Record Yourself Composing

[sci]

What the title says.

It doesn't have to be 10 minutes like me, an hour is fine...just record yourself making a complete composition.

I want to seeeeeeeeee



(if I record anything longer than 10 minutes my computer explodes. it's pretty bad)

[Aussie]

Okay.

[sci]

I've never even seen Ableton Live before.
I can only kind of see how the program flows from watching you work.
(is this what trackers look like to someone who's never seen them? dang)

nice sidechain handling in there, though. I cant do that at all. D:

[Stars In Autumn]

I'd do this but I use ASIO4ALL for recording and playback, which wants exclusive access to my audio output, so I can't use any recording software to capture the audio output, and I can't record MIDI input from my keyboard without huge latency unless I use the ASIO4ALL driver.

How'd you record your videos?

[Versilaryan]

@Jeff: You can go into the ASIO4ALL control panel, click the little wrench on the lower-right corner, and turn on and off what I/O drivers you're using. I have to do that sometimes, where I'll turn off the speakers, wait a bit, listen to some music on Youtube, wait a bit, turn it back on, and continue composing.

'Sides. I doubt you'll be using Stereo Mix/What U Hear very much in your compositions. =P

With me, so much composition happens outside the computer that I'd have to deliberately start a new song with the intention of me recording myself...

[sci]

How'd you record your videos?

I used camstudio
http://camstudio.org/

no idea how I got the audio working, though. except "manually."

[PiercingSight]

Oh! Seems like fun, I'll probably do that, though I'll post it on a different channel.

[Whitetail]

I've got a similar problem to Jeff but mine is a little different.
Basically my computer's sound-drive went all "no stream recording" nazi so the company that makes them took out the stereo mix output (seriously, whoever decided to do that made audio applications much more annoying with no benefit, since there's plenty of other ways to get music off streams), so I can't record sound on computer normally without plugging in a 2 way cable from the speakers output to the headphone input.

BUT with Pro Tools, all audio is instead redirected to the external M-box interface with it's own drive, I don't think I can record audio from that since it's external without once again bridging the hardware to the mic input, thus preventing myself from being able to listen to myself.

[Dr_Dissonance]

Not really me composing music, but here's what I use, so it's a sneak peek into what I do!

[General Mumble]

I want to do this. At least know that I want to, because it's likely that I just won't.

sci, if your memory happens to work really well on thursday, remind me to record OhC or something.

[ArtAttack]

I'll definitely try to get this happening, even if I have to result to recording my computer with a camera
LOL

[General Mumble]

Not strictly what this thread is about, but someone asked me to record FL Studio playing through "All Fine". So I did.

However I failed to record audio and Camstudio was being a pain so it's just the song synced over the top of the video, and it falls out of sync over time. Because AGOUHawifhj.

I still want to record myself composing, but like ArtAttack said, I may just have to film my screen...

[MichaelA]

[BlackElectric]

This is a pretty cool thread. It's interesting to see how everyone makes their songs.

I'd do it to, but I won't out of fear of getting laughed at for how simple my processes is compared to everyone else xD

[General Mumble]

Simple doesn't mean bad, you should totally do it. I for one won't be laughing at you, people could learn something, people could teach you something. Just go for it. (if you can be bothered, I know I couldn't for a while)

[Freewave]

incidentally what software are you using to record these video sessions? is there a program to capture video of what's on your desktop that you can recommend to me?

[Versilaryan]

CamStudio seems to be the big one. It's not bad, though the resolution is kinda poor (there might be a way to change that, though).

[Aussie]

Camtasia is waaaaaaay better than CamStudio. And I think there's a way to use FRAPS for recording anywhere instead of just games.

[Freewave]

oh awesome thanks, was always knew there had to be good software out there for that.

[Versilaryan]

I'd expect Camstasia to be better. It costs about $300 more. =P