LeeMeBee (Software Test pt.  1 – Multitrack Vocals)

3/22/2025

By Joy Lynn Clark (BMI)(IAPWE)

This song is about domestic violence.  I still haven’t found the words to talk about it but I did write this song.  I don’t even care to type up the lyrics.

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Someone asked me in the past to start walking people though my production experience.  I am not sure about making tutorials at this point but here’s a bit of what I did.

I wrote this song around 2000 (Leave Me Alone)  and I have a few versions of it somewhere.   This new version is a software test .   The plan was to kick this song real quick and try to learn ACID which  I haven’t used in 20 years.  Multitracking the vocals was a cinch.  However, adding effects and plugins was not for me.  So, I decided to export the vocal track back to Studio One and engineer the song there.  It was mainly in a bout of laziness so I will probably go through the help section of ACID and get those plugins configured.  I also noticed that not all formats open between the two, Presonus/Dolby and ACID/Sony files (for which I am so impressed by both software manufacturers and must do more).  However, the VBR format of ACID did not import into Studio One well so I chose a standard 96/11000 that came in just fine and is still hi-res enough for video (if necessary).  I chose 29.97 fps (frames per second)  however, I could not choose non-drop.

I am still finding that the file formats that I used were still cold (mp3 and flac) and I prefer something a little warmer but, it loses meta information and therefore I am going to get over myself and get these plugins configured in ACID.

Special Acknowledgement to Lauryn Hill because I accidentally borrowed some lyrics from her Miseducation of Lauryn Hill album.