[LAU] project "droning": 10 years, 300 tracks

[david]

On 2/1/21 12:56 PM, Louigi Verona wrote:
> Hey Roger!
>
> Yeah, sure thing. Linux Audio has been an important period for me and 
> it allowed me
> to take advantage of a workflow I would have not found anywhere else. 
> I am sure I might come
> back to Kluppe and Qtractor from time to time. In fact, droning288 and 
> droning289, "Suspended in Time",
> while mixed in FL Studio, were phase shifted through Kluppe, as well 
> as droning290, "Clouds Drifting". So,
> at least partially, I kept using Linux Audio.
>
Interesting. I have a friend (singer/songwriter) that does pop music 
songs. He's been using FL Studio since the days when it was just Frooty 
Loops. ;)

I listened to Droning 300 today and the instruments sounded just like 
the ones my friend uses in his FL Studio songs.

> But yeah, getting good sound and high quality mixing required tools 
> that are simply unavailable on Linux today.
>
Really?
> Again, thank you for your kind words!
>
>
And thank you for 10 years of droning project tracks!
> Louigi Verona
> https://louigiverona.com/ <https://louigiverona.com/>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 11:42 PM Roger <gurusonic at gmail.com 
> <mailto:gurusonic at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 27/1/21 11:48 am, Louigi Verona wrote:
>     > Dear friends,
>     >
>     > In 2011 I announced project "droning"
>     > <https://louigiverona.com/?page=projects&s=music&t=droning
>     <https://louigiverona.com/?page=projects&s=music&t=droning>>, a
>     project
>     > dedicated to longform ambient music. You folks were the first
>     people
>     > to listen to it, since the majority of it was written using Linux
>     > Audio tools and shared on this very mailing list.
>     >
>     > Today I have reached a milestone of 300 tracks, a nice round
>     number.
>     > This is also 10 years later! So seems like the right moment to
>     finish
>     > the project.
>     >
>     > I will, of course, continue producing ambient music, but simply
>     in the
>     > more usual form of albums on my Bandcamp
>     > <https://louigi.bandcamp.com/ <https://louigi.bandcamp.com/>>.
>     And project "droning" can be a nice
>     > completed collection of longform ambient tunes, almost
>     utilitarian in
>     > nature.
>     >
>     > The story I tell about project "droning" is that some of the
>     authors
>     > of the software I used to make it with were listening to the tunes
>     > while working on that same software 😂
>     >
>     > While I used most major Linux Audio apps for the project, including
>     > Hydrogen and Ardour, the bulk of work was done with Rakarrack,
>     Kluppe,
>     > Qtractor, Din and several other soft synths.
>     >
>     > Recent tunes were made with FL Studio, which is why I no longer
>     > promoted them on this mailing list. The last tune made
>     completely with
>     > Linux Audio was droning280, "Twilight Connection".
>     >
>     > Huge thanks for being my audience for the past 10 years, your
>     support
>     > meant a lot to me, and each time I finished a tune, I would rush to
>     > post it here, knowing that some of you might enjoy it.
>     >
>     > Cheers!
>     >
>     > <3
>     >
>     > Louigi Verona
>     > https://louigiverona.com/ <https://louigiverona.com/>
>     <https://louigiverona.com/ <https://louigiverona.com/>>
>     >
>     Congratulations on making such a solid body of work. It is
>     interesting
>     to hear the progression in production quality and composition over
>     the
>     years but it does seem timely to call the project complete and
>     move on
>     to different goals. I will never listen to all 300 of them however.
>
>     I was slightly disappointed you have moved away from using Linux but
>     your latest, Mystic Waters, is probably your best release yet (as I
>     mentioned in a message when I purchased it from Bandcamp) so FL
>     Studio
>     seems to be the right tool for the job.
>
>     Thanks for your contributions; I'm sure you have inspired others
>     to try
>     new things!
>
>     Cheers, Roger
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