[LAU] More Zyn Goodness

[Folderol]

On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:55:05 +0100
Garry Ogle <garry.ogle at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

> Folderol wrote:
> > On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:58:31 +0100
> > Folderol <folderol at ukfsn.org> wrote:
> > 
> >> I might not have much clue about programming, but I have had a lot of
> >> fun stress-testing zyn and friends.
> >>
> >> This has had the side effect of prodding me to create some more voice
> >> patches, and convert an old tune of mine to entirely Zyn voicing - it
> >> had been a mixture of hardware synths and Zyn.
> >>
> >> The latest version of the tune is at:
> >> http://www.musically.me.uk/music/Ghost_Train.ogg
> >> http://www.musically.me.uk/music/Ghost_Train.mp3
> >>
> >> The very first sound you hear is my new 'Metal Drips' and the lead
> >> is 'Super Square'. There is also 'Percussion Organ' but it's mixed with
> >> another sound so it's not too discernable.
> >>
> >> All three of these are attached, and as usual, my entire collection
> >> (with some other new goddies) is at:
> >> http://www.musically.me.uk/Collection.zip
> > 
> > Not a single comment :(
> > 
> > This is very disappointing.
> > 
> My apologies, Will, for the lack of feedback.
> I have added your new patches to the others in your excellent 
> collection. But hey, install zyn ( or yoshimi ) and you get the William 
> Godfrey Collection included! For a good reason. Some kudos there I 
> think. :-)
> And I don't think your contribution to the testing of Yoshimi went 
> unnoticed; certainly not by me.
> 
> It makes me wonder what the problem is ( and am I guilty myself? ):
> In an off-list email Dave Philips commented on the lack of feedback he 
> receives about his music.
> Bruce McCosar ( whose blog in included in PlanetLinuxMusicians ) once 
> wrote that despite having several albums on Jamendo with thousands of 
> downloads and tens of thousands of listens he'd received zero feedback.
> 
> I've seen over a thousand downloads from my site in the last year ( not 
> bad for an amateur-crap-artist who makes no effort to promote himself ) 
> and I have a big fat contact tab there, but how many people have clicked 
> on it? two, and neither of them actually mailed me, not even to slag me off!
> 
> So I understand why you may be a little dismayed; but as Arnold says, 
> checkout your download statistics, and take cold comfort from what is 
> written there!
> 
> Best wishes, Garry.

Thanks Garry.

I do appreciate that there is a low response rate and accept that this
is just the way people are (it's exactly the same for things like
charities etc.).

I am also delighted that much patch set was thought to be good enough
for inclusion into the current Zyn.

I think it's just that I was especially pleased with the latest ones
and the way they livened up Ghost train, so came down with rather a
bump!

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