Hi Massy! Good point - sorry about not doing that in my OP! So for Massy, Julien and anyone else who can't access Soundcould via conventional means: http://soundcloud.com/danmacdonald/ninja-step-2012/download Thanks for pointing that out Massy! On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 9:48 PM, S. Massy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 02:49:35PM +0100, Dan MacDonald wrote: >> Hi LAU! >> >> I've been a frequent poster to this list over the last few years yet >> I've never had any Linux-made productions online that I wanted to >> admit to before now but this one has already been well received by the >> few who have heard it already so I thought I should share it here so I >> can at least get some feedback off Julian - will he like my synth >> snare or not?? ;) >> >> Ninja Step 2012 is a remake of 'Ninja Step' which was the background >> music from the factory stage of Super / Revenge of Shinobi on the >> Megadrive (or Genesis as it was known in Northern America). ROS was >> one of the first games released from the Megadrive and it also had >> some of the best music on a 16-bit video game, thanks to the stellar >> chip tune skills of Yuzo Koshiro who most famously went on to do the >> music for the Streets of Rage series - another definite highlight in >> video game music history. >> >> I created this track with qtractor, Aspect, samplv1 and mhwaveedit. >> Its the first track I have created with Aspect and samplv1 and my >> second qtractor production - my first qtractor track used Noisemaker >> and Highlife instead. I created this mainly to see how well Aspect and >> samplv1 work (together, under qtractor) and they've passed with flying >> colours - well after Rui fixed an issue in samplv1. I didn't >> experience any real issues with Aspect creating this track except for >> the minor inconvenience of its window disappearing when I open one of >> its drop-downs but this is a qtractor issue as it doesn't happen under >> Carla. >> >> I'm very impressed with Aspect for a few reasons. Its kinda sad I've >> ended up throwing in the all-FLOSS DAW towel and buying a commercial >> synth although I think its worth every penny and I'm happy to pay to >> show my thanks to Loomer for being 1 of 2 (out of a potential 1000's) >> commercial plugin devs to support Linux. You get free upgrades and >> support for life, its full GUI fits on my netbook display and with >> about 15 instances of it (as in Ninja Step 2012) I get no xruns and >> less than 15% CPU use on my 3/4 year old 2Ghz core2 duo laptop and >> thats just running the stock Deb Wheezy kernel. Sadly there is no real >> FLOSS (or even non-free actually) alternative to Aspect yet although >> I'm confident that won't be the case forever. >> >> Thanks for listening! >> >> http://soundcloud.com/danmacdonald > Dan, > In general, I think it's helpful to provide a direct link so that people > can download and listen to the piece more easily. If you don't have time > or don't want to host the file yourself, you can always enable the piece > to be downloadable on soundcloud and provide a direct link to which one > simply needs append "/download" to retrieve it. > > Cheers, > S.M. > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
