On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 01:56:00AM -0600, Steve D wrote: > http://www.xscd.com/pub/music/audio/ogg/stephen-doonan_samba-1.ogg > Then I used Rosegarden's MIDI mixer to balance the sound levels (to > where they sounded good to me anyway :-), and had Rosegarden play back > the MIDI to my external hardware tone generator (A Roland FantomXR is > what I used for this recording), and recorded the resultant audio > through an M-Audio Delta 1010 sound card back into the computer, through > jack (qjackctl) and back into an audio track in Rosegarden. > > Then I exported the audo track as a .wav file, quit Rosegarden, opened > the file in Audacity (I love Ardour and Jamin, but I wanted to limit > myself this time, and Audacity is a fine application in its own right) > and normalized the audio, then exported it as an OGG Vorbis file. I > guess I could have just used the command-line programs normalize and > oggenc instead. Interesting. I usualy record each single track at the highest volume below clipping. Often I end up with headroom and I then normalize in sweep. Besides allowing more voices when working with Om/Ingen, this also makes for more fexibility working with it later, remixing, sharing ... > Then I tagged the OGG with easytag (nice program), with the Creative > Commons attribution share-alike license: > > http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ Also in my toolbox. Nice to see you using my prefered license :) > It's so much fun to create music, and so much fun to use the truly great > tools available in Linux now. Yep. > I wish I knew some local musicians (a drummer, bass player and maybe > another instrumentalist like a guitarist or sax player, to form a small > trio or quartet), but I don't (I live in a very rural area with not too > many musicians to begin with and no way to make a living at it), so I > just play all the parts myself as best I can. The piano is great. The percussion is not stiff, which is good, but it lacks the drive I associate with Samba. I think it's not tight enough. The bongo(?) is a bit loud. -- Thorsten Wilms
