Hi, On Saturday 02 Jul 2005 08:38, Steve D wrote: > I try to learn the amazing wealth of Linux tools for musicians and > digital-audio recording a little at a time. The last couple days I've > dug into the Hydrogen drum sequencer and, finally, the imposing and > daunting Ardour. > > Anyway, here is a rough draft of one of my pieces (I'm a musician, not > an accomplished mixer/masterer): > > http://www.xscd.com/pub/music/ogg/lonesome_butte.ogg I've listened to both the new and the old now. Really good stuff, great performance, good recording. The only thing I can really comment about is the drums, they sound a bit repetitive but they are bearable. For what it's worth I liked the cheesy synth in the first version :), though the flute sound is probably more appropriate. Good stuff! /Robert > > The drums are pure Hydrogen, using its default drum kit. All > digital-recording was done in Ardour and the session was exported to > .wav file, then encoded to OGG using oggenc. > > Hydrogen > -------- > I was nervous about trying to create a believable drum part using a > sequencer. I'm not a drummer and I felt it would sound very mechanical > and awkward. However, Hydrogen's "human feel" time smear and velocity > variation in the FX section of the mixer helps a lot. > > Ardour > ------ > I had put off learning anything about Ardour for a long time. I was > scared of its seeming complexity. However, by concentrating at first on > just the features that I needed to understand in order to record > something, it wasn't as hard as I thought. It will take time to learn > the program well though. > > Anyway, it sure is fun playing with these and other programs. I'm very > impressed with all the great audio-oriented stuff available to Linux > users and very grateful to the developers who create the tools. > > Steve D > New Mexico US -- http://spamatica.se/musicsite/
