Generally, words are first followed by songs. Music is used to express feelings. When you have feelings, you usually write them down first and then melody them. Of course, many commercial songs are composed before lyrics, which loses the original purpose of music.

I will give you a musical process written by Zhang Huo

, and write lyrics and compose music. Generally, the words are written before the music, and there are often cases where the words are written before the words. The former is more. After the completion of the lyrics and songs, the songwriters usually make samples and record and sing them themselves. Generally, the singing in the sample can be sung gently with falsetto. After that, keep it in reserve.

2. After the singer heard the demo and decided to sing this work, the songwriter delivered the score and demo to the singer and producer. Find an arrangement.

3. The arranger gets the score and sample (sometimes sample is not needed) and starts arranger.

Note that if you need to record the voice of a real instrument, you usually do it with MIDI first. Strings need the arranger to play the score and score. Rhythm guitars generally only need to be marked with chords. Huacai sometimes needs to type the score, and sometimes it doesn't. It is only marked with chords and style notes, and the guitarist improvises.

4. After the arrangement is completed, export the musical instruments of each voice to the split-track audio, and each instrument including percussion should have a separate track. Note that, theoretically, these audio tracks are not allowed to add any audio effects, all of which are dry sounds. However, some synthetic timbres have their own effects, which can be another matter.

generally, the format of audio splitting should be negotiated with the sound engineer and sound mixer. So as to exchange documents. Usually exported to an audio format suitable for ProTools.

Generally speaking, there are two forms of audio track splitting. One is that all audio files can be aligned from the beginning of the music.

the other is that the head and tail are right. That is, if this piece of music lasts for three minutes, then all the tracks are three minutes. Even if some tracks are only a few seconds, the rest are blank, and all of them should be exported.

After the track division is derived, the general arranger can also roughly mix a sample for sound mixer's reference. You can also not mix.

5. Deliver the split track to the recording studio. Import the MAC. At the same time, contact guitarists, bandleaders and other real instrument actors.

6, recording real musical instruments. Generally, the composer himself or arranger can come to the shed to supervise the shed at this time. It is convenient to communicate with guitarists and band conductors and master the playing style.

7, record the singer's voice. You can record in the studio, and often you don't need to monitor the studio (so as not to affect the singer's state). Only the sound engineer and singer can complete the recording.

8. After the singer, composer, arranger and producer are satisfied with the recording results, all the tracks (including accompaniment tracks, vocals, musical instruments, etc.) will be delivered to sound mixer. Higher requirements, are generally looking for foreign sound mixer.

9. After sound mixer got the split track, he used digital or pure analog (designated by the producer) to mix in a professional mixing environment and under professional conditions such as far, middle, near and various reference boxes. Apply effects such as compression, equalization, excitation, distortion, reverberation and so on to each track to complete the mixing.

generally speaking, it is not allowed to add effectors to the total output, and it is also not allowed to fade in and out as a whole (if necessary, it must be marked for the master).

after sound mixer's work is finished and satisfied, it will be submitted to the producer for examination and approval.

1. The producer will hand over the audio files after mixing to the master processor (foreign masters are generally sought for those with higher requirements) for digital or pure analog master processing as required.

11. The master delivers the final master tape to the producer. At this point, the production process is completed. The producer delivers it to the publishing department.

12. If it is used in film and television works or is used to produce MV, it will be delivered to the video producer.

well, I just wrote the most complete music production process. Of course, even the professional production process is often not so comprehensive, and often many projects are undertaken by one person, especially in China. For example, composing music itself is an arrangement. It's normal for the sound engineer to become sound mixer after recording. The purpose of writing this post is to let friends who are new to computer music understand what formal music production is like. Admittedly, it is impossible for most fans to make their own works in such a process. But we should at least know what is normal. Even if it is a personal work or a job with low requirements, if you can follow such a formal process, you will find that it will be of great benefit to your production level.

there is no one-size-fits-all process.