Re: [LAU] Ascension: Music made in Linux

On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:17:05 +1100
Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey@email-addr-hidden> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I had some fun with alsamodularsynth over the weekend and managed to get
> about 10 hours of recordings into ardour. I have now got about 10
> complete tracks and probably 20 more if I edit, cut, and mix. Before I
> do the latter I am going to clean up the 10 tracks that I feel don't
> require editing. Before I do that though I am interested to hear what
> people who have better/different equipment to me think of the quality of
> the raw cuts.
>
> So, I have uploaded a new track to my server.
>
> http://djcj.org/audio/kotau/ascension/ascension_unity.ogg
> size: 112MB (about an hour long)
>
> If you have the time to download it and give me some feedback on what
> you think needs to be done to the levels to bring out the sound and make
> it really crisp I would appreciate your feedback.
>
> This particular track I consider to be in the Tech House genre. If that
> is the kind of sound you are into or if you just want to hear some of
> my synthesis experiments then I think you will enjoy the track even
> without any processing to sharpen up the soundscape. The level is
> consistent throughout the track. There are no spikes so I'm pretty sure
> there are no nasty surprises. Obviously it is designed to be played at
> volume in a club type setting so please keep that in mind. You may want
> to adjust the high and middle end in order to bring out the intensity of
> the low end at high volume.
>
> For these tracks I am not going to do any editing. It will simple be a
> case of selecting a section that starts and ends nicely and then
> processing it with whatever people here suggest to brighten up or
> otherwise bring out the sounds that have been captured. FWIW, I'm
> already really happy with the recordings I got. I have managed to
> capture a selection of house, tech, break, dnb, dub, ambient and bits
> and bleeps. In fact a couple of the tracks even sound like a 4 piece
> rock band and a live drummer are playing on them. I have been entirely
> surprised by the amount of variation in the rhythms, melodies and
> patterns that I was able to get out of ams during this session.
>
> It's amazing what can be accomplished sitting in front of a powerful
> Linux audio workstation for 48 hours straight when your in the right
> mood :-)
>
> Enjoy and I look forward to your feedback. I hope y'all will get as much
> of a kick out of hearing some of these sounds as I have while bringing
> them forth.
>
>
>
> Cheers.
>
>
Something wrong here. All I get is a strange warbling noise :(

-- 
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.
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