xommen
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Another 1987 song, this is my take on Why can't I be you by the Cure.
So it's 1979 for me. I might have another go at this.
What I did was use Musescore to create a backing track, then I played along to that. I did that to make sure I had all the timing right.
I then thought to myself "why not add the Musescore parts (drums, bass and guitar) to the video I've just recorded?" Why not indeed? Del & BEV do it all the time. It might be fun!
But when I exported all the parts (my uke+vox plus the soundfiles created via Musescore) into a sound editor to mix them together, I discovered that part I'd recorded was about 10% slower than the backing track! Musescore's internal metronome let me down.
It was set to 120bpm, and the parts I exported from Musescore did playback at 120 bpm in the sound editor. But the bpm for my part turned out to be at only 111. Since I'd kept time with the Musescore playback, it (Musescore) must have been running slow.
Fortunately, the sound editor I use, Audacity, has an 'increase tempo while keeping pitch constant' feature, so I used that to sync my performance with my backing track.
Normally if I'm editing the audio to a video, I add the edited audio to the video, first making sure that the audio is the same length as the video.
In this instance I needed to add the video to the audio (which was shorter in length than the video) because the audio was at the correct tempo; and doing it that way (adding video to audio), 'shrunk' the video to match the audio.
It didn't lipsync perfectly, but all things considered, I'm happy enough with the result. Next time, if there is a next time, if I want a Musescore to give me 120 bpm, I'll set its metronome to 130 (and keep my fingers crossed)!!
So it's 1979 for me. I might have another go at this.
What I did was use Musescore to create a backing track; then, listening through my earphones, I played along to that.
I did this to make sure I had all the timing right.
But I then thought to myself "why not add the Musescore parts (drums, bass and guitar) to the video I've just recorded?" Why not indeed? Del & BEV do it all the time. It might be fun!
But when I exported all the parts (my uke+vox plus the soundfiles created via Musescore) into a sound editor to mix them together, I discovered that part I'd recorded was about 10% slower than the backing track! Musescore's internal metronome let me down.
It was set to 120bpm, and the parts I exported from Musescore did playback at 120 bpm in the sound editor. But the bpm for my part turned out to be at only 111. Since I'd kept time with the Musescore playback, it (Musescore) must have been running slow.
Fortunately, the sound editor I use, Audacity, has an 'increase tempo while keeping pitch constant' feature, so I used that to sync my performance with my backing track.
Normally if I'm editing the audio to a video, I add the edited audio to the video, first making sure that the audio is the same length as the video.
In this instance I needed to add the video to the audio (which was shorter in length than the video) because the audio was at the correct tempo; and doing it that way (adding video to audio), 'shrunk' the video to match the audio.
It didn't lipsync perfectly, but all things considered, I'm happy enough with the result. Next time, if there is a next time, if I want a Musescore to give me 120 bpm, I'll set its metronome to 130 (and keep my fingers crossed)!!
It's taken me a while, but I think I've got to the bottom of this. My old computer's CPU doesn't appear to be up to the task of running MS3 & QT7 simultaneously.
I opened the edited audio file in the sound editor (Audacity), the MS score in Musescore and set them off running together. They remained in sync throughout at 120 bpm.
The only conclusion I can come to, given that MS was running some 7%-8% slower than it should have been while I was recording my parts, is that the load placed upon the CPU by the QT software somehow slowed down the MS playback speed.
If I do something like this again, I'll record the video on a separate device.