Music. Photography. Thoughts.
The support from Sonarworks just sent me a headphone correction file for my new Sennheiser HD 560S on Linux:
And this is their Reference 4 which is succeeded by now, on Linux which was never officially supported – and that is what I’d call an outstanding software support & service! So a big “Thank You!” goes out to the Sonarworks support team, you guys & girls rock!
Yesterday I praised Chris Johnson for one of his Airwindows plugins, and yes, the man is clearly a genius. But so are both Vladimir Sadovnikov and also Stefano Tronci who together are the main (or sole?) developers of the LSP Plugins. And these also sound amazing and have almost entirely replaced the Calf Plugins I’ve used before.
I have thanked CrocoDuck before after he tested a Behringer interface and compared it to his former Focusrite one – and then I went and bought said Behringer for my brother. And Vladimir – much like Geoffrey Bennett – seems to be constantly working on the device drivers for Focusrite interfaces in the Linux kernel, so thanks for that as well.
I totally understood this as well – greetings to my Russian friend over there! Invited him to Wikiloops where music brings us all together…
As always, thanks for reading.
I just tried Chris Johnson’s Energy2 plugin for the first time, liked his original one a lot, but this one’s better. But let the man explain it himself:
How very cool to have something like this in one’s toolkit – thanks a lot, Chris!
Please have a look at Chris’ Airwindows site, and download all the tools together or separately for all major operating systems. And support the man if you can.
My microphone cable broke, so I couldn’t use it for my latest collab when playing the upright with a bow. So I ordered new ones, and now the show can go on…
I used Silver Efex with a Fujifilm Acros 100 black & white film simulation for this one, plus a border. As always, thanks for viewing.
I’m using my Focusrite Scarlett 6i6 2nd generation audio interface under Linux since years, it was and is USB class compliant, so no worries there.
In case you want to know how to set up a newer 3rd generation interface, look at Unfa’s video review of the Scarlett 2i2 3rd gen:
And on LinuxMusicians, Geoffrey Bennett just announced his new control panel gui for these interfaces, see also his github pages.
Cool stuff. I’m using his drivers already, but the gui needs gtk4 and a kernel 5.14 or newer, so this should work on my Arch but not yet on my Debian partition. Doesn’t matter since I can also change the interface settings using qasmixer, even if that isn’t as nice as his one.
Cool stuff! Thanks Geoffrey and Unfa and the kernel team and everyone 🙂 Did I say that free software rocks?
Here’s Frode Berg explaining and demonstrating why that matters, especially but not only for us double (or upright) bass players:
Thanks Frode for the explanations…
Collaboration with Lucy Bee from Wikiloops:
Thanks Lucy for the wonderful jam, and thanks to you for listening.
While watching the birds outside, this is what I was listening to today:
Eve Goodman – Dacw ‘Nghariad [Welsh folk song]
The oldest Welsh Lullaby: Dinogad’s Smock (Pais Dinogad)
Ceol, a celebration of Gaelic & Welsh music
Enjoy…
Rockin’ piece from Peter and from Nick, couldn’t resist to add my fretless P with an Ampeg SVT amp simulation plugin to it:
So thanks to both Peter and Nick, also to Wikiloops as always, and thanks to you for listening.
Don’t ask me what that title means – I have no idea. But it was the title of a track on today’s ‘album of the day’ on Wikiloops by a former member, his name is now leftTheLoops22012327, but the artist was formerly known as ‘MikaBass’. So here is he on piano, and me adding a little fretless to it:
So thanks and so long to ‘MikaBass’, to Wikiloops as always, and to you for listening.