[LAU] Ascension: Music made in Linux

david gnome at hawaii.rr.com
Fri Jan 29 14:34:00 EST 2010


Folderol wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:17:05 +1100
> Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey at boosthardware.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I had some fun with alsamodularsynth over the weekend and managed to get 
>> about 10 hours of recordings into ardour. I have now got about 10 
>> complete tracks and probably 20 more if I edit, cut, and mix. Before I 
>> do the latter I am going to clean up the 10 tracks that I feel don't 
>> require editing. Before I do that though I am interested to hear what 
>> people who have better/different equipment to me think of the quality of 
>> the raw cuts.
>>
>> So, I have uploaded a new track to my server.
>>
>> http://djcj.org/audio/kotau/ascension/ascension_unity.ogg
>> size: 112MB (about an hour long)
>>
>> If you have the time to download it and give me some feedback on what 
>> you think needs to be done to the levels to bring out the sound and make 
>> it really crisp I would appreciate your feedback.
>>
>> This particular track I consider to be in the Tech House genre. If that 
>> is the kind of sound you are into or if you just want to hear some of 
>> my synthesis experiments then I think you will enjoy the track even 
>> without any processing to sharpen up the soundscape. The level is 
>> consistent throughout the track. There are no spikes so I'm pretty sure 
>> there are no nasty surprises. Obviously it is designed to be played at 
>> volume in a club type setting so please keep that in mind. You may want 
>> to adjust the high and middle end in order to bring out the intensity of 
>> the low end at high volume.
>>
>> For these tracks I am not going to do any editing. It will simple be a 
>> case of selecting a section that starts and ends nicely and then 
>> processing it with whatever people here suggest to brighten up or 
>> otherwise bring out the sounds that have been captured.  FWIW, I'm 
>> already really happy with the recordings I got. I have managed to 
>> capture a selection of house, tech, break, dnb, dub, ambient and bits 
>> and bleeps. In fact a couple of the tracks even sound like a 4 piece 
>> rock band and a live drummer are playing on them. I have been entirely 
>> surprised by the amount of variation in the rhythms, melodies and 
>> patterns that I was able to get out of ams during this session.
>>
>> It's amazing what can be accomplished sitting in front of a powerful 
>> Linux audio workstation for 48 hours straight when your in the right 
>> mood :-)
>>
>> Enjoy and I look forward to your feedback. I hope y'all will get as much 
>> of a kick out of hearing some of these sounds as I have while bringing 
>> them forth.
>>
> Something wrong here. All I get is a strange warbling noise :(

That's all I seem to have heard, too, but I only listened through the 
first 5 minutes or so.

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David
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