Summer Hit? Summer Hit!
Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2018 2:59 pm
Hello, hello,
If you have spent your days glued to the computer screen, if it has been too cool or too hot to budge, or if for any other reason, you are experiencing a temporary lack of movement, rejoice, please, for here comes the remedy. Meet the
Takiripitiki Radio Blast
Pretty much entirely done in GMaq's AVLinux, which, as much as it is essentially a 1 man hobby project, stands, imo & atm, for audio linux' most reliable road to a reproducible production environment, important when migrating or sharing.
The song started out with the little rhythmic-melodic lick you'll hear at the beginning, I initially just wanted to quickly record that for later. So I used ardour 5.12 for that, and added an accompainment guit in the act, which I should have played better had I known I would make a song.
The rest of the tracks are MIDI, that is, painstakingly hand-edited in ardour's award-winning piano roll GUI. The bass track is my first attempt at using the Wolpertinger synth, an intuitive & painless experience. (of course, it helps to know what a Wolpertinger is)
The rest of the sounds come from various incarnations of fluidsynth, and all from the very useful general midi sf2 bank coming with gmsynth, and unfortunately not packaged to appear in any place like for instance under /usr/share/[samples|sounds|soundbank|sf2] etc., but at /lib/lv2/gmsynth.so/ iirc (and then, once more, in ardour's and mixbus' /opt bundle, respectively). So that's one of the standard drumkits feat. many percussion instruments, then trumpet2, and a derivate of various sax sounds I had once done with the polyphony sf2 editor, probably the original tenor sax from the soundbank would sound the same here.
There are not many effects, just minimal delay use, and a-eq & a-compressor, both easy to use and good, but again, bundled, not shared to the OS - it's probably here where I'd side with e.g. Ubuntu's packaging philosophy, and stress that some software curating (as opposed to straight from git) does the whole of linux good.
Back to music, the final stage in processing was the Calf Multiband Limiter, and under the motto
What Loudness War? Loudness Party! ,
I have badly maxxed out the range and carefully exaggerated the release time in order to obtain audible pumping, in an attempted insult to the audiophile ear & hommage to true party spirit.
If you have spent your days glued to the computer screen, if it has been too cool or too hot to budge, or if for any other reason, you are experiencing a temporary lack of movement, rejoice, please, for here comes the remedy. Meet the
Takiripitiki Radio Blast
Pretty much entirely done in GMaq's AVLinux, which, as much as it is essentially a 1 man hobby project, stands, imo & atm, for audio linux' most reliable road to a reproducible production environment, important when migrating or sharing.
The song started out with the little rhythmic-melodic lick you'll hear at the beginning, I initially just wanted to quickly record that for later. So I used ardour 5.12 for that, and added an accompainment guit in the act, which I should have played better had I known I would make a song.
The rest of the tracks are MIDI, that is, painstakingly hand-edited in ardour's award-winning piano roll GUI. The bass track is my first attempt at using the Wolpertinger synth, an intuitive & painless experience. (of course, it helps to know what a Wolpertinger is)
The rest of the sounds come from various incarnations of fluidsynth, and all from the very useful general midi sf2 bank coming with gmsynth, and unfortunately not packaged to appear in any place like for instance under /usr/share/[samples|sounds|soundbank|sf2] etc., but at /lib/lv2/gmsynth.so/ iirc (and then, once more, in ardour's and mixbus' /opt bundle, respectively). So that's one of the standard drumkits feat. many percussion instruments, then trumpet2, and a derivate of various sax sounds I had once done with the polyphony sf2 editor, probably the original tenor sax from the soundbank would sound the same here.
There are not many effects, just minimal delay use, and a-eq & a-compressor, both easy to use and good, but again, bundled, not shared to the OS - it's probably here where I'd side with e.g. Ubuntu's packaging philosophy, and stress that some software curating (as opposed to straight from git) does the whole of linux good.
Back to music, the final stage in processing was the Calf Multiband Limiter, and under the motto
What Loudness War? Loudness Party! ,
I have badly maxxed out the range and carefully exaggerated the release time in order to obtain audible pumping, in an attempted insult to the audiophile ear & hommage to true party spirit.