[LAU] 100% Linux stuff: The Infinite Repeat - Unaware of a Direction

[Jeremy Jongepier]

LS,

For the moment I consider this track finished. Well, finished as in that 
it sounds much like I want it to. When Qtractor 0.4.7 came out I decided 
I had to let myself go concerning effects, especially now they can be 
MIDI controlled which is just great. I set up a special FX automation 
MIDI track and off I went.
The female vocals were done by my girlfriend. Just a few takes and she 
was greatly unsatisfied but with some effects and some cutting up it 
turned out quite ok.
Huge shout out to Will J Godfrey (aka Folderol) for his amazing 
instrument bank, I used Warm Synth, Sharp Synth, Pizzicato Strings and 
the great Wind and Surf for the swooossssshhh. Also big props for Cal 
for the ever improving Yoshimi. And Rui of course. Qtractor just rocks. 
Lastly, the FFADO folks. I'm now looking at my shiny and new Focusrite 
Saffire Pro 40 that has been running happily for hours now at 4ms with 
about 20+ tracks and about the same amount of effects. Yeah, I 
encountered some occasional xruns, but basically that only happens when 
I open stuff like LV2 gui's or change hefty instrument patches with 
Yoshimi (which will be a thing of the past once the sqlite3 
implementation for the banks has been perfectioned).
I'll see if I can do a screencast of this track. Nothing is cooler than 
seeing those slick Calf plugins do their stuff automatically :)

http://linux.autostatic.com/temp/The%20Infinite%20Repeat%20-%20Unaware%20of%20a%20Direction%20-%20Mixdown20101204.ogg
http://linux.autostatic.com/temp/The%20Infinite%20Repeat%20-%20Unaware%20of%20a%20Direction%20-%20Mixdown%2020101204.mp3

And yes, I've learned so much in the making of this track. I've never 
worked with compressors, gates, filters and eq's before and this track 
was like a playground in which I could all test it out.

Best,

Jeremy