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Sherry Crann (sherry) 04-24-2005 11:02 PM

Howdy, This song is more &#
 
Howdy,

This song is more "new agey" than true "electronica" (at least as I understand the labels). Anyway, my son Aaron was the inspiration for this piece. He has figured out a way to get the music from one of his favorite computer programs to override the sound on most any of his games (they only have educational ones http://www.notation.com/discus/clipart/happy.gif ), and so that was the grain of inspiration which started this one. As I was messing around with some soundfonts in the file I had started for this, he heard some (the johnnypad 2 and the jungle effects), and he said "Play that again! I like that one!", so we started messing around with more stuff, and after cleaning it up a bit, this was it. I used soundfonts for the recording that I put on my site at www.soundclick.com/beanfieldcastle, and this is the .not file that I used for that:

<center><table border=1><tr><td>http://www.notation.com/discus/icons...hment_icon.gifAaron's meditation at soundclick
Aaron's meditation.not (55.4 k)</td></tr></table></center>

I tried re-doing the file a bit for GM sounds, and of course it doesn't sound as nice, but here's a copy of the re-done file:

<center><table border=1><tr><td>http://www.notation.com/discus/icons...hment_icon.gifAaron's meditation GM version
Aaron's meditation GM.not (55.0 k)</td></tr></table></center>

For those who aren't trying out Composer Pro, here are the .mid files for each:

<center><table border=1><tr><td>http://www.notation.com/discus/icons...hment_icon.gifAaron's meditation at soundclick
Aaron's meditation.mid (4.7 k)</td></tr></table></center>

<center><table border=1><tr><td>http://www.notation.com/discus/icons...hment_icon.gifAaron's meditation GM version
Aaron's meditation GM.mid (4.6 k)</td></tr></table></center>

Aaron seems to have an innate rhythm going on endlessly - he plays his guitar quite a lot, as well as messing around with the keyboard, dancing a lot, and even when he's being funny, he often sings things to me. And when he's done, he's done http://www.notation.com/discus/clipart/happy.gif

Enjoy http://www.notation.com/discus/clipart/happy.gif

ttfn,
Sherry

Sherry Crann (sherry) 04-25-2005 04:10 AM

Howdy, I should have also m
 
Howdy,

I should have also mentioned that the above piece was very improvisational. I used Composer Pro to record in some chords from my Kaysound MK-4902 (new-to-me acquisition off ebay, for $80!), then added tracks as I wanted and assigned the soundfonts to each.

The nice thing with Composer/Pro is that you can preview how the sounds are going to "fit" with the other tracks before you record, so it's not a jarring experience. For me, there is enough jar because while I can usually get the timing right, I don't always hit the right key, so the pitches are sometimes off. However, that's easy enough to fix after I record http://www.notation.com/discus/clipart/happy.gif I can also record multiple "takes", and using "Edit/Undo" I can go back to any of them, or I can set up multiple tracks to record into.

Anyway, after deciding what tracks I was going to use, I would record each one, then I made adjustments (such as the fade in / fade out of the jungle effects track) using the various graphing tools, or by selectively editing notes.

I did this whole song in just a matter of a couple hours work time, and that was even with "help" from my kids http://www.notation.com/discus/clipart/happy.gif

ttfn,
Sherry



Mark Walsen (markwa) 09-03-2005 04:52 AM

Hello All, For a moment of
 
Hello All,

For a moment of musical peacefulness, be sure to listen the the audio version of Aaron's Meditation at www.soundclick.com/beanfieldcastle. At Sherry's SoundClick page, click the sort of difficult-to-find 'music' text click, to go to her list of music, where you'll find Aaron's Meditation.

Unless you have the same sound fonts that Sherry used, a GM soundcard cannot adequately share what this music is about.

Cheers
-- Mark


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