21 Feb
2007
21 Feb
'07
6:08 a.m.
Le 20 Feb à 20:06, Ken Restivo ecrivait:
Wow, very nice stuff. The production is lush and
beautiful. I've sent
links to a few friends with the caption, "Here, listen to what can be
done with Linux". :-)
Thank you :).
The guitar playing reminds me a lot of Bruford-era
Allan Holdsworth. So
for me it is like a trip back to the late 1970's, and at my age I kinda
like that.
Argh, I'm discovered :). In fact what I have tried to do with this
music is to find something at the boundaries of ambient music and this
jazz fusion style you are talking about. The musicians I listen to
actually are Vir Unis and Steve Roach. But there's not only Holdsworth
in the world of guitar playing :), there's also Scott Henderson and Tribal
Tech.
I noticed a few things from the screenshots on your
site:
1) You appear to be running a Quad CPU machine? Can I ask what
hardware?
There are two Opteron 270. As they are dual core, gkrellm sees
4 CPUs and reports apparately in a reliable manner the use of each
core. The motherboard is this one :
http://www.tyan.com/product_board_detail.aspx?pid=133
2) It seems that you are using a CAPS preamp going
into a CAPS
amp. It was my understanding that the CAPS AMP plugins included
both preamp and final amp stage. Even the ones with the tone
controls? Is that not so?
You have both in CAPS, and they are very efficient. The tone
controls are not the same. I have put the two Jack racks I use most
frequently here : http://www.jazzcomputer.org/racks/
There's a trick I've learnt here for the clear sound, consisting
in the use of Satan Maximiser to get a little more crunch even on a clear
sound. On the other hand the distortion is made with a mesa boogie preamp,
not with the computer.
3) What reverb are you using? Just the standard
gverb/freeverb, or
something else?
Spin Audio Roomverb 2 VST, which offers pre-delay and Eqs, and
permits user presets management, with a wide collection of factory
presets.
« Caves » uses intensively Om and Zyn, and it was with this track
that I've encountered *very* important problems with Zyn and Tap
plugins. « Light of lost summers », written more recently, uses Absynth
VST in the final part, and Zyn for the voices pads. The percussions are
samples through Qsampler, programmed in MuSE.
Thanks a lot for these kind comments.
Cheers,
Yves.