[linux-audio-user] I'm back with some more music

james at dis-dot-dat.net james at dis-dot-dat.net
Fri Dec 23 05:06:39 EST 2005


On Thu, 22 Dec, 2005 at 11:18AM -0800, Chris Reisor spake thus:
> On 12/22/05, james at dis-dot-dat.net <james at dis-dot-dat.net> wrote:
> > Hello again, all.
> >
> > A couple of quite different tracks, and the start of some
> > documentation on how I use trackers.
> >
> > http://blog.dis-dot-dat.net/2005/12/musical-leftovers.html
> >
> > Now, back to work.
> >
> > James
> 
> Great track, man.  I always like your stuff.  Pretty impressive what
> you do with trackers.  I don't have the patience for it; I was always
> a step-sequencer man myself.

Thanks.  No matter how I try to get away from trackers and get into
using "real" tools, I always come back.  I miss all the little things,
like almost sample accurate control of pitch, being able to see
everything at once and most importantly, not having to use the mouse.

> You prolific types shame me for my inability to finish a song.  50+
> snippits of stuff sitting on the hard drive, and nothing to show.

I spent a long time having hardly anything I considered complete.  I
still have to push myself to actually do the final listening,
tweaking, compressing, encoding and uploading.

I've always been the same with everything.  Once I can see the end, I
lose interest.  I'm the same with my research - I stop caring not when
I've done the hard bit, but when I realise that I can.

But then I realised that I really needed feedback.  Having people
listen and comment on my stuff has made a big difference.  So has just
knowing that people will listen to it.

-- 
"I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development
That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb.  Thank you."
(By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)



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