idiotSavant wrote:Fabulous, as always, Surfwhammy. Thanks for the (as usual) in-depth and thorough response. And to think that my wife gives me grief for spending $150 on some new VSL software...
Michael
Glad to help!
On a related note, I discovered Corel Painter 12 this week, where at present I am using the 30-day free trial version, and since I used CorelDRAW! in the early-1990s when I was doing everything on Windows computers, it was easy to make sense of the way Corel Painter 12 works (as contrasted to Photoshop, which I also have but makes nearly no sense to me), so I made an animated YouTube video for "Baby You Were Only Dreaming", which relates to this topic mostly because it has outstanding snare drum rimshots that "pop", but also because it is should sound reasonably good . . .
Corel Painter 12 (Corel Corporation)
[NOTE: All the instrumentation was done with NOTION 3 mostly using IK Multimedia VSTi virtual instruments, but the singing is real, and because I had the lyrics but no vocal melody even though the instrumental stuff was elaborate, I sang it once and composed the melody in real-time on the fly, which mapped to some of the melody being more like melodic speaking, although there are some musical phrases in other places (primarily the chorus). And the real-time analyzer "oscilloscope" at the top of the screen is from CueMix (MOTU), which suggests that it will be possible to do something similar by capturing the video from the NOTION 4 screen during playback to show the animated music notation for one or two of the instruments . . . ]
"Baby You Were Only Dreaming" (The Surf Whammys) -- YouTube music video
It is not to the level of the animations in the "Yellow Submarine" (Beatles) movie, but if I do a bit more work I think that I can do some of the things the animators did, where the high-level perspective is that if something changes every second, then it takes approximately 300 images for "Baby You Were Only Dreaming", which is not so difficult to do over a few days . . .
"Baby You Were Only Dreaming" relates to the topic in yet another way, which is that YouTube does additional processing of the audio and video, where for reference the MP4 file with Linear PCM audio (44.1-Hz at 16-bits) I uploaded was approximately 90MB, so even though you like the way the audio sounds by itself, when you publish it on YouTube there is a bit of additional audio processing, which also is what happens when a radio station broadcasts a song, hence the importance of having everything in your digital music production studio defined as precisely as possible so that you can compare what you uploaded with what the YouTube processors and radio stations do toward the goal of determining what to do in the studio to cause the music to sound better after YouTube and radio stations do their processing, where for reference (a) the YouTube processing is done via supercomputers but (b) the radio station processing typically is done with a combination of digital signal processors and hardware processors like the ones that IK Multimedia emulates for its signal processing plug-ins in T-RackS CS Grand . . .
T-RackS CS Grand (IK Multimedia)
And as a bit of background on the song, it started in a discussion in the GuitarZone.com FORUM as a vastly silly example of a way to compose a song by starting with a well-known song you like and then essentially rewriting it but in a way which is at least minimally similar, and the example well-known song I used was "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" (Beatles), and this was the mapping that appeared after a while, which included having the idea for using absinthe as the theme, which happened a bit later during an entirely different conversation about my recipe for roast goose, where anise is the key spice, hence the mapping to absinthe, since green anise is one of the three primary herbs in absinthe:
[NOTE: I also used it as an example in a discussion here in the Notion Music FORUM, and I probably wrote something about it in a topic in the IK Multimedia FORUM, as well . . . ]
The Absinthe Drinker ~ Viktor Oliva
"Picture yourself in a boat on a river,
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies.
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly;
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes." John Lennon and Paul McCartney
"Absinthe in camera; sailing the seas
In search of green auras, as much as I please.
The telephone rings, but nobody's home;
An imagined young lady sits there all alone." Surfwhammy
The bridge or interlude was inspired by "Not Myself Tonight" (Christina Aguilera) and was added (a) to spank Christina for doing a naughty music video and (b) as a way to have a bit of FUN experimenting with Dubstep wobble bass, although the Dubstep wobble bass is in the background, since this was done before I discovered Cyclop (Sugar Bytes), which is the ultimate Dubstep wobble bass virtual instrument. And it also was before I discovered how to control Reason 6.5 (Propellerhead Software) with music notation sent via External MIDI from NOTION 4, so everything was done with music notation in NOTION 3, although I enhanced it with effects plug-ins in Digital Performer 8 (MOTU) after the fact . . .
So, instead of not being a song about LSD, it is not a song about absinthe, which is fabulous . . .
Fabulous!
