Like, how do you produce a melody? -ACID Product Family

Subject:Like, how do you produce a melody? Posted by: Sidecar Date:1/25/2005 11:33:38 PM Sorry if this sounds simplistic, but I'd like to make real music. About all I hear demo'ed so far is rhythm tracks and techno/euro sounds. Seems it's either for the Basic Instinct club soundtrack or it's a track waiting for a lead singer to supply the melody. If I want to reproduce a public domain song, how do you make Acid play a melody?
Subject:RE: Like, how do you produce a melody? Reply by: TorS Date:1/26/2005 4:33:35 AM Get a public domain midi of it. Mind you, if you plan to manipulate your midi track you'll soon find Acid a little uncooperative. But it'll play your melody just fine. Tor
Subject:RE: Like, how do you produce a melody? Reply by: JohnnyRoy Date:1/26/2005 6:12:51 AM > About all I hear demo'ed so far is rhythm tracks and techno/euro sounds. ACID is only as good as the loops you buy for it. Go to Sony’s Loop Library and you’ll find an extensive collection of loops that are not techno/euro. Or try a small loop vendor like Hark Productions and check out their Gorgeous Piano or Sustained Inversions and you’ll hear a whole different sound. Don’t let the demos fool you. You can make any kind of music you want in ACID. > ...or it's a track waiting for a lead singer to supply the melody. So plug in a Mic and sing your heart out. ACID works fine for recording vocals. You may even find the vocals you need in an acapella collection. > how do you make Acid play a melody? As TorS suggested, MIDI is probably the easiest way. Either play the melody yourself on a MIDI keyboard or program it in using the MIDI Piano Roll Editor. If it is a public domain song and you can find a MIDI version of it, you can use StolenTrack from GenieSys to extract just the melody from a MIDI file and assign it to a separate track in ACID. Then assign whatever Soft Synth you want to it. ~jr
Subject:RE: Like, how do you produce a melody? Reply by: Iacobus Date:1/26/2005 11:45:36 AM As everyone's mentioned thus far, part of ACID's power is what you throw at it, your own custom material included. Your best bet is either to record your own, find loops that have a melody line, or go with MIDI. Iacobus ------- RodelWorks - Original Music for the Unafraid Buy Instant ACID by JohnnyRoy and Me! Now! mD at ACIDplanet

Subject:Like, how do you produce a melody?

Posted by: Sidecar

Date:1/25/2005 11:33:38 PM

Sorry if this sounds simplistic, but I'd like to make real music.

About all I hear demo'ed so far is rhythm tracks and techno/euro sounds. Seems it's either for the Basic Instinct club soundtrack or it's a track waiting for a lead singer to supply the melody.

If I want to reproduce a public domain song, how do you make Acid play a melody?

Subject:RE: Like, how do you produce a melody?

Reply by: TorS

Date:1/26/2005 4:33:35 AM

Get a public domain midi of it. Mind you, if you plan to manipulate your midi track you'll soon find Acid a little uncooperative. But it'll play your melody just fine.
Tor

Subject:RE: Like, how do you produce a melody?

Reply by: JohnnyRoy

Date:1/26/2005 6:12:51 AM

> About all I hear demo'ed so far is rhythm tracks and techno/euro sounds.

ACID is only as good as the loops you buy for it. Go to Sony’s Loop Library and you’ll find an extensive collection of loops that are not techno/euro. Or try a small loop vendor like Hark Productions and check out their Gorgeous Piano or Sustained Inversions and you’ll hear a whole different sound. Don’t let the demos fool you. You can make any kind of music you want in ACID.

> ...or it's a track waiting for a lead singer to supply the melody.

So plug in a Mic and sing your heart out. ACID works fine for recording vocals. You may even find the vocals you need in an acapella collection.

> how do you make Acid play a melody?

As TorS suggested, MIDI is probably the easiest way. Either play the melody yourself on a MIDI keyboard or program it in using the MIDI Piano Roll Editor. If it is a public domain song and you can find a MIDI version of it, you can use StolenTrack from GenieSys to extract just the melody from a MIDI file and assign it to a separate track in ACID. Then assign whatever Soft Synth you want to it.

~jr

Subject:RE: Like, how do you produce a melody?

Reply by: Iacobus

Date:1/26/2005 11:45:36 AM

As everyone's mentioned thus far, part of ACID's power is what you throw at it, your own custom material included. Your best bet is either to record your own, find loops that have a melody line, or go with MIDI.

Iacobus
-------
RodelWorks - Original Music for the Unafraid
Buy Instant ACID by JohnnyRoy and Me! Now!
mD at ACIDplanet