My first Honking Song
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Spurred on by Ted's comment I tossed the geese, some toads, a few canned loops, and a bunch of effects processing into Garage Band and cranked out this song. All 49 seconds of it, with groovy cover art!
File under 80's beaver dam electro dance.
Here's how the GB sequence looked.
Technically speaking the super toad synth track is really more of a brightened variable phased toad sample squeezed through deep and slow resonance and a high frequency gated attack. But you knew that...
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Fantastic! I absolutely enjoyed this.
More more more more!!!
Make a CD, I'll buy it.
Thanks.
A CD? Oh boy, that would take forever. Lessee, to make the 49 second song took about three hours. Most CDs have at least an hour of music.
Extrapolating from the first "song" a CDs worth of pond honking goodness will take 220 hours of GarageBand work. At three hours per day this works out to about 1.8 years.
I'd like an advance on royalties...
Awesome, Jerry!
For an encore, how about a tune based *entirely* on your natural recordings (no GB synth stuff)? You could throw in some of your dog's growls, too! (and maybe a soto voce non-sequitur phrase or two from Faith....)
In your spare time, of course. ;-)
I started thinking about that once the song started taking form, about two hours into the project. The samples (from the camera) are low quality, 11khz mono, so it would be a stretch to base an entire song on them.
Not that I don't have access to better equipment. There's the whole finding time thing though. I think it is your turn to make a song Ted.
Maybe someday. I don't know enough about GB yet to get the results I'd like. Is it possible to use the two geese honk-tones and the peeps as time-triggers to play hifi sounds from other sources?
Well done Jerry. How great is GarageBand? ;-)
pedraum @ apple dotcom