Today we had a bit of a set back with Logic yet again. We wanted to create more tracks for our audio but every time we made one it duplicated an existing one, therefore, the same numbered tracks wouldn't play simultaneously. We looked in the help for ages and couldn't seem to find out how to change each track independently. Greg saved the day for us by creating new audio objects, which we could then re-name. The trouble we still had was that Logic was only allowing us 8 tracks and we need a lot more than that. Nic thinks it is probably because of the firewire output. We made a decision to go over to the conservatoire and use pro tools and Kontakt. Nic is more familiar with pro tools so we could work a bit quicker after the time we had wasted. I think both Logic and pro tools have their advantages and obviously their disadvantages. For example, editing in Logic is pretty easy because you can see your samples clearly and cut them with no problems. In Pro tools though it's very difficult to see.
We put some more samples into the track that we had created using spear and soundhack. Nicola had got a long bubbling sound that buils up so we put that under tha track and will probably keep it throughout, leading to a crescendo maybe. We also put in her mouse and owl sound near the beginning as the track starts to come in. My sounds were a bit more erratic and sinister than Nic's, i think she was a bit scared by some of them!! They go well with everything else we have put in so far. We started to look at the way in which we were going sing the vocals. Nic and some musicians she knows put a few chords behind the samples to see how they would sound. Our keyboard wasn't working though so i didn't hear them. We worked out which beat of the bar each syllable would fall on and how it would sound best. I thought this was a good idea but if we are going to learn it and sing it exact, and as one take, it may not sound right when it's sitting in the track with all of the other bits and pieces. I suggested we use a metronome for tempo and just sing each part so that we can chop it up if need be and place each phrase on the bar as we place them in. Otherwise we may waste time getting the perfect take as a whole and still have to chop it up if it doesn't sit right.
After this we went home to work alone. Nicola is working on some bassline sounds and I'm creating some more short 'noises' in Spear. I also had to save some of my samples as Aiff files so we can use them in the audio programmes. They weren't working before so now I've done that it should be fine.