New album: Dying Backward
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New album: Dying Backward
A new set of horrific songs composed using just LMMS 1.2.2 on Fedora 34:
Dying Backward:
https://www.jamendo.com/album/469088/dying-backward
The cover is just right, made with love and with free software (libreoffice draw and GIMP mainly, and a word art generator website) and royalty free images.
The samples come from https://freesound.org.
Some texts come from the site https://archive.org (the spoken texts are from librivox).
Some packages come from my Fedora repository (Audinux COPR repository).
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs ... t/audinux/
There is now a website with some information regarding the news of the repository:
https://audinux.github.io/
Some texts (they are not mine unfortunately) are really great:
- Le Sorcier (The Sorcerer) is based on a text by Iwan Gilkin;
- Dans l’Éternité (In Eternity), a superb text by Sully Prudhomme;
- Longing, a text by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
I used PaulStretch from Audacity on some tracks. The results of this effect are always surprising.
Among the plugins used: Surge, mda-epiano, DistRHO / MakeNoize and others too. Default LMMS presets too.
Good reading and good listening !
Yann
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Re: New album: Dying Backward
I enjoyed the textures of the more flowing ambient pieces a lot. Chaotique Bio is very nice. In my ears it walks the fine line between being entirely dark and uncertain. I also love the Zyn/Yoshimi bells in there. Well, they sound very much like one of my old time favourite ZynAddSubFX patches.
Menhiristic Breathing also has a fantastic and so gentle texture. It moves me very tenderly.
The more rhythm oriented songs also have nice harmonies, but in some cases the sounds - again - are too nondescript, sometimes even oldfashioned, like 90s personal keyboard quality. I know that this is a thing, I just never got back to it, once I'd left it behind me.
Best wishes and thanks again for sharing, Jeanette
distro: ArchLinux, DAW: Nama, MIDI sequencer: Midish
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Re: New album: Dying Backward
Aloa Tempete was played using a Ukulele. An Electroacoustic one.
I started to fine tune the samples I used, but I need a lot more practice. LMMS is not yet user friendly to fine tune some effects
I hope this will improves with LMMS 1.3 (and LV2 plugins).
I discovered too the Fender Bass VI "guitar". I put guitar between quotes because it's an hybrid between a guitar and a bass. A 6 strings guitar tuned an octave below. The clear sound is just perfect ...
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Re: New album: Dying Backward
Technically-wise, I don't think I can say much, for I don't know how much of the final product was supposed to sound that way. I'd only work a little more on the drum sounds sounds to try to make them a little more natural and organic, even if it's clear you'd chose to use synth drums. Maybe some reverb could do it (that's what I'd try, anyway).
But that didn't keep me from enjoying it. Thanks for sharing!
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I tried a while ago to use a sf2 drum soundfount and it was not really easy to use.
Need to find on which not is the kick, the snare, etc ... and the LMMS interface is not really easy for that.
I remember somebody has poster a pull request on LMMS to add labels to notes of the piano roll. this will open the door to templates from drumkits
And the other problem I found is that you can't mix various elements of a drumkit when using a drum sf2 soundfont.
Maybe the LV2 management in the futur LMMS 1.3 will allow to use drum plugins and help to have better drums.
The reverb effects on LMMS are not easy to fine tune too ... Really waiting for LV2 support in LMMS.
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I'd never use LMMS, I'd stick with Ardour since I began making music in Linux. I went to read about it (LMMS) and it seems to be more oriented to loops. Ardour's not so great with that so I'll probably try it in some future project.
Have you tried Hydrogen? it's a very complete drum-machine and if it works with LMMS maybe you can get interesting results.
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Re: New album: Dying Backward
https://github.com/nicklan/drmr
I used the lv2unstable branch. I will check if there are forks of this plugin because it is a little bit old now.
drmr was used through Carla.
And with Carla, you can use sf2 / sfz samples too and you can find a lot of drums as sf2 samples.
pdechery wrote: ↑Fri Apr 08, 2022 12:53 pmI'd never use LMMS, I'd stick with Ardour since I began making music in Linux. I went to read about it (LMMS) and it seems to be more oriented to loops. Ardour's not so great with that so I'll probably try it in some future project.
Have you tried Hydrogen? it's a very complete drum-machine and if it works with LMMS maybe you can get interesting results.
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