Over in KVR I used to be a regular contributor to the Music Cafe Contest, but that has really thinned out as other things got in the way. However after more than a year, I've finally managed to come up with something new again, and thought folks here might be interested in how I went about it. The track is named Pensive and is downloadable from Kara Moon here: http://www.kara-moon.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=8697.0;attac… Anyway, here goes. It's all Yoshimi, of course. I started out with an improvisation across two keyboards feeding into Rosegarden on tracks 1 and 2. From there, as well as recording MIDI, it passed on to Yoshimi. In the past, I would have run with a single keyboard with Yoshimi set up as a split keyboard, but that's much less comfortable and not improv friendly. With the melody and backing laid down, I then spent some time with minor edits, and a range of voicing selections, ending up with 'Solo' for the melody, and 'Multi-Rushes' for the backing. Multi-Rushes has a lot of 'movement' built in, but I went further with it, and MIDI learned both filter Q and filter CutOff to the MOD wheel, setting a block on it acting as normal. I then set the control range to run between 50% and 75% for a more subtle effect, and recorded this as MOD wheel to Rosegarden, operating the control to get the swells as and when I wanted them. For the bass, I then directed one of the keyboards to channel 3 and played along to the rest. I actually set this an octave high for the recording - it's much easer to be sure you're hitting the right notes! The patch is 'Simple Bass' After that, it was just a matter of dropping the bass an octave, and a few cleanups before making an audio recording. I hope you like the result. -- Will J Godfrey https://willgodfrey.bandcamp.com/ http://yoshimi.github.io Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.