It tells a story. There is trouble. At the well. It ends in a memory.

Experimenting with software (acid pro)

Trouble at the Well

My first song made with GarageBand on the iPad. It was fun.

Info: performed every part... 8 tracks...

Finding Shelter

Another iPad GarageBand experiment. 

I used my iPhone headset as the microphone.

All music was performed on the iPad.

This is Important

I recorded this song in 2004 as an experiment with some free audio tools (FL Studio and a free demo of Cool Edit). It started with some text to speech audio and a drum loop I made in FL Studio. And it evolved into this.

It was a crazy experiment with a ridiculous process. but it was fun.

This was the process:

I used a demo version of Cool Edit that only allowed me to use 2 features at one time (one of which being "save"). If I wanted to add effects or something else, I had to close the program and reopen it, selecting the feature I needed. I recorded each individual track in FL Studio and had to mix paste each element on top of the base drum wav file. I went measure by measure in Cool Edit, mix pasting the files into the base waveform (since Cool Edit didn't have a multitrack option). If a "track" was too loud or soft, or if I wanted to add effects, I had to edit the individual wav file and then save it and then mix paste it into the current "measure", trying to precisely paste it at the right beat.

Once the music was finished, I listened to the main music on the laptop in one ear and I recorded the vocals on a mini-disc recorder using a small sony stereo mic, monitoring it in the other ear. Then I mixed pasted that audio onto the main music wav. I did it several times to add harmonies and some acoustic guitar.

Then, after 3 months that summer, I finally finished it!


He Gains Focus

Psalm 6 - ESV

O LORD, rebuke me not in your anger, 
nor discipline me in your wrath. 
Be gracious to me, O LORD, 
for I am languishing; 
heal me, O LORD, for my bones are troubled. 
My soul also is greatly troubled. But you, O LORD-how long? 
Turn, O LORD, deliver my life; 
save me for the sake of your steadfast love. 
For in death there is no remembrance of you; 
in Sheol who will give you praise? 
I am weary with my moaning; 
every night I flood my bed with tears;
I drench my couch with my weeping. 
My eye wastes away because of grief; 
it grows weak because of all my foes. 
Depart from me, all you workers of evil, 
for the LORD has heard the sound of my weeping. 
The LORD has heard my plea; the LORD accepts my prayer. 
All my enemies shall be ashamed and greatly troubled; 
      they shall turn back and be put to shame in a moment

daresayer

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