Hello Folks, I know that the tune is not totally done in TrakAx, but the drums for my entry for the Kristal Audio Engine Challenge, “Faith”, was done in TrakAx using 23 loops, percussion, and cymbal hits from Smartloops, taking up 11 tracks total. After sub-mixing, these were exported as a 44.1 16bit .wav file. Then this file was convert using Switch to a 48kHz file and imported into Kristal.
Click Here To Listen To “Faith”
I am working on the next demo, and will be using TrakAx exclusively. The only reason I did not do it this time was because of the VST support that Kristal has. I am looking forward to the next release to see it’s feature set before starting. Below I am going to post the recording notes for the tune..I know it is long, but on the Kristal forum our main goal is to share recording tips, tricks, and any ideas that we might have.....it is a great forum, and I see this one developing into something similar.
If this part is too long, or violates any forum rules, please remove it at your discretion!
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The song is called “Faith” , and is a pretty simple progression in Dropped D tuning, using mostly 3-Finger Triad type chords & a standard strum pattern.
The Acoustic Guitar is the ‘ol Rogue Dreadnought with the new HT-TBL pickup installed. It was strung with Musicians Friends 12’s that were 2 days old.
The Bass was recorded to two tracks, and is a Dean EAB Acoustic, strung with Fender Lite Flatwound’s that are a week old. It was mic’d with a MXL990, and also had a Maverick Performer Soundhole pickup installed.
The Mandolin is a Rough A-Style, mic’d with the MXL990 also, and strung with Martian lites that were...old. All the Mandolin parts were double tracked and panned a little different for each section. I moved around the mic slightly for each take, just to give it a different tone, tho I tried to keep the same distance from it.
The various other tones are from another new addition to the studio, an iMac Snow. This is a G3 600 system is running Tiger 10.4.11 and Garage Band V2. I am using it as a “sound module” at the moment, and have loaded close to 5000 Soundfonts onto it, along with the 1200 sounds and loops that come with it. The sounds used were the Apple Grand Piano that came with GB, and “Sonic Implants Ambient” (for the Bell) and “Cambells Pan Pipes” Soundfonts.
Since I have had 2 bum M-Audio “refurbished” 49e keyboards sent to me in the last month, I had to play all the parts in using the QWERTY keyboard.......what fun! 
The Mac was run straight into Kristal using a 1/8” stereo cable from the speaker out on the Mac to the Line In on the soundcard. All the sounds were left “as-is”.
(This keyboard is now called the M-Audio KeyRig 49 USB Keyboard)
And finally, the Drums and Percussion are from the Smartloops Acoustic Collection, and the tracks were created in TrakAx, using around 23 loops, percussion, and cymbal hits, taking up 11 tracks total. These were exported as a 44.1 16bit .wav. Then I used Switch to convert the track to a 48kHz file and imported it in Kristal. Everything else was recorded in Kristal using the trusty old SB PCI512 card running the kX Project 3537 drivers. All editing was done in Wavosaur.
(More in the next post “A Contest Entry that uses TrakAx for the Drums...2”
