Hi y'all
Both songs use Ardour & jack to hang it all together, drums sequenced by
Rosegarden and fluidsynth playing the fluid soundfont and ns-kitfree.
With LADSPA - Freeverb, SC1, 4-band parametric, TAP de-esser on one
track. Mono amplifier and low and high pass filters in some places. I
did send the songs through jamin at some point and liked the results,
but I can't remember if it's these versions or not. Many thanks to
authors and contributors for these programs.
I'd love to say what genre they're in, but I don't know. World-music-ish
would be the closest. I like to use real instruments played by real
people, and I try to keep effects to a minimum.
2.7M, 3:45.
http://www.semiosix.com/songs/firelightless.ogg
One of those songs that just came together all of a sudden. I remember
running dripping out of the shower to write down the lyrics.
Made with electric & acoustic guitar, fretless bass, violin and cello
initially by Rosegarden. Later I recorded live (non-free) violin and
cello with the help of a bcf2000, which sadly isn't working 100% for
some reason.
3.1M, 4:01.
http://www.semiosix.com/songs/thirty.ogg
This song started life about 15 years ago on acoustic guitar. Electric
guitar, fretless bass, drums, percussion and vocals added in the last
year or so. I've posted it here before, and I've improved it since then.
I'm still not happy with the sequenced percussion track, but my
percussion skills aren't up to that particular task.
Of course, I wouldn't be posting these here if I didn't welcome feedback
of all kinds. I'm especially interested in what feelings the songs evoke
and what mental movies you see.
thanks in advance
John
http://www.musix.org.ar/en/software-detalles2-040.html
Musix 0.40 released!
Thanks to the support of the Ututo Proyect, FSF, Ourproject, and to the
usual collaborators, the Musix project has just released Musix 0.40,
whose programs were tested for over 2 months, time that allowed to
solve all kind of problems over Musix 0.39, and to make the more
relevant software updates.
0.40 can be consider the more stable and functional Musix version until
now, and its use is recommendable in the long term. Musix 0.49 will be
an extremely updated version, hopping to support new hardware.
When Musix reaches version 1.0 at the beginning of 2007, the stability
of the system will be optimal, mainly because the package repository of
the Debian/testing distribution will be frozen, that is to say, stable,
so the users of Musix will not have problems when trying to install new
software.
Musix counts with its own software package repository that has been
growing. It is hoped to incorporate new software nonavailable in
Debian, like mplayer or cinelerra (video edition).
The Musix project has offered several speeches in different institutions
during 2005 and 2006, affirming the commitment with the diffusion of
free software among musicians, sound engineers and users in general.
Important programs/packages updated
* Ardour 0.99.2 (some bugs fixed, last stable version)
* Hydrogen Drum Machine 0.9.3
* Hwdata 0.177-1 (better hardware detection, specially video)
* Freewheeling 0.5.1 (fweelin-0.5.1_0.5.1-1_i386.deb)
* Rox-Filer 2.4.1-1 (file manager and desktop icons)
* Zynaddsubfx 2.2.1-4
New programs/packages installed
* Rosegarden 1.2.3 (Musix 039 and 040 are the only distros with this
new version!)
* Mixxx 1.4.2-1 (Digital Disc Jockey Interface)
* Cecilia 2.0.5-2
* Csound 4.23f13
* guidedog 1.0.0-3 (routing)
* guarddog 2.5.0-1 (firewall)
* jackeq 0.4.0-2 (simple EQ for JACK)
* echomixer - control tool for Echoaudio soundcards
* envy24control - control tool for Envy24 (ice1712) based soundcards
* hdspconf - GUI program to control the Hammerfall HDSP Alsa
Settings
* hdspmixer - advanced routing features control of the RME
Hammerfall DSP
* rmedigicontrol - control tool for RME Digi32 and RME Digi96
soundcards
Packages removed
* libncurses5-dev and its dependencies
* libx11-dev and its dependencies
* kernel 2.6.15.2
Others changes
* Spanish Documentation about Ardour
* kernel 2.6.15.2 was replaced by 2.6.11 of Musix 0.31 to achive
more compatibility with SATA disks
* The others kernels of Musix 0.40: 2.6.15.4, 2.6.13, 2.6.15.3-rt
still remain
* Several scripts were created and improved to make more easy the
use of the system
* A new script that can change the themes for the rox-filer desktop
* Isolinux screenboot was modified (logo.16)
* Wallpapers from Jorge Salgueiro were added
* Some new presets for Jamin were added from Gilberto Borges
(~/.jamin)
Solved problems
Generally speaking, this problems has been solved:
* KDM (desktop manager) takes too long to launch, solved
* After updated GTK, some desktop icons disappear, solved
* After the installation, the system reboots Ok
Known problems in Musix 0.40
* The new Rosegarden 1.2.3 (Musix is the only distro with this
version) crashes when trying to record audio. We will soon inform how
to solve it
* It is probable that the installation in some SATA hard disks may
not possible (test)
* It is probable that the no-root users does not inherit the
configuration of the Musix's desktop. This is solved with 2 commands in
text console (terminal), just type:
mkdir ~/.config
cp -Rp /root/.config/* ~/.config
Next version, Musix 0.49
* Musix 0,49 will have the new version of ALSA, 1.0.11 , which
solves hundreds of bugs and incorporates new functionalities and
support for soundcards
* Hundreds of software packages will be updated ( 459 until now)
* Kernel 2.6.16-beyond4.1 could be the default one for this version.
This kernel already can be installed along with the new ALSA drivers
from the Musix repository (apt-get update && apt-get -y install
alsa-modules-2.6.16-beyond4.1 linux-image-2.6.16-beyond4.1)
* It is hoped to be released in a few days
--
Marcos Guglielmetti
* Director del desarrollo de Musix GNU+Linux, 100% Software Libre
* Descarga el CD de Musix: (www.musix.org.ar)
(www.pc-musica.com.ar/musix)
* Videos, programas y otras cosas en:
ftp://musix.ourproject.org/pub/musix/
Hi.
Thank you again for the very nice things you said about the last
tracks :). I'd like to submit three last ones to your listening, hoping
for all kind of thoughts and advices, especially which could help me
improving the sound, the mix, and also the use of Jamin. Then I hope I'll
be ready to release this music on a web site, of course under a free
licence, with some other tracks.
First, a (very) personnal version of a very well known song :
http://ypotin.nerim.net/astronomy_domine.ogg (Syd Barett) 5,7 M
Then, an arrangement I wrote of a jazz standard :
http://ypotin.nerim.net/lennies_pennies.ogg (Lennie Tristano) 5,4 M
Finally, a more personnal track, a bit long, about which I'd
be really glad to hear your comments :
http://ypotin.nerim.net/oceaniques.ogg 11,4 M
Thanks in advance for any kind of thoughts about all this, and my
apologies if my English is rarely as clear as I'd liked it to be :).
Best,
Y.
