well, it's taken awhile, but i've managed to complete my first song on linux! http://www.machinehasnoagenda.com/downloads/The_Girls_-_The_Sailor.ogg (please be kind in any comments - i'm especially open to tips on mixing/mastering). i recorded bass, guitar, vocals into ardour and sequenced the drums using hydrogen. i used the ladspa plate reverb for the guitars, but the drums and bass are dry ... i couldn't get a nice enough sound for the vocals using ladspa, so i plugged them through ik multimedia's amplitube with dssi-vst. i also used ik multimedia's TRackS to master the track, as it's got a bunch of good presets ... this song is a bit of pastoral yearning from the back of my brain ... i'd written the lyrics some years ago, but had forgotten all about them until i stumbled upon this chord progression - at which point, it all came flooding back :) this was the song i was working on when i decided to "try-out" linux ... so i'm pretty happy to have finished it. a few caveats though: * i'm not that technically proficient at any of the instrument i've played on here (though guitar is my favourite). * i can't really mix. * i can't really sing. * i can't really master. * i may have gone too far with the echoes? anyhow, hope you can all enjoy, and thanx to everyone who helped me get here! shayne o'connor
