Re: Backing track creation with LilyPond

[Christopher R. Maden]

On 02/13/2018 03:04 PM, David Kastrup wrote:
> So I decided maybe sing this time.  I am out of training (obviously) but
> by plastering reverb in and using LilyPond for creating the backing
> track, I got something annoyingly useful at first pitch.  Now I just
> need to figure out how to do a proper count-in, and I think I can do the
> talk with that piece.  The take itself is short, so I should have plenty
> of time messing up.  And I need to work on my voice the next few weeks.
>
> So basically that is a "production with Ardour under Linux might be 
> worth bothering with" pitch.

That’s excellent, David!

There are a couple of ways to do the count-in... I’ve made MIDI files in 
LilyPond that have a wood-block percussion on every beat, starting a 
couple of bars before everything else.  You can open a multi-track MIDI 
in Ardour, I believe.  It makes a good guide for multi-track vocals, 
too, to keep everything in tune.  You can also make a click track in 
Ardour itself, which may turn out to be easier, though it can be harder 
to line up the MIDI with it, depending on how it all works out.

~Chris
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