Instead, I will compose a little bit, integrate the fragments into my arrangement, make changes, come back and compose a few other elements, etc, all depending on the flow of the song and what mood I’m currently in – late at night inspiration is more likely to strike so I prefer to invent music then. To me, composition and arrangement are not cleanly separated or consecutive activities. You will need a bit of imagination to ‘see’ how the final song would sound.
#Cubase vs studio one how to#
I do suggest you learn how to transcribe your own music notes though – it makes life a whole lot easier :) You can clean up your recorded MIDI notes afterwards. If you are having trouble with that, try plugging a MIDI keyboard into your computer and recording the notes as MIDI signals while you play.
You need to know how to transcribe music notes.Of course, MIDI is not all awesome and two disadvantages come to mind straight away: I can try out different instruments for the different tracks just to see what effect I’d be getting.If it was all audio at this stage, I’d have to re-record instruments for any minor change I might want to try out randomly. This early during the process, the whole song structure, all melodies and chords can easily change and when I work in MIDI it is very easy to move, delete, edit, clone and modify whole sections of the song.Even after 5 years you can come back to your piece and start playing without having to pick everything up by ear. Having your notes in MIDI means you have them written down.There are a number of reasons why I prefer to work (almost) exclusively with MIDI during this early stage of the song creation: Here is a screenshot of one of my song projects as it looks in Cubase during this phase: I used to do this by hand on note paper, but lately I have found it much easier to go straight into Cubase and transcribe my ideas as MIDI notes since I will need all the MIDI tracks for arrangement later on anyways. Whenever inspiration strikes and I come up with a fragment that I consider good enough to be a part of a song, the first thing I do is transcribe the notes. Arrangement is about how these composition elements are layed out to form the structure of the song. To me, composition involves the inventing and transcribing of notes, chords, melodies and their evolution throughout the song. I am merely presenting it here so you might take some tips away :)įirst off, in my mind i clearly distinguish between ‘composition’ and ‘arrangement’. Again, this is just how I do things and my way is not necessarily any better or easier than anyone else’s.
#Cubase vs studio one series#
This is the second part of my song creation series and today I will be focusing on the second phase, the composition and arrangement phase.
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