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     These are updated recording notes for the instrumental version of "Silent Night" which was posted on deanrichardkibbe.org, with a link from deanrichardkibbe.com, on December 25, 2013.

     This recording of the Christmas hymn "Silent Night" was recorded at 32 Bit Floating Point and 192,000 cycles per second sampling frequency in Nuendo 2. The sheet music was copied from the Lutheran hymnal.

     The MIDI data on the four MIDI tracks, on the original multi-track Master Mix, was written in with a mouse, (one note at a time, in each octave, for each of the tracks), using a MIDI editing function included with Nuendo, so that the tracks could be played back in real time after completion of MIDI data entry. The notes on each track represent one of the four parts written in the sheet music copied from the Lutheran hymnal; that is, each one of the four parts written was represented on its own separate track. The parts on each MIDI track are doubled by writing the notes in more than one octave. At the time of this writing, the MIDI tracks were hooked up to a virtual instrument known as the JX16, using the Hard Organ voice, and converted into audio tracks using the freeze function in Nuendo.

     The audio track titled "CASIO MT 800" was recorded using the Pipe Organ voice on a Casio MT 800 musical keyboard. I played the keyboard myself, in real time, routed into a Fireface 800 digital audio interface, while listening through stereo headphones to the four MIDI tracks playing back in real time. The melody was played in one of the upper octaves, while sustained two note power chords were used as an accompaniment in the lower register. It was successfully completed on the first take.

     Although at different times the five tracks were panned into 10.2 and 5.1 surround busses, the final mix down was made with the four MIDI tracks routed into one stereo bus, and the Casio MT 800 audio track routed into a separate stereo bus, so that the MIDI tracks could use different equalization from the audio track. Although the original recording was made with the volume constant for the MIDI tracks, through the entire song, the sound was later muted for the MIDI tracks during the first verse, with the sound for the MIDI tracks fading in at the beginning of the second verse. Thus, in the final mixed down recording, the Casio MT 800 plays alone in the first verse, while the four MIDI tracks join in at the beginning of the second verse and play along with the Casio keyboard through the second and third verses until the end.

     While being mixed down into one uncompressed stereo .wav file, the stereo bus which the MIDI tracks were routed to was mixed down to a single stereo track and imported back into the same project at the same original position, while the stereo bus which the Casio keyboard track was routed to was mixed down to another single stereo track and also imported back into the same project at the same original position. Then a new stereo bus was created and the two mixed down tracks were both routed to that bus. Then the new stereo bus was mixed down to a single stereo audio track and imported back into the same project at the same position. The original four MIDI tracks, the original Casio keyboard track, the stereo track mixed down from the MIDI bus, and the stereo track mixed down from the Casio keyboard bus, were muted, while the final stereo bus was mixed down to an uncompressed stereo .wav file at three different resolutions: 24 Bit/192 kHz sampling frequency, 24 Bit/96 kHz sampling frequency, and 16 Bit/44.1 kHz sampling frequency. I decided to post the 24 Bit/192 kHz sampling frequency and 16 Bit/44.1 kHz sampling frequency versions on my website,  which I did on December 25, 2013 A.D.

SILENT NIGHT RECORDING NOTES

By Dean R. Kibbe