James Cameron - Production Notes and Rosegarden Screen Shots

Production Notes

The diagram below shows the technical process used to create the final file. See the legend on the right for the colour coding. a piano is used to create multiple tracks in Rosegarden, subsequent tracks can be created while Rosegarden plays the previous tracks, Rosegarden can play the tracks through either the piano, the sound module or the software synthesiser (qsynth), the digital audio is recorded into a file, from any of the three sounds sources (piano, software synthesiser, sound module), the file is trimmed, faded, normalised or equalised, using the audacity digital audio editor, the file is compressed using oggenc, resulting in an Ogg file ready for distribution, files in the distribution folder that have been updated are transferred by the rsync program to the web server on the internet, for people to download.

Main Window

Notes:

• the composition consists of multiple parallel tracks, that are played by the computer,
• some tracks came from my piano, and some from my computer keyboard,
• the green bar with "60" is the beats per minute; in this composition the beat doesn't change,
• below the green bar are the bar numbers; this piece has 65 bars,
• each track can be connected to a different instrument, either my piano, a sound module, or a software synthesiser.

Matrix View

Notes:

• here the choir ahhs track has been opened,
• it is meant to look like a pianola roll,
• the piano keyboard down the left side shows the pitch,
• time is from left to right, with bar numbers up the top again,
• each coloured rectangle is a note being played,
• the colours show how loud the note is, in these bars the choir ahhs are slowly growing,
• this track is quantised, which means that every note starts and stops at precisely the right time; this does dehumanise it a bit.

Notation View

Notes:

• the same track in the notation view shows the notes like they would appear on a score.