Music Creation
While my primary interest is in guitar, I also tinker with keyboard, bass and drum and am in the process of setting up a quasi-studio in my spare room.
I have a Yamaha DD-55 digital drum (purchased on eBay for about $US100) that comes equipped with MIDI out that I have connected to a PC's sound card, along with a Roland PC-200 MIDI controller (purchased on eBay for about $A120) to take care of the keyboard/piano stuff. The PC is a P4, 2.6G with a Gigabyte motherboard and 1G of RAM. Sound in/out is being handled by a Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 (purchased on eBay for about $A30) which deals with the SoundFonts decently, for the price. I using a Marantz PM-450 Gold Series amplifier to monitor the PC's output and hear my music, or should that be noise ;)
My axe is a Fender Telecaster 1974 with a sunburst finish. I have replaced the bridge pick-up with an after-market Seymour Duncan Hot Rails humbucker to get that fat sound. Unfortunately, the original pickup has gone microphonic and feeds back badly at volume, not necessarily a bad thing.
I am using Steinberg's Cubase to process the MIDI, directly injected audio and microphone inputs. While there is a fairly steep learning curve with using the Cubase, it is a really powerful piece of software that really delivers the goods.
The Yamaha comes equiped with some nice drum samples, however, they are not used when you plug into a PC and therefore I have had to fool around with SoundFonts to get a decent drum sound pumping out of the PC. I have found HammerSound to be a useful resource on the SoundFont front. In the future, I intend to use recordings that I have made of the Yamaha's samples, and other samples that I collected, to construct a tailored SoundFont.
I am interested in hearing about other peoples' experiences concerning home recording.
I have a Yamaha DD-55 digital drum (purchased on eBay for about $US100) that comes equipped with MIDI out that I have connected to a PC's sound card, along with a Roland PC-200 MIDI controller (purchased on eBay for about $A120) to take care of the keyboard/piano stuff. The PC is a P4, 2.6G with a Gigabyte motherboard and 1G of RAM. Sound in/out is being handled by a Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 (purchased on eBay for about $A30) which deals with the SoundFonts decently, for the price. I using a Marantz PM-450 Gold Series amplifier to monitor the PC's output and hear my music, or should that be noise ;)
My axe is a Fender Telecaster 1974 with a sunburst finish. I have replaced the bridge pick-up with an after-market Seymour Duncan Hot Rails humbucker to get that fat sound. Unfortunately, the original pickup has gone microphonic and feeds back badly at volume, not necessarily a bad thing.
I am using Steinberg's Cubase to process the MIDI, directly injected audio and microphone inputs. While there is a fairly steep learning curve with using the Cubase, it is a really powerful piece of software that really delivers the goods.
The Yamaha comes equiped with some nice drum samples, however, they are not used when you plug into a PC and therefore I have had to fool around with SoundFonts to get a decent drum sound pumping out of the PC. I have found HammerSound to be a useful resource on the SoundFont front. In the future, I intend to use recordings that I have made of the Yamaha's samples, and other samples that I collected, to construct a tailored SoundFont.
I am interested in hearing about other peoples' experiences concerning home recording.
posted by BlueRock | 10:29 pm
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