panned in advance of being converted to wav. The wavs were imported into Ardour's sound library and then placed into tracks 1-12. Those tracks with panned instruments were placed with right and left on separate tracks.
There's supposed to be a way to sync Ardour with Hydrogen using JACK, but I've not figured out how, even after reading this. I'm using Hydrogen 0.8.2 (instead of 0.8.1 mentioned in the link), I think, and the Jack transport slave option seems not to be available in audio preferences.
I'll figure it out eventually. What I did instead was something like what I used to do in Cakewalk/Sonar with the Hammerhead drum program in Windows; I'd program the beats first, then separate each instrument and export the patterns to wav files. Import the wavs (one for each instrument) into the Cakewalk tracks where they can be looped, edited and panned into some sort of arrangement. Here I did the same with Hydrogen, though some patterns contained more than one instrument. These were panned in advance of being converted to wav. The wavs were imported into Ardour's sound library and then placed into tracks 1-12. Those tracks with panned instruments were placed with right and left on separate tracks.
Labels: Ardour, Hydrogen, Ménage à trois with robots, Sonar
