back on track and out of curiosity, how long does it take you to make one of these on average?
It varies greatly from song to song, how much free time I have and how I listen to it...
Some songs take upwards of a whole month, others I can finish in just a couple of hours, this one in particular took 2 nights...
If I can listen to a song in programs such as Hoot, JCOM-spc or NEZplug, where I can turn on and off sound channels and listen to each channel on its own, it makes my work a heck of a lot easier because then I can just transcribe the song channel by channel, and in cases where the song uses more channels than the PCE has I have to either drop some channels, or somehow play more than one thing on the same channel so that I can fit everything in, this song had 8 channels originally, but I still managed to fit everything within 6, and that's because channel 5 is mostly just playing detuned reverb so if that channel was cut out to play sound effects little-to-no musical detail would be lost!
But sometimes I just can't listen to each channel on its own, like when it's a CD song where everything is already on a single channel, or when it's a song that just isn't available on any of the aforementioned programs, then I just have to listen to it whole and figure out what goes where, which makes it quite a bit harder, but if the song is simple or easy enough I can still do it just fine, heck the easiest songs I've ever covered (These two:
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) I didn't even need to listen to each channel on its own even though I could! They were just easy... (Both of which were finished in a day too)
