Re: [LAU] Two songs made in Qtractor : Takkadum & Kleb Station

On 04/20/2014 11:40 AM, Louigi Verona wrote:
> Very nice! Impressive!
Wow, thanks a lot Louigi, I can't feel my head right now.

BTW, I wanted to tell you that following on your enthousiastic and
enlightened article about harmonyseq
<http://www.louigiverona.ru/?page=projects&s=writings&t=linux&a=linux_harmonyseq>,
I made a quick (and quite free-wheeled) tutorial / workshop
<http://linuxfr.org/users/philippemc/journaux/betatest-reveille-le-cyberponk>
for it. It's in French, but Rafał read it though google translate and
found it cool ; I'm just saying.

Phil

>
> L.V.
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Philippe Coatmeur <philcm@email-addr-hidden
> <mailto:philcm@email-addr-hidden>> wrote:
>
> Hi there
>
> Takkadum <http://opensimo.org/play/?a=Azer0,Counternatures&s=1>
> was made mid 2011 right before Automation was available, around
> 0.4.something, I guess
>
> 18 tracks : 10 MIDI tracks and 8 audio ones (using flac containers) ;
>
> * One 3 channels bus to sidechain-compress the 303-style bass
> (nekobee <http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/196.206.69.128>)
> with the kick (a free 808 Sound font played by fluidsynth)
> using SC3
> <http://plugin.org.uk/ladspa-swh/docs/ladspa-swh.html#tth_sEc2.90>
> * the other cheap DR55 Beat elements are made with Rudolf 556
> <http://ll-plugins.nongnu.org/lv2/rudolf556.html>
> * A Hexter <http://dssi.sourceforge.net/hexter.html> synth is
> doubling the bass in the subs
> * The organ is a Calf <http://calf.sourceforge.net/> organ
> * The Lead synth is a Calf <http://calf.sourceforge.net/> Monosynth
> * The guitar is a g10 double coil Ibanez in a focusrite preamp
> * The microphone is a chinese Neumann knockoff in a focusrite preamp
> * The girl asking "what" ? in the background is called Fatima-Zohra
> * Everybody is EQ'd with LADSPA C* 10 bands Equalizer from CAPS
> * Everybody is comp'd with Calf compressor DSSI
> * There is a LADSPA "Fast lookahead limiter" on the master out bus
> * The final bounce, a "normalize" and a quick and dirty fade out
> are made in Audacity
>
> Kleb Station
> <http://opensimo.org/play/?a=Azer0,Counternatures&s=7> (summer
> 2011 too) uses pretty much the same setup
> <http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/307> with more instruments
> <http://linuxfr.org/users/philippemc/journaux/kleb-station-une-chanson-100-libre>
> plugged in, a little automation (it was just out, and already
> worked really good) and sidechain-ducked bass ; I play on all the
> tracks.
>
> BTW the CMS <http://opensimo.org/play/> linked is a personal
> developpement, that automatically builds album pages by reading
> the tags (and optional - cover & stuff - images). It's yours if
> you want it.
>
> I used GNU / Linux to make music since around the time Jack was
> introduced. I spent coutless nights teaching myself how to use
> just about every single system available, and I always came back
> to Qtractor. Everything makes sense in Qtractor. And when it seems
> that it doesn't, a quick message on Rui Nuno's blog and you're out
> of the hole.
>
> The development is steady, focusing only on the core of the
> matter, and the result is a solid system, usable right now.
>
> Qtractor does not even try to be /everything/, it wants to be
> useful in the middle of the huge Linux audio production ecosystem,
> talking nice to everybody, implementing new techs & protocols
> silently, never breaking what's worked so far, bringing it all
> together. For me, it's the standard against witch I can compare
> everything else.
>
> Philippe (xaccrocheur)
>
> --
> Philippe Coatmeur
>
> *http://opensimo.org/adamweb/
> *https://github.com/xaccrocheur
> *http://opensimo.org/play
>
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