On 5/3/06, tim hall <tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Saturday 29 April 2006 05:17, Loki Davison was like: > Smack 0.3 is now out. Smack is a drum synth, 100% sample free. It's > built with LADSPA plugins and the Om modular synth. 11 new drums in > this release thanks to contributions from Thorsten Wilms. These are > mostly covering a harder sound though include some nice metallic > percussion, shakers and snares. > You need cvs om to use this release. > Get it at http://smack.berlios.de/ Please don't take this as a massive flame or anything, it is merely intended as feedback. I have not tried your application yet, largely I realise because I find the name you have chosen for the project utterly repellant. The word has no positive connotations for me at all. I wonder if more people would try, what otherwise appears to be a very cool idea, if you used a name that sounded more appealing? Compare the phrases "Now I'm going to teach you how to use a GIMP mask" and "Those drums would sound better on smack". I'm being deliberately ironic here, but my serious point is how do they make you feel? -- cheers, tim hall http://glastonburymusic.org.uk/tim
I like all the connotations of the name. Your drums are on acid would also be cool, but the name is already popular for another style. ;) It's really related to hitting a drum though. I think it's catchy. I may however have wacky taste in names. Khagan is one of my other programs the word meaning khan of khan. Do you know what the word gimp means btw? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimp_(sadomasochism) Loki
