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

[Leigh Dyer]

On Sun, 2010-12-05 at 09:33 +0100, 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.

Excellent! It has a great 80s synthpop vibe, and I really like the way
the different instruments and parts come and go in the latter half of
it. It's very catchy, too :)

Thanks
Leigh

> 
> Best,
> 
> Jeremy
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