Hi Calehay,
Thanks for taking time and effort to reply and I really appreciate it
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To help the quality of Step 2, you must get some good soundfonts, and a few effects as well. While my recordings sound far from real with synthfont, they sound much better than the regular MIDI sounds we all know and love.[/b]
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I used to love midi till the day I added an audio (vocal) track.. They just sounded like they were from different spaces.. I haven't actually installed Synthfont and I don't really comprehend how soundfonts work. Are they installed on the PC and accessible to all softwares that utilise them? And do I need a compatible sound card?
I have only tried arranging 2 compositions. Not that I truely knew what I was doing.. The first was off pitch and the second had poor chord progression. But I guess I would probably die without drum kits and piano because I do mainly pop composition. I would surely love to try wind instruments though I'm not good at adding them as harmony.. But no strings? Aw..
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Now, most of these may not be worth much of anything without effects to give your "performance" that extra zing.
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Thanks for pointing that out! I haven't read about that yet.
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In Step 3, my recordings differed from yours, because since they were just demo recordings, I didn't find any need to use any effects, but I suggest you pick up Audacity. You can use alot of the same effects from SynthFont on your voice.
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Yes I will give it a try once I upgrade my PC RAM. Do you know what is the function that lowers my pitch? I think I would find that useful and faster than begging my guy friends
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As for the microphone, again, I wasn't so worried about quality, so I merely had the sound low while I recorded. Another solution might be using headphones while listening to the track. Now, I believe that Audacity allows for you to record a track while another track is playing. I was using WavePad at the time (Which might have it as well, but I'm not sure.) and I decided to use the Line Out recording option to record the playing sound file and the sound from the microphone to the soundfile. Whatever you do, I don't suggest recording the voice without being able to sync it up with the music in real time. You may try to do it afterwards, but it's rare that you'll be able to get it just right.
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Do you mean sync as in the timing or that the audio and instrumental tracks should sound like they are "merged" together? I think recording software will not be a problem. I had used Creative Wave Studio 9 years back to "record" parts of songs from CD (for innocent preview
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