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I am using the melody/soloist tracks for adding drum/efx sounds. How do I select, if posible, a Gong sound?
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Welcome to the forum. Here's something to try:
Set the Melody (or Soloist, your choice) track to Channel 10 (so it plays percussion), by Options, Preferences, Channels.
Then go into the Staff Roll Notation Mode, find a suitable sound, and enter it where needed. Perhaps top line A of the bass clef, which is a cymbal. "Gong" isn't one of the MIDI sounds in the BIAB drum kit (Options, Preferences, Drum Kit) so you'll have to fish around a bit, and it's possible you will not find the sound you want.
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You have to find a gong sound note in your drum kit. Once you have that, the easiest way is to use the Soloist|Edit Soloist Track|Step Edit Soloist Part to Insert the note at the appropriate place. If it is a drum patch, be sure to put it on channel 10 and change the Soloist track type to Soloist|Track Type|Multi.
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The MIDI drums window has pictures of all the drums available that you can play with the mouse. As you hover over them, if you have the Settings to show the MIDI note name, you can find out quickly what note to use for the Gong.
You can also Record from that drums window in realtime, using the mouse or the qwerty keyboard.
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If you use RealBand to "finalize" your song, you could use a freebie gong WAV file from the Net, inserted at the appropriate spots on a separate track. Google "gong wav file".
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Normally, at this point, I would make a reference to "now for something completely different, a march would play, a long shepperd's crook would appear, and hook you stage right to music and the gong would go." I have however learned that in someplaces in the world dour and humoursless is the drill so I don't say things like that any longer if I can help it. (See ended the sentance improperly!)
I am also giving a try to not posting anything except very technical notes, such as "in 3/4 time played at x we expect the music as presently written, to take precicely 3:31.08 seconds, except on Leap year." This leads to an increase sense of camaraderie and backslapping amongst the masses when done properly.
In an attempt to inject some down to earth feeling in posts I am also introducing an unspell checker, for I have been accused of a very serious faut pas, being precice in diction and form in reference to language. How 'horrible'. I should however comment on the 'mericanness of the spell checker for words like precice where the c is found in the non-verb form and the s is found in and verb, elude the dictionary as would a raccoon absconding with your last salmon sandwich whilst having an informal lunch outdoors on a blanket in the warm spring sun.
Now in accepted construct of a communication I would, thus, offer a succinct conclusion to the above, however in doing my best to conform I shall eschew that convention and in it's elimination endear myself to those who hold dear such erratic and reckless behavoiur.
I should go back to the study of British humour, once I get over this nasty cold.
John Conley
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Normally, at this point, I would make a reference to "now for something completely different, a march would play, a long shepperd's crook would appear, and hook you stage right to music and the gong would go." I have however learned that in someplaces in the world dour and humoursless is the drill so I don't say things like that any longer if I can help it. (See ended the sentance improperly!)
I am also giving a try to not posting anything except very technical notes, such as "in 3/4 time played at x we expect the music as presently written, to take precicely 3:31.08 seconds, except on Leap year." This leads to an increase sense of camaraderie and backslapping amongst the masses when done properly.
In an attempt to inject some down to earth feeling in posts I am also introducing an unspell checker, for I have been accused of a very serious faut pas, being precice in diction and form in reference to language. How 'horrible'. I should however comment on the 'mericanness of the spell checker for words like precice where the c is found in the non-verb form and the s is found in and verb, elude the dictionary as would a raccoon absconding with your last salmon sandwich whilst having an informal lunch outdoors on a blanket in the warm spring sun.
Now in accepted construct of a communication I would, thus, offer a succinct conclusion to the above, however in doing my best to conform I shall eschew that convention and in it's elimination endear myself to those who hold dear such erratic and reckless behavoiur.
I should go back to the study of British humour, once I get over this nasty cold.
Just wondering: is your walking silly?
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(The gong sounds. Mee pushes Ronald out.)
Mee: And now ladies and gentlemen, I'd like you to welcome the last of our all-England finalists this evening, from Bingley, the Bolton Choral Society and their leader Superintendent McGough, (a big choir comes on, immaculately drilled, each holding a score, with Fred Tomlinson as superintendent McGough) All right Bingley, remember you've got fifteen seconds to summarize Proust in his entirety starting from now.
First Soloist: Proust, in his first book wrote about... fa la la...
Second Soloist: Proust in his first book wrote about...
Tenors: He wrote about...
(They continue contrapuntally, in madrigal, never getting beyond these words until they rallentando to say...)
All: Proust in his first book wrote about the... (gong sounds)
Voice Over: Very ambitious try there, but in fact the least successful of the evening, they didn't even get as far as the first volume. (the singers leave the stage)
Mee: Well ladies and gendemen, I don't think any of our contestants this evening have succeeded in encapsuladng the intricacies of Proust's masterwork, so I'm going to award the first prize this evening to the girl with the biggest......
Now that piece of humour, has gongs. Great thing.
On a midi drum track the use of F7 a note you can add, should yield a gong.
I'd explore e8 which off the top of my bald head should yield a cowbell. I can play some of the monty python stuff on a cowbell, but hit the gong in parts for variations on a theme of cowpatties.
Now for something completely different. After you beat the gong.
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Just to clarify, the MIDI drum window in BIAB, while excellent and a lot of fun, has no gong.
There is a thing there that I think is called a Chinese cymbal that sounds pretty funky, not ringing out with a nice sustain like a gong would.
John, for all the fun he's providing today, may actually be on the right track if you were to search for an audio sound effect of the old Gong Show.
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Just wondering: is your walking silly?
Widdout a doubt. Better living through chemistry.
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I'll blame that to the use of too much NyQuil. But yes chances are you can find a freebie gong sound in the net.
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here's one of them:http://www.prankcallsunlimited.com/freesound2.htm
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