I spent Saturday (17th March) recording my drum samples back in Chippenham. It took a while but I got my kit sounding really good and I have a lot of great sounding, clean samples.
I initially thought that Drumagog was able to read an audio file and figure out where each sample was itself, but having played around with it a little more I think I'm going to have to cut the samples myself and load them in individually. I will spend tomorrow getting through this.
I looked into free score writing software since last week too, and have gotten a fair chunk of my exercises for the first chapter written out now using MuseScore. This software is functionally the same as Sibelius, but is available as a free download. I figured, even though I'm not including the business element of my book in my Major Project, since the end result is something that would be sold, this would be a cost saving measure.
It's going to be a busy week for me, as I am hoping to have finished scoring chapter one by the time it comes to the viva (giving me... a week - give or take a couple of days), as well as being able to play the audio for at least one exercise from this chapter.
I'm currently at a bit of an annoying stage where everything I'm doing requires a lot of work in order to actually do it, without a tremendous amount to show for it at the end. Once I've done this initial work (i.e. cutting up my samples, programming what I've scored out) the work-to-output ratio will be much more rewarding, as I will be easily able to open templates, apply presets, etc and the plan is to be pumping out a lot of work over the Easter break.
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