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by Benjamin Niemann

On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 4:26 PM Thomas Brand <tom(a)trellis.ch> wrote: > > On 2019-10-25 16:16, Benjamin Niemann wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 3:45 PM Thomas Brand <tom(a)trellis.ch> wrote: > >> I've tons of Amiga Disks (Sample Disks named ST-01 ... ) and Modules > >> archived. If anybody has the tools to read them back and eventually > >> convert to 21st century, I'd happily provide these disks. > > > > As in "physical 3.5" floppies"? Might not be necessary to go the > > "hardware route" to get the data back (at least for the samples), as > > they are still available on good old aminet: > > http://aminet.net/search?name=st-&path[]=mods/inst > > > Indeed, those. Remaining the 3.5" modules, which is a funky mix of > ripped (MKII action replay) and hand-crafted/unreleased tunes.. Just in case the ".ch" in your mail address correctly implies that you're in Switzerland: There will be the "Vintage Computer Festival" in Zürich in ~1 month: https://vcfe.ch/doku.php That might be a place to find people who still have the needed hardware. -Ben

6 years, 3 months

Re: [LAU] [LAD] 100% Open Source Music

by Benjamin Niemann

On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 3:45 PM Thomas Brand <tom(a)trellis.ch> wrote: > I've tons of Amiga Disks (Sample Disks named ST-01 ... ) and Modules > archived. If anybody has the tools to read them back and eventually > convert to 21st century, I'd happily provide these disks. As in "physical 3.5" floppies"? Might not be necessary to go the "hardware route" to get the data back (at least for the samples), as they are still available on good old aminet: http://aminet.net/search?name=st-&path[]=mods/inst -Ben

6 years, 3 months

[LAU] 100% Open Source Music

by Louigi Verona

Hey everyone! My music "career" started with mod music. Nope, not the music and fashion subculture from the late 1950s, but this mod music <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module_file>, when people used programs called "trackers" to produce stuff. It was either this or buying expensive hardware. Although people associate MOD music scene mostly with chiptunes, it was much more than that, and has its own pantheon of musical gods <https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_chart&query=topartists> who produced tracks ranging from synth pop <https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=35280> to jazz <https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=135135>, from orchestral <https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=120901> to realistic folk instrumentals <https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=155605>. Immersed in this music, I severed my link to the mainstream idea of songs with their standard verse/chorus, and endless drivel about relationships. That link has not been restored. My mind was opened to music that was so unlike anything I'd heard before that it felt a bit like walking through that door in the wall. (Is this H.G. Wells reference <https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/do…> too obscure? :) ) My heroes were Elwood, DRAX, Awesome. Who even knows these names? I once created a Wikipedia page for Elwood and it stayed up for many years, but recently I discovered that it was removed. And yet Elwood <https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_artist_modules&query=69004> is a legendary musician and producer in the MOD scene, who has inspired and awed several generations of fellow tracker musicians. Some names have gotten enough traction to stay on Wikipedia. Purple Motion <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonne_Valtonen> is one clear example. Several producers, famous today, started out using trackers. Here is an incomplete list <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Tracker_musicians>. It mostly lacks artists who made their names in the tracking scene, but did not become notable outside of it. It's been a while since I went on a nostalgia tour, but due to my recent project of putting out an album of old tunes called "Only Slightly Embarrassing" <https://louigiverona.com/?page=projects&s=music&t=slightly_embarrassing>, I decided to cross further into the continent of "back in my days", which brought me straight to ModArchive <https://modarchive.org/>. Eventually, I was convinced that I should try making more tracked works, at the very least because my early works were so shitty that I felt I had to make up for that. Long story short, I realized that MOD music is the true Open Source Music. I mean, think about it. The most widely used software today is GPLed ( OpenMPT <https://openmpt.org/>). The modules you release are open source too, just like JavaScript. You open your XM or IT file and inspect how the tune was created. And you learn. And there is surely stuff to learn. Not all of it is even tracker-specific. People had no EQs, no compressors, no reverbs. And yet so much of tracked music sounds just incredible <https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=134387>. How did they do it? It turns out, there are ways. Of course, all of that leads to a bit of self promotion. I would like to draw your attention to the two tunes that I've written in the past month with OpenMPT and which you can download and see how they were made. (Or don't. You can instead explore ModArchive's Top Favorites <https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_top_favourites>.) - Lid <https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=186854> - Twizzy II <https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=186855> You can just use an Online Player to listen to them in a browser, or you can use almost any modern player to play them. Audacious, VLC, for example. An interesting thing is that the MOD scene has its own cultural backdrop: it is primarily melodic oriented, and having melodies means a lot. If you don't like melodies, you go for trance. I am putting out minimal house, rominimal even. So, I am sure I will get little love. But for those of you who enjoy this style of music, I think you might like these. I am personally very happy with the sound and how both of these turned out. And yet - no EQing, no nothing. Just volume envelopes, volume levels and panning work. **a little proud** It's somehow interesting to me that this is open source minimal house music. Not a lot of those out there. p.s.: fuck my tracks, listen to this <https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=34427> Louigi Verona https://louigiverona.com/

6 years, 3 months

[LAU] DrumGizmo 0.9.18 released

by Bent Bisballe Nyeng

DrumGizmo 0.9.18 Released! DrumGizmo is an open source, multichannel, multilayered, cross-platform drum plugin and stand-alone application. It enables you to compose drums in midi and mix them with a multichannel approach. It is comparable to that of mixing a real drumkit that has been recorded with a multimic setup. This release is primarily a bugfix release but a few new features also managed to sneak in. Highlights: * Sample selection algorithm now behaves a lot better when using a small sample set. * Error reporting has been drastically improved when loading drum-kits. * Sample normalization option has been added. As usual read the detailed description of all the new shiny features, including some audio samples [1]. And now, without further ado, go grab 0.9.18!!! [2] [1]: https://drumgizmo.org/wiki/doku.php?id=changelog:drumgizmo-0.9.18 [2]: http://www.drumgizmo.org/wiki/doku.php?id=getting_drumgizmo

6 years, 3 months

[LAU] Timidity: no instrument mapped warning

by Louigi Verona

Hey everyone! When I am playing a MIDI file with Timidity, I would get warning messages along the lines of: *No instrument mapped to tone bank 0, programm 11 - this instrument will not be heard.* Is there a way to somehow automatically map something to this missing instrument? If not with Timidity, then with some other MIDI player? Louigi Verona https://louigiverona.com/

6 years, 3 months

[LAU] Sonoj

by Will Godfrey

Just wondering who else will be visiting Sonoj this year. I finally managed to get travel and accommodation sorted out this year, so I'll be there as a visitor. Hmmm... Hope that doesn't put anyone off :P -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.

6 years, 3 months

[LAU] SynthfestUK 2019

by Will Godfrey

Oops, almost forgot this :o I'm now quite well known by the Synthfest organisers and even had a pre-printed badge this year :) I had a hour to set up, but actually managed to get everything up and running within half an hour, including a Raspberry Pi 3B. Once set up, I had time for a quick look around the other stands. The balance was more towards hardware rather than software this year, and I didn't see *any* windows boxes at all. There was lots of modular stuff, kit form as well as pre-built. The big boys, Yamaha, Korg, etc. had their own individual rooms on the lower floor, and the talks were held in a nearby annex. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get away to see any of those - I think I need an assistant on the stand! When the doors were opened, it became very busy indeed. Something like twice as many visitors as last year, and more seriously interested rather than just curious. I was kept pretty occupied the whole day. I had the pleasure of two very good musicians playing on the laptop driven larger keyboard, one of which decided the 64ft Organ sound was ideal for a quick rendition of Bach Toccata & Fugue in Dm! The Raspberry Pi, got a lot of interest, and outright astonishment from quite a few people. There is a very good chance we'll get more users via this route. The idea of this as a stand-alone synth 'module' seemed to catch on straight away. I had plenty of the flyers from last year and a good number of them were picked up. I also had 40 laminated 'mini' banners with contact info on the reverse side - I only brought three of these home! The guy who got the big banner printed for us brought it with him, but his train was delayed, and he was only able to get it to me mid morning. He'd been told they'd actually printed two copies, but didn't realise they were both on one sheet, and we didn't have the means to cut it in half. We quickly put it up, but it's not quite how I intended - nevertheless it looks very good. I love the way the person who produced the artwork came up with the expressions on all the little robots :) Photo here - quite good detail if you zoom in :) www.musically.me.uk/Photos/Synthfest2019/Synthfest2019_12.jpg -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.

6 years, 4 months

[LAU] [ANN] Voting for the Open Source Music Nexus Challenge 2019 has commenced

by Christopher Arndt

Dear Open Source Musicians and Music Lovers, the submission period for the Open Source Music Nexus 2019 Challenge has ended and the competition entries are now waiting for your votes! There are eight submissions to the competition and they are very stylistically diverse, so there should be something enjoyable for everybody. You can listen to the entries here: https://nexus-challenge.osamc.de/vote/ (If the audio players do not show up in your browser, click the "Download" button for each track to go to its page on archive.org.) Voting is open to everybody* and runs until the end of Saturday of the coming week (2019-10-26 23:59 UTC). Please honor the labor that went into the competition entries and show your appreciation by casting your vote! * (Email registration required. The email address is only used for logging in and sending out the results.) -- Christopher Arndt Open Source Audio Meeting Cologne https://nexus-challenge.osamc.de/ challenge(a)osamc.de

6 years, 4 months

[LAU] what is a good linux distro that supports Ardour?

by jim

My current system is pretty old. It's running on a five-year old desktop Zareason computer. I'll replace the hard drive and want to install a new distro. What's your recommendation? with thanks, jim

6 years, 4 months

[LAU] lv2core any alternative ?

by Banibrata Dutta

Hi, Having installed Lubuntu 18.04.3 64-bit on my old Laptop, I realized that the calf-plugins from the distro's repositories were perhaps quite old (0.60) while the latest available from calfpluginstudio are 0.90. I am thinking of building from source (unless someone has a good PPA), but building from source requires the package 'lv2core' to be installed, where-as it seems that Ubuntu 18.04.3 no longer has this package (which is supposed to be a 'dummy' package). Any thoughts on whether there is an alternative dummy package, or if I could ignore it and proceed with the build ? thanks, BD <http://twitter.com/edgeliving>

6 years, 4 months

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