How does one gets a snaredrum on a jack-port of it's own ? Is it possible to use Hydrogen as a sound source to do that ? If I could just get some Hydrogen outputs on their own Ardour channels I'd be glad, instead of doing the percussions in several takes, each take dedicated to some parts of the drum set.

________________________________ Hi, all! I've recently finished long-awaited(for me) instrumental composition (http://www.archive.org/download/IFlying/Ash_Ya_Lechu_I_Flying_986.mp3) and need your opinions about it. If you please, tell me about my composition/arrangement/performance/mastering etc mistakes. Sorry for my English :) Hello Oleg.  Your English is excellent. I've been listening to this piece over and over; that's not something that I usually do.  "I Flying" is saying something, but I haven't yet figured out what it is saying.  A very complex composition.  Congratulations, Well Done! I think it's important to know a little background about the person reviewing your work, so that you know what their biases are. I'm a vocalist, coming from bass cleff, brass instrument school training (baritone, trombone, and tuba.)  As a vocalist, I focus entirely on the words.  As an ex-bass cleff brass player, my next focus is on the counter melody.  My final focus is on the melody.  I'm also sound oriented rather than visual oriented (I have bad eyesight.) There's another follower of this list who is most definitely visually oriented.  I hope he will listen to this piece and give us his visual interpretation of the work.  For now, here's my sound interpretation: The feel of this piece first had me thinking of Hotel California by The Eagles.  Then it started moving into a feel of Stairway to Heaven by Led Zepplin.  Then it shifted into something completely different, with the ending coming as a total surprise to me with that final guitar 'scream'. (One of the best reproductions of a human scream done with a guitar that I've ever heard.) As for the recorder in the piece, leave it in.  It sets a feeling that the guitar picks up and elaborates on.   I like the dialog between guitar and bass guitar, with the bass guitar picking up the feeling from the guitar at around 1:22. The guitar shifts into its own 'intense' feeling at 1:40.  At 2:33 the recorder tries to regain control and calmness.  But to no avail, as the guitar reasserts itself at 3:00 and then proceeds to take listener by the heart and jump off a cliff! As I said, 'I Flying' is telling a story--saying something.  I wasn't exactly sure when I first heard it what the message was.  But there is no question its message is something with very strong emotional impact.  Your later comments about how your life had recently had sorrow in it is giving me clue. Please post more of your work.  Thank you, Stephen

You are a sophisticated and expressive composer. You could post the lyrics/melody somewhere, perhaps someone on the list could sing them for you?

You get a decent tone from your recorder. It has a plastic tone to me, though. Is it plastic? Makes me wonder how it would sound on a wooden instrument.

  When the first electric guitar comes in I think it's the wrong electric guitar. The type of distorion seems to cover too much spectrum and messes with the sounds of the other instruments.

  The drums and bass aren't bad, but I think the drum sound is again sort of hidden at times by the guitar distortion.   When we get to the fast portion I think the distorted guitars sound good here, although they are as someone else said quite like Hotel California in terms of what the whole band is doing.   When the recorder comes back in I would have considered the guitar parts be brighter electrics without so much distortion to sort of revisit how the song started. Or maybe double up the electric with an acoustic for a richer tonality. Again, I'm trying to ensure each instrument fills up a sound space without stepping all over someone elses' sound.   OK, so I liked the music. I think the playing could get polished a bit more. I think the instruments are interesting but stepping on each other a bit, but overall the results are good. cheers, Mark

A late addition here. This instrumental is really, really nice. The melody follows naturally from one part to another, the songs builds effortlessly. The recorder is such a nice contrast to the distorted guitars. Beautiful! And there are melodies, a track full of melodies, this is main to me. Keep on doing the good job, and post more of those :-) Viktor _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user