On Mon, 21 Aug 2023 15:34:00 +0200 Christopher Arndt <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Here is some Synthpop / Synthwave made with a Yamaha MODX synthesizer / >workstation and Ardour on Linux. > >[b]YouTube:[/b] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlOjdn0_TYE >[b]SoundCloud:[/b] https://soundcloud.com/spotlightkid/angel-of-ice-modx-mix > >Composed, performed, recorded and produced by Christopher Arndt, 2022. > >I had a draft for this track for several years until I decided to >finally finish it for a small performance I did at my own birthday last >summer. Because I didn't want to use an audio backing track, it had to >be done just using sounds from a Yamaha MODX (custom presets and some >imported SFX samples I made with other hardware synths, e.g. the Waldorf >Microwave XTk and Behringer Model-D). > >After the event, I basically took the arrangement for the internal >sequencer of the MODX, which I had created as MIDI in Ardour, polished >it a a bit, recorded it to separate tracks and mixed and mastered it in >Ardour using various LV2 plugins as well. > >Then I procrastinated for another year until I finally managed to make a >simple visualizer video for it now. The video was made with FOSS tools >as well (Blender, Gimp, Shotcut): For the waveform player at the bottom >I generated a waveform PNG with audiowaveform [1] with a transparent >background and used Gimp and some layering/masking techniques to get the >gradient effect. Then I imported the waveform image into Shotcut as a >video layer. Lastly I put another layer on top of that, consisting of a >semi-transparent black rectangle covering the whole waveform. I then >animated the X position of that rectangle with keyframes, so it slides >out to right side of the frame. The frequency spectrum animation under >the title is a built-in effect of Shotcut. The retro sunset animation >was created in Blender. > > >*Share & Enjoy!* > >Chris Very much like this. Nice and bright get-up-and-go track :) -- Will J Godfrey {apparently now an 'elderly'} 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. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list -- linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to linux-audio-user-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
