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

[Grammostola Rosea]

Grammostola Rosea wrote:
> david wrote:
>> 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:
>>>>>>              
>>>>>>> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 01:12:32AM +0200, Grammostola Rosea wrote:
>>>>>>>                    
>>>>>>>> Ken Restivo wrote:
>>>>>>>>                          
>>>>>>>>> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:19:23PM +0200, Andras Simon wrote:
>>>>>>>>>                                  
>>>>>>>>>> On 4/24/09, Ken Restivo <ken at restivo.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>                                          
>>>>>>>>>>> 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
>>>>>>>>>>>                                                   
>>>>>>>>>> I think that the music is fine, and it certainly sounds great!
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>                                           
>>>>>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>                                  
>>>>>>>>>>> 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".
>>>>>>>>>>>                                                   
>>>>>>>> Thanks for sharing. Not that it is bad, but I like your other 
>>>>>>>> stuff better ;)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>                           
>>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>                    
>>>>>>>> I'm interested in the AMS moog 'patches' you used. Would you 
>>>>>>>> like to share it?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>                           
>>>>>>> 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?
>>
>>   
> I've downloaded a previous version and did:
>
> ams-1.8.7$ sudo mv instruments/ /usr/share/doc/ams/instruments/
>
> no need to install...
>
>
And of course, reported a bug with reportbug on Debian.... (!)

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