[LAU] Prog rock instrumental, sort-of WIP

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

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Received on Wed Oct 28 00:15:12 2009