Song #10 of 26 – Inner Strength

Initial BIAB Style – #SO_ROK1 – Bob Norton MIDI Style

This is an instrumental song, for which I had to generate most of the instruments in Cakewalk by Bandlab, since RealBand either kept crashing or would not properly render audio with the Kontakt, WIVI Band, and Orchestral Companion strings. I could assign the instruments, and listen to them as MIDI tracks, but just could not render them to audio (Jeff Yankauer has been made aware of this and I understand is working on a fix).

Most of the tracks started as generated tracks from BIAB (using the #SO_ROK1 style), but then I tweaked the MIDI in Noteworthy Composer (a notation program); I saved back to MIDI and brought the MIDI file back into the DAW for instrument assignment and further processing.

The basic underlying melody of this song was actually generated using the BIAB melodist; and then Chris and I took it from there to tweak and re-arrange (I don’t even remember which melodist we used at the time, as so much time has passed).

After rendering the audio in Cakewalk, I brought everything back into RealBand for final processing.

Track #1 – Electric Bass MIDI track: Cakewalk TTS-1 DXi synth
Track #2 – Drums: Cakewalk TTS-1 DXi synth, GM Fingered Bass
Track #3 – Guitar 1: Cakewalk TTS-1 DXi synth, GM Clean Guitar
Track #4 – Guitar: Kontakt VSTi with Indiginus Nashville Guitar
Track #5 – Guitar: Cakewalk TTS-1 DXi synth, GM Clean Guitar
Track #6 – Guitar: Cakewalk TTS-1 DXi synth, GM Clean Guitar
Track #7 – Guitar: Kontakt VSTi with Indiginus Renegade Acoustic
Track #8 – Guitar: Kontakt VSTi with Indiginus Jangle Acoustic
Track #9 – Guitar: Kontakt VSTi with Indiginus Mandolin
Track #10 – Strings: Kontakt VSTi with Orchestral Companion Strings (Ens String Espressivo)
Track #11 – Trumpet: Kontakt VSTi with Indiginus Blue Street Brass (1920’s Trumpet 1)
Track #12 – French Horn: Kontakt VSTi with WIVI Band (French Horn)
Track #13 – Trombone: Kontakt VSTi with Indiginus Blue Street Brass (1908 Trombone Vibrato)



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Since I’ve been teleworking since March 2020 (as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic), that has afforded me time at home to work on all the original songs my buddy Chris Werle and I (John Ford) have written. Chris wrote the lyrics, chords, and melody. I then transcribe it into notation, since Chris doesn’t read music. I then write the harmonies, most of the instrumental solos and/or counter melodies, arrange all the instruments, and put everything together.

All songs started in Band-in-a-Box (and some of them are over 20 years old). Then they were worked up in either PowerTracks Pro or RealBand. Since Chris and I live in different states now, I had to rely on previously recorded vocals and his guitar playing from old PowerTracks or RealBand .SEQ files. Because of limitations in RealBand with some VSTi’s, I did have to export the some of the MIDI tracks out of RealBand and render them to audio in Cakewalk (for those that RealBand didn’t render properly), after which I would bring the audio back into RealBand. But most of the songs and the final mix were exclusively rendered from RealBand.

My goal here is to post one song each day until all 26 of the songs have been posted. Some have been posted previously, but I have gone back and reworked all of them, so they are all new mixes and are different from what was originally posted.

Most of the songs are Christian in nature, so if that’s not your thing, that’s fine. But it’s our thing. So without further ado, here is the music.


John

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