Sound Forge Music Remix - How To
Using Sony Sound Forge Audio Studio, I created a series of "remix" songs that you can listen to using the "box" widget below. The Audio Studio application has a lot of features and is pretty straight forward and easy to use. If you want to create your own remixes, get ideas by listening to some of my mixes and reading how I remixed the song in Sound Forge Audio Studio.
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"In the Aeroplane Over Los Angeles" To create the first remix I simply cut and paste clips from various songs into one Sound Forge Audio file. For the most part the clips are in order. Most of the tracks blend in a sequence so that the beats are similar or the lyrics follow from one song to the next. To keep the transistions smooth I often used Paste>Mix, Fade-In Fade-Out. For a couple of the transitions I used Graphic Pitch . This remix song begins with a longer than average clip by Neutral Milk Hotel. The song then continues with a long series of short clips, and ends with another long clip of a song by Frank Black. Sound Forge Tools: Primary Song Credits: "Airshirt" I used one of my favorite R.E.M. songs to create this remix. The first thing that I did to create the remix song was reversed the entire track and saved it as a new file. Having both the forward and reverse track open separately in Sound Forge, I used the Graphic Fade tool. For the forward track, I had the volume first fade out, then fade in, fade out, fade in, and so on. For the reverse track, I had the volume first fade in, then fade out, fade in, fade out. Finally, I copied the reverse track and Paste>Mixed the two tracks together. When you listen to the track notice how as the forward track fades out, the reverse fades in, and so on. Sound Forge Tools: Song Credits: "Xzibit & Weezer" I came up with this remix kind of randomly. I happend to have the "acapella" version of an Xzibit song and an instrumental version of a Weezer song. From listening to the two tracks individually, I realized I could match them together so that the lyrics are timed with the audio. All I did to create this remix was Copy and Paste>Mix using Sound Forge. Sound Forge Tools: Song Credits: "Atmosphere and Wind Chimes and Chimes" The name of the artist and song that I used for this remix are fitting to the remix itself. The hip hop artist I used for this remix is named "Atmosphere". The name of the song is "Sound is Vibration". The first thing I did for this remix was took a clip from a "wind blowing" sound effect and looped it back and fourth. Next, I found a sound effect of "wind chimes". I then copy>paste>mixed both the looped wind blowing and the wind chimes onto the Atmosphere track. Sound Forge Tools: Song Credits: "Air and Nancy Sinatra" One day when listening to the Kill Bill soundtrack I noticed that the vocals of the Nancy Sinatra song came out of one speaker and the instruments came out of another. When I opened the song with Sound Forge I saw that the "left channel" contained just the vocals and the "right channel" contained just the instruments. To create this remix, I first removed the left channel (the instruments) and replaced it with the right channel (the vocals). Other words, I created an "a capella" track by a simple copy/paste of the song's left channel on top of the right channel. I then timed and mixed the lyrics on top of one of my favoriate songs by the band Air. This remix was created very similarly to what I did for the Xzibt/Weezer remix. Sound Forge Tools: Song Credits: "Ween & Christina Aguilera" For this mix I simply added a looped audio sample of Christina Aguilera's "Genie in a Bottle" to a full track by the band Ween. During the Paste>Mix I lowered the volume of the Ween track. Sound Forge Tools: Song Credits: | |
