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January 29, 2007
Surround mixing hip hop music...
...it kind of worked!
So last Friday, I had some fun with some of my cousin's material, remixing it into surround. Nothing big...mostly the draft stuff he had on his Pro Tools rig...
Lesson 1) Pro Tools...ARGH!
So while both of us can use Pro Tools, we're not really experts, so it took us a while to figure out how to get the surface controller mapping working...and once we did, we didn't quite get it working the way we wanted.
We ended up taking the easy way out...exporting out OMF files so that I can use them in Sonar. Frustrating.
Lesson 2) More LOOK, Less numbers.
So right now, the tablet looks something like this:
Which I've now realized is, while extremely functional, doesn't give a lot of information. Or, rather, it gives a lot of bleh information. We could move things around really well and we rather quickly came up with sound placement that he was very happy with, but visually he was hoping for something more "shape-y"
And I think I see what he wants. Gonna spend the next few days playing around with some visuals. I know what I want to get on the screen but sort of hard to describe. The image that I have in my mind is a sphere in Maya in vertex edit mode, so we're poking into the sphere or pinching and pulling out and stuff like that.
So yeah. More solid shape, less points.
And screw the angle/focus/db numbers too!
Posted by diamante at January 29, 2007 10:46 AM
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