"Christopher R. Maden" <cr...@maden.org> writes: > On 02/13/2018 03:04 PM, David Kastrup wrote: >> So I decided maybe sing this time. I am out of training (obviously) but >> by plastering reverb in and using LilyPond for creating the backing >> track, I got something annoyingly useful at first pitch. Now I just >> need to figure out how to do a proper count-in, and I think I can do the >> talk with that piece. The take itself is short, so I should have plenty >> of time messing up. And I need to work on my voice the next few weeks. >> >> So basically that is a "production with Ardour under Linux might be >> worth bothering with" pitch. > > That’s excellent, David! > > There are a couple of ways to do the count-in... I’ve made MIDI files > in LilyPond that have a wood-block percussion on every beat, starting > a couple of bars before everything else. You can open a multi-track > MIDI in Ardour, I believe. It makes a good guide for multi-track > vocals, too, to keep everything in tune. You can also make a click > track in Ardour itself, which may turn out to be easier, though it can > be harder to line up the MIDI with it, depending on how it all works > out.
I think lining up the Midi should be no problem at all. In fact, Ardour lined up the Midi quite thoroughly when I first imported it, warping it to 120 bpm (its apparent default). That was surprising. Changing Ardour's speed immediately adapted the Midi as well. I think I might try adding a count-in and perhaps something giving the pitch in Ardour: that makes the task independent from LilyPond as the producer of the Midi. At any rate, taking one reasonably portable audio interface (in my case, the "Satellite" portion of a Mackie Onyx Satellite) and the mics (of which I can use one without a stand) and the required cables and power adapters, and I should be set. Well, and a small speaker. And headphones. Still, should weigh less than the usual accordion. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
