I really enjoyed this. I'm a classical organist, although also a fan of Yes. The transitions were good and I enjoyed the organ part. The one thing that struck me is that the organ doesn't seem to have much of a reverb. Of course the style of that section is "choppy" but I think it would be interesting to have the other instruments stop dead and the organ continue reverberating for a while, as if recorded in a cathedral. Good work! Jonathan ---------------------------- Jonathan Gazeley Systems Support Specialist ResNet | Wireless& VPN Team Information Services University of Bristol ---------------------------- On 10/27/2009 10:17 PM, Q wrote: > 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
