22 Mar
2006
22 Mar
'06
5:03 p.m.
Well, the title of a track actually.
I think it's just about ready to go into the wild along with my other
stuff. I'm still not certain about the instrumentation, so welcome
comments. It is a 'pure' Linux track using Rosegarden and ZynAddSubFX.
It also pushes my current system to the absolute limit :( With All
windows minimised the instant I start Rosegarden, I can just about keep
the CPU usage below 90% while recording it!
http://www.folderol@ukfsn.org
--
F
22 Mar
22 Mar
5:23 p.m.
On Wednesday 22 March 2006 22:05, Folderol wrote:
Well, the title of a track actually.
I think it's just about ready to go into the wild along with my other
stuff. I'm still not certain about the instrumentation, so welcome
comments. It is a 'pure' Linux track using Rosegarden and ZynAddSubFX.
It also pushes my current system to the absolute limit :( With All
windows minimised the instant I start Rosegarden, I can just about keep
the CPU usage below 90% while recording it!
http://www.folderol@ukfsn.org
Ha Hum. Have you missed a bit off the link, cause all I'm getting is ads for
connecting to the net, admittadly for Linux users. Nigel.
5:26 p.m.
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 22:23:02 +0100
Nigel Henry <cave.dnb(a)tiscali.fr> wrote:
On Wednesday 22 March 2006 22:05, Folderol wrote:
Sorry, an '@' crept in where there should be a '.'
Damn. I keep doing this :(
http://www.folderol.ukfsn.org
--
F
Well, the title of a track actually.
I think it's just about ready to go into the wild along with my other
stuff. I'm still not certain about the instrumentation, so welcome
comments. It is a 'pure' Linux track using Rosegarden and ZynAddSubFX.
It also pushes my current system to the absolute limit :( With All
windows minimised the instant I start Rosegarden, I can just about keep
the CPU usage below 90% while recording it!
http://www.folderol@ukfsn.org
Ha Hum. Have you missed a bit off the link, cause all I'm getting is ads for
connecting to the net, admittadly for Linux users. Nigel.
6:11 p.m.
On Wednesday 22 March 2006 22:27, Folderol wrote:
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 22:23:02 +0100
Nigel Henry <cave.dnb(a)tiscali.fr> wrote:
Hi Folderol. No Problemo. Thats a really nice tune, and sent shivers down my
spine. The sort of thing you get from minor keys. I can hear some
Russian/East European influence in it. Where are you from? Nigel.
BTW. It is about time you made these available in .ogg as well, for us Linux
addicts.
On Wednesday 22 March 2006 22:05, Folderol
wrote:
Sorry, an '@' crept in where there should be a '.'
Damn. I keep doing this :(
http://www.folderol.ukfsn.org Well, the title of a track actually.
I think it's just about ready to go into the wild along with my other
stuff. I'm still not certain about the instrumentation, so welcome
comments. It is a 'pure' Linux track using Rosegarden and ZynAddSubFX.
It also pushes my current system to the absolute limit :( With All
windows minimised the instant I start Rosegarden, I can just about keep
the CPU usage below 90% while recording it!
http://www.folderol@ukfsn.org
Ha Hum. Have you missed a bit off the link, cause all I'm getting is ads
for connecting to the net, admittadly for Linux users. Nigel. 
7:36 p.m.
On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 23:11 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote:
I can hear some Russian/East European influence in it.
Heh, now that you mention it, I think I hear a bit of that too. :-)
--
Florin Andrei
http://florin.myip.org/
23 Mar
23 Mar
5:23 p.m.
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 23:11:12 +0100
Nigel Henry <cave.dnb(a)tiscali.fr> wrote:
Hi Folderol. No Problemo. Thats a really nice tune,
and sent shivers down my
spine. The sort of thing you get from minor keys. I can hear some
Russian/East European influence in it. Where are you from? Nigel.
BTW. It is about time you made these available in .ogg as well, for us Linux
addicts.
Hi Nigel.
I really am very glad you like this. I'm actually from the UK, but am
half-German - a long story!
Unwittingly I exposed myself to a unusually wide range of music as a
child, so there are all sorts of influences in my compositions.
In the middle and late 1950s radios were extremely expensive and quite
rare. I was just cutting my teeth on electronics at that time, and was
actually given, yes given, radios to repair and maybe keep for a while.
As I was a very poor sleeper I used to spend much of the night
searching the dial for foreign stations. Music always attracted me so I
was lulled to sleep by some of the worlds best composers :)
--
F
3:47 a.m.
On Wed, 22 Mar, 2006 at 09:05PM +0000, Folderol spake thus:
Well, the title of a track actually.
I think it's just about ready to go into the wild along with my other
stuff. I'm still not certain about the instrumentation, so welcome
comments. It is a 'pure' Linux track using Rosegarden and ZynAddSubFX.
It also pushes my current system to the absolute limit :( With All
windows minimised the instant I start Rosegarden, I can just about keep
the CPU usage below 90% while recording it!
http://www.folderol@ukfsn.org
Love it! I love syth sounds and I love the way this doesn't
appologise for not being "real" or try to sound like physical
instruments.
James
--
"I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated
Development
That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you."
(By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)
5:41 p.m.
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 07:47:16 +0000
james(a)dis-dot-dat.net wrote:
On Wed, 22 Mar, 2006 at 09:05PM +0000, Folderol spake
thus:
Thanks a lot. I am always inordinately delighted if other people like
my efforts. I will have to get rid of this silly grin though before I
leave the house!
--
F
Well, the title of a track actually.
I think it's just about ready to go into the wild along with my other
stuff. I'm still not certain about the instrumentation, so welcome
comments. It is a 'pure' Linux track using Rosegarden and ZynAddSubFX.
It also pushes my current system to the absolute limit :( With All
windows minimised the instant I start Rosegarden, I can just about keep
the CPU usage below 90% while recording it!
http://www.folderol@ukfsn.org
Love it! I love syth sounds and I love the way this doesn't
appologise for not being "real" or try to sound like physical
instruments.
James 
5:37 a.m.
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 09:05:29PM +0000, Folderol wrote:
Well, the title of a track actually.
It's very nice and moody. Boy, does it feel odd this morning,
bright sunshine flooding through my window ;)
I'm not realy a fan of the initial synth sound. It's a bit
overly spacy and contourless. I like the bell like sound in
the second section more.
Also second section, starting at about 50 secs, the a bit
brass like background sound could be more smooth, less
metallic.
(I'm just using terms like brass or bells as point of
reference, it's too hard to talk about this stuff otherwise.
Just to be clear, I'm not asking for emulative sounds ;)
What this slower voice plays there and another sound later
on, is a bit hard to follow in places. It starts to make sense
if I concentrate on it, but the connection to the forground
could be more clear.
I listened like 4 and a half times to formulate this, so
I'm nitpicking, nothing that would realy bother me.
Added to my collection.
Thanks for sharing!
---
Thorsten Wilms
5:39 p.m.
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 10:37:18 +0100
Thorsten Wilms <t_w_(a)freenet.de> wrote:
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 09:05:29PM +0000, Folderol
wrote:
I call that one Ethereal and it has given me a lot of trouble with
this piece. I keep feeling it isn't quite right, but no other voices I
have are as good. If anyone has any Zyn. patches they think might sound
better, please send them to me and I'll try them out!
Well, the title of a track actually.
It's very nice and moody. Boy, does it feel odd this morning,
bright sunshine flooding through my window ;)
I'm not realy a fan of the initial synth sound. It's a bit
overly spacy and contourless. I like the bell like sound in
the second section more.
Also second section, starting at about 50 secs, the a bit
brass like background sound could be more smooth, less
metallic.
Hard Synth is what I call this, and I actually deliberately wanted a
sort of gritty brash sound to the counter melody. With the later
horn-like sound, the music is being more accepting of itself.
(I'm just using terms like brass or bells as point
of
reference, it's too hard to talk about this stuff otherwise.
Just to be clear, I'm not asking for emulative sounds ;)
What this slower voice plays there and another sound later
on, is a bit hard to follow in places. It starts to make sense
if I concentrate on it, but the connection to the forground
could be more clear.
Thank you. This means I succeeded :)
I was trying to get an effect where the musical 'perspective' changes
depending on which line you are most prominently listening to.
I listened like 4 and a half times to formulate this,
so
I'm nitpicking, nothing that would realy bother me.
Added to my collection.
For this last comment you can nit-pick as much as you like!
Thanks for sharing!
And I am very glad you enjoy it.
--
F
6:17 p.m.
Enjoyed. Thanks!
- Mark
On 3/22/06, Folderol <folderol(a)ukfsn.org> wrote:
Well, the title of a track actually.
I think it's just about ready to go into the wild along with my other
stuff. I'm still not certain about the instrumentation, so welcome
comments. It is a 'pure' Linux track using Rosegarden and ZynAddSubFX.
It also pushes my current system to the absolute limit :( With All
windows minimised the instant I start Rosegarden, I can just about keep
the CPU usage below 90% while recording it!
http://www.folderol@ukfsn.org
--
F
24 Mar
24 Mar
3:32 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] Rain - A note
Several people have asked me why I don't put ogg versions up. I really
would like to, but I simply don't have the webspace for mp3 and ogg. As
I also want to cater for people who use a 'different' system that
doesn't easily support ogg I have to settle for mp3.
As it is, I've only managed to shoehorn as many tracks on my site as I
have by linking across to another account I have with a different ISP.
Like so many things, I want to improve this situation, but time,
effort, money... You know, all the usual constraints, and somewhere in
all this I would like to have a life (if I can find one).
--
F
5:49 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] Rain - A note
On Fri, 24 Mar, 2006 at 07:34PM +0000, Folderol spake thus:
Several people have asked me why I don't put ogg
versions up. I really
would like to, but I simply don't have the webspace for mp3 and ogg. As
I also want to cater for people who use a 'different' system that
doesn't easily support ogg I have to settle for mp3.
As it is, I've only managed to shoehorn as many tracks on my site as I
have by linking across to another account I have with a different ISP.
Like so many things, I want to improve this situation, but time,
effort, money... You know, all the usual constraints, and somewhere in
all this I would like to have a life (if I can find one).
I used to have one. If I can remember where I put it, you can borrow
it. I can't remember the last time I used it, so it probably wouldn't
be missed.
--
"I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated
Development
That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you."
(By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)
7:32 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] Rain - A note
Ever thought of using archive.org as a host? They prefer you
CC-license your tracks, but it doesn't sound like you'd object to
that...
Dave
On 3/24/06, Folderol <folderol(a)ukfsn.org> wrote:
Several people have asked me why I don't put ogg
versions up. I really
would like to, but I simply don't have the webspace for mp3 and ogg. As
I also want to cater for people who use a 'different' system that
doesn't easily support ogg I have to settle for mp3.
As it is, I've only managed to shoehorn as many tracks on my site as I
have by linking across to another account I have with a different ISP.
Like so many things, I want to improve this situation, but time,
effort, money... You know, all the usual constraints, and somewhere in
all this I would like to have a life (if I can find one).
--
F
8:12 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] Rain - A note
On 3/24/06, David Jaquay <djaquay(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Ever thought of using archive.org as a host? They
prefer you
CC-license your tracks, but it doesn't sound like you'd object to
that...
i've hosted my stuff with archive.org for a few years now and been
perfectly happy. their servers are mostly slow and steady, and they've
been cool folks.
--
daneasley(a)gmail.com
dan(a)towndowner.com dan(a)burntpossum.com
http://towndowner.com http://burntpossum.com
25 Mar
25 Mar
10:41 a.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] Rain - A note
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 19:11:45 -0500
"Dan Easley" <daneasley(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 3/24/06, David Jaquay <djaquay(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Ok. I'll have a look at this. Seems an interesting site.
--
F
Ever thought of using archive.org as a host?
They prefer you
CC-license your tracks, but it doesn't sound like you'd object to
that...
i've hosted my stuff with archive.org for a few years now and been
perfectly happy. their servers are mostly slow and steady, and they've
been cool folks. 
26 Mar
26 Mar
1:44 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] Rain - A note
David Jaquay wrote:
Ever thought of using archive.org as a host? They
prefer you
CC-license your tracks, but it doesn't sound like you'd object to
that...
archive.org rocks. ;)
cheers,
tim hall
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