Synth Pop music with vocals? Linux sampler help?

[Ĥod]

Miranda,
I never did it, but it is possible to work with Ardour and Rosegarden,
because of JACK. I just work with Ardour, so I have no idea about how RG
works, but have you ever seen the Rosegarden`s tour at:
http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/tour/ ?

Take care
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Sammondane,
Ĥod


2010/12/20 Miranda Pennington <mirnander at gmail.com>

> I am wondering if some people could offer me advice on how to go about
> recording/creating some pop music with vocals. My boyfriend and I used to
> use Sony Acid for making our humor music, but I like using Ubuntu for all my
> other computing needs, so I'd like to use it for making music too.
>
> Typically, what we would do is create a rhythm track and then he improvises
> vocals and lyrics while I play the keyboards. After about ten minutes of
> noodling around while recording, I take the vocals and midi data, chop it
> up, organize it into a song, assign synth sounds to the midi data, process
> the vocals, and record any additional instrumentation it needs to flesh it
> out.
>
> I know that I want to use Hydrogen, auto talent, sound fonts, synths, and
> effects plug ins, but I'm not sure what the best sequencer or DAW would be
> to use to for recording or mixing, or how to go about pulling everything
> together. Do I have to use Ladish with a sequencer and a DAW and route
> everything together, or can I do most of this inside of one program? I'm
> thinking qtractor looks like the easiest to get a handle on, but the lack of
> envelope automation for fx, panning, and volume is sort of holding me back
> from using it. I use those a lot and I don't know how I would get along
> without them. I also need to be able to chop up the vocals and move the
> parts around fairly quickly. Also, I need to be able to save sessions so I
> can work on something here and there. I've seen that Ardour will be coming
> out with midi support in the future, so should I just wait to use Linux for
> what I want to do until it comes out? Would Muse be able to do what I want?
> I read somewhere that envelope automation is available in muse, but I
> haven't been able to find any info on how to use it. I'm guessing rosegarden
> could do all of this, but it looks difficult to use. Maybe that's unfair
> assumption though. I'm not sure. I don't mean to sound picky, but the
> interface on rosegarden looks very difficult t navigate to my eyes.
>
> I've searched on the web for comprehensive tuts, but I'm not finding much
> on my own. If anyone would be willing to blog a tut on how they put together
> their music, I would be forever grateful. Even if your music is totally
> different, just seeing how someone else goes about setting everything up to
> make a song from start to finish would be really helpful for me and anyone
> else who wants to get into Linux audio production and doesn't know where to
> start.
>
> Also, if anyone has some advice on how to get the Linux Sampler up and
> running with the piano library on Ubuntu, that would help me out. I know I
> need the Linux sampler back end along with jsampler or fantasia, but I
> haven't had any luck getting to it to work. I also play piano and do my own
> singer songwriter stuff. I would like to be able to record piano as midi
> data and use Linux Sampler for the piano sound. Since it's solo piano, it
> has to sound decent. How do I record it along with vocals?
>
> Thanks for reading such a long question everyone. Your responses are
> appreciated!
>
> Here are some examples of what I and my boyfriend do (that I would lie to
> accomplish with Ubuntu) -
>
> The humor music -  http://www.myspace.com/richydynamoandthefantastics
> My more serious stuff - http://www.reverbnation.com/mirandapennington
>
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