[LAU] Linux synths used on commercial Rock/Pop CD

[david]

Ken Restivo wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:22:47PM +0200, Grammostola Rosea wrote:
>> Ken Restivo wrote:
>>> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 12:22:53PM +0200, Grammostola Rosea wrote:
>>>   
>>>> Ken Restivo wrote:
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>>>>> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 01:12:32AM +0200, Grammostola Rosea wrote:
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>>>>>       
>>>>>> Ken Restivo wrote:
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>>>>>>> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:19:23PM +0200, Andras Simon wrote:
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>>>>>>>> On 4/24/09, Ken Restivo <ken at restivo.org> wrote:
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>>>>>>>>> I'm happy to report that Linux softsynths have been used on a commercial
>>>>>>>>> pop/rock CD called "Lawler Rules".
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I did some studio work for them over the last year, and the CD is finally
>>>>>>>>> out. They produced it on a Mac with ProTools. I played keyboards on it and
>>>>>>>>> used exclusively Linux and Linux softsynths.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> http://www.myspace.com/lawlerrulesvol1
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>>>>>>>>>               
>>>>>>>> I think that the music is fine, and it certainly sounds great!
>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>> I used AMS for the Moog and ZynAddSubFX for the synthy-string pad on
>>>>>>>>> "Cocaine Cowboys", and PHASEX for the ARP-y plinks on "Death".  AZR3 is
>>>>>>>>> Hammond organ and Fluidsynth for piano on most of the songs, and Fluidsynth
>>>>>>>>> is also the bass  on "Big Groove".
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>>>>>> Thanks for sharing. Not that it is bad, but I like your other stuff 
>>>>>> better ;)
>>>>>>
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>>>>> Yeah, I'm not a big fan of classic rock. But it was a gig, and it
>>>>> paid, and for that genre it's well-done.
>>>>>
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>>>>>> I'm interested in the AMS moog 'patches' you used. Would you like to 
>>>>>> share it?
>>>>>>
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>>>>> I'd love to, but I can't find anything that looks like it;
>>>>> it's entirely possible that I never saved it. I did that
>>>>> session in December 2007!
>>>>>
>>>>> One could easily get that sound, or very close to it, by starting
>>>>> with the "MiniMoog" patches that come with AMS, though.
>>>>>
>>>>>   
>>>>>       
>>>> Do you know how they're called? Can't find minimoog...
>>>>
>>>>     
>>> IIRC, it is called "miniams.ams.gz", in the "instruments" directory.
>>>
>>> If you open "Parameter View" there are presets in there and controls similar to those on the old MiniMoogs.
>>>
>>> -ken
>>>
>>>   
>> mmh I have no instruments in the instruments dir....
> 
> What distro are you running? Or did you build AMS from source?
> 
> In Debian, the sample patches are in /usr/share/doc/ams, and the one I'm talking about is:
> /usr/share/doc/ams/instruments/miniams.ams.gz
> 
> This is with:
> ii  ams             1.8.8~rc2-3.1   Realtime modular synthesizer for ALSA

Using Debian Lenny here, I only saw a demos folder under 
/usr/share/doc/ams. Inside it were two files:

ams_sync_example_2.ams
ams_sync_simple_example.ams

They must have been left over from a much older version of AMS - which I 
  found out wasn't even installed! After I installed the abovementiond 
version from Debian, a whole bunch of things showed up to play with.

Anyway, doesn't help the original poster if he compiled from source. 
Unless there's a way to get the instruments et al to use with his 
compiled version?

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