The Grand Wazir.
April 15, 2010 – 10:50 pmEarlier this week I finished wiring up my bedroom studio and I’m now able to record from my external hardware. After I was done, I realized my first mistake. All of my external gear is routed into a Behringer mixer and the mixer outputs to the line-in on my PC and the mains on the studio monitors. I can play my gear over the speakers with or without the PC on. This is great for live setups and practice, but there is one catch. Since each piece of gear is patched in to one mixer, they all feed in to the same stereo input. If I want to record a piece of gear, I have to record each one separately. If I don’t, then all of the gear ends up on one audio track in Ableton and I can’t apply effects to the individual instruments. I could run Y-cables from each of the synths to the various ports on the back (configuring them all for stereo input), but the ports have pretty lousy A/D converters. The ideal solution is an audio interface like one of the ones M-Audio makes and give each synth its one digital channel. Then I do all the mixing in Ableton, and screw the external mixer. Oh well. I’ll get one eventually.
In the meantime, I’ve been learning to mix samples, softsynths, and external gear together. It’s working. I got the recording latency down to playable levels and I can even do live monitoring without any noticeable latency. The end result is a little sketch I call “The Grand Wazir”. It’s a down-tempo droning affair that started with a patch I made on the CZ-101 (the first sound you hear). Enjoy!
The Grand Wazir.flac (Lossless)
The Grand Wazir.oga (OGG Vorbis)
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