Hi, Dan.
Originally Posted by firesong
David...man your are a master at this level of "tech-writing and composing"...not my genre for sure but you killed the process and created a incredibly realistic pop song...I'm still amazed!
Well, it's not really my genre at all. I'm more a middle-of-the-road kind of guy.

But the audio engineering problem solving part? Yep, that can be pretty fun.

Quote
you probably have this down pat but wow what a learning curve it takes...
Nope, every song is a new learning experience. I had three songs that I'd started on, and wasn't convinced that any of them would make a viable song. I had one of my daughters have a listen to all three of them (lyrics still in the "la la la" stage, and she picked this one. So I plowed ahead.

There are other ways of getting the melody into SynthesizerV, but I've gotten used to it.

Writing using piano-roll notation isn't at all a natural way of doing things, but it allows me to go slow and do lots of experimentation.

And there were plenty of times during the song when I wasn't convinced it would gel together. Even now, I'm debating changing the lead singer to Kevin. But it's probably best not to make too many changes at this point. If they come out with a more "rock" style singer, it wouldn't be hard to go back and swap the voice out.

But I just trust in the process and move forward. Fortunately, I haven't had to discard toomany songs.

Thanks for the nice comments! smile

-- David Cuny
My virtual singer development blog

Vocal control, you say. Never heard of it. Is that some kind of ProTools thing?