Wow, that is very nice.
Haha Thanks!
I've been doing things like this for awhile.
I'm curious to what program you used to making the sheet music in a PDF and the midi and mp3, if you used one. I've been searching for something like that for a very long time.
I used a number of different programs, each one with a different purpose. To write the sheet music, I used
Noteworthy Composer ($40 for the registered version, which I use), which is a music notation program designed for writing sheet music on the computer. The program is able to play back your sheet music using MIDI. As a "side effect", one is also able to save their music as a MIDI file. To make this particular piece of sheet music, I recorded the original theme off of my LBT 11 DVD. I listened to it, instrument by instrument, note by note, in order to accurately reproduce it by ear. I entered it all in manually; no conversion programs were used (they are useless. I'd never recommend one). I just entered in the sheet music (Noteworthy Computer is basically the MIDI equivalent of Word Pad) and saved to a MIDI.
In order to make the PDF file, I had to hunt down a rather obscure program, called GSView 4.8. It is able to convert something that has been printed to a file, to a PDF document. Noteworthy Composer allows the user to print their work. I simply used the "print to file..." feature found in any print-compatible program. In order for GSView to pick it up, you must name the printed file with a .ps extension. I saved a file with a name like LBT 11 Opening.ps. I then loaded this file into GSView, hit "convert" and saved it as a PDF. It's very easy if you know how to do it but it took me forever to learn this trick.
All of the above can be done with free trial versions of the software. The Mp3 was produced using much more powerful, sophisticated and expensive software. If you have heard any of our Gang of Five singing projects, I used the same programs here as I used on those. The programs used were:
FL Studio 7 Producer Edition ($200)
EastWest/Quantum Leap Symphonic Orchestra, Gold XP Pro edition ($500)
EastWest/Quantum Leap Colossus($600)
All of which I purchased (I am quite an audio nerd
)
FL Studio is the "host program" of those three. It is the main workstation software. The other two are plugins for FL, called "Virtual instruments". These virtual instruments contain the sound that is generated. In the case of these particular virtual instruments, they generate realistic acoustic sounds such as orchestra instruments, drums, and pianos.
After writing the piano MIDI in Noteworthy Composer, I imported this MIDI into FL Studio. After I loaded up the piano sound in Colossus, I fine-tuned it for expression. I then wrote in the other instrumental parts using MIDI events (note on, note off, expression, velocity, etc. etc. etc) in FL Studio. I assigned the virtual instruments to play whatever these MIDI events told them to play and the result was the uncompressed version of the mp3 I posted here. I then exported the project to an mp3 file, which I posted up.
There is a free trial of FL Studio but you cannot save your work in it. You can export to .wav, .mp3, or .mid but you cannot save the project files. There are No free trials of my virtual instruments.
If anyone is interested in any part of any LBT soundtrack in sheet music or MP3 form, let me know!
