I finally got around to recording a brief snippet of piano to use in Ableton.

I don’t know why this has taken me so long – probably I thought that miking a piano would be hard. In fact I went lo-fi by opening the lid and popping the mic in the top. Job done.

The un-effected, untreated, warts and all piano line is here. You can hear all the creakings and hi end noise that presumably comes from throwing a cheap mic into the top of an old piano.

I recorded onto my MacBook but DropBoxed across to my PC to do the Ableton stuff – I’m in a kind of transition period between PC and MB for doing tunes – all my VST’s are on my PC but I’m loving the ease and portability of the Mac.

Once in Ableton, I did some effectmagic (technical term) on the piano line, removing the high end noise and hopefully most of the creaks (most of which are actually a pedal which badly needs oiling..) and then chucked in some quick samples to pad it all out.

As always, it’s unfinished – in fact, it’s downright lazy – but then hey, my neck hurts and it’s time to go do something else. So for now, here it is. Hang around until the piano line comes in about half way through – it gets better.

For other [mostly unfinished] stuff, go to the tunes page on my website.