I was feeling rather pious this past weekend, so I put the rainbow strap
on my keytar and wrote this little hymn to celebrate the resonating
universe and the holy FM synthesis.
Soundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/spotlightkid/schwinge-mein-hertz-du-suesser-ton
Ogg Vorbis download: https://0x20.eu/nc/s/gPeSmBzwxZeGpS6
MP3 download: https://0x20.eu/nc/s/m3kG86An5NNG46a
Composed and produced by Christopher Arndt in February 2023.
Recorded in Ardour 7 on Linux with a Yamaha Reface DX FM synthesizer and
a Kurzweil PC3K into a MIDAS MR18 digital mixer and audio interface.
All sounds from the Reface DX, except bass drum and snares from PC3K.
Sounds used: "Flute DX" and "Organ Slow" by Tom Ansink [1] ,
"RetroChoir" (modified) by Jeremy Mulders [2], "Dulciclone" and "Celesta
C2" by me, "Basic Orch Perc" from PC3K factory presets.
Effects added in the DAW: reverb from "LSP Impulse Reverb Stereo" and
Samplicity M7 "North Church" impulse response and from "DFZitaRev1" [3]
plugin, multi-band EQ and compression on master bus using "ZamAudio
ZaMultiCompX2", and "Calf Saturator".
Inspired by a video from Alex Ball: "Dulcitone 1900 | Blessed are the
music makers" [4]
Share & Enjoy!
Chris
[1]: https://soundmondo.yamahasynth.com/user/7744
[2]: https://soundmondo.yamahasynth.com/user/11153
[3]: https://github.com/SpotlightKid/dfzitarev1
[4]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS5d5SG1wZ8
Good afternoon!
My present Yamaha PSR keyboard has sounds, but only 61 keys, no support
for an expression pedal, and no aftertouch.
I'm thinking about moving entirely to softsynths and replacing it with
one of the following:
Akai Hammer 88 Pro
Arturia KeyLab 88 MKII USB MIDI Keyboard
Native Instruments Komplete Kontrol S88 MK2 USB MIDI Controller
SL88 Studio USB MIDI controller
The keyboard would be sitting in my house, not likely to go on the road.
I'm kind of leaning toward the Arturia but have no experience with any
of them.
Any ideas on how they work with Linux applications like Aeolus,
Rosegarden, Yoshimi, etc?
Thanks.
--
David W. Jones
gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com
authenticity, honesty, community
http://dancingtreefrog.com
"My password is the last 8 digits of π."
Good evening!
I seem to recall there was an app to clone hardware synths to
soundfonts. Synthclone, synthklone, synclone? I thought it was a command
line tool. I can't find anything in Debian 11 or KXStudio repositories.
It would methodically send MIDI events to the keyboard and record the
resulting audio. I think it also turned the result into soundfonts, but
could be misremembering things.
I'm considering replacing my little old Yahama PSR-225GM keyboard with a
good MIDI controller, but there are some sounds in it that I like better
than the GM equivalents, plus there are its proprietary Yamaha sounds.
Ideas?
Thanks.
--
David W. Jones
gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com
authenticity, honesty, community
http://dancingtreefrog.com
"My password is the last 8 digits of π."
Hi,
I have some sheet music from an old relative of my wife. They are nicely printed
on paper (printing shop) and 105 years old this year. I would like to scan them
and hopefully have them converted to lilypond or xml or whatever is used today.
It seems that MusicXML is the most used today but the best would be lilypond.
Anyone know of such software for Linux? I saw an app for iPhone and Android that
seemed promising but much cooler would be a native Linux program.
Best,
--
/bengan
Hi all,
I just have released SoundTracker v1.0.4-pre1. I've decided to make a
feature-freeze at this point, this means that 1.0.4 will have no new
features comparing to this pre-release, only fixes and small
improvements if something will be found inconvenient. So I ask everyone
who has interest in SoundTracker to test this release. Here are main
features of the 1.0.4-pre1 release comparing to 1.0.3:
* General:
- Full-screen mode
- Volume of all samples of an instrument / all samples in the module can
be set to a value, not only gained. Also all samples panning can be
adjusted. These functions can also modify the explicitly given values of
volume / panning of notes in patterns
- Improved compatibility with FastTracker, also MOD files are played
more correctly
- Unused patterns are listed in the Pattern Sequence Editor
- Sampling rate can be specified while saving a sample as WAV
- New module optimizer with many control parameters
* Track Editor:
- Moving notes up / down is implemented
* Sample Editor:
- External programs can be used for samples processing. The interaction
between such a program is described using XML spec, no ST recompiling
required
- The whole sample is drawn after recording
- Exponential / reverse exponential volume fade transients
* Instrument Editor:
- Envelope inversion and shifting is implemented
SoundTracker download page:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/soundtracker/files/
Regards,
Yury.
Hey hey,
I have digitised a few last tapes. The sound isn't too bad, but all tapes
appear to be a little too bass heavy. Since I only work in the terminal I
approach the issue with Csound that provides a lot of tools. All kinds of
filters, rms/peak metres, an lufs metre and more.
First: did I miss an obvious commandline tool that would produce a
reasonable solution for that?
There are two main issues that I try to improve halfway automatically. 1.
Sometimes the stereo balance is a little wrong with one channel being slightly
louder than the other. 2. Imrpoving the frequency spectrum, flattening it a
little bit.
For 1. I have started by taking the file's peak of both channels seperately
and simply multiplying them so the peaks match. Over a whole tape side this
should be approximately the same. Or should I go with a different measurement?
lufs integrated loudness, momentary or short term maximums?
For the second issue, I am unsure. I have split the audio into frequency bands
using octaves, more or less. So the first band goes up to 100Hz, the next to
200, then 400, 800 and so on. I have used Csound's tone and atone filters:
atone highpass filter:
https://csound.com/manual/atone.html
and the matching tone lowpass filter:
https://csound.com/manual/tone.html
Then on each band for each channel I run the lufs metre, storing the maximum
momentary and short term values and the integrated loudness.
Though I wonder: are the frequency ranges and type of filter reasonable? If so
how would I approximate a reasonably flat spectrum? Which values to
compare to what? I mean: what kind of measurement to use and should I
compare adjecent bands and extrapolate fitting values from that or
compare one frequency band's measurement to the same measurement on the
unprocessed full-band audio?
Any hints and practical suggestions are very welcome.
Thank you and best wishes,
jeanette
--
* Website: http://juliencoder.de - for summer is a state of sound
* Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMS4rfGrTwz8W7jhC1Jnv7g
* Audiobombs: https://www.audiobombs.com/users/jeanette_c
* GitHub: https://github.com/jeanette-c
I'm reaching out to you
To find that you're not there <3
(Britney Spears)
The Formant editor window has been made a bit more user friendly.
The Command line can now use Yoshimi's Copy/Paste feature and stored presets.
There are also minor bugfixes and general updates.
Full details are in /doc/Yoshimi_2.2.3_features.txt
Yoshimi source code is available from either:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/yoshimi
Or:
https://github.com/Yoshimi/yoshimi
Full build instructions are in 'INSTALL'.
Our list archive is at:
https://www.freelists.org/archive/yoshimi
To post, email to:
yoshimi(a)freelists.org
--
Will J Godfrey {apparently now an 'elderly'}
Hello all,
Just hours after the release of zita-resampler-1.10.0 yesterday,
a new bug was reported, not in the library but in the zresample
application.
This is now fixed in 1.10.1
Ciao,
--
FA
