[LAU] [music] Spotlight Kyd - Angel of Ice (MODX Mix) [Synthpop/Synthwave]

Here is some Synthpop / Synthwave made with a Yamaha MODX synthesizer / workstation and Ardour on Linux. [b]YouTube:[/b] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlOjdn0_TYE [b]SoundCloud:[/b] https://soundcloud.com/spotlightkid/angel-of-ice-modx-mix Composed, performed, recorded and produced by Christopher Arndt, 2022. I had a draft for this track for several years until I decided to finally finish it for a small performance I did at my own birthday last summer. Because I didn't want to use an audio backing track, it had to be done just using sounds from a Yamaha MODX (custom presets and some imported SFX samples I made with other hardware synths, e.g. the Waldorf Microwave XTk and Behringer Model-D). After the event, I basically took the arrangement for the internal sequencer of the MODX, which I had created as MIDI in Ardour, polished it a a bit, recorded it to separate tracks and mixed and mastered it in Ardour using various LV2 plugins as well. Then I procrastinated for another year until I finally managed to make a simple visualizer video for it now. The video was made with FOSS tools as well (Blender, Gimp, Shotcut): For the waveform player at the bottom I generated a waveform PNG with audiowaveform [1] with a transparent background and used Gimp and some layering/masking techniques to get the gradient effect. Then I imported the waveform image into Shotcut as a video layer. Lastly I put another layer on top of that, consisting of a semi-transparent black rectangle covering the whole waveform. I then animated the X position of that rectangle with keyframes, so it slides out to right side of the frame. The frequency spectrum animation under the title is a built-in effect of Shotcut. The retro sunset animation was created in Blender. *Share & Enjoy!* Chris [1] https://github.com/bbc/audiowaveform