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They walked through many quaint streets, stopped and walked on the road, and heard the performance of different musical instruments. Zheng Yao also recorded the sounds of different musical instruments with his mobile phone, including Guqin, Guzheng, Pipa, Allegro...

This trip to the ancient street allowed Zheng Yao to find some creative inspiration.He had been trapped in the endless loop of pop music before, unable to get out of that big circle, but this time when he came out with Xiao Shuyuan, he understood what it means to be invincible.

I felt the charm of classical music, and also discovered the possibility of combining classical music and pop music. This trip is full of pots and bowls.

"I'm going to take a shower, do you want to come with me?" Xiao Shuyuan took off his sweat-stained short sleeves and cast a questioning look at Zheng Yao.

Zheng Yao sat down on the sofa, pressed the start button of the drum machine, and the LED screen on the screen glowed red, "You go to wash it first, I want to play with the drum machine for a while, and I just recorded the sound recorded today. Import it in."

Of course he knew what Xiao Shuyuan was thinking.

Xiao Shuyuan was a serious person on the surface, but in fact he had a bad stomach.If he went to the bathroom with him to take a shower tonight, then Zheng Yao probably wouldn't wake up until noon tomorrow.

The reason is self-evident.

Zheng Yao connected his mobile phone to the XLR interface of MPCLive II with a data cable, and imported the recording files in the mobile phone.He chose the timbre of Guzheng as the accompaniment for one track, and lowered the volume from the default value of 100 to 77.

If you create a new track, you can record vocals. Using bounce recording, you can record up to 16 tracks, so that you can choose the best vocals to complete the work.

The combination of Looper recording and drum machine is a relatively avant-garde way of music composition creation, forming a bass-drum machine-mixer signal chain.You need to set a preset suitable for playing accompaniment first, enter the looper phrase cycle mode, and press the key at the same time to enter the looper mode.

Zheng Yao did not bring the bass, what he is doing now is to integrate a complete piece of accompaniment music, and then use the bass or guitar to play the solo part.

The advantages of MPCLiveII are significant. On the basis of the old version, this version comes with very rich timbres. There are more options for synthetic instruments, drum rhythms, and analog synthesizers, so you don’t have to worry about the lack of timbres.In addition to making rhythms, drum rhythms can be combined with arpeggios, and external drum machines do not exist.

And the recording is also very organized. The drum set and the phrase are two independent tracks. After selecting the whole set of drum sounds, the musician can directly play.When playing a melody, not only vocals and Bass can be recorded separately, but dual voices can also be realized.

Then he sang a few lyrics, and after recording them, he first added a clear bass, and then added a bass.Various sound effects are superimposed layer by layer, and the melody becomes thick and varied.

Those complicated keys, in Zheng Yao's hands, seem to be magically cast on the fingertips, as if they can produce flowers with skillful hands.

When Xiao Shuyuan came out after taking a shower, he saw this scene.Before Zheng Yao was too far away from him, it was just an unattainable dream, but now, Zheng Yao was right in front of his eyes, a distance he could touch with his hand.

It is true that Zheng Yao at work is undoubtedly shining.

While wiping his hair, Xiao Shuyuan quickly put on his glasses, his eyes almost wanting to stick to Zheng Yao's body.He wanted to go over to hug Zheng Yao, but was afraid of disturbing him, so he could only sit on the seat not far from him and observe him without saying a word.

Creation is a lonely thing, Xiao Shuyuan has always known it.

But he will do his best to stay with Zheng Yao as he is now.

Let the person in front of you always be in your sight.

Just as he was thinking about it, he was caught off guard by Zheng Yao's turning back, and his eyes met together. Zheng Yao's brows that were originally frowning together suddenly relaxed, and there was a smile on the corner of his mouth, "Xiao Shuyuan, have you finished washing?"

"Hmm." Xiao Shuyuan lowered his head again and brushed his hair seriously.

He was only wrapped in a bath towel, and his upper body was uncovered, revealing his toned figure.Holding the drum machine in his arms, Zheng Yao stood up from the sofa, "It will take me a while to finish, um...you have two choices, one, you go to bed first, and two, you can hug me and I will arrange the music."

A little smile appeared on the corner of Xiao Shuyuan's mouth, he didn't speak, just looked at Zheng Yao, and patted his thigh wrapped in a bath towel.

Zheng Yao smiled, and sat on Xiao Shuyuan's lap, allowing Xiao Shuyuan to hold him from behind, handling various sound effects with his fingers.

Xiao Shuyuan rested his chin on Zheng Yao's shoulder, watching his various operations, although he couldn't understand.

"Would you like to try it on?"

Xiao Shuyuan replied truthfully, "I don't understand this."

"I teach you."

Xiao Shuyuan glanced at the small objects on the ground, "What is this on the ground?"

"This is called a loop recording effect device." Zheng Yao picked it up, "This is usually placed by your feet, and it can be recorded without a guitar. Any sound can be recorded."

"The A key is the rewind function, step on it, rewind, and return to normal. The B key is a half speed, slowing down twice. The C key has several functions, including recording, pausing and deleting. The recorded section , stepping twice quickly is to pause, superimposing is stepping once, superimposing one track, and stepping again can return to the normal cycle."

Zheng Yao held Xiao Shuyuan's right hand, held his index finger, and pressed a key on the drum machine, and the drum machine made a flexible heavy metal bass percussion sound. Zheng Yao turned his head to look at Xiao Shuyuan, "This It is the floor drum, and the techno and house heard in many electronic music are widely used.”

Xiao Shuyuan pressed the button again, as if he was trying to understand Zheng Yao's feeling, "It's a bit retro."

"Yes, it is the 80s retro style, with a feeling of going back in time, similar to oldclub."

"You didn't bring your guitar, can you arrange music?"

"Yes. I'm now compiling the accompaniment with the materials in the library, and then I will go home and record the solo with the guitar."

"Can the accompaniment and solo be tuned?"

"If there are only two tracks, you can adjust the volume balance between the accompaniment and the solo through the playback volume. If there are many tracks, you can determine the volume of each track through the volume of the recording." Zheng Yao held Xiao Shuyuan fingers, and pressed another key, "Each of these keys has its own function and has a different tone rhythm. This is the beat key."

He held Xiao Shuyuan's fingers like the teacher taught him to write when he was a child, and tried every key.

"Actually, you also have a similar scale chart." Xiao Shuyuan drew inferences.

Zheng Yao was confused by Xiao Shuyuan's metaphor, "What do you mean?"

Xiao Shuyuan chuckled, and gently pinched Zheng Yao's earlobe with his fingertips, "For example, here is the most basic tone."

Realizing that Xiao Shuyuan was talking about scale charts on the surface, but in fact he was talking dirty, Zheng Yao's earlobes turned red all of a sudden, "Xiao Shuyuan! You bastard."

"I'm an asshole?" Xiao Shuyuan repeated, reaching into Zheng Yao's shirt to scratch the itchy flesh on his waist, "Then I'll be an asshole this time!"

"Hahahahahahaha...Xiao, Xiao Shuyuan...Itch, stop!"

"Tell you to call me an asshole!"

"Ha ha ha ha……"