[LAU] Marrying MIDI with Music

Hello everybody. Have been experimenting lately. Reared on dear old Dad's Radio Shack cassette recorder and vanilla four-track analog recording, I've always been pretty much a straight-shootin' audio guy. Linux audio has opened up new worlds to me. Nowadays, I'm getting into MIDI, and while I still think it stinks as a general rule (takes the humanity out of music IMHO), I can see its utility. So I've been working on getting audio and MIDI channels to play nicely together through JACK, and I finally got it down (at least the basics). The long-term vision is to have a band jam live in pure audio as a MIDI engineer sets down a fresh electronic groove, something like what the Talking Heads did live but with a 21st Century twist. My first effort was just a technical experiment to get everything plugged in. It's no great composition, but it brought the vision a little closer to reality. The mix was a quickie, as was the "song" itself -- took longer to plug everything into JACK than it did to actually record and mix. This won't sound like much to many of you pros and old hands, but it represents a major breakthrough for me. Since lam.fugal.net is down for the count, here it is. Feedback would be appreciated, but please be gentle in your criticism as I am a novice and a sensitive type. http://charliehiphop.com/audio/download/226/newexperiment.ogg If you want more details on how it was done, check this http://charliehiphop.com/new_experiment_ogg_download Enjoy, and thanks!