With My Unblinking Eye

[davidn]

I did some more music work tonight, trying to port an old song of mine (March 2005!) into Music Creator 6 and Shreddage. This is With My Unblinking Eye (original here), a fan song of sorts for near the start of the Iron Savior storyline (original here). I think I'm slowly beginning to get accustomed to this new environment - I really like what it's possible to do with the rhythm guitar and the drums. I haven't imported any of my usual instruments, so at the moment I have hired a Commodore 64 as the new singer.

The next step - find out how to cleanly use multiple instances of the plugin so that I can add the other guitar parts. Actually I seem to have trouble using multiple instances of the same plugin in Music Creator 6 in general - where I'm from, all you have to do is arrange WAV files on to channels...

Comments

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

How does the plugin work? Could you try using it in something like Reaper if Music Creator isn't working out?

That's really sounding pretty good! Does the drum kit have multiple snare hit sounds, though? Even if not, you should try varying the strength of them, even if only in volume... that's the trouble with the uncanny valley ;)

[davidn]

Erm, I'm not actually really certain how it works, and that realization is really my problem :) It's a sample library that's loaded through LinuxSampler, which produces the clean guitar picking sounds, then a guitar amp simulator is applied to the channel's output. Looking at that now, maybe I need to run two LinuxSampler backends? I'm not sure. I do have Reaper to try it in as well, though.

The drum kit does have multiple snare sounds - it has multiple banks, though I'm not sure if samples from multiple ones can be loaded at the same time... I will experiment!