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

rosea.grammostola rosea.grammostola at gmail.com
Sun Dec 5 11:37:14 UTC 2010


On 12/05/2010 09:33 AM, Jeremy Jongepier wrote:
> 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.

Nice song :) Great end! :)

\r


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