Patron-saint of the Bog.

[reddragdiva]

Sunday was spent on appalling quantities of domesticity. I caught up a little on the housework. redcountess and I got stuff done in the garden and put up a new bird feeder. I enjoyed the sun on my skin and the feeling of a fitter body. But you're still not getting my g*th card.

We were going to hit Homebase, but it occurred to Liz that Homebase on a Bank Holiday weekend would make Ikea seem pleasant. Some evening this week, perhaps.

arkady and I didn't make the Dev on Sunday evening, but we did Monday. Surprisingly large crowd for a Monday — we hypothesise post-Infest comedown. Arkady geeked music with flavius_m. She resolved to grab the USB interface for her MIDI controller keyboard from him and start putting up MP3s, and I resolved to put Rosegarden on tart and start my bad EBM career. SWOOOOOORDS.

Today it is about a Godzillion degrees. The Engrish still do not understand air conditioning, but I do have a fan on my desk at work.

Comments

[kineticfactory.livejournal.com]

Are you using external synths or softsynths with Rosegarden?

From what I know, Linux as a music production platform is rather primitive. I gave up on Linux for music production some time around 1997, when I bought a Mac and Cubase VST. It was then that I went from using a computer as a simple MIDI-piano-roll sequencer controlling an external Sound Canvas to an actual virtual studio with EQs and effects plug-ins and softsynths and the ability to edit audio and such. I looked at Linux and audio recently and found it was still rather primitive (they now have their own audio plug-in standard named LADSPA, which, apart from sounding like the name of a boy-fanciers' organisation or something, doesn't seem to have many plug-ins above the 1st-year-DSP-programming-assignment level of sophistication; though there may be a way to jerry-rig Windows VST plugins to run under some WINE-based rig).

Besides, if you want to do EBM, you'd want something capable of hosting Native Instruments' FM7 (http://www.ni-fm7.com) softsynth; it has presets that could fill the floor of a goth club (or a Eurovision backing track). That and some Roland R8 ("80s goth in a box") drum samples.

[reddragdiva]

So far I can't get it to give me even a sensible error on starting ;-) Needs a bit more kicking I think.

[reddragdiva]

To be more specific, it's reminding me of early synthesis, before MIDI and the DX-7 — when you either spent a friggin' fortune on something that was really quite middling, or you got to be a dab hand with a soldering iron (much like this icon) and tapeloops. I need to get out the software soldering iron, I fear.

[kineticfactory.livejournal.com]

I've got your software soldering iron right (http://www.audiosynth.com) here (http://puredata.info/).

Let me know if you get anything resembling dance-music coming out of it. You could well be the pioneer of micro-EBM.