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This instructional tutorial assumes that you have already setup the '''Jack Audio Server''', and are running '''Qsynth'''.<br />
'''Please perform the Perform this <u>previous</u> tutorial on how to setup the Jack Audio and run Qysynthbefore proceeding with this tutorial (link displayed below).<br /><br />''' [ [[Quick & Simple - Setting up Jack Server and Q-synth]] ]
Audacity is a simple to use and intuitive application to allow a user to record and manipulate an audio product. Audacity can record drumming tracks from Hydrogen, record keyboards from Qsynth, as well as record vocals from a microphone...
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Steps to Launch Audacity
<br />If not, you can select the default interface manually:
'''Steps to Manually set Interface:'''
# In the Interface Section, select '''Jack''' to be the host.
# Click '''OK''' to save changes.
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'''The procedure to select different instruments in Audacity is subtle! I don't know if this is the BEST method, but here is what I know works...'''
Note that your keyboard is hooked up to a device to read input to the computer system. There will be latency (or in other words, a delay) between the time you press a key on the keyboard, and when that sound is generated via Qysnth. This is quite normal with other programs. In fact, when using my computer setup when playing keyboards, I have become so accustomed to the delay, that is takes me a second to realize it is not strange when playing a REAL piano with no latency!
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The good news is that '''Audacity can be set to factor in the latency from devices such as keyboards'''. In fact, if you notice carefully after recording a keyboard track, that the length of the track (after recording is complete) will slightly compress to compensate for this latency or delay. Therefore, all that is required is to find the optimum "correction amount" to compensate for keyboard latency.
= Mixing Down to OGG / MP3 File = To be completed... = Sample Recording Demo =
Here is a song demo that I quickly created to demonstrate the quality of the recording:
* Got Megan (my daughter) to practice song (she never sang this song before). She wants to redo this, but you are listening to her sing from only the second take folks (no dubs or "punch-ins").
* Did some post production ('''amplification''' and '''reduction''', '''slight reverb''', and '''fade-outs''').
* '''Exported to an MP3''' and '''finished at approx 4.:15 pm.'''
* I can now "farm-out" this recording (file in format to add more tracks) to other friends (musicians) to add guitar, replace with other drums, vocals, effects, etc...
* Computer System: '''Free'''
* OS and Recording studio applications: Ubuntu studio ('''Linux=Free(dom)''')* Keyboard :'''FreeHave one''' (cheap midi '''i.e. free''' - as long as the keyboardhas MIDI, you're in business!)* Computer to music interface: '''Had Have one''' ('''i.e. free''', but usually those devices costs approx $90- $120 Cdn)* Microphone: '''Had Have one'''('''i.e. free''')
* '''Total cost to produce song: $0'''