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New Instrumental Soundtrack
Posted on August 17th, 2007 in Church Life, Music by Fred McKinnon
Hey Everyone!
HAPPY FRIDAY. I don’t have a Worship Confessional for this past Sunday … yet. It’s on the burner. However, I would love to share some music. As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago in the “I Love My Job” post, I’ve been scoring some original background music for short testimonial clips we’re using each Sunday during our “iReach” series.
I finished a 5:30 piece yesterday that we’ll call the “Hernandez Testimony Soundtrack”. Ultimately, we are getting “model releases” to display the full videos soon on our church site so that you can see the faces, hear the testimony, and see the awesome “iReach” interface that our guys created.
I especially enjoyed this clip because it was peaceful and relaxing. I used only 2 tracks – a Steinway Concert Grand sample. (SampleTank 2 XL RTAS plugin for ProTools and the “Background” string patch on my Yamaha S80) Rather than going the lazy route and just recording with a piano/string combination patch, I opted to record the piano and then weave the strings in and out where appropriate. Constant piano/strings throughout this 5:30 minute interview would’ve gotten monotonous, so I hope that adding the strings in and out separately helps this piece live a little. (any lessons, Jace … are you reading?)
I’m trying this new Flash Music Player plugin for the post – so click the play button below and it should expand and play. I hope you enjoy it! And as always, I welcome your feedback … good or bad!
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Love it Fred… Nicely done. I want to be you when I grow up.
Man you are quick on the draw! I just posted it!
Glad u enjoyed it … may the peace of the Lord be all over you!
Fred
Nice – looking forward to seeing the video.
Have you got some links to some good ProTools tutorials? I’ve been using it a little bit just to create scratch tracks of new songs to send to our musicians but would like to use it for doing more stuff. Got some links?
Congratulations Fred, a beautiful piece of heartfelt work. And your string weaving was done naturally and beautifully.
Couldn’t have done one bit better myself.
Jace Vek
Chris …
Probably some good ones in the support areas of DigiDesign.Com.
Jace … thanks – that means a lot coming from you! I hope everyone will check your music out at myspace.com/jacevek
Love the music …not happy with the player ;{ …I’d love to add this to my HPP collection of meditative music but the flash does not allow downloading of the mp3s
Hey -
Ahh … well, don’t stone me .. but I have that option turned on intentionally … who knows, it may be on my next record!
Seriously, though – if you dig around enough in the code (or the RSS feed, hint, hint) you can probably find the source file just fine!)
Hey Fred. Seriously… your music makes these videos. Sets the mood. But you already knew that. (Unless you’re accidentally awesome)
Soothing, peaceful, refreshing and anointed!
I too want to follow in your footsteps. I need to learn how to use the tools…I’m sure my God will help me. He’s brought me this far. Thank you for sharing…
d
Wow. Very nice, Fred. I love it. It’s really inspiring. This is my new inspiration music for the next chapter of that book I’ve been meaning to write.
Fred that was great man. Thanks for sharing it online. I loved it!
Beautimus!
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