this is part six in the recording a song with a budget audio interface and
cheap microphone series and in this video i'm going to be adding some
virtual instruments to our song using free vst plugins
i'm zane welcome to audio tech tv where my goal is to help you conquer the tech so you can unleash
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just so you know links to all of the software mentioned and the hardware used to make this
song are down in the description so you can check any of this stuff out for yourself and if you're
new to this series basically what i'm doing is i'm recording a song from scratch i'm using a
budget audio interface which is the behringer um2 and a cheap microphone which is the behringer
xm 8500 and i'm also only using free plugins and the free features in tracktion waveform free so the
song is basically done now all i need to do is add some of the virtual instruments which we're
going to do today and then we'll do the mixing and the songs going to be ready to release so
let's jump into traction waveform and get started so i'm going to be using two different synths for
this project one of them's just going to come in during the chorus and in this song we start
out with the chorus so you're going to hear it right away and the other synth is going
to be on throughout the song all right so here are the two synths that i'm going to be using
the first one is the voltage modular from cherry audio i'm using the lo-fi lead 2 preset for this
and this is the synth that's going to be on during the chorus and the other synth that
i'm going to be using is synth 1 and i'm using the saw lead preset for this i'm actually going to be
using this little budget priced midi keyboard for this video this is the m-audio keystation mini 32
mk2 i've included a link to it down in the description in case you want more information
on it but you don't actually need to use a midi keyboard to make your song you could actually just
draw all of your midi information in but having one makes things a lot easier and quicker which
is why i'm using it for this video so i'm going to record this in sections so i can just record
one of the sections and then i can copy the midi from that section so if i record the chorus i can
copy the midi from this chorus to the next one and the next one and same with the verse so that's how
i'm going to record this in sections and you can see here i already have my keystation set
as the input for the voltage modular i'll just arm the track for recording and then i'll hit record
all right and that's it for the chorus part for this synth so let's just double click
on the midi clip and we'll go in and have a look it looks like i'll need to quantize this
so all the beats are lined up correctly so i'm just going to select all the notes
then i'm going to go to the quantize option here and then i'm going to
quantize note start times and i'm going to do that to the nearest quarter beat
you can see now it's all quantized in here let's just have a listen make sure that's what we wanted
now if you want a more loose feel you don't need to quantize i just chose to do that for this song
and now i'm going to close out of the piano roll
i'm going to copy this to the next chorus over here
all right so that's where it starts remember we had the extra little intro on the first one so
we don't need that extra information all we need is this here all right so that's the first synth
now we'll record the second synth so i just need to set the input to my key station midi 32
arm it for recording and then we'll hit record again
and again we'll go into the midi here
and we will select all of our notes go to quantize start times quarter
and i think we're off because of latency so i'm just going to drag this there and that should be
exactly where i want it all right so that looks good to me there i just need to shorten this now
and again i'm going to copy it over to the other chorus over here
and we'll shorten it down hear how that
sounds all right that's perfect and now we'll just record the verse quickly
alright so i did the verse and the pre-chorus there which is pretty much
the rest of the song that we need to do so i'm just going to go into the midi clip here
have a look at everything make sure we're all lined up quantize
all right that looks good right there and now all i need to do is copy this to the next verse
which is right here and there's just really one more part of the song to do
and that's the bridge so i'm just going to do that now really quick
again i'll go in there and quantize all our notes
all right and that's basically our song filled out with our virtual instruments and these are free
virtual instruments that you can use so let's just hear how the chorus flows into the verse
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all right so now all we have to do is mix this song and we're ready to release it
now if you want to follow along with this series and find out how this song turns out
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