Re: [LAU] Declination: Music made with Linux

On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 10:35 -0500, David Santamauro wrote: Righty, I've had a mixture of on- and off-list replies, most of them positive but one or two singularly humourless ones - to which I would say that if you can't take a joke you may be in the wrong place. Okay, here's what I did. I took a bit from a thing I'm working on and - as becks guessed - timestretched it with rubberband (I love that, you get these complex evolving textures from just about *anything*). The actual samples came from my Novation Xiosynth, recorded, cut up and loaded into Specimen. You can get the samples and specimen bank file here: http://lovesthepython.org/~gordonjcp/xiodrums.tar.bz2 They are free as well as Free, released under the WTFPL. Enjoy them, and if you use them in a track that makes you exceptionally rich and famous do please credit me in the sleeve notes. I drove Specimen with Seq24, with a fairly simple drum pattern and switched layers of sounds on and off. I recorded it into Ardour, slapped a bit of EQ, pingpong delay and reverb on, and exported it. You can hear the unstretched track here: http://lovesthepython.org/~gordonjcp/declination2.ogg (1.2M, 0:1:33, 122bpm) Patrick, I'm sorry you didn't take my original post in the spirit in which it was meant. I realise that not everyone "gets" the typically dark and satirical Scottish sense of humour (Russians and Scandinavians do, Americans generally don't). Oh well, if you post an hour-long recording of a car alarm with some reverb on it, what do you expect? Gordon MM0YEQ