[LAU] own music made with linux

[Susanne Schneider]

guys,

first of all: sorry for bad english :-)

after some time of doing cover stuff with my little project of 
hobbymusic we are now able to present some own compositions on

www.besonic.com/schmidt_und_schneider

In a first step three songs made it to that place, some more will follow 
step by step.

We are two people, the compositions and vocal stuff are provided by my 
friend Harald, while I play the Guitars (except a few rhythm tracks) and 
do the technical/software stuff.

Recording and mixing was done in Ardour on my Lenovo R61, Lexicon Omega 
Studio USB or alternatively Focusrite Saffire Pro 10, OS is openSuse 
11.1 with selfcompiled rt-kernel.

In the song "mit Dir" I used Hydrogen for drums, Horgand for organ and 
bass sounds, Qsynth for some strings sounds.

In the other two songs we saved time and reverted to a Boss JamStation 
using some ready-to-use backgroundsounds from there.


Regarding Guitarsounds for recording I tried a lot - like most 
guitarists I think. There is some promising stuff out there in the open 
source world which I check out frequently, but currently I must say I 
lost my heart to the fabulous simulanalog guitar suite, which is running 
in Ardour as plugin without any problems: that Marshall sound is amazing 
- in direct comparison e.g. the POD2 has no chance.


Now, last not least I would like to do a little advertising amongst the 
German members here: because it is relatively expensive to transfer 
money to USA we started an initiative on

www.audio4linux.de

to put some money together in order to support the ARDOUR project, our 
goal for now is min. 500 Euro, which is then transferred in one action. 
We already did that successfully earlier in the year, and yesterday, 
when downloading Ardour's new version I thought it might be a good idea 
to continue, I will put 50 bucks into the hat...

thanks for your attention

best,

Susanne