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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.

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

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 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.

I had a rehearsal/brainstorm with the "Reverse Violin Company", yesterday evening. We listened to eachothers tunes, looked at lyrics and gave suggestions. We also wanted to record a new song, based on a lyric I wrote. It was hard to find a suitable "genre", so we decided to try with drum loops to get into a particular groove. After a few rock oriented drum samples, we settled with a more electronic beat and then the creative energy got bigger.

If you look for a Linux distribution oriented towards multimedia, you can try one of the 7 distributions as discussed on http://www.junauza.com/2008/08/7-best-linux-distributions-for.html There are several interesting options for Open Source music creation applications, which include Ardour, Audacity, PureData, Rosegarden, CSound. I tried many of them, but not as extensive as Cubase or Ableton Live.

An article at http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/kokkini-zita-audio-software-fons-adr... explains the development of a realistic organ synthesizer and also the usage of convolution reverb (using room characteristics to improve the realism of a reverberation effect).

I still love this song, but I lost its original Cubase file. The lead voice is actually a bass sound, but pitched two or three octaves higher. I was lucky to have it recorded and burned to CD, as that is the only thing that is left. Oh well, plenty of other songs to go. The Cubase problem was the fact that I created songs which held different arrangements and in some cleanup session I forgot to save the arrangement for Spacy into a new song. To me, it actually improves the song. Oh and the wide pads too. I love synthetic strings and pad sounds. They can add a layer of richness to many songs.

First draft of a re-recording of "Weg" (Away), which was originally recorded in 2000. With better microphone and guitar, now using Ableton Live. But I'm not fully pleased with the drums and the guitar solo right now. A friend once told me that it had something of a Red Hot Chili Peppers song.