How Do I Use This App?

turn your volume down and plug in your earphones

select a voice from the drop-down list play a tune using the keyboard keys Q through P

experiment with the wave forms (sine, triangle, square, sawtooth) decay (in half second steps) and octave settings for each voice, you will hear dramatic changes. perhaps we will change the default start settings of each voice at a later date

when you've put a little tune together, it's time to record it!

Start Recording

press ALT+Z

you will hear a single beat of the kick drum and the "Ready To Record" button will show "Stop Recording"

Play That Tune

play the little tune that you want to record

Stop Recording

click the "Stop Recording" button when done

Test Your Recording

hit the play button on the media recorder to listen to your recording

Play Continuously

right click the media recorder and select "Loop" from the to repeat continuously

Save Your Recording

if you are happy! Right click the media player and save the music file to somewhere on your computer. You can at this point load the file into music editing software, such as Audacity to trim the start and end points

Play Your Saved Recording

click the "Browse" button to select the file you have just saved to disc

play the selected file by clicking key A

the music will loop continuously

Change The Playback Volume

we added a slider control so that you can balance the volume of the recording with that of another voice or instrument

why?

we found that when you come to play additional music/beats on top of your recording, the other instrument/s may be too loud or quiet, drums drown out the music for example

Try Out The Drums Etc.

try out the drums, keys Z, X, C, V and M. Key K plays a hi-hat, key L plays a triangle

Stop Playing Your Recording

click key D to stop playing the selected file

Record More Stuff

now! If you are all happy! You can start recording additional tunes and stuff on top of the recording you just made

when you are ready, click ALT+Z to start recording again

click key A to start playing the recording back and play some drum beats, or additional music

Play Back The Composition

go back to Test Your Recording above and don't forget to save it to your computer

Samples

if you want to hear the recorded samples demonstrating how you can build a tune, please download the samples first

• download =>
• first tune recorded
• add a another tune
• add a third tune!
• add drums
• add some bass tune

how did we do this?

well, we just recorded some notes played on the keyboard, saved our recording to the computer, then played it back (the program automatically loops the tune continuously)

OK! CONFESSION! we trimmed the original recording in Audacity so that it played back in a near-perfect loop

then, when we were happy with our first tune we hit ALT+Z to start recording again, then, we played the same tune / notes as in the first tune, just timed slightly off from the first (that's where the 'echoee' sound comes from, however, it is the same voice used for the first recording) then we hit the STOP RECORDING button and saved the result to our computer, after checking it out first of course!

we then selected another voice from the drop down list and played some more notes along with our mix whilst recording

this process was repeated adding drums and then some bass notes (all of two!) yep! the bass notes were created using another voice from the list

Enter Da Synth Dude App