Re: [LAU] new music from Will

Le 13/10/2012 00:29, Dave Phillips a écrit :
> Greetings,
>
> Fellow Linux audio user Folderol is having problems sending to this
> list, so he asked me to forward this message:
>
> Subject: Something new (at last!)
>
> Last Friday after work I tried to develop a new yoshimi voice patch. I
> never
> succeeded in getting what I wanted but I did manage to produce a very
> nice lead
> sound. I then started fiddle with the settings in Rosegarden to make
> another
> stab at getting it to record MIDI from two keyboards on different ports
> directly to two different tracks, and sounding two different yoshimi
> voices. By
> the time I managed to do this it was no longer Friday, but the early hours
> of Saturday.
>
> I wasn't the least bit tired so started to noodle around with my left hand
> playing a choir sound, and the right hand playing my new lead sound on
> the other
> keyboard. I thought what I was playing didn't sound too bad so hit record.
> However it seems I didn't notice the magic pixie dust falling around me,
> and
> just left the recording and went to bed for a few hours.
>
> Much later that day, I had what was going to be a quick listen before
> scrubbing
> it. Instead, with just a top-and-tail, and one chord change I stuck it
> up on
> Soundcloud. I was very pleased with the response!
>
> However, the tune was not done with me yet, and Wednesday evening I used
> exactly the same method to record an intro, and a very short insert near
> the
> end. I did the absolute minimum of editing to make it all fit - I didn't
> want
> to accidentally shake out any of that pixie dust.
>
> Finally, in response to a comment I received on the original, I added a
> very
> deep, subdued bass line. Due to the free-form nature of the melody, this
> was
> actually the hardest part of all, and took a lot of patching and retries.
>
> Anyway, here is the final result. I hope you like it. The name of my new
> lead
> sound is also the title of the track
>
> http://www.musically.me.uk/music/Solo.ogg
>
> -- 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.
>
Thank you Folderol, and Dave. Your tune is a poem.
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Received on Sat Oct 13 04:15:02 2012