Film Scoring/Butchering MIDI Files/Importing Starwars into GarageBand
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These instructions are designed for GarageBand 3 plus the sounds of a symphony orchestra.
GarageBand is easy and fast yet powerful enough to do film scoring.
Please, tell me if you find anything as good!
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Importing Starwars music into GarageBand
A second example
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Step #1
Step 1 - Locate the file on the Internet
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Screen shot of searching for the file
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Step #2
Step 2 - Clean up Midi file
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GarageBand with the midi file
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Step #3
Step 3 - Drag to GarageBand
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Dragging Midi file to GarageBand
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Step #4
Step 4 - importing into GarageBand
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The import feature is totally automatic
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Step #5
Step 5 - Fully imported
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A track can be broken into regions
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Step #6
Step 6 - Locate the start of the desired theme
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All the tracks can be broken into regions
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Step #7
Step 7 - Locate the end of the desired theme
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I split the tracks again after the theme
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Step #8
Step 8 - All the regions before I begin deleting
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The same tune reduced to a few chords
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Step #9
Step 9 - Select the first batch of regions
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The same tune reduced to a few chords
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Step #10
Step 10 - The remaining notes
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Preparing to delete more unwanted regions
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Step #11
Step 11 - The remaining notes
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The same tune reduced to a few chords
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Step #12
Step 12 - All the regions before I begin deleting
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Select and delete the empty tracks
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Step #13
Step 13 - Listen to all the tracks separately
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Some of these tracks are too noisy
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Step #14
Step 14 - Isolate the good tracks
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The tune sounds better with some tracks turned off.
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Step #15
Step 15 - The good tracks
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The tune simplified.
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Authors name (Your Name) or section heading
The next steps
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Simplify more
Even after all I have done, the music is not simple enough. And it is not clean enough. | |
Solve the copyright problem
Because this is not classical music (old music), I cannot use the exact music. I must butcher it more to make it copyright free. |
Conclusion title
The next page
Contact your instructor
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