[LAU] Made with Linux

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On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 11:47:04 +0100
Stéphane Magnenat <stephane at magnenat.net> wrote:

> Hello everybody,
> 
> Here are two music pieces that I have composed using Linux:
> - Variations d'Automne
> 	http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/26105
> - To Hope
> 	http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/30718
> The lossless FLACs are available on my homepage:
> 	http://stephane.magnenat.net/music.html
> 
> I've used the following programs:
> - Jack
> - Rosegarden
> - Ardour
> - LADSPA + various plugins
> - Lilypond
> 
> In addition, for To Hope, I have recorded each singer separately, and then 
> adjusted the pitches using a custom-made Qt4 GUI over Praat 
> (http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/). Thanks to this trick, singing is in-tune 
> in To Hope, event though the piece was difficult to sing and the singers were 
> amateurs. To ensure temporal synchronisation, singers were listening to their 
> voices in a headphone while singing. However, I still had to adjust 
> synchronisation a lot using Ardour. If anyone is interested in the Qt4 GUI 
> over Praat, I'll be happy to release it as open source, but be warned that it 
> is currently very custom-tailored to my need, not particularly clean, and not 
> commented.
> 
> Kind Regards. Have a nice day,
> 
> Stéphane

I enjoyed these two very much, but it is a great shame you had to use
pitch correction on 'Hope'. I know how hard it is for amateurs to
sing accurately (self included) but personally I think I would have
preferred slightly off-tune singing.

-- 
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk