17 May
2012
17 May
'12
8:53 p.m.
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 02:48:14PM +0200, Carlos sanchiavedraz wrote:
2012/4/17 Ken Restivo <ken(a)restivo.org>
Glad you enjoyed it.
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 07:37:26PM -0400, Al
Thompson wrote:
I'll pass along your kind words to Bob. He's been working on this record
for pretty much his entire adult life. Perhaps nobody is more thrilled than
me to see it FINALLY out in the open (I recorded the first demos of it for
him on a 4-track in 1993).
Also, you're like the third person who mentioned Gentle Giant. I'll pass
that along too.
By the way, the track "Menager I" has Beatrix all over it. I didn't
originally realize how prominent the organ was going to be mixed, in both
the slow part and the heavy metal part (distorted Beatrix), but it's
definitely evident. The clav stuff I did on one of the other tracks appears
not to have made it into the final mix, but a lot of Mellotron (using
Specimen and JackRack with Fons' 4-band parametric EQ) did.
-ken
Good prog music, nice voices, interesting mixture of styles on the album...
and profesional instrument sounds using free software...
Congratulations.
On 04/16/2012 02:01 AM, Ken Restivo wrote:
> I am very happy to report that my old friend Bob has finally released
a
record that he's been working on for 21 years.
>
> And... it's prog-rock! Not my style of music, but one that I know is
near
and dear to the hearts of Linux Audio enthusiasts.
>
> So here it is at last:
>
> http://pronstar2.bandcamp.com/album/in-your-mind
>
> I played Linux keyboards on quite a few of the tracks. It's been a
year
or two since the sessions so I don't remember exactly what I played on
what.
>
> I do recall doing some Beatrix, including a few heavily overdriven to
get a
Deep Purple kind of sound, some Specimen with Mellotron samples (it's
prog rock, you GOTTA have Mellotron!), and also Fluidsynth with clav
samples through a hellacious jack-rack of plugins.
>
> I can say with certainty that I think that many, if not most, people
on this
list will enjoy many, if not all, of the tracks.
Enjoy the Linux keyboard lovin' too.
NICE!!
I hear shades of Gentle Giant and Atomic Rooster in the first track.
Was it recorded and mixed digitally/Ardour?
No, sadly, it was recorded and mixed on ProTools HD Mac.
The keyboard parts were all Linux though, primarily Beatrix, Jconvolver, JACK-RACK,
various LADSPA plugins, Fluidsynth, and Specimen. The track "Menager, I" has
Beatrix all over it, in particular.
My friend Bob is the guitarist, composer, producer, and BDFL. He doesn't sing; Matthew
did the vocals.
-ken