LinuxMusicians

jonetsu wrote: ↑Fri Sep 11, 2020 6:22 pm

spamatica wrote: ↑Fri Sep 11, 2020 4:44 pm The drums are provided by the windows plugin Addictive Drums2 through airwave vst bridge (and a lot of drum programming of course). It's a thorn in my side to use a windows plugin, if I could replace them with something linux based I would, but I know of no drum plugin in linux that even comes close.

Why is it so evil ? Isn't that simple people who coded that drum machine ? They were not on Bill Gates' payroll. That they have chosen to get paid for their work is their choice. Not everyone can spend a lot of time designing and coding something and expecting nothing to bring bread on the table in return. Not everyone has that luxury of creating high-end software, and giving support and updates along the way, having nothing in return. People must live, buy food and clothes, pay mortgages, etc. What do you think of u-he's Linux synths ?

Cheers.

I think you are reading to much into why I would prefer a Linux version.
And why would there be nothing in return? They don't have to be free (although a value open source and actively participate in it).

While I dislike using Windows for a number of reasons, after all this is a Linux forum, but there is nothing evil about Addictive Drums and I have great respect for what they have created and have no problem paying for that (well, as long as I can afford it of course).
But I would much prefer a Linux-native solution, both for performance reasons and for the good of the Linux ecosystem. It would be super cool if Addictive had a Linux native version!

Making music in Linux sometimes feels like a life long Sisyphus struggle ; ) but we are getting further up the hill! Sequencers are plenty, ordinary synths are plenty, just this last year we've got a bunch of pretty high quality guitar amp simulators and we have got loads of effect plugins that are good enough for most of my purposes.

High quality Linux plugins for Drum and Symphony Orchestras might be the last on my wish list.

As for the u-he plugins, I have only scratched the surface and that was a while ago so I can't say. I heard they are high quality but a bit cpu intensive. I mostly play guitar so I haven't felt the need to dig that deep into it. There is probably enough to discover and learn keeping to guitars

I personally prefer MDrummer and was highly surprised when Vojtech (Melda founder, designer and coder, drummer) helped me getting it to work in Bitwig while he does not support Linux at all. He sent me debug versions and I returned log files. This was great. Turned out the problem was with the MPE aspect of Bitwig.

spamatica wrote: ↑Fri Sep 11, 2020 8:50 pm As for the u-he plugins, I have only scratched the surface and that was a while ago so I can't say. I heard they are high quality but a bit cpu intensive. I mostly play guitar so I haven't felt the need to dig that deep into it. There is probably enough to discover and learn keeping to guitars

I find u-he's filters are quite warm sounding. More on some synths like Diva, but in general they are nonetheless. They are my goto synths. That they run n Linux is great. As you mentioned, it has a lower impact on CPU resources. When available I tend to run them using the multicore support. As for guitar I still contemplate getting a Godin acoustic multi-voice with a Roland GR55, so I can play synth using the frets. I've seen some demo an it surely sounds great and surely inspiring.

Cheers.

Enjoyed the music, but like the others didn't understand the lyrics. Never having the opportunity of learning any foreign languages as a youngster it's extremely difficult now to learn any. To make matter worse, I can manage a few sentences in German, odd phrases in Spanish, and a handful of French words - with hilarious results.

I was visiting Köln some years back and tried to ask a woman for directions. She looked stunned for a moment, burst out laughing, then in perfect English apologised, and informed me I managed to ask in bits of all three

Very nicely done, the composition sounds very "well balanced", if that makes any sense. Can't comment on the lyrics, but I liked the vocals.

spamatica wrote: ↑Fri Sep 11, 2020 8:50 pm Making music in Linux sometimes feels like a life long Sisyphus struggle ; ) but we are getting further up the hill! Sequencers are plenty, ordinary synths are plenty, just this last year we've got a bunch of pretty high quality guitar amp simulators and we have got loads of effect plugins that are good enough for most of my purposes.

High quality Linux plugins for Drum and Symphony Orchestras might be the last on my wish list.

Absolutely agree, I think there's plenty of progress being made with cross-platform music software, both free and paid. I'm also looking for high-quality drums as well.

This may be the only song about a snow covered field that I listened to with pleasure. Part of it might be that I don't speak Swedish. What a happy, careless tune. The open, oldschool sound fits the song well. I love the plucky bass. Was it your intention to compress the kick so hard and tease that very low bottom end from it? If anything, this is the only detail that felt a little incongruous to me. Though it did leave the bass very free.
If you do more winter-themed tunes like that, I might develop a quiet liking for it afterall.

Hey Jeanette and others who commented, thanks!

jeanette_c wrote: ↑Tue Sep 29, 2020 11:43 am This may be the only song about a snow covered field that I listened to with pleasure. Part of it might be that I don't speak Swedish. What a happy, careless tune. The open, oldschool sound fits the song well. I love the plucky bass. Was it your intention to compress the kick so hard and tease that very low bottom end from it? If anything, this is the only detail that felt a little incongruous to me. Though it did leave the bass very free.
If you do more winter-themed tunes like that, I might develop a quiet liking for it afterall.

I honestly cannot remember if I did some adjustments to the kick or if it simply is how it sounds in that drumkit. I have to listen again now but I think it comes close to my preference Currently mixing a lot of songs and I have discovered problems with kicks in several songs that I didn't understand before, so it's quite possible.
Hopefully I get to the point of sharing more soon. Actually, there are many good ears here, I should post earlier, for useful feedback.

Haha, it could be that I'll record some more winter/snow music, I know I have a few that I'm kicking around now and then...
None that are as "happy" as this one though
And I think I said it already, taking the lyrics into account it is actually not so happy. Mostly revolving around our inability to do anything about the climate.