27 Sep
2011
27 Sep
'11
6:21 p.m.
On 09/27/2011 11:20 AM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
Hi Brett,
Congratulations!
indeed! félicitation!
On 26/09/2011 18:55, Brett McCoy wrote:
agree++;
If you could document your setup, you'll probably be able to convince
quite a few future students!
Hey everyone --
I just finished up a 2 year Master Certification program through
Berklee Music, the program being "Orchestration for Film& TV". I did
the entire program using Linux, primarily Lilypond, Rosegarden and
Ardour/Mixbus (and some use of xjadeo and Jamin where needed). The only
thing Linux wasn't used for was the use of some sample libraries like
EWQL PLAY and Kontakt, which were hosted on a Windows 7 machine (I
used QMIDINet to handle networked MIDI and ADAT via Lightpipe& S/PDIF
for the return audio).
+1 for doing most of it on Linux. I guess sound libraries are a one of
the current LA problems as they tend rely on proprietary software...
Maybe with LinuxSampler support for sfz something might change.
The problem is not so much the software; but time and equipment
(instruments, musicians, studio) to record and create those libraries -
especially orchestral sounds libraries for film scoring can be quite
expensive.
Most producers of these sample-libs do simply not have the means to
support free-software: Publishing the samples in a proprietary format
solves their issue of distribution retaining copy-protection.
AFAIK sonokinetic.net is or was looking into making their libs available
for GNU/Linux applications; but I don't know any details.
A while ago the Blender Community was looking into recording samples
from a Dutch orchestra for creating a cinematic sound library in terms
of the Creative Commons License. AFAIK it never happened.
Another Dutch effort: http://opensymphonia.sourceforge.net/ is an active
project towards that goal.
I have a good
deal of my music from these classes on Soundcloud now:
http://soundcloud.com/brett-mccoy
All the best for your film-scoring career ;)
Lorenzo.