«Etournerie » Track released with Ardour

Hi,
Another one made with the help of Ardour.
This software is really a diamond.
I made this recording today as it was too hot, here in France, to think about going outside !!!
As usual, a « one take » recording with a little bit of cleaning, but no overdubs.
Anyway, the tempo is so loose that it would have been impossible.
Thanks to all of you who will take the time to give an ear, and thanks to all that community here and to the developers.
Olivier

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Thanks for sharing, that’s very pretty. I wish I were as talented on the guitar!

The piece works well just as it is. But there’s no reason you couldn’t do any overdubbing – you could use Ardour’s tempo mapping features to fit the timeline to the ebb and flow of your tempo so you’d have a varying click track you could play along to.

I’ve been making great use of that feature this year. I usually record a piano part (audio) with a varying tempo, tempo-map the grid to that, then overdub everything else using the metronome or a guide (MIDI) drum beat. It’s been working really well.

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Hello,
Thanks for your comment.
You are right on the topic of the tempo grid.
I have tried, here and there, to use the option to set the tempo to the audio, but because of a bit of laziness and also a lack of understanding properly how to make it work with a minimum of ease, I didn’t, yet, reach satisfying results.
If you have process which works, I will be glad to hear about it.
Kind regards
Olivier

Unfortunately, there aren’t really any short-cuts to tempo-mapping and it can be quite a laborious process.

I’ve just tempo-mapped a piece to a guide piano part (which in itself took me ages as I had several attempts to get it right). The piece is a little over five-and-a-half minutes and it’s taken me about 40 minutes to map. There were no great in-bar tempo changes (except for the penultimate bar) so all I’ve had to do is drag the bar lines around for every single bar starting at the beginning and working to the end, then move individual beats in that one bar. I had to add a few time signature changes in as well near the end, but that didn’t add much time at all.

Like most things, it seems to come quicker and more easily with practice. This is the fourth piece I’ve done this year with tempo-mapping and I think I’m much quicker at it now than I was back in January or February.

It can be quite frustrating to start with, but it’s definitely worth persevering with.

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Beautifully played! I actually quite like the bare acoustic in a room in skilled hands ethos, I think overdubs might take away some of the intimate magic…

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Hello,
Yes, that is what I thought about tempo mapping. A great tool, but quite demanding in term of time.
Anyway, it is nice to know it is available if needed.
Thanks for the answer.

Thank you.
Sometimes acoustic, dry instrument is the way I want to go, and sometimes maybe more « produced » stuff should be my wish.
For now, without a full time dedicated to music, I lean toward practicing the instrument.
When I want to record some pieces, Ardour comes to be a very nice tool, because it is reliable, due to the fact that data is written directly to the disk, and it is really easy to use for recording tracks.