showing my work and progress here, hope somebody likes ;-)

[Capoeira]

I want to show my musics (DEMOS) here, I produced 3 so far but I learned some new things and i am actualizing them, so for now there is one music (with special thanks to roaldz, who showed me how to tune that vocals a bit).

I must say that I am beginner AND that my hardware is f_cked-up:
Celeron-cpu overclocked to 2000MHz, 512MB of DDR-Ram, AC97 onboard-sound, a little mic from sony and a MIDI-Controller from Behringer.

So these are not final version(s), only demos.

Since I am beginner i would like to have tips how to improve quality;
I know: I have to buy better hardware; i know that there is an interference in the vocoder-parts, that i will remake together with the vocals when getting better hardware. That brass-part is supposed to sound natural, I am trying to get Arturia-Brass for that, as there is no software in linux.

I know, I still have to learn very much, and that is why I am here.

PLEASE COMMENT, any kind of comment welcome: bad, good, tecnical, artistical.

So here is the link: http://palcomp3.cifraclub.terra.com.br/FabioCapoeira

[Capoeira]

did a new version

i didnt re-record the vocal because i still dont have real mic.
but i have a audio-interface now wich helped me do a better mix, i hope (bit still without monitors; have to use sennheiser-phones)
those vocoder-parts hurt a bit in the ears, thats the shitty mic too

when getting a decent mic, i will do a final-version
i hope i eveluated a bit, i am learning a lot.

leave comment, what did you like? even more important, what not?

http://palcomp3.cifraclub.terra.com.br/FabioCapoeira/

[brummer]

hey

I like this kind off musik, after a day full of sun, sitting in a bar, drink a cool coctail, swing a bit to the musik,. . . .

But here, in germany, there is no mutch sun at time,


No, it's nice and groovy, I just miss a bit shapness in the synthpart, may you can add a compresser here ?

[studio32]

Nice piece of work, especially the music part. I also like the voices following each other...

How did you record the acoustic drums/djembe ?

Maybe you can find a womans voice in you neighborhood to sing with you?

Keep on going!

[Capoeira]

Nice piece of work, especially the music part. I also like the voices following each other...

How did you record the acoustic drums/djembe ?

Maybe you can find a womans voice in you neighborhood to sing with you?

Keep on going!

yes i forgot to mention lol:
the percussion is mostly samples from here: http://www.freesound.org/packsViewSingle.php?id=2301 and http://www.freesound.org/packsViewSingle.php?id=1298
the atabaque-breakbeat (brazilian conga) i've stolen from a popular samba-song

i dont have nothing here but a (old) PC, a midi-keyboard, a M-audio duo, and a shity-mic

yes-womans voice would be good, but these things only in version more in future and with a real microfone

THANKS for hearing and commenting

[studio32]

the atabaque-breakbeat (brazilian conga) i've stolen from a popular samba-song

Why don't you put something of yourself in it and change it (just a little bit)?

[Capoeira]

the atabaque-breakbeat (brazilian conga) i've stolen from a popular samba-song

Why don't you put something of yourself in it and change it (just a little bit)?

well, i don't have the atabaque here (yet), and even if i had, the mic is very crapp. i have some samples here, but its impossible to make real sounding percussion-sequences with a sampler. but i have some new samples now, those samples from freesound aren't verry good (timing).
also i intend to make demos. my real goal is to record all the acoustic instruments with real instruments some day. that is for now, perhaps i learn how to make brass and percussion samplers sound real until then!? but i doubt that.
the guitar-solo i made with RealStrat-vst and rakarrack. the execution i am learning still, and jack has some problem with RealStrat. But what u think of the timbre? is it near a real strat?
when i have better mic i will re-record the vocals a change the loops.

[Capoeira]

hearing it now again, it sound still very bad.

however, i made an other song. check it out if you like. i think i am getting better slowly: http://palcomp3.cifraclub.terra.com.br/FabioCapoeira/

[studio32]

yeah your songs are improving

Which software did you use?

[Capoeira]

yeah your songs are improving

Which software did you use?

Ardour, Linuxsampler - brass (kickassbrass), hydrogen (GSCW2), bristol (mini & rhodesbass) & Zynaddsubfx- synths, jamin

Audacity - mp3 encoder; don't know why it produces various "errors" in the sound at 128kbs, if you here 192kbs version at myspace (http://www.myspace.com/fabiocapoeiraes) the sound is clear

[studio32]

there is also an minimoog preset for ams... Ken Restivo uses it

[Capoeira]

there is also an minimoog preset for ams... Ken Restivo uses it

that patch doesn't load in my AMS 1.8.8

[studio32]

unpack it

[Capoeira]

unpack it

lol
of course i unpacked it
but it says: "could not open file" when i try to load the patch
perhaps there is some ladspa-package missing, but the program would say that, wouldn't it?

[Yeri]

Sounds good. Nice job with the percussions.. did you play them with a keyboard ?
You could try to introduce some variations with the tempo of the song.. maybe a progression from slower to faster.. as in capoeira