Re: [LAU] 100% Linux stuff: The Infinite Repeat - Unaware of a Direction

From: Igor Brkic <igor@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Mon Dec 06 2010 - 12:58:58 EET

On 05.12.2010 09:33, Jeremy Jongepier wrote:
> LS,
>
> For the moment I consider this track finished. Well, finished as in that
> it sounds much like I want it to. When Qtractor 0.4.7 came out I decided
> I had to let myself go concerning effects, especially now they can be
> MIDI controlled which is just great. I set up a special FX automation
> MIDI track and off I went.
> The female vocals were done by my girlfriend. Just a few takes and she
> was greatly unsatisfied but with some effects and some cutting up it
> turned out quite ok.
> Huge shout out to Will J Godfrey (aka Folderol) for his amazing
> instrument bank, I used Warm Synth, Sharp Synth, Pizzicato Strings and
> the great Wind and Surf for the swooossssshhh. Also big props for Cal
> for the ever improving Yoshimi. And Rui of course. Qtractor just rocks.
> Lastly, the FFADO folks. I'm now looking at my shiny and new Focusrite
> Saffire Pro 40 that has been running happily for hours now at 4ms with
> about 20+ tracks and about the same amount of effects. Yeah, I
> encountered some occasional xruns, but basically that only happens when
> I open stuff like LV2 gui's or change hefty instrument patches with
> Yoshimi (which will be a thing of the past once the sqlite3
> implementation for the banks has been perfectioned).
> I'll see if I can do a screencast of this track. Nothing is cooler than
> seeing those slick Calf plugins do their stuff automatically :)
>
> http://linux.autostatic.com/temp/The%20Infinite%20Repeat%20-%20Unaware%20of%20a%20Direction%20-%20Mixdown20101204.ogg
>
> http://linux.autostatic.com/temp/The%20Infinite%20Repeat%20-%20Unaware%20of%20a%20Direction%20-%20Mixdown%2020101204.mp3
>
>
> And yes, I've learned so much in the making of this track. I've never
> worked with compressors, gates, filters and eq's before and this track
> was like a playground in which I could all test it out.
>

Synthy :)
Nice one. Not really my style but very good arrangement and mix. I like
the video too - it's nice to see part of workflow of someone who's very
good at what's he doing.

Cheers!
Igor
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