[LAU] [Music] Another, very short, prog instrumental

So here I am once more... Hello everyone. First of all, advance apologies to people awaiting the next instalment of Lovatnet, which I posted in October – this isn’t it. Among other things, since that time I’ve been busy on a big project, collaborating with a friend – that will make an appearance at some point far in the future as there is much work still to do and work is currently on hold. To keep myself busy in the meantime, I decided to pick up an idea from about 12 years ago, which was thrown together (it doesn’t deserve the word written) on my old four-track with electric piano, bass, guitar and the drum machine on a Hammond organ (so obviously not a proper Hammond, sadly. I’ve had vague ideas in the past few year about doing something with the piece, but never got anywhere with it. I decided in December to try, once and for all, to get somewhere with developing it and it seems that in the past few months the time was right; the writing then turned into recording and mixing and so, three months later, here we are. I’m not even sure the original idea really deserved so much effort throwing at it, but it’s been fun progging it up a bit and hopefully turning it into something a little more interesting – it’s good to recycle :-) It’s a short piece of instrumental symphonic progressive rock, the opening section of what will be a longer piece – this part is finished and I have a vague idea what the next section will be like, I just need to put the work into writing and developing it. And after that, well, who knows… but as always with me, don’t hold your breath. I don’t think the mix could have been what it is without a few recently discovered effects that came to be of critical importance (thanks to Dave Phillips for the heads-up in LJ!), notably the EQ10Q and the Calf and Invada compressors especially, without which some desired sounds would have been impossible to achieve. It’s turned into a bit of a monster really: if I counted correctly late last night, the Ardour session has 50 active tracks and 28 busses, it takes a good minute or so to load – even the mixing has become overblown and pretentious, excellent! :-P It’s been an enjoyable pass-time and an interesting and useful learning process though. As always, general thanks to all Linux devs, but particular gratitude to those involved with Ardour, Hydrogen, Linuxsampler, Wine and all the LADSPA and LV2 plugins. Full, geeky details of instrumentation and equipment etc are below for anyone who might be interested. I’ve done no post-processing/mastering beyond limiting to raise the overall level a bit. I give you Beyond Triple Point (part 1): FLAC (14.6 MB): www.quirq.ukfsn.org/Quirq_Beyond-Triple-Point_Part1_16-03-10.flac OGG-10 (7.4 MB): www.quirq.ukfsn.org/Quirq_Beyond-Triple-Point_Part1_16-03-10.ogg And much as it pains me... MP3 (6.2 MB): www.quirq.ukfsn.org/Quirq_Beyond-Triple-Point_Part1_16-03-10.mp3 Anyway, I hope you might perhaps enjoy it, short as it is. Q CAUTION! EXCESSIVE, SUPERFLUOUS & NERDY INFORMATION AHEAD OS: Ubuntu Studio 9.10 Software: Ardour, Hydrogen, Linuxsampler (Jsampler with Fantasia front-end), Cantabile Lite VST host running under Wine for B4 VST and Oddity, all others run standalone. Effects: EQ10Q has been used extensively as have the Invada and Calf compressors. Also: SWH plugins; TAP Reverberator; C* plugins, mainly the amp and cabinet sims; Matrix Spatialiser; some other effects from the Calf suite. Mics: SE Electronics SE2200A and AKG D3700 through a Focusrite Platinum TwinTrak Pro (also used for DI) into an M-Audio Audiophile 24/96 Drums: Native Instruments Battery Studio Drums Bass: Squier Vintage Modified Fretless Jazz Bass Acoustic guitar: Freshman FA300 JEM Acoustic 12-string guitar: Freshman FA1DC12 Lead guitar: Yamaha SA503 TVL Rhythm guitar: Gibson Les Paul Studio FX: Behringer EM600 Echo Machine Amplification: Marshall JCM2000 TSL601 Pianos: Sampletekk White Sister; White Grand Mellotron – Cello, Mk II Violins, English Accordion: GForce M-Tron Pro Leslie (Mellotron processing): Native Instruments B4 II VST Hammond: Native Instruments B4 II ARP Solina: GForce Virtual String Machine Trumpets and horns: BOB Orchestral Brass ARP Odyssey: GForce Oddity Bells: PMI Anvils & Churchbells Glockenspiel: oops, not sure... either PMI Orchestral Instruments or Prosonus Orchestral Percussion