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Caravan Ray wrote:

Billy's Little Trip wrote: Yep, your right. I just put in the beat calculator at 16 count and it's 113.17bpm.
WTF?

What is a "beat calculator"? Is that part of the software you use? I've always wondered if there is an easy way to find the bpm for a piece of music - it is very fiddly with garageband. Is there software I can download?

It's in Cubase. But last night when I read your first post I didn't have access to my music computer, so I googled a beat calculator. I checked out a few that are just the "tap the space bar" kind, which Cubase also has. But I did come across this one. I haven't tried it yet.

Awsome! I never thought to look for something like that before. That space-bar click one will come in handy.

BTW BLT - I have some backing vox and some really crappy live sitar for you. Will try to send tomorrow. Will also send bit of my own song for you to add vox to.

Cool, John. Vocals are welcome.

John?! Michael?! What is this world coming to? Next you'll tell me that Paco isn't Paco! I'm so sad... such a disillusioned world I live in now...

ujnhunter wrote:John?! Michael?! What is this world coming to? Next you'll tell me that Paco isn't Paco! I'm so sad... such a disillusioned world I live in now...

Nevermind, just so long as we all know that you are a genuine Cock.

Hey, plan on me sending in several guitar parts for you to deal with, and maybe some keys.

ujnhunter wrote:John?! Michael?! What is this world coming to? Next you'll tell me that Paco isn't Paco! I'm so sad... such a disillusioned world I live in now...

Yeah, when I first started here I posted on the forums under my band name, but then switched to using my real name because life wasn't confusing enough.

Cool Jeff. I hope I don't f**k this thing up, lol.

trying to send something now - still having a few email issues though

EDIT

looks like you might receive the same files twice.

errr...stereo?!?

Caravan Ray wrote:trying to send something now - still having a few email issues though

EDIT

looks like you might receive the same files twice.

errr...stereo?!?

Got'm. They sound great.

If make your part into a loop and record over it as a it plays for several repetitions, should I slice my part up into pieces for you or would you rather do it?

As long as they fit, Jeff. But I am most likely going to cut everything into 8, 16 and 32 count pieces, then start making the collage. I'll probably use a plug-in called the "illusionator". It places sounds on a stage right, left, front, back and everywhere in between that I decide. it has this cool looking virtual stage and you move a joy stick around to place the track exactly where you want it. So I'm hoping it will let me add lots of sound nuggets throughout the song without sounding like I'm crowding them.

I sent you some guitar parts last night, and I'm emailing some keyboards as I write this. Let me know if you got 'em. Note that I snapped your clips to start and loop exactly on the 113.17 beat, so you'll probably need to manually re-align my samples. But once you line them up they should be in tempo.

Yeah, I got your parts last night. They sound great. My music computer is on the rag right now, so I can't really start arranging until I fix it. I think I'm just going to load Cubase on my laptop. I should anyway so I can work on music when I'm away from my music room.

It's done! I got it in a tad late, so I hope Spud posts it. I did get the confirmation.
Thanks for the parts guys. I entered it under the band name, William L Tripowtski and the Tripowtski Players. I didn't want it tagged as Billy's Little Trip because it's too good and will give false expectations for future BLT music.

edit: Songs are up. So.........Whatchya think?
....this was fun. It would have been better if I had more than two partial days to put it together. I LOVE John's vox. It totally made the song and Jeff's lead riffs running through the chorus and bridge are perfect for this song.

edit2: Whoa, I just listened to the version I entered. What happened to John's chorus vox? That's weird, it sounds like it was running too hot and clipped when I reformatted to MP3....I'm guessing. I did run the whole tune really hot for excitement, but the original mix is ok, but peaking. I've never had that happen. Maybe be the New and improved Zealand isn't XP compatible.

qotd: Caravan Ray's vocals are so strong that he can clip them AFTER they've been mixed down.