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Staffpad Sketches

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  • @McD said:
    “Classified Intrumentation” started with a busy piano part and grew from there:

    I would mix the piano arpeggios in and out during this one. It would add a lot of energy.

  • @LinearLineman said:

    @McD said:
    “Classified Intrumentation” started with a busy piano part and grew from there:

    I would mix the piano arpeggios in and out during this one. It would add a lot of energy.

    Good idea. My basic idea for the sketch was to use the same progression multiple times and see if I could
    Introduce new intruments and maintain interest… I’d say I didn’t quite hit the bullseye. I was listening to Beethoven’s 7th
    And his use of this idea just pulls me in all the way to the introduction of the triplet theme. Such a perfect composition
    Like most of his work… he really labored over his scores. With Staffpad I can crank out more crap in a few hours.

  • @McD said:
    “Classified Intrumentation” started with a busy piano part and grew from there:

    I like the way family instruments enter one at a time playing the same theme and then go back in the harmony "shadow" once they're done.
    I find this to lack a bit in the low register (a layered team of double bass and tuba and/or contrabassoon would do a great job) but I am listening on my phone speakers so maybe it is there. I should listen on headphones. Beautiful piece. Hope you will keep on working on it.

  • @JanKun said:

    @McD said:
    “Classified Intrumentation” started with a busy piano part and grew from there:

    I like the way family instruments enter one at a time playing the same theme and then go back in the harmony "shadow" once they're done.
    I find this to lack a bit in the low register (a layered team of double bass and tuba and/or contrabassoon would do a great job) but I am listening on my phone speakers so maybe it is there. I should listen on headphones. Beautiful piece. Hope you will keep on working on it.

    True. I started with the idea that is would be a chamber orchestra and cello would be the lowest instrument. There's only 1 player of each string type too. Chamber music rules...

    I find I get engaged but there's a point where I just want to "print" an audio and move on.
    I intended to re-visit the sketches that deserve more effort.

    I'm trying to fill up a 10 hour hospital visiting session basically but there will be some ideas worth building on.

  • I find I get engaged but there's a point where I just want to "print" an audio and move on.
    I intended to re-visit the sketches that deserve more effort.

    That is probably the best method. I came to that conclusion recently. Some pieces can be completed very quickly but most of the time, it is better to let a bit of distance.
    Anyway, IMHO, that piece is great and I sincerely hope that at some point you will revisit it, it deserves it.

  • @JanKun said:

    I find I get engaged but there's a point where I just want to "print" an audio and move on.
    I intended to re-visit the sketches that deserve more effort.

    That is probably the best method. I came to that conclusion recently. Some pieces can be completed very quickly but most of the time, it is better to let a bit of distance.
    Anyway, IMHO, that piece is great and I sincerely hope that at some point you will revisit it, it deserves it.

    I just listened to it again and I’m getting “Godfather” vibes from the string parts. I love those themes so I’d just make sure I’m not spot on for more than a few notes.

  • edited October 2022

    @McD said:

    @JanKun said:

    I find I get engaged but there's a point where I just want to "print" an audio and move on.
    I intended to re-visit the sketches that deserve more effort.

    That is probably the best method. I came to that conclusion recently. Some pieces can be completed very quickly but most of the time, it is better to let a bit of distance.
    Anyway, IMHO, that piece is great and I sincerely hope that at some point you will revisit it, it deserves it.

    I just listened to it again and I’m getting “Godfather” vibes from the string parts. I love those themes so I’d just make sure I’m not spot on for more than a few notes.

    Ah, Nino Rota ! So many great composers at that time. Henri Mancini , Lalo Schifrin, John Barry, and my favourite, Ennio Morricone

  • Dialling up the Suspense:

  • Latin syllables available in StaffPad VOXOS Full Choir:

  • McDMcD
    edited October 2022

    Recipe:

    • I made a screen recording of the Choir samples from “Music for Airports”
    • Imported the audio into Koala
    • Imported the Composite sample into Staffpad and assigned it to 4 audio tracks staggered so it overlaps
    • Then added some Staffpad instruments

  • Audio passing experiment between AUM and Staffpad:

    1. AUM:
    • make Riffler guitar riff audio track
    • Make a Rock Drummer audio track
    1. Staffpad:
    • Import 2 audio tracks into a Staffpad score
    • Add strings and brass parts
    • Export current version as audio
    1. AUM:
    • Import staffpad audio into AUM in a file player
    • Load Hammond B-3X AUv3 app and assign to keyboard
    • Play audio (Staffpad backing) and solo with B-3X organ while recording audio
    1. Staffpad:
    • Import organ solo into existing score
    • Adding Staffpad Rotary, Plate Reverb and Compressor FX
    • Export mixed score as audio

    Upload to SoundCloud:

  • “Ike Waltz”

    It reminds me of the “To Kill a Mockingbird” theme because of the instrumentation and the use of the Lydian Scale which is the brightest scale possible.

  • My favourites of your last few pieces are Ike Waltz and Sunrise in Ab Major… have you heard the Daybreak section from Daphnis and Chloe by Ravel… it’s has the same ‘feel’

  • McDMcD
    edited October 2022

    @GeoTony said:
    My favourites of your last few pieces are Ike Waltz and Sunrise in Ab Major… have you heard the Daybreak section from Daphnis and Chloe by Ravel… it’s has the same ‘feel’

    I’ll go find it and seek clues from a true Master of Impressionism. Thanks for your input… your tastes are close to mine and your work resonates with my aesthetic temperament.

  • A pass at a “News Intro” for a local station with no budget for John Williams:

  • Another nature essay:

  • edited October 2022

    @McD said:
    I was playing with Time Signature Changes in a Score made from a series of Cut and Paste gestures when the app crashed and every attempt to re-open the score makes the app crash. On the forums people say “Send it to Staffpad Support and they will fix it.” But, I tried rendering to audio and the last version came out. Good enough for a sketch…

    Love this! I would enjoy watching the score.

  • @Paulieworld said:

    @McD said:
    I was playing with Time Signature Changes in a Score made from a series of Cut and Paste gestures when the app crashed and every attempt to re-open the score makes the app crash. On the forums people say “Send it to Staffpad Support and they will fix it.” But, I tried rendering to audio and the last version came out. Good enough for a sketch…

    Love this! I would enjoy watching the score.

    The score crashed on me. But there is an option to export the score out to audio and that’s how I got the SoundCloud track.
    To show the score I need it to re-open.

  • “Grover’s Groove” - Grover Washington used to put out the best long form groove albums of smooth jazz using top tier studio players.

    I was working on setting up a LUMBeats Grrove using iBassist, Reggae Drummer and Afro-Latin Drum Machine. I played some
    Rhodes keyboard licked over the top and saved as audio. I imported the audio into Staffpad and added some strings and horn parts. It’s still a work in progress. Articulating brass parts for funk rhythms is some deep voodoo I need to work out.

  • @McD said:
    Recipe:

    • I made a screen recording of the Choir samples from “Music for Airports”
    • Imported the audio into Koala
    • Imported the Composite sample into Staffpad and assigned it to 4 audio tracks staggered so it overlaps
    • Then added some Staffpad instruments

    This is a really beautiful piece @McD !

  • @JanKun said:

    @McD said:
    Recipe:

    • I made a screen recording of the Choir samples from “Music for Airports”
    • Imported the audio into Koala
    • Imported the Composite sample into Staffpad and assigned it to 4 audio tracks staggered so it overlaps
    • Then added some Staffpad instruments

    This is a really beautiful piece @McD !

    Thanks! I should have called it “Sunrise on an Ab Major 7th Chord” because it doesn’t venture outside of those notes.
    Basically there’s no motion in a bass voice.

  • This started in Cubasis 3 using the 2 new BeatHawks “Subculture Orchestral” presets.
    Then passed to Staffpad to ad instruments.

  • UVI’s BeatHawk Subculture Orchestral Demo mixed with horns and strings:

  • McDMcD
    edited October 2022

    I made the background loop in Ableton Note and used this process to free the resulting audio:
    1. Screen capture while Note plays the created loop. Find the BPM and Scale settings to set them up in Staffpad later.
    2. Use Koala to import from the resulting video of step 1.
    3. Export the Koala Sample into AudioShare.
    4. Import the AudioShare file into Staffpad and add instruments. Set the project’s Tempo track to the Ableton Note BPM and set the key signature to the scale. If the scale is a mode you’ll need to count notes to the “Ionian” or Minor relative root to set the correct key signature.

  • Im enjoying your sketches! Makes me want to get staffpad and have fun making music with it too. The sock it to me mama was amusing. Perfect picture for it, lol.

  • Very productive days for you, my friend. Is that you and your wife??

  • @LinearLineman said:
    Very productive days for you, my friend. Is that you and your wife??

    No... when I upload into Soundcloud I have added a step where I put a search query into Chrome and ask for images. I pick one image and add it to in the thumbnail slot. So, they are
    just a generic older white couple. It makes sense with the (c)rap I have in mind... tongue firmly in cheek as aways.

  • I’m enjoying using Ableton Note to create a bass-drum audio track to layer Staffpad over and get a more surreal landscape…

  • I played the previous Staffpad project while playing and recording a Rhodes keyboard part in AUM.
    Then I imported the resulting Rhodes audio file into a duplicate Staffpad project… so mixing Ableton Notes,
    Staffpad and AUv3 instances and FX in AUM into a complete audio file.

  • Looking for interesting piano ideas that I could never play:

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