Hello to all!
I am a newbie, with little music education and some (small) experience with DAWs.
Moreover, I am new to Linux
I have recently managed to have Ardour 7.1 up and running, and I am happy with it.
I am experimenting with the creation of drones, and I have a couple of questions.
First of all, what would be the best way to have a continuous note played for several minutes?
I am trying with a midi track with a synth, and it works: I select a nice instrument, and I play a single note, from the start, and I make it last for minutes.
(then I "play" with some effects (equalizer, reverb), and possibly add some more tracks with slow melodic patterns, but this is not the point.)
The small drawback is the "attack" of the note: I would like to avoid the "start" of the note, and I would like that the sound starts already with its full note, without the "attack" (I don't know if "attack" is the correct term, apart from lack of musical education, English is not my native language ).
But if I start to play the track with the "time head" already "in the note", there is no sound, I guess because the DAW needs to "read" the midi signal of the note starting.
So far, I have covered the "attack" of the note with a fader, that starts at zero, cutting out the first moments and then slowly rises.
But I wander if there is a better way.
And maybe I am completely "wrong", and I am not using the best approach: I was thinking to use an analog track, with some continuous note pre-recorded. But in that case, how to make it last for minutes, if I have only a short sample? copy and paste would be the way to go? Or maybe the DAW has some way to "copy-and-paste" automatically, while the time is progressing, and "other things happen" on other tracks?
I am sorry for my lack of proper terms, I hope I made myself clear...
Thanks in advance for any input!