On 2/2/21 1:55 AM, Louigi Verona wrote:
Hey David!
Yo, The Louigi!
Thank you for your comments!
"I listened to Droning 300 today and the instruments sounded just like
the ones my friend uses in his FL Studio songs."
You mean "Healing Fountain"? Healing Fountain is all DSP and samples
that I created myself. There is a glissando that uses some sort of
marimba, but even the "laser" sound is the sound that I created myself
from scratch using 3xOSC synth.
It sounded like the more-or-less standard FL Studio strings to me. Maybe
I'm mixing #300 up with one of the other ones produced with FL Studio.
In general, if you avoid using exactly the same presets, I think it's
very difficult to gauge what you use to create music. If you would go
back to my droning project, I doubt that in most cases you can tell
when I used FL Studio and when I used my Linux Audio setup.
"getting good sound and high quality mixing required tools that are
simply unavailable on Linux today.
Really?"
Unfortunately.
Could be my ears, but the only time I ran into a reverb that caused me
problems with sound turned out to be my own fault - I ran it through the
reverb a couple of times, I think that amplified or otherwise brought
out any effects the reverb might have had on the frequency spectrum.
I'm not a pro and only listening on headphones. Listening to your
earlier tracks compared to the newest ones gives me no awareness of a
"quality" difference.
I think I won't make a claim that it is totally impossible, but it's
definitely not trivial. I have produced hundreds of tunes with Linux
Audio and explored loads of tools during that time, but I couldn't
even find an EQ that would work well for me. There is one EQ product
that seems ok, but for me it was unstable and kept crashing my projects.
Which one was that? I haven't used any EQs at all.
Additionally, high quality plugins matter, just like high quality
equipment matters. I was using ZynReverb while on Linux and it created
all sorts of problems for me. The quality of my mixes has changed
dramatically when I switched to Valhalla, because it's reverb made by
a company that put a decade into perfecting it. They made sure, for
example, that it would produce a smoother sound, heal resonating
frequencies, etc. They have a description of this on their website and
a YouTube channel too.
Cool.
What I'm more curious about is how you make dronings. I've not done any,
just regular music things, and that process alone takes forever -
multiple listen throughs, tweak, listen through. Some of your tracks are
very long, like droning142, a bit over 2 hours long. I think of them
almost as computer programs. Do you repeatedly listen through each and
tweak as you make one?
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