[LAU] Ninja Step 2012

[Carlos sanchiavedraz]

2012/9/21 Dan MacDonald <allcoms at gmail.com>:
> 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
>
> PS I reported the fact that Soundcloud doesn't work with GNASH
> recently and its devs are working on fixing that now
> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?37008
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Hi Dan.

Nice and retro-style tune.

As usual, I'm interested on the process of creation, what's your
approach designing sounds, and how do you configure and tweak samplv1,
for example.

Greetings.

-- 
Carlos sanchiavedraz
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