all this shit would be a lot easier if the tools worked

[solarbird]

Working on a huge timing-edit pass on Thought You Knew, which never got one the first time, because I didn’t know what I was doing yet. (It was the first track recorded on Dick Tracy Must Die.) All the tracks were timed against an improperly timed master track, and, well, hilarity ensues.

This would be unspeakably easier if I could go longer than eight minutes without the software crashing. No, really, I’ve been measuring it. Eight minutes, die. It hates having this many regions invoked. Hates it.

Despite this, I’ve finished 75% of the track. This is one of those things were people who hear what’s online now, then hear this, will go, “wow, this sounds a lot better,” but won’t know specifically why. A thousand little reasons. That’s why.

Mirrored from Crime and the Blog of Evil.

Comments

[tereshkova2001.livejournal.com]

As you probably know, the original recording of Bohemian Rhapsody was right at the edge of what tape could handle. They had to do multiple bouncedowns to get as many tracks as they wanted, and were basically making their equipment do things it wasn't meant to.
Jeff Bohnhoff's parody Midichlorian Rhapsody kept crashing Logic badly. 30 years later and it's still breaking recording equipment, this time by having too many tracks open in the software. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpvlTVgeivU)

[solarbird]

I'm pretty sure I can't even play that song on the same machine as Ardour. I think Ardour would run off into a corner, pout, and refuse to ever run again. XD

(It really is an epic production. MACE WINDU!)

[tereshkova2001.livejournal.com]

Vixy wants very badly to perform it live, with the whole operatic chorus and everything.

[solarbird]

I know a couple of geeky opera singers, but not that many geeky opera singers. XD

I don't even know how you'd stage a full chorus in... almost any hotel space. Not sanely, anyway. The ceilings are just too low; you'd need something like a grand ballroom. (Which would be only fitting, really.)

Of course, after Chiptunes Night at Benaroya Hall, there are a lot of things I shouldn't rule out...!