He has submitted this link in a few different subreddits but keeps deleting them. Give this shy fella a few views on his video. He apparently worked hard on it. This is the text from the video
"Began in Jan 2013, when I was out early one morning and heard a chickadee's two note whistle. I thought, they got a little tune there, betcha you could put beats to bird noises. Move notes left or right to land on the beat and correct stuff that's off-key. Generally tried to keep things as they were.
Look around for noises. Not that easy. Get a few dozen birding discs from all around the world. I covered most of the bases from all the species of birds that exist. Probably got the majority of whatever types of bird noises there are. Often times birds that are the most colorful don't have interesting noises.
Go thru 3800 files and just one could be half an hour long.
I'd like to list all the audio and photo sources but wouldn't fit in the youtube description 5000 character text limit.
From Jan till June 2013, go thru those few dozen birding discs to try and get noises. Always the forest or jungle background and other birds throughout.
Figure out a filename categorization system so I'd know what's going on without playing them. There was three types, melody, beat and tone. Melody would be complex or simple, usually something you can whistle. Beats would mention how many repeating tones and if it was the same. Tone files are usually simple noises. Those are good for drum substitute. The filenames you see in the video don't have the additional long format description describing the noises. I had duplicate sets, one sorted by bird name first, the other set by description. That way if I wanted whatever type I could access it.
Half a year later I get 1200 cleaned up noises and can start trying to see if I can make tunes with this. You play one file and think, that's a nice little tune but uh, there's 1199 more of these.
After work you only have a couple hours of spare time a day. I was working 7 nights a week with only Christmas off, for a decade. So no weekends for more spare time. To try and do a video after the audio, this project would have probably have taken a whole year of all my spare time. This was starting to get ridiculous. Didn't have many tunes yet and wanted to get a quicker body of work out there first. Shelved this.
Spring 2015, narrow the 1200 to 500 which were more interesting or had groove. Since that time, got Izotope RX and was able to clean up files better. You see sounds in spectrogram frequencies and can remove simultaneous noises. Narrowed things down but wasn't in the mood for how long the project was going to take, and then more for video, so shelved it again.
Summer 2016, in between jobs and was able to go at this full time. That was nice because otherwise it drags on for too many seasons. The 26 mini-tracks took a solid month. A day of being able to go at it full time would probably have taken a week while working a job. That means the audio for this would have probably taken half a year while working a job. Was half a year to clean up the files and another half to create the music. A year of all your spare time. No video for it at that point.
Finished the music and it's usually a good idea to shelve a project before doing video. Otherwise you hear the music too often and spoils it. Was able to go at it full time though so began on video right after. I was starting to job hunt during that time but was able to go at it quite solid in between. Also quite a bit of tests and figuring out methods. The video took a month. That would have been another good half year probably while working a job. Some days you're burned out after a job and also have chores that use up those couple hours of spare time.
So it was nice to be able to get this over with quickly without it taking up so much of my time for seasons in a row. Managed to have fun thru it all though. Heard the stuff a bit too much after doing the video right after the audio. But it's not too spoiled. I still think of when I began working on the audio and how it was interesting. If this would have dragged on for seasons while working a job, I don't think it would have been as much fun. So nice to get done in a shorter period.
After doing video, the completed Birding Razzmatazz project folder had 15,368 files in 180 folders. To store that 22.2 GB of data on CD's would take 33 CD's. The original 3800 birding disc source files are not in there. For drum substitution, used many of the tone files from the 1200. There's still a lot of melody and beat files I didn't use. But whatever sounded interesting was in the narrowed down 500. Don't expect any part 2 of this. If there was a left-over table scraps, part 2 version, I'd have to be able to work on tunes full time.
After dragging on this long, I think most future projects will be a walk in the park. It'll be easy to just work on a 4 minute length song and less complicated video.
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1 UnwarrantedArrogance 2016-09-03
He has submitted this link in a few different subreddits but keeps deleting them. Give this shy fella a few views on his video. He apparently worked hard on it. This is the text from the video
"Began in Jan 2013, when I was out early one morning and heard a chickadee's two note whistle. I thought, they got a little tune there, betcha you could put beats to bird noises. Move notes left or right to land on the beat and correct stuff that's off-key. Generally tried to keep things as they were.
Look around for noises. Not that easy. Get a few dozen birding discs from all around the world. I covered most of the bases from all the species of birds that exist. Probably got the majority of whatever types of bird noises there are. Often times birds that are the most colorful don't have interesting noises.
Go thru 3800 files and just one could be half an hour long.
I'd like to list all the audio and photo sources but wouldn't fit in the youtube description 5000 character text limit.
From Jan till June 2013, go thru those few dozen birding discs to try and get noises. Always the forest or jungle background and other birds throughout.
Figure out a filename categorization system so I'd know what's going on without playing them. There was three types, melody, beat and tone. Melody would be complex or simple, usually something you can whistle. Beats would mention how many repeating tones and if it was the same. Tone files are usually simple noises. Those are good for drum substitute. The filenames you see in the video don't have the additional long format description describing the noises. I had duplicate sets, one sorted by bird name first, the other set by description. That way if I wanted whatever type I could access it.
Half a year later I get 1200 cleaned up noises and can start trying to see if I can make tunes with this. You play one file and think, that's a nice little tune but uh, there's 1199 more of these.
After work you only have a couple hours of spare time a day. I was working 7 nights a week with only Christmas off, for a decade. So no weekends for more spare time. To try and do a video after the audio, this project would have probably have taken a whole year of all my spare time. This was starting to get ridiculous. Didn't have many tunes yet and wanted to get a quicker body of work out there first. Shelved this.
Spring 2015, narrow the 1200 to 500 which were more interesting or had groove. Since that time, got Izotope RX and was able to clean up files better. You see sounds in spectrogram frequencies and can remove simultaneous noises. Narrowed things down but wasn't in the mood for how long the project was going to take, and then more for video, so shelved it again.
Summer 2016, in between jobs and was able to go at this full time. That was nice because otherwise it drags on for too many seasons. The 26 mini-tracks took a solid month. A day of being able to go at it full time would probably have taken a week while working a job. That means the audio for this would have probably taken half a year while working a job. Was half a year to clean up the files and another half to create the music. A year of all your spare time. No video for it at that point.
Finished the music and it's usually a good idea to shelve a project before doing video. Otherwise you hear the music too often and spoils it. Was able to go at it full time though so began on video right after. I was starting to job hunt during that time but was able to go at it quite solid in between. Also quite a bit of tests and figuring out methods. The video took a month. That would have been another good half year probably while working a job. Some days you're burned out after a job and also have chores that use up those couple hours of spare time.
So it was nice to be able to get this over with quickly without it taking up so much of my time for seasons in a row. Managed to have fun thru it all though. Heard the stuff a bit too much after doing the video right after the audio. But it's not too spoiled. I still think of when I began working on the audio and how it was interesting. If this would have dragged on for seasons while working a job, I don't think it would have been as much fun. So nice to get done in a shorter period.
After doing video, the completed Birding Razzmatazz project folder had 15,368 files in 180 folders. To store that 22.2 GB of data on CD's would take 33 CD's. The original 3800 birding disc source files are not in there. For drum substitution, used many of the tone files from the 1200. There's still a lot of melody and beat files I didn't use. But whatever sounded interesting was in the narrowed down 500. Don't expect any part 2 of this. If there was a left-over table scraps, part 2 version, I'd have to be able to work on tunes full time.
After dragging on this long, I think most future projects will be a walk in the park. It'll be easy to just work on a 4 minute length song and less complicated video.
1 spinuch 2016-09-03
It's definitely that redditlalala guy.
1 spinuch 2016-09-03
Na that's Bob Levy or his more intelligent cousin.
1 spinuch 2016-09-03
It's definitely that redditlalala guy.