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“My Love, My Love” - my new original song!
This is my latest original song, a rock’n’roll love ballad with very upbeat lyrics and a retro 60’s feel, with lots of vocals and guitars soaken in reverb. As always, recorded in Auria Pro (iOS) with an Apogee One, MXL mics, a Marshal JT-30 with a few stomps, a cheap strat and a cheap precision bass knock-offs. For the.video, clips from another classic movie, “The Lady Refuses” (1931). Lyrics in the description. Enjoy!
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I thought I heard Beatles in others of yours, but here it is for real. What are you imbibing? I want some! Love the backup vocals.
Oh, yeah, Beachboys, of course.
Glad you enjoyed this one - thank you so much!
Excellent song! Keep them coming!
Damn, every few days @theconnactic Dmitri drops the mic on us...very cool 60's pop tune, very good stuff.
Now a few secrets? What did you do for drums? That main crash sound is awesome.
Many thanks!
Thank you a lot! I always write the drums in Garageband iOS's Drummer, then export each instrument to Auria, where I sometimes replace the kicks and snares with Drumagog or turn everything to MIDI to replace it with DPP. But this time, I didn't replace anything: just applied some EQ and FF Pro C2 and got the sound I wanted. Glad you liked it!
That's a great way of working man. Especially since Files has made it very easy to get audio in & out of AuriaPro.
Indeed, but it’s still very tedious: soloing drums pieces in the Drummer for exporting will trigger its “AI” to change the beat, the fills will change etc. Sometimes I have to copy the fills by playing them the best I can in one of GB’s acoustic drummers and separate each instrument in its own MIDI track to get the result I want. There should be a way to convert a drummer track to MIDI, but I’m sure Apple will eventually get there.
After my last post I messed around in GarageBand as I'm not very familiar with it, or let's say comfortable with it- it just is nowhere as user friendly as it should be if they just followed traditional norms of àudio technology. Make a traditional mixer, not a bunch of sliders hidden behind menus, etc... but I digress.
Yeah I couldn't see where the virtual AI Drummer (i.e. the "this is Dirk and he loves Vic Firth sticks & angeldust" auto drummer feature) can export any individual elements. So God bless you if you're doing that piecemeal one at a time.
In fact the only export feature I could find at all is to long press on the project name/icon, and choose the share option. It had stereo MP3/Lossless/WAV stereo export, some ringtone thing and a "project" export which I'm not sure is a defacto AAIF file like export of all individual tracks or the Garage Band only project export file type.
Lastly I know the Drumagog plugin in Auria is a bit older but I've always been curious about it. Interesting to hear you use it so much Dmitri....so I assume it works okay.
Be cool...
Drumagog is fantastic!
Beautifully done on every level. You set a standard for IOS.
Thank you so much for this comment! It means a lot!
P.S.: @JRSIV, for GB Drummer to export one element at a time, just mute all the others a zero the fills (in a duplicate track). As I said, not a perfect method, because it will also trigger the AI to change the beat slightly, but it’s better than nothing. I have also to copy the fills verbatim to the best of my abilities to an acoustic drum (not a Drummer) track because the fill elements cannot be separated. Cheers!