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I recorded a thing on the drums!! 😁 (The backing track isn't mine, full credit to Jack Curtis; all his stuff is up on Bandcamp, highly recommended).

I screwed up slightly in a couple of places because I'm used to watching the iPad in front of me and knowing when time changes are coming from there but I kept having to look over at the computer to my left instead. I've subsequently realised that I can use the iPad as an extended monitor for the laptop and can move the track time display over to that.

I also discovered the fun* of getting audio and video synced up, and how despite the fact that the iPhone says it's shooting video at 60 frames per second, it's ACTUALLY 59.94 and so by the end of the song the audio I recorded directly in Logic Pro had drifted significantly from the video. Thankfully iMovie has a "Speed Editor" where you can get it all lined back up again.

But eeeee! Absolutely stoked with this!

Posted on 12 February 2023, 18:56

A photo of a Roland TV-17KV electronic drum kit that has a hi-hat mounted on an acoustic stand at the left, the standard crash and ride cymbals on the mid-left and mid-right respectively, and then the old hi-hat cymbal has been repurposed at the far right of the kit as a second crash cymbal.

And now that I've replaced the stock hi-hat I have a spare cymbal, so I've hooked up that up at the very right as a second crash cymbal! 😁

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Posted on 5 January 2023, 16:31

A photo of a compact electronic drum kit, with a very shiny metal acoustic hi-hat stand with a black plastic cymbal mounted on it sitting behind the kit.

I've started doing some more advanced stuff on the drums and some of it involves using the hi-hat pedal to open and close the hi-hat, but the stock hi-hat pedal that comes with the drums is fairly mushy and I was having a lot of trouble getting it to register when doing fast switches between open and closed (it's perfectly fine just when it's fully closed or open, just not so much when switching between the two in rapid succession). I did some research and Roland actually have a hi-hat that you mount on a regular acoustic hi-hat stand and it physically moves up and down as a regular hi-hat would.

I ordered both the cymbal and the stand earlier in in the week and it arrived today, and man it feels nice to play!

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Posted on 5 January 2023, 14:14

A photo of a horizontal speaker with a grey mesh grille on it, sitting on top of two vertical pieces of wood that have a 90-degree section cut out of them such that the speaker is angled up at 45 degrees. The whole setup is at the base of my electronic drum kit and so the speaker is angled to aim right at me when I'm sitting on the stool.

I bought an Audioengine speaker around this time last year to use with my drums but it was always just sitting on the floor pointing at my feet so today I decided to build a little stand for it so it'd be angled up at me! I can definitely notice the difference, everything sounds a lot crisper.

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Posted on 29 December 2022, 16:16

Drums and chords with single coil split (Electronic Remix)

And then of course, I had to spend like two hours playing around in Logic Pro turning this into an electronic song. 😁 I duplicated the guitar track three times and applied different effects to each one, very pleased with the result.

The drums were slightly annoying because apparently my Roland drum kit uses different MIDI notes than the defaults than Logic uses for a bunch of the individual pieces. I always end up having to manually edit the drum kit within Logic Pro so a quarter of the notes are even playing anything at all, and then I need to change another quarter of them because things like the toms and crash cymbal have ended up being weird effect sounds instead.

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Posted on 10 December 2022, 21:35

Drums plus chords with single coil split

I made another song! This time it was just straight up recording a track on the drums, then playing guitar over it. Definitely doing significantly better in terms of staying in time now. 😛

For the guitar, I used my new Ibanez and switched it to the split between the bridge humbucker and the middle single coil, and it's SUCH a nice sparkly sound! I added some reverb after the fact in Logic Pro as well, since I don't have my reverb pedal yet, and man it's amazing how much of a difference it makes. The whole guitar just sounds more... open, I guess? It's hard to describe but it's quite a noticeable difference.

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Posted on 10 December 2022, 18:59

Electrosynths

I did a song!

The initial track that comes in was just me putting notes manually onto the MIDI view in Logic Pro, but the drums and guitars are both me playing the actual drums and actual guitar. I recorded them as loops and dropped them into Logic's Live Loops view, and then recorded each section as a scene, which is FAR less stressful than trying to play the whole thing in one take.

Also, check me out actually playing in time with the drums this time. 😛

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Posted on 5 November 2022, 18:15

My First Song (Electro Mix)

There we go, I present to you "My First Song (Electro Mix)"! 😁

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Posted on 26 August 2022, 21:21

A photo of a set of wooden drumsticks, and the boxes of an Ernie Ball "Volt" power supply and a drum practice pad.

Why yes, it IS more music-related things!

I got a teeny little power supply for my yet-to-exist pedal board because I don't want to have to deal with 9V batteries, and a practice drum pad because I've seen multiple (extremely good) drummers mention that every aspiring drummer should have and use one.

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Posted on 23 August 2022, 13:09

A photo of an electronic drum kit set up against a wall, with a tripod stand sitting to the left behind where the drum module is and a laptop sitting on the stand. The stand very much resembles a stand you'd put sheet music on. Immediately to the left of the drum kit and stand is a bookshelf with all sorts of non-book stuff on it, and right next to THAT is a set of luggage that'd been where I had the laptop sitting before the stand arrived.

A photo of the very complicated user interface of Logic Pro with a recording from my drums. It shows the tempo across the song, and it varies from 118bpm to just under 122bpm which isn't bad given I was aiming for 120!

I ordered a laptop stand so I could have my laptop hooked up to my drums in a more useful position, it arrived today and fits perfectly! So much better than having it dodgily perched on the luggage to the left there. 😛

I also discovered that Logic Pro has a thing where it can pick up the tempo of what you're playing and it lets you adjust it after the fact! I'm a bit shit at keeping time, but I recorded a section by trying to keep a count in my head ("ONE and TWO and THREE and FOUR and") and I actually ended up surprisingly close to 120bpm the whole time.

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Posted on 17 May 2022, 13:26