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Je kan op de website van SAE een gratis aangepaste versie downloaden van het Open Source pakket Ardour. Dit is een speciale, wat eenvoudiger versie, voor beginners. Deze speciale editie is enkel voor Intel-Macs. De normale versie van Ardour is ook voor PPC en voor Linux beschikbaar, maar in dat geval is de installatie iets omslachtiger.

Gelezen op de site van Homerecording.be.

I often compose on my classical guitar. Nothing to set up. Pick it up and start playing.And take notes, on small pieces of paper, in whatever format.For songs, I usually disconnect the lyrics from the music. I create patterns of music and I create patterns of words. And then combine them: play through chords or melodies and try some of the lyrics. See what fits.There are no rules and you can always approach things differently.

You can try any of the following free plugins in your regular VST host, to emulate guitar amplifiers or FX: 

During the last two decades (I'm showing my age here) I have drafted more than 200 snippets/songs. Some of them only short riffs, others full songs, with lyrics and instrumentation.

Now I'm slowly reviewing them and thinking of recording a number of them. For myself and for the rest of the world... I'll have to leave something for the kids, someday.

I'm not sure what to do with them, although. I might as well form three different bands:

I am slowly getting reactions from people who are interested in a possible collaboration. Strange feeling, as I have been doing (most of) my recordings alone, by now.

It ranges from someone playing progressive rock seeking a guitar player till two drummers and a singer, who has had quite some television exposure. I have not made any decision yet, as the most important thing is that we should just meet and see if the music starts flowing. So exciting times ahead, despite of the current lack of time and sleep.

As you can read on http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=218678 the set of MDA plugins, which have been free for some time, are not actively being developed anymore. However, instead of letting them die, they have become Open Source. This opens many opportunities.

Check here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mda-vst/ 

Check out http://www.wilbertberendsen.nl/cursus_lilypond which has a tutorial to use the Open Source notation editor Lilypond. You write code (simplified, but still, code) and it renders as clean scores. The tutorial is in Dutch.

I have joined the vi.be website at http://vi.be

It is our local equivalent of Myspace for bands, which allows you to discover and contact other musicians. If you're Flemish and you play music, it is a recommended community.

Apart from software, there is a wealth of possibilities for guitar sounds. From real amplifiers and stomp boxes till software plugins and combined software/hardware products.

Right now, I'm borrowing a Korg ToneWorks AX3000G from my brother, which is mostly a hardware guitar effects and amplifiers simulator. One machine with a nice range of sounds. Maybe I don't need to buy two or more amplifiers and effects at all.

I am re-installing everything. My Powerbook's drive died, so I had to start from scratch (and the partial backup I could recover). I've switched from Tiger to Leopard, but still have iLife '06 for PPC on that machine.

On the iMac, I have the more recent iLife '08 which is nice (especially iPhoto, which we used to reorganize most of our family snapshots). Garagaband seems to be improved somewhat, but not dramatically. I have not had the chance to try others.