[LAU] Ninja Step 2012

Hi LAU!

I've been a frequent poster to this list over the last few years yet
I've never had any Linux-made productions online that I wanted to
admit to before now but this one has already been well received by the
few who have heard it already so I thought I should share it here so I
can at least get some feedback off Julian - will he like my synth
snare or not?? ;)

Ninja Step 2012 is a remake of 'Ninja Step' which was the background
music from the factory stage of Super / Revenge of Shinobi on the
Megadrive (or Genesis as it was known in Northern America). ROS was
one of the first games released from the Megadrive and it also had
some of the best music on a 16-bit video game, thanks to the stellar
chip tune skills of Yuzo Koshiro who most famously went on to do the
music for the Streets of Rage series - another definite highlight in
video game music history.

I created this track with qtractor, Aspect, samplv1 and mhwaveedit.
Its the first track I have created with Aspect and samplv1 and my
second qtractor production - my first qtractor track used Noisemaker
and Highlife instead. I created this mainly to see how well Aspect and
samplv1 work (together, under qtractor) and they've passed with flying
colours - well after Rui fixed an issue in samplv1. I didn't
experience any real issues with Aspect creating this track except for
the minor inconvenience of its window disappearing when I open one of
its drop-downs but this is a qtractor issue as it doesn't happen under
Carla.

I'm very impressed with Aspect for a few reasons. Its kinda sad I've
ended up throwing in the all-FLOSS DAW towel and buying a commercial
synth although I think its worth every penny and I'm happy to pay to
show my thanks to Loomer for being 1 of 2 (out of a potential 1000's)
commercial plugin devs to support Linux. You get free upgrades and
support for life, its full GUI fits on my netbook display and with
about 15 instances of it (as in Ninja Step 2012) I get no xruns and
less than 15% CPU use on my 3/4 year old 2Ghz core2 duo laptop and
thats just running the stock Deb Wheezy kernel. Sadly there is no real
FLOSS (or even non-free actually) alternative to Aspect yet although
I'm confident that won't be the case forever.

Thanks for listening!

http://soundcloud.com/danmacdonald

PS I reported the fact that Soundcloud doesn't work with GNASH
recently and its devs are working on fixing that now
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?37008
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Received on Fri Sep 21 20:15:02 2012