Conversations

Played a few harmonics and a bit of bass onto a lovely ballad from Carlo, Shi, and Peter:

This track is embedded with the friendly permission by the creatives on wikiloops.com.

As always, thanks to my friends over at Wikiloops for all the fun, and thanks to you for listening.

Another Bossa

I joined Peter and Frankie on this nice Bossa Nova track:

This track is embedded with the friendly permission by the creatives on wikiloops.com.

As always, thanks to my friends over at Wikiloops, and thanks to you for listening.

New MIDI keyboard

My old MIDI master keyboard with 49 keys was pretty finished, and I had that since 25 or 30 years – so time for a new one. I would have bought another simple and cheap one, but then saw a good deal with lots of additional full versions of libraries, like a Rhodes e-piano and a Mini Moog synth, so I could hardly say “no” to that. And I think Zuleikha likes it as well…

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MIDI Masterkeyboard, Mörfelden-Walldorf 2022

So that was a right decision… and like always, thanks for reading.

When the lights go out (remix 2022)

Did a second remix of an old Wikiloops classic, and an all time favourite song of mine:

This track is embedded with the friendly permission by the creatives on wikiloops.com.

I went for a bit more transparency and clarity, with newer tools and a bit more knowledge. Thanks again to Hurzel and to Shi, I hope they like what I did. And thanks to you for listening – and if you play or sing yourself, then come and join us!

A big “Thank You!” to Sonarworks

The support from Sonarworks just sent me a headphone correction file for my new Sennheiser HD 560S on Linux:

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A screenshot from Sonarworks Reference 4 headphone correction in Ardour 6.9 on Debian Linux 11, Mörfelden-Walldorf 2022

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!

Thanks to Vladimir Sadovnikov (aka Nightly Code), and to Stefano Tronci (aka CrocoDuck)

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.

And all of a sudden: metal

Three images, all from today:

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Suddenly, construction
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Construction without obfuscation
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Meanwhile, on the inside
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As always, thanks for viewing.