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Doug Nelson · Post by **Doug Nelson** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 4:44 pm

In a typical composition by you, what percentage of the notes are played by you in actual recording time (as opposed to looped, sequenced, hand-edited, sampled, LFO'd, gated, copied/pasted, arped, phrased, etc.)?

kevink · Post by **kevink** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 4:55 pm

I understand what you're getting at, but I don't think you've really posed the question very well. For example, if I record a synth track in real-time, without quantizing or anything, but I record the MIDI data instead of the audio, and bounce to audio only after I'm happy with the take, is that "played by me" or not? If I'm playing a synth patch live that's got an arpeggiator built-in, where I'm using the argpeggiated sequence as a sort of microstructure that I'm using to improvise a macrostructure, is that "played by me" or not? And if not, how is it philosophically different from having a frequency modulation envelope on the patch?

Bitstreem · Post by **Bitstreem** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 4:56 pm

Hmm, strange question! I'd say about 80-90%, depending on the type of composition. I'm not a keyboard player by a longshot, but I stopped inputing notes manually when I switched from trackers to sequencers 7-8 years ago. Usually, I just hammer things in as best as I can and then quantize/move things around until I'm happy. I do copy/paste blocks of notes if they repeat throughout the tune, though.

Or did you mean like, set an audio track in rec and actually pretend I know what I'm doing? 0.5 - 1%, depending on the song...

Cheers,

Arne S.

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 5:01 pm

97.5%

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 5:03 pm

everything except drums
oh shit i dont use drums

dystonia_ek · Post by **dystonia_ek** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 5:18 pm

I don't use notes.

Hovmod · Post by **Hovmod** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 5:22 pm

from 0% to 100%.

multree · Post by **multree** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 5:24 pm

drums are by hand editing the rest is pure me (or guest musicians)

t-willy · Post by **t-willy** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 5:29 pm

multree wrote:drums are by hand editing the rest is pure me (or guest musicians)

ditto

lates

t-willy

sangha · Post by **sangha** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 5:31 pm

Doug Nelson wrote:In a typical composition by you, what percentage of the notes are played by you in actual recording time (as opposed to looped, sequenced, hand-edited, sampled, LFO'd, gated, copied/pasted, arped, phrased, etc.)?

The drums aren't mine, but everything else usually is. However, I often take the bassline from one verse and copy to another, and other things like that.

I estimate that 75% are "mine"

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 5:32 pm

well yeah if im collabin obviously some notes are someone elses

doesnt really matter tho,theyre the same notes most others use

Kriminal · Post by **Kriminal** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 5:33 pm

vurt wrote:everything

all two of them?

funkadil · Post by **funkadil** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 5:46 pm

0%-5%, don't really have a keyboard except my computer one. Mostly use trackers anyways.

Stupid American Pig · Post by **Stupid American Pig** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 6:19 pm

Whats an arpegiator? My rhodes, wurlitzer, upright piano and guitar dont have one...

That said prolly 99.9% are me, but there is the occasional drum loop or stylus groove used in my music...

kwac twice · Post by **kwac twice** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 6:47 pm

:?Depends on how I feel...
Guitars are 100%
everything else 0-100%

For me, it's just quicker to play it on the actual instrument (if its laying around)

% of notes are "yours"?