I am using sustain. The audio quality of this recording is just bad, can't you tell?
And "good job anyway".. yeah right "anyway." Low audio quality but perfect performance... I only made this vid because you or someone else like.. challenged me or something when I was making corrections to I believe.. your version... It was you I think.
But the low sound quality is why I didn't upload this to my new channel.
I should've figured you'd find something to pick apart, though. xP
BTW, for the moment (just until the next time we can make it to a Radioshack or something, but we keep forgetting), I'm holding off on making new vids till I have audio cables that I can use to go direct-in to the MacBook, because the 4 vids on my channel right now have the audio recorded simultaneously with my DVR, then that audio is tediously synced to the video by me.. hard to get perfect. And the audio still isn't quite perfect quality, you know.
@msmartelpiano Mmm, the reverb just seems to lack and you holded your notes really long, so that's why I thought you didn't use a pedal. The audio quality isn't that bad by the way, it's just the reverbing background that misses.
And yeah I actually mean that "Good job'.
And like I always say: Music can never be perfect, no matter what performance or what song. We just represent feelings by playing music. And since you cannot put a specific emotion above another, we cannot be perfect.
Gotcha, I know what you're talking about now; my keyboard is actually set on the maximum reverb setting in this vid, believe it or not. It has 4 levels (room, hall, stage, auditorium) and they're all really weak.
I've been doing sound editing for about a decade now, and a little dabbling in video editing in more recent years. I know full well how to master audio / add effects, etc. But I thought adding reverb in the post-processing would be kinda cheating somehow I guess.
Although... now that I think of it, I added a light touch of reverb to every single track on my first album 'Reminiscence'... and it sounds pretty good.
It's just too bad my 1926 Steinway — my REAL piano — is at my mom's house an hour drive away. Blarg.
Sorry, for clarification, the aforementioned reverb was added to real piano recordings (some tracks with the Steinway, others with a mellow Baldwin we had to sell a few years ago), not to keyboard recordings.
If you're interested, some 128kbps MP3 versions of some decent takes of most of those pieces are on my Soundclick / Facebook artist page music tab (the "Beach" recording is the album version, except for it being mp3 that is).
Nothing can ever literally be perfect, of course, but you're failing to realize here that it IS possible for a rendition of a piano piece by ear to be perfect in the sense that all the notes are the exact same notes from the original version. THAT is what I meant.
"Your version" is wrong. Accept it. My fiancée was cringing at every mistake you made when I played her "your version" a few minutes ago, too.
And again, the only reason it doesn't sound pedally enough for you is because of the low audio quality; from what you've been saying, it seems like a) you haven't been reading much of what I said, and b) there seems to be a chance I may even know a lot a LOT more than you about audio editing, so please do not continually try to give me "advice" that I clearly already know (I thought I was clear already about that).
The most damning thing about your version (and nearly everyone else's too, for some reason) is how you play a B natural instead of B flat during the B-section (no pun intended). How can that not sound wrong, even if one doesn't have a SUPER refined ear? Neither my fiancée nor I were fooled by "your version," but then again, we're both trained, life-long musicians.
BTW, remember how I rated your "version" 3.5/5? That was me trying to be nice. If you care to know my REAL rating of the quality, it's closer to 1 or 0.5 out of 5.
I'm not saying any of this for the sake of argument; I'm saying it because your "version" really is screwed up, and you seem to be both ignorant to that fact as well as stubborn about it.
You can say all the nice things you want to me, but it's not going to change my thoughts on your highly botched version.
@msmartelpiano By the way, I am not angry on you and I am not saying that you made mistakes. It's just that our versions are diffrent. None is wrong or "good".
And I do like it! By the way, if you want some more reverb, you can do it in a few diffrent ways. You can edit the track in software like sonar or ableton or logic. But you can also try to get the option reverb on your keyboard.
Like I said, there was some billing address problem when I tried to pre-order, but now I'm just going to Fry's to buy it straight from the store. I called ahead, and they're holding it for me until 6 tonight.
FINALLY I will have the new Zelda I've been waiting for for years...
I'll let you know how I like it once I've gotten 'round to playing it a bit. =)
And of course, the swordplay in Skyward Sword is exactly what a lot of people were expecting Twilight Princess to have. It's amazing.
The attention to detail in the game design is amazing, there are multiple easter eggs for big Zelda fans like myself to enjoy, the music is great as always, and the controls are excellent... All that is just the tip of the iceberg... Anyone who plays video games and wants a full life needs to play Skyward Sword before they die... lol.
Sounds cool!
Mmm, one tip, if you have a sustain, please try to use it! Because it will make it sound a bit more "full".
Good job anyway!
MamaMiaPianist 3 months ago
@MamaMiaPianist
I am using sustain. The audio quality of this recording is just bad, can't you tell?
And "good job anyway".. yeah right "anyway." Low audio quality but perfect performance... I only made this vid because you or someone else like.. challenged me or something when I was making corrections to I believe.. your version... It was you I think.
But the low sound quality is why I didn't upload this to my new channel.
I should've figured you'd find something to pick apart, though. xP
msmartelpiano 3 months ago
@msmartelpiano
BTW, for the moment (just until the next time we can make it to a Radioshack or something, but we keep forgetting), I'm holding off on making new vids till I have audio cables that I can use to go direct-in to the MacBook, because the 4 vids on my channel right now have the audio recorded simultaneously with my DVR, then that audio is tediously synced to the video by me.. hard to get perfect. And the audio still isn't quite perfect quality, you know.
Direct-in would be perfect.
msmartelpiano 3 months ago
@msmartelpiano Mmm, the reverb just seems to lack and you holded your notes really long, so that's why I thought you didn't use a pedal. The audio quality isn't that bad by the way, it's just the reverbing background that misses.
And yeah I actually mean that "Good job'.
And like I always say: Music can never be perfect, no matter what performance or what song. We just represent feelings by playing music. And since you cannot put a specific emotion above another, we cannot be perfect.
MamaMiaPianist 3 months ago
@MamaMiaPianist
Gotcha, I know what you're talking about now; my keyboard is actually set on the maximum reverb setting in this vid, believe it or not. It has 4 levels (room, hall, stage, auditorium) and they're all really weak.
I've been doing sound editing for about a decade now, and a little dabbling in video editing in more recent years. I know full well how to master audio / add effects, etc. But I thought adding reverb in the post-processing would be kinda cheating somehow I guess.
msmartelpiano 3 months ago
@msmartelpiano
Although... now that I think of it, I added a light touch of reverb to every single track on my first album 'Reminiscence'... and it sounds pretty good.
It's just too bad my 1926 Steinway — my REAL piano — is at my mom's house an hour drive away. Blarg.
msmartelpiano 3 months ago
@msmartelpiano
Sorry, for clarification, the aforementioned reverb was added to real piano recordings (some tracks with the Steinway, others with a mellow Baldwin we had to sell a few years ago), not to keyboard recordings.
If you're interested, some 128kbps MP3 versions of some decent takes of most of those pieces are on my Soundclick / Facebook artist page music tab (the "Beach" recording is the album version, except for it being mp3 that is).
msmartelpiano 3 months ago
@MamaMiaPianist
Nothing can ever literally be perfect, of course, but you're failing to realize here that it IS possible for a rendition of a piano piece by ear to be perfect in the sense that all the notes are the exact same notes from the original version. THAT is what I meant.
"Your version" is wrong. Accept it. My fiancée was cringing at every mistake you made when I played her "your version" a few minutes ago, too.
msmartelpiano 2 months ago
@MamaMiaPianist
And again, the only reason it doesn't sound pedally enough for you is because of the low audio quality; from what you've been saying, it seems like a) you haven't been reading much of what I said, and b) there seems to be a chance I may even know a lot a LOT more than you about audio editing, so please do not continually try to give me "advice" that I clearly already know (I thought I was clear already about that).
msmartelpiano 2 months ago
@MamaMiaPianist (comment 3 of 4)
The most damning thing about your version (and nearly everyone else's too, for some reason) is how you play a B natural instead of B flat during the B-section (no pun intended). How can that not sound wrong, even if one doesn't have a SUPER refined ear? Neither my fiancée nor I were fooled by "your version," but then again, we're both trained, life-long musicians.
msmartelpiano 2 months ago
@MamaMiaPianist (4 of 4)
BTW, remember how I rated your "version" 3.5/5? That was me trying to be nice. If you care to know my REAL rating of the quality, it's closer to 1 or 0.5 out of 5.
I'm not saying any of this for the sake of argument; I'm saying it because your "version" really is screwed up, and you seem to be both ignorant to that fact as well as stubborn about it.
You can say all the nice things you want to me, but it's not going to change my thoughts on your highly botched version.
msmartelpiano 2 months ago
@msmartelpiano By the way, I am not angry on you and I am not saying that you made mistakes. It's just that our versions are diffrent. None is wrong or "good".
And I do like it! By the way, if you want some more reverb, you can do it in a few diffrent ways. You can edit the track in software like sonar or ableton or logic. But you can also try to get the option reverb on your keyboard.
MamaMiaPianist 3 months ago
Fancy :D
How do you like the new Zelda?
fuzybear15 3 months ago
@fuzybear15 RE: Skyward Sword
Like I said, there was some billing address problem when I tried to pre-order, but now I'm just going to Fry's to buy it straight from the store. I called ahead, and they're holding it for me until 6 tonight.
FINALLY I will have the new Zelda I've been waiting for for years...
I'll let you know how I like it once I've gotten 'round to playing it a bit. =)
tehmikuji 3 months ago
@fuzybear15
Our new awesome red Wii arrived a few days ago and Skyward Sword is BEYOND AMAZING!
By far the best Zelda yet... possibly the best action-adventure game ever made yet by anyone, period...
msmartelpiano 3 months ago
@fuzybear15
And of course, the swordplay in Skyward Sword is exactly what a lot of people were expecting Twilight Princess to have. It's amazing.
The attention to detail in the game design is amazing, there are multiple easter eggs for big Zelda fans like myself to enjoy, the music is great as always, and the controls are excellent... All that is just the tip of the iceberg... Anyone who plays video games and wants a full life needs to play Skyward Sword before they die... lol.
msmartelpiano 3 months ago