13 Jul
2003
13 Jul
'03
6:48 p.m.
Well, I use Swami to build my own sound fonts, I have some quite gritty
ones, cause my old band-mate is the producer for The Freestyle Fellowship
(if you haven't heard of them, they've been the underground legends of Hi
Hop for 12 years now).
Anyways I find Csound to be the tool of choice for serious composition in
a linux only environment. Personally I don't go quite that far, I use muse
and rosegarden to sequnce my midi gear, I have an asrx pro and a korg
electribe s. Unfortunately I've found jack/iiwusynth to be too unstable to
work with.
Thus I'm using midi and muse to sequence my outboard gear and then I use
broadcast2000 to record the tracks and to overdub acoustic instruments.
Its not completely linux only, but linux is the only computer os I use in
making my music.
On 13 Jul 2003, Hartmut Z Noack wrote:
I downloaded the track "nasty valve1" an
gave it a listen.
Hmmm the Intro is quite impressing - lot of personality, cool groove.
But after 20 seconds or so i hear a GM-Drumkit wich reminds me of a
Yamaha middleclass PSR-Preset - not that much personality anymore -
quite plastic i must say.
I do not blame this on your friend/musician - i guess the problem is
iiuwsynth`s soundfont-bullshit.
Whithout an implementation of a real drumsampler, Muse cannot do much
better i fear.
The Synthsounds are very promising though...
Am Fre, 2003-07-11 um 16.14 schrieb Robert Jonsson:
Hi guys and gals,
A friend of mine has been doing some very serious attempts at producing music
with a fully linux based setup lately.
There has been lots of pitfalls along the way, but since he is a _very_
dedicated guy he has come a long way towards pulling of his goal.
The goal in question being to produce an "album" purely in linux. (album in
the sense that the songs are freely downloadable from the same web page on
the net, i think ;) )
He has just started to document the thing, you can have a look here:
http://computerville.homeip.net/linuxmusic/, there are also some samples of
what he has produced this far, in my opinion it shows that linux audio is
getting 'there'.
Have a nice weekend,
Robert