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After a long dry spell… I finish something.
Has everything you have posted here just use the included instruments, or can you score a piece of music and export MIDI to trigger other instruments?
Everything posted here uses Staffpad’s rendering capability.
But Staffpad can export all the parts as MIDI stems. MIDI has new standards for indicating articulations but staccato and legato will be indicated in the MIDI as variations of Note lengths.
But a recording of a legato note is very different than a recoded staccato. The attack, sustain, decay and release concepts of most synths are intended to assist with more natural sounding articulations.
Where articulations are different is when the “sample” retrieved for a Note is coordinated with the Articulation… like open string harmonics as one example.
If you’re deep into MIDI then Notion is probably a better solution. It’s free with a $15 IAP to add handwriting recognition which is slower but great for using on a train.
If you have more questions keep them coming. Musescore 4 with Mac OS is also free and has very similar features except for the pencil based input. They guy that recorded the sounds for Staffpad did the orchestral and choir recordings for MuseScore 4. There’s a company call Muse Group that has control over both products after a merger.
Further out than you’ve been. Well, it is a new year.I like the romantic parts and the contrast. 👍🙏
Thanks for the listen. I had so many false starts I pushed this one out just to break the curse for the new year. Hopefully the will to create returns. If we can get out of this fucking hospital soon life can get back on track.
Thanks for such a complete answer. I’ve been using Dorico as I only ever write music for piano, but just wondered as what you’ve been posting is pretty inspiring to make me want to arrange for other instruments too.
I think I missed a sale on Staffpad last year, but might just buy it as it seems very good value for what it is.
Lush strings...mmm! Nice!
Thanks… Staffpad added a suite of internal FX. I turned on
“Triplet Delay” (a mild delay without option to change from 3 repeats)
“Doubler” (whoa… 2x string section)
“Chorus” (OK… more strings)
This piece with these FX turned off (and I did apply them across the score on each instrument) is mush less “roomy” and ethereal. The FX kept me going because it made the piece stand out for me and acts as encouragement to find use cases for the strip of FX’es… there are 9 in all.
Questing for something different…
Glad to hear more of your Staffpad creations. Pendulus is quite beautiful and Textures and Edges has sounds and themes that I really like.
Sorry to see that the hospital is still part of your life. Hopefully that chapter of your life will be over soon.
Thank you for following my journey.
Watching the “The Banshees of Inisherin”, the music inspired me to make a flute and harp something.
I like this one. It sounds like it could be part of a larger composition. I only have my cheap office PC speakers at the moment. I will give this a proper listen tonight. Best of luck with everything.
Love this one @McD !
Thanks for checking it out.
Hey, that was a really nice piece of musical story-telling, beginning-middle-end, melody, harmony, enjoyable rhythm, the works! You should be really proud of this.
Fun fact: mainly it was your posts over the last couple years persuaded me to a) join this forum and b) buy staffpad… not sure if I come across in writing as a beacon of positivity at all times, but the intention is there to communicate in music fragments. Keep up what you’re doing! It’s appreciated.
Wow. I totally missed your entrance to the forum with 2 posts of music. I checked your profile and found links to your SoundCloud and listen to both. Very creative mix of tools using Staffpad as yet another sound source along with drums and found sounds, etc. very cool to see someone inspired to create from my efforts.
Sorry for being late to reply and create that feedback loop of support.
@McD - as (apparently) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fisher,_1st_Baron_Fisher once said, “Never explain. Never apologise.”
I dunno how good a maxim that is, really, but it seems appropriate in this moment.
Thanks for the listen!
That seems to be a current strategy in politics… I view it as “deny, project, accuse”. It’s from the toolkit of the narcissist that lives in a world of denial as a coping mechanism for a truly broken ego.
I wish people in general were better at spotting these users and not giving them so much latitude to lie and grasp into power and all the goodies.
I listened to 'Textures and Edges' in headphones last night. I hear a recurring theme that I like. I also like the room sound. Sort of like a small auditorium. It sounds like a live ensemble performance. I would enjoy hearing this transition into 'The Gordian Knot'. That one is really pretty. The ambience is very similar and I think it would follow nicely. The transition would be fun to figure out. Just a thought.
I started playing with various FX choices (using the same sets of FX across the board) with the intention of producing different “room” environments. This has been done on the last 2 projects. I also added panning on “Gordian Knot”. I’m intrigued by @Kewe_Esse work and mixing Staffpad instruments into another DAW like AUM or Cubasis and adding more IOS synths to the
Final work. I already experiemented with importing AUM recording files into Staffpad… mostly drum apps to update the century framing to the 2100’s.
My process goes along these lines:
1. Start with a single instrument, often cello, determined to get a melody out of my head and into a piece of some kind
2. 8 bars in, screw it, add a violin, it just all sounds so good! I’ll defo finish the song, just exploring harmony options…
3. Damn, let’s add bass and viola tracks too, there’s no penalty, why not
4. And a second violin to harmonise with the first…
5. Wait wait wait what am I doing. Export the dry cello audio and midi, let’s listen back outside of staffpad to regain some perspective, open up AUM
6. Omg deploy all synths and effects. Lumbeats drums. Drum computer. Hours pass…
7. Open up staffpad again, attempt to compose for string section, hmm, complicated
8. Attempt to further initial impulse, add another 8 or so bars of cello
9. Ok now I have to know what that would sound like with the violin back in…
Creating a few seconds of musical soundbite via ipad is pleasingly easy.
Creating a longer, expressive piece is frustratingly difficult. I’m making an effort to explore dynamics, crescendos, diminuendos… somehow still sounds a bit lifeless. That pitchdrift app helped a bit but still all sounds a bit mechanical to me.
I had some very encouraging results doubling a strings track and running one of the tracks through spacecraft, with minimal settings… but never finished the project lol
That which doesn’t kill ya makes ya stronger. IMHO, Textures is your best StaffPad to date. Good original sound with lots of contemporary influences, and percussive, of course.
Some good ideas here… I have dozens of projects started and abandoned because they weren’t speaking to me. Pushing them out to AUM as stems might help me find segments worth building when apps are added.
I have also been blocked from my usual AUM experiments so this might help there.
I thought you might like that approach. Breaking rules to find new combinations of sound but still teathered to traditions while flirting with a bit of chaos.
This pendulus keeps me hanging !
No seat belt… no helmet… pure adrenaline.
Makes me think of 70s prog rock orchestrations. Would like to hear something a little longer around this.
Cross posting from it’s own thread:
https://forum.audiob.us/discussion/53862/w-t-f-bach#latest
I started with the chord progression and crafted 5 different parts to use for orchestrating…