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Multi-track recordings
Just wondering if anyone knows any repositories for free multi-track recordings. I'd like to play around with some to get more proficient on DAWs, rather than spending a lot of time trying to compose something for a starting point. I did find this site (link below), but I'm leary about downloading from any site that I'm not familiar with. Has anyone else used this?
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I've done a quite a bit of this using midi files. Just render the separate midi tracks to audio using your favorite apps, and mix away. There's tens of thousands of them available in just about every genre.
That's actually a better idea @Coloobar, given the size of multi-track recordings. Thanks!
iReal Pro App exports separate MIDI tracks into Cubasis, for instance. You can then assign each MIDI track to Cubasis internal instruments, or drive other virtual instruments. You can then practice mixing and panning levels.
iReal Pro makes great backing tracks. You can turn on or off any of the four tracks before exporting to MIDI. For instance, if you just want the drums and bass exported. You go to Share Audio, and it gives you the option of exporting MIDI.
http://irealpro.com
Thanks @bsantro.....it's been a while since I used iReal Pro. Yet another one that I should dust off.
I love ireal pro, but I find mysefl using more chordbot, it's less fiddly to edit and there's control over chord inversions
ireal pro adds variations for each repeat and has a more "funky/syncopated " groove though
That's Mike senior's site. He wrote a great mixing book and these are files that can be used to practice the concepts in the book.
Sounds safe enough. I'll give that a go on my MBP where I have more space and stick with midi on iOS. Thanks all.
A few more ideas:
Sessionband apps could be used to record the separate parts.
YouCompose might be handy for midi parts.
Auria has some multitrack loops available.
When using midi files, you can make them sound less rigid and computerized by humanizing them. I don't know of a way to do this on iOS, but Reaper DAW for PC has a humanizing feature to randomize midi note velocity and timing. Most natural instruments can also "benefit" from a tonal humanization, since humans rarely play their instruments in perfect pitch. There's an old VST plugin called Humanisator by Tobybear that can do this inside Reaper. It would be cool if there was an iOS app (or DAW) that could do these things.
Thanks again guys. I have all you mentioned @Fruitbat1919, so that gives me several more options. @Coloobar - that sounds like a gap that would be good to have filled. Different Drummer can accomplish that, but it can only do it on midi files it generates, which I'll be looking at that route. It would be good if DD could import midi files though, and it would be good if other apps could support that functionality as well.
I just pitched the idea on the MultitrackStudio forum. Maybe Mr. Bremmers will take an interest in the idea.
you might find something interesting on https://blend.io/explore/type/stems
Didn't know they had stems on music.io. Thanks for that @syrupcore.
Oh God. Save me. Please. Somewhere else new full of people doing things that I need to be doing seeing chewing hearing sharing. WHERE IS MY THIRTY HOUR DAY PROFESSOR?
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there are a couple of multitrack files available. You might search a bit longer, but they can be found. Sorry for not providing links, but I found them through simple internet search, so they should be available for everyone.
MIDI files, especially if they have velocity/dynamic information, are also interesting. For 'static' MIDI files you can use only the note information and add volume later with hardware controllers. Or with automated means like mentioned here, although I don't know them. Good idea with Reaper, I must try that one day.
A few MIDI files have tempo change information as well. So far it appears only Cubase can interpret these tempo changes. There may be other DAW's with this feature, for me it was always Cubase the best DAW to import MIDI.