2012/9/21 Dan MacDonald <allcoms@xxxxxxxxx>: > 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 > > PS I reported the fact that Soundcloud doesn't work with GNASH > recently and its devs are working on fixing that now > https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?37008 > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user Hi Dan. Nice and retro-style tune. As usual, I'm interested on the process of creation, what's your approach designing sounds, and how do you configure and tweak samplv1, for example. Greetings. -- Carlos sanchiavedraz * Musix GNU+Linux http://www.musix.es _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
