[LAU] Ninja Step 2012

[Dan MacDonald]

Hi Massy!

Good point - sorry about not doing that in my OP! So for Massy, Julien
and anyone else who can't access Soundcould via conventional means:

http://soundcloud.com/danmacdonald/ninja-step-2012/download

Thanks for pointing that out Massy!

On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 9:48 PM, S. Massy <lists at wolfdream.ca> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 02:49:35PM +0100, Dan MacDonald wrote:
>> Hi LAU!
>>
>> I've been a frequent poster to this list over the last few years yet
>> I've never had any Linux-made productions online that I wanted to
>> admit to before now but this one has already been well received by the
>> few who have heard it already so I thought I should share it here so I
>> can at least get some feedback off Julian - will he like my synth
>> snare or not?? ;)
>>
>> Ninja Step 2012 is a remake of 'Ninja Step' which was the background
>> music from the factory stage of Super / Revenge of Shinobi on the
>> Megadrive (or Genesis as it was known in Northern America). ROS was
>> one of the first games released from the Megadrive and it also had
>> some of the best music on a 16-bit video game, thanks to the stellar
>> chip tune skills of Yuzo Koshiro who most famously went on to do the
>> music for the Streets of Rage series - another definite highlight in
>> video game music history.
>>
>> I created this track with qtractor, Aspect, samplv1 and mhwaveedit.
>> Its the first track I have created with Aspect and samplv1 and my
>> second qtractor production - my first qtractor track used Noisemaker
>> and Highlife instead. I created this mainly to see how well Aspect and
>> samplv1 work (together, under qtractor) and they've passed with flying
>> colours - well after Rui fixed an issue in samplv1. I didn't
>> experience any real issues with Aspect creating this track except for
>> the minor inconvenience of its window disappearing when I open one of
>> its drop-downs but this is a qtractor issue as it doesn't happen under
>> Carla.
>>
>> I'm very impressed with Aspect for a few reasons. Its kinda sad I've
>> ended up throwing in the all-FLOSS DAW towel and buying a commercial
>> synth although I think its worth every penny and I'm happy to pay to
>> show my thanks to Loomer for being 1 of 2 (out of a potential 1000's)
>> commercial plugin devs to support Linux. You get free upgrades and
>> support for life, its full GUI fits on my netbook display and with
>> about 15 instances of it (as in Ninja Step 2012) I get no xruns and
>> less than 15% CPU use on my 3/4 year old 2Ghz core2 duo laptop and
>> thats just running the stock Deb Wheezy kernel. Sadly there is no real
>> FLOSS (or even non-free actually) alternative to Aspect yet although
>> I'm confident that won't be the case forever.
>>
>> Thanks for listening!
>>
>> http://soundcloud.com/danmacdonald
> Dan,
> In general, I think it's helpful to provide a direct link so that people
> can download and listen to the piece more easily. If you don't have time
> or don't want to host the file yourself, you can always enable the piece
> to be downloadable on soundcloud and provide a direct link to which one
> simply needs append "/download" to retrieve it.
>
> Cheers,
> S.M.
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