Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man - Mysteries (Piano Cover) скачать в хорошем качестве

Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man - Mysteries (Piano Cover)

From Beth Gibbons' and Rustin Man's (2002) album, "Out of Season." **Recording Information and Thoughts** I played this song on a relatively cheap (i.e., entry-level) Yamaha P-95 digital piano and transferred the midi data to my relatively modest laptop (ASUS U35JC). The midi data was recorded via the software program known as Synthogy Ivory (NOT cheap! Like $400) and played back using Ivory's piano samples and recorded via the program Audacity. While I would have loved to listen in real time to my key strikes being played back to me through Ivory's sophisticated algorithms and diverse samples, the modest nature of my laptop CPU meant there was a lot of latency between key strike and sound produced, so I muted my laptop while I was recording. This had the unfortunate disadvantage that I was unable to fine tune what my music (as produced in Ivory) sounded like in real time. While I could still hear the audio from the instrument itself, there are very noticeable differences between the audio emerging from the instrument (i.e., the P95) and the audio that is generated from the midi information sent to Ivory. Therefore, the fine tuning that I automatically do whenever I play a song on the piano is not applicable to the resulting performance generated by Ivory (even though it's technically based on the same keystroke data). I instructed Synthogy Ivory to play back the midi data in audio form using the custom parameter set designated for, "Lush Chorus Grand 8." I chose this setting because some of the others sounded very different or "off" relative to what I heard from the digital piano itself and the Lush Chorus Grand 8 setting seemed to best approximate what I wanted. I then recorded the resulting audio via the wonderful (and wonderfully free) program known as Audacity. To make this performance more "genuine", I mixed audio from both Ivory as well as audio from the camera itself (and with it, all the background noise you would expect from recording via a microphone). Albeit, I did reduce the volume of the camera audio by 13.9 decibels so that the majority of what you're hearing is from Ivory. Still, it's enough for you to hear some ambient sounds, like how I scratched my face, sniffed through my nostrils, and adjusted my bench at the start of the video. While I am overall happy with the performance and the sound, a part of me feels like this wasn't the best recording I could have done. Due to the set of parameters corresponding to "Lush Chorus Grand 8", the resulting product sounds like a piano played under water, in my opinion. Possible Future Option 1: Maybe I should go through the hassle of installing Ivory on my newly constructed desktop computer (which sports an i5 processor and 4x the memory of my laptop). If it means less latency between key strike and sound production, I'll be in a better position to fine tune the way I play this song in real time. Possible Future Option 2: Alternatively, I could go back to my original method of recording my music which was to use an audio interface to bridge the connection between piano and computer. When you use a virtual studio software like Ivory, there is no need for an audio interface. However, a part of me feels somewhat 'dirty' for recording midi data and not audio data and having some fancy expensive software package convert that midi data into something beautiful. I was never super super thrilled with my previous recordings made with my audio interface, but then again I had used a really super cheapo audio interface (i.e., $30-$40). I wonder what it would sound like with a higher quality (i.e., $99) audio interface...