Welcome back my friends... Can I play too? Everyone else seems to be releasing music, so I may as well join in seeing as I'm just about at a stage where I'm happy with what I have to be happy with. This is a symphonic progressive rock instrumental, influenced in style to a large degree by some of the moody Scandinavian bands of the past couple of decades. What's presented here is essentially finished: I feel the writing and recording for these sections is complete. I'm now content with the mix, for the time being at least. I daresay I might feel the urge for a few tweaks here and there if I take a break from it for a few weeks and come back with fresh ears, or if anybody points out any glaring howlers that I've become deaf to (quite likely, I'm sure). (Probably why it takes me ages to get anything finished, ceaseless tweaking!) But it's a work-in-progress in the sense that I don't know where parts 5 and beyond are going (I have a few ideas). Plus, I've done no post-processing/mastering beyond using the TAP Scaling Limiter to boost the level by 6 dB. I'll probably get around to running it through JAMin at some point to polish it up a bit, unless it turns out to be a turd ;-) The working title is Lovatnet and so far there are parts 1--4 (in true prog fashion they will probably end up each with their own titles). I probably ought to warn that it starts off very quietly but does get a fair bit louder in places: FLAC (22.7 MB): www.quirq.ukfsn.org/Quirq_Lovatnet_pts_1-4_mixdown_26-10-09.flac OGG-7 (6.6 MB): www.quirq.ukfsn.org/Quirq_Lovatnet_pts_1-4_mixdown_26-10-09_ogg7.ogg Some details: recorded in Ardour (three sessions, composited in a fourth), drums in Hydrogen, a couple of bits of sequencing in Rosegarden (which for me feels like cheating -- need to face the fact I can't play as well as I'd like), Sampletekk Black Grand in Qsampler and the pipe organ is the wonderful Aeolus, lashings and lashings of LADSPA plugins. I get the feeling it's not a popular sentiment in some corners, but I'm also incredibly grateful for the likes of Wine and Wine-ASIO, without which I wouldn't have been able to make this, due to all the commercial, closed-source, Windows VST instruments plastered everywhere: GForce M-Tron/M-Tron Pro, NI B4 II, GForce Virtual String Machine, GForce Oddity, NI Elektrik Piano. Even a freeware pitch correction VST (GSnap) was used, but not on any vocals! :P Comments welcome (preferably in 13/8 time!). Enjoy. Q _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
