I hope this works...

The recording session went very well, though I must say that I came up with a much different song than I expected. I thought I was going to create an ornate, orchestral tune that would have lots of different elements with which to interact. Instead I wrote a three chord rocker that's not exactly muscular, but not exactly a musical pushover. The instruments used are as follows:

Bass drum
Snare drum
Ride Cymbal
Maracas
Tambourine
Piano
Synthesizer
Treated Piano
Bass
Background vocals
Lead vocals

That's still plenty of instrumentation to use and more than enough for me to wrangle for the scope of this project. I'm breaking down each recorded track into a separate mp3 and loading those into Flash. And this is where it gets tricky. Everything has to line up perfectly, and if there is any delay from track to track then the whole thing will descend into cacophony, which is a word that keeps coming up in the journal entries, much to my chagrin. I envision (and hear) the entire thing in my head, but I'm really worried about getting it to work.

I have pretty much got the actionscripting finished insofar as I have made the stage where the graphical instrument representations will be animated and "create" sound once placed. I have gotten the animations to work. One thing I would love to do that eludes my grasp is make it so that each dragged element bumps up against the other instead of laying on top of each other. There has to be an easy bit of actionscripting out there to get around this.

Of course, none of this matters, as The Arcade Fire beat me to the punch. There budget is probably much greater than mine.