AkBKukU

Blip Music Track and Music-less Video

Added 2020-04-18 21:13:48 +0000 UTC

I thought it might be fun to share the music track as it's own thing since I made it and I can do with it what I want! It's 6:30 of a lot of the same stuff so do keep some reasonable expectations. If there is interest I could fairly easily make a shorter ~2m cut of the music in something more resembling a proper song rather than background music.

The music was written before the video was filmed as "blocks" with Seq24 the MIDI editing software I mentioned in the SK-88 video. After filming I fully edited the video and exported just the sound(video takes forever at any resolution since I start with 4k). I then loaded the sound file in Blender since it was about the only thing that supports the Jack transport protocol I know of. I was then able to sync Seq24 with Blender, so I could jump to any point in the audio or the MIDI track and have it play back in sync. I knew what the more important scene transitions were so I tried to keep the music similar in each segment and transition to something else when the scene did too. After it was done I just played back the whole MIDI file while recording my SK-88 and edited it in with Resolve.

Also, if you're curious to hear the video without music here is a render I had before I had the music done: https://youtu.be/ME_Iy1hvU98

To me, that version sounds hollow now. But I've probably watched and listened to the whole video 20 times now so it's weird for it to be missing it now for me.