Re: [LAU] new music from Will

Greetings, Fellow Linux audio user Folderol is having problems sending to this list, so he asked me to forward this message: Subject: Something new (at last!) Last Friday after work I tried to develop a new yoshimi voice patch. I never succeeded in getting what I wanted but I did manage to produce a very nice lead sound. I then started fiddle with the settings in Rosegarden to make another stab at getting it to record MIDI from two keyboards on different ports directly to two different tracks, and sounding two different yoshimi voices. By the time I managed to do this it was no longer Friday, but the early hours of Saturday. I wasn't the least bit tired so started to noodle around with my left hand playing a choir sound, and the right hand playing my new lead sound on the other keyboard. I thought what I was playing didn't sound too bad so hit record. However it seems I didn't notice the magic pixie dust falling around me, and just left the recording and went to bed for a few hours. Much later that day, I had what was going to be a quick listen before scrubbing it. Instead, with just a top-and-tail, and one chord change I stuck it up on Soundcloud. I was very pleased with the response! However, the tune was not done with me yet, and Wednesday evening I used exactly the same method to record an intro, and a very short insert near the end. I did the absolute minimum of editing to make it all fit - I didn't want to accidentally shake out any of that pixie dust. Finally, in response to a comment I received on the original, I added a very deep, subdued bass line. Due to the free-form nature of the melody, this was actually the hardest part of all, and took a lot of patching and retries. Anyway, here is the final result. I hope you like it. The name of my new lead sound is also the title of the track http://www.musically.me.uk/music/Solo.ogg -- 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.