Italian Vocaloid fandom, hello! I am Gigi Miu.
The time to add our first Vocaloid track has finally arrived!
This is the same file of last week,
in which we have a drum track made with Kong, and a synth track representing a piano made with Thor no.1
and Thor no.2 is instead in charge of our bass line. Only the singer is left!
Let's hope my mac doesn't crash when I load PiaPro VST,
which you can find here under instruments,
and here it is, our PiaPro VST plugin
Please note that if you are not using PiaPro VST, but you are instead using the Vocaloid editor
you won't be able to load it from here. But mind that what we discuss in this lesson works for any kind of Vocaloid editor.
So, when we add the PioPro VST a new track is generated.
Click here to open its interface
Luckily it didn't crash. Yeah!
Now, if you are an attention observer, you would have noticed that PiaPro VST interface is quite different from other instruments in Reason.
A normal Reason instrument is fully accessible from the rack
VST plugins, including PiaPro have limited controls using the rack,
since they are sometimes completely different softwares
and each one has its own independent interface.
From now on there are 2 different ways to proceed.
One way is to manually recreate your MIDI track inside PiaPro.
Alternatively you can just import the MIDI you have already done in Reason .
In the future we will also discuss on how to make a new one from scratch, but for now, let's import what we have done already.
So, to keep everything simple, go to File > Export MIDI track,
then choose a destination folder and export the file.
Oh I was about to forget to explain an important thing!
"What is a MIDI file?"
A MIDI file is a file format that is able to store musical information like notes and other things.
So by using this kind of files we can export our music not as a sound file, but as a succession of notes
but without going into too much technical details
Just import the file from the menu File > Import MIDI file
So, to recap, we export a MIDI file from Reason and we import it into PiaPro VST.
As you see all the music we composed has been recreated inside PiaPro.
Since we only need one track we can start deleting the tracks we don't need, starting from the drum track
then we proceed deleting the bass track
since the notes in that track even if they are the same of the piano track they are one octave lower.
So, just delete the bass track too.
Now we only the piano track left
that will be the starting point for our vocal melody line.
The Vocaloid engine need some time to start up, so the dark green area is never rendered.
For now this is not important, but if you should ever worry why this part is not playing, this is the reason why.
Double click the track to enter in edit mode
and as you can see the notes are the same of our piano track
if you don't trust me you can go check them one by one...
Now, let's tray to press play to check what we have here.
Regarding the play function
since you are opening PiaPro as VST plugging for Reason
just remember that Reason has play priority over the play control inside PiaPro
so press play inside Reason.
As you can see
Miku is singing exactly the same notes of our piano track.
So, even if this is not the best song ever,
we can say we managed to have Miku sing on top of our first original track.
Congratulations!
But it is not over yet! The next step would be to transform these LA LA LA into some proper vocals.
Let's pause for now
and think on what could be our next step.
As always there is never one correct way to proceed and in this case as well we have several options.
Ah, in case you are wondering how I am zooming in, I am just moving this slider over there.
Also, don't mind that everything is in japanese here
One way to proceed could be to start editing the length of these notes,
so it could sing a slight different melody from the piano track one.
You can try to randomly lengthen few notes, to hear what could be the result,
just by experimenting with notes lengths.
You can try lenghten them as well in the same way I am doing it now.
Bare with me while i keep editing these notes please.
Ok, et's listen on what we have here.
See? Just changing the notes length we already have a different feel! Isn't that cool?
From now on it comes down to personal tastes.
Just try to achieve something that you like. There are no set rules if not your own personal taste.
You could even try deleting few notes!
Now that we are here let me introduce you another property of any vocaloid editor.
Each vocaloid track has to be mono-tonic,
which means that notes cannot overlap each other
and as you try overlap them only one of the two will play. Be careful of that and avoid overlapping.
Let's keep editing a little bit more,
as you can see I am just changing length at random,
and there is no musical knowledge involved at all!
If you use this approach as well you will make music in no time.
Let's try this!
Have you noticed how much the feel can change with few edits?
So we are using the same exact process we used when me made the piano track.
And again it will be up to you to find a sequence that you will like.
It all comes down to personal tastes.
Remember that each LA LA LA you see here it will be then become a syllable,
but you can just hum the melody with these LA LA LA for now.
These LA LA LA will become words like PO TE TO, PO TE TO...
what will they become is all up to you as well!
Let me sing some more I am enjoying this!
You should enjoy this process too.
Let's recap for a moment what we have done so far.
We made 8 bars of music,
made by a drum track, a piano track,
a bass track based off the piano track,
and then we made the base for our vocal track, even if it is just a sequence of LA LA LA for now.
from here you could proceed in two ways. One way would be start deciding the lyrics of this vocal track.
Or you could go back editing the track to expand it and then make the lyrics at the very end.
In these video lessons we will proceed using the latter method, and we will slowly expand these 8 bars till we have a complete track,
leaving the lyrics to the very end.
Even if I know you are hyped at the moment, today lesson ends here.
From the next lessons we will keep expanding the base track,
and we will keep shaping it till it will be a complete song.
For next week keep playing and practice with your vocal melody line and experiment.
See you next week!
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