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Violin

By leafo on November 16, 2014 11:54 pm

So I bought a violin about a month or so ago and started practicing so I could add it to my weekly beats. It's my first fretless instrument so I'm still pretty bad (and I now understand why people say learning violin is hard). This is my first attempt at recording myself playing it. As soon as I started I realized I was screwed, it took me tons of attempts and I couldn't get a good recording, my pitch was off and I couldn't play consistently. I was running out of time and getting stressed so I got some linux auto-tune plugin and put it between my violin recording and effects. Nice. I still suck at violin but at least I was able to finish. smile


Naturally I ran out of time for everything else as well so the guitar playing is sloppy, the bass lines are boring, and the drums repeat a lot. Enjoy!


Used violin, classical guitar, electric bass, and hydrogen with drum sample pack. All effects in renoise, mastered with calf.

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November 17, 2014 3:16 pm

onezero

For all the struggles you had with it, this came together in a really promising way.  Intonation is indeed tough, but if you put the time in, your pitch sense should get better even without you realizing it.  The auto-tune is a pretty good solution, though, for a quick track.  I like it.

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November 22, 2014 6:13 pm

Jim Wood

Pretty darn good, all in all. Intonation is a bear with fretless instruments, especially if you don't play on a regular basis; after playing cello for ten years, I still find myself touching up pitches in Melodyne :-)

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November 20, 2018 4:37 am

leafo

wow, I made this 4 years ago. pretty sure I've gotten worse haha

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