Re: [LAU] Ascension: Music made in Linux

Folderol wrote:
> 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.
>>
> Something wrong here. All I get is a strange warbling noise :(

That's all I seem to have heard, too, but I only listened through the
first 5 minutes or so.

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David
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