Lessons with PhantomOftheOpera

Oh yes, good point!

We should make it like this:

Export the whole track to mp3 first, so that i can hear the overall result. Give me a brief description of every instrument you have in your step sequencer then and for every external library i don

Yeah, I think I get it, I make a wav sample of the channel in which I have my samples, so you can put it where it belongs, I can give you exact time of specific channels (beginning and end) so you wont have any trouble.

It would be easier if you could make the playlist using your wavs or mp3s, but it

Ahh, yeah, I figured how to do that. Just didn't remember.. :D

Well, I'm done (finally). In the following links you will find an mp3 of my track and a .rar folder of samples I used. I tried to not to use too much, so it basically has just 4 or 5 samples you don't have. I also used some of the soundfonts I sent you earlier. In the rar file you will find two folders where I keep my sound libraries. If you have a D: partition, just create folder called: Sound Libraries and put the two folders from the rar file in it. I recon it should work. The project file is also there. I really got lost in an attempt to make it work the way you told me to. :/

Anyway, about the track itself, it's 3 mins long, has some drums, strings, french horn, piano, bass, some syths, percussion and a bit of choir. I tried to put as much as I could in it as you told me to. Forgive if it seems a little unconnected at times, I really had a hard time finishing it without a keyboard, since I borrowed it to a friend.

Here is a link to a mp3 file:

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And for the samples and the project file:

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I'm eager about you review. :)

Very good! I just listened to the mp3 and wrote down the structure of this track but for now i cannot focus enough to start with a detailed analysis because i am suffering from heavy (!) toothache - i hope to be able to do this tomorrow, but for now i just want to give you a general overview of how i want to go through the whole process.

Four parts that should enable us to analyze every aspect of this track from different standpoints:

Ahh man. Sorry. I hate toothaches. Take your time. I am not going anywhere. :D

Hope you feel better soon.

I visited a dentist yesterday. I am simply amazed - they know how to inflict pain... He pulled out my nerve after he had milled most of my healthy tooth.

Okay now to begin with a technical analysis of your piece i give you a short description of the four aspects i mentioned earlier. Let

Ok, great. I do need some general composition guides too.

Is mastering next?

Good so far, now the following two aspects are strongly connected to each other and i didn

Ah sorry, i didn

I just read you very long post :D

Ehm, do you want me to edit my project again and post it, using the advice you gave me just now?

No, i only want you to carefully read it and think through your project by understanding the aspects i

Well, I always think I could have done something much better. I'm never happy with what I made. I understood pretty much every advice you gave me so far. I guess I will play around with that later tonight.

Whatever you think is best way to continue please go ahead. I'm up for every solution.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot. There wasn't any particular idea behind the first section of my piece, that was pretty much just soloing on a piano recorded and remade in FL.

The other part however was written long ago, it was meant to accompany a LOTR like medieval battle scene. I just thought of trying and putting it in this piece. (it was with orchestral percussion not drums initially.)

Good, i will start with a general explanation about digital effects about tomorrow then.

I

Well, my band is working on full power, but usually I can get about 2-3 hours, in the morning or the afternoon to check in. Also I work every day, so I can get hooked up from there (internet caffe). So there should be no major problems. I should be able to get online every day.

Okay, just make sure to play around with these effects because you might want to get a feeling for the resulting changes.

Are you currently recording or planning to do so? We can also cover some band mastering things if you

Well sure, if get to the studio, I will contact you. We planned to do that this summer. Since we are a club band (covers) there isn't much to record now.

But there are some festivals which we are planning to participate in so we need a couple of our own stuff.

Well if you happen to have a self-recorded track, then feel free to share the tracks of each instrument for mastering purposes. The roles of each instrument in a standard band formation are clearly defined and therefore it

Ok, I get most of all this except about send 1,2,3 channels of the mixer. How do you define which of the normal channels you wish to include in an specific effect of the lets say send 1 channel? And what happens if you have more instruments you wish to master than the 16 channels of the mixer? Is it possible to increase the number of channels?

The FL Studio mixer features 64 channels. Use the scroll bar in the top left to see all of them.

To "send" a normal channel to a send channel simply increase one of the four knobs that are associated with the corresponding send channel you want to activate while the track is selected that you want to send. Usually one would load a reverb to a send channel that has it

Yeah... You might wanna create that project file... somethings wrong with my head today... I went out with no shoes on this morning... that was weird :O

Effects:

Yes, I only have FL 7.

Nothing too complicated so far. Except for gate, its little confusing, I don't get the part: "it assigns silent inputs to zero output." What actually happens to the signal there?

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