Two songs made in Qtractor : Takkadum & Kleb Station

[Philippe Coatmeur <philcm@xxxxxxx>]

Hi there

Takkadum was made mid 2011 right before Automation was available, around 0.4.something, I guess

18 tracks : 10 MIDI tracks and 8 audio ones (using flac containers) ;

• One 3 channels bus to sidechain-compress the 303-style bass (nekobee) with the kick (a free 808 Sound font played by fluidsynth) using SC3
• the other cheap DR55 Beat elements are made with Rudolf 556
• A Hexter synth is doubling the bass in the subs
• The organ is a Calf organ
• The Lead synth is a Calf Monosynth
• The guitar is a g10 double coil Ibanez in a focusrite preamp
• The microphone is a chinese Neumann knockoff in a focusrite preamp
• The girl asking "what" ? in the background is called Fatima-Zohra
• Everybody is EQ'd with LADSPA C* 10 bands Equalizer from CAPS
• Everybody is comp'd with Calf compressor DSSI
• There is a LADSPA "Fast lookahead limiter" on the master out bus
• The final bounce, a "normalize" and a quick and dirty fade out are made in Audacity

Kleb Station (summer 2011 too) uses pretty much the same setup with more instruments plugged in, a little automation (it was just out, and already worked really good) and sidechain-ducked bass ; I play on all the tracks.

BTW the CMS linked is a personal developpement, that automatically builds album pages by reading the tags (and optional - cover & stuff - images). It's yours if you want it.

I used GNU / Linux to make music since around the time Jack was introduced. I spent coutless nights teaching myself how to use just about every single system available, and I always came back to Qtractor. Everything makes sense in Qtractor. And when it seems that it doesn't, a quick message on Rui Nuno's blog and you're out of the hole.

The development is steady, focusing only on the core of the matter, and the result is a solid system, usable right now.

Qtractor does not even try to be everything, it wants to be useful in the middle of the huge Linux audio production ecosystem, talking nice to everybody, implementing new techs & protocols silently, never breaking what's worked so far, bringing it all together. For me, it's the standard against witch I can compare everything else.

Philippe (xaccrocheur)

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Philippe Coatmeur

* http://opensimo.org/adamweb/
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* http://opensimo.org/play

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