Bryan Baker Blog
4/20/10
I've been active creating music and loops at tapegerm.com recently with several new compositions. Over the weekend I contributed 30+ loops to the 10 Years Of Infection project, which celebrates Tapegerm's 10th anniversary next month. The loops were culled from sessions for my song, "Black and White Rainbows."
An interesting thing about DAW recording is how each software package maintains each audio take. You might have a rhythm guitar on one tracks which behaves like rhythm guitar take, but if you've recorded that over the course of several takes, most DAW software will actually save the other takes as well -- they're just hidden. You can access the previous takes, depending on the features of your particular DAW.
I was using Deck at the time I was recording "Black and White Rainbows" for my Homemade Music double CD album. Deck has been discontinued by Bias since it was really becoming outdated in comparison to other packages. Its features were limited in terms of access virtual tracks, but you could always access the raw audio files which are saved in Sound Designer II, a native Mac OS format. Fortunately, the format can be read by Audacity which is my current sound editor of choice.
So anyway, I was able to go through all the raw audio from the "Black and White Rainbows" sessions and pick out a bunch of loops from unused takes, which is really cool if you ask me. I mean, think about it -- I've got 100+ songs in the old Deck format which all have many unused takes hiding away in the raw audio files just waiting to be culled into loops and re-used.
I've already used a nice synth bed for a new composition at tapegerm.com called "Homage" which also utilized open source audio from archive.org, along with a very cool loop from Tapegerm artist Cystem. Check it out
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