Category: fun

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Cuttin Thru Da Haze

Cool Reggae/Ska feel on this; couldn’t resist to play around with it a bit:

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List of musicians (so far):

As always, thanks for listening. And as always to other musicians: come and jam with us – it’s fun 🙂

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My trip to the Wikiloops member meeting in Steinfeld, 2017 by navota Krull

Wikiloops member and fellow musician sister navota Krull has made a nice video documentation about her 2017 trip to the Wikiloops members’ meeting in Steinfeld.

I’ve met her and some of the musicians you’ll see here in 2018, and I sure hope to see her and lots of other Wikiloops friends again there this year – so much looking forward to this.

My trip to the Wikiloops member meeting in Steinfeld bynavota Krull

Thanks for that nice documentation to our NAF (Native American Flute) playing sister!

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Without strings

My friend and Wikiloops member OliVBee pointed me to a track yesterday which I fell in love with right away. So I couldn’t resist to add some low notes to it – and here it is:

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The list of musicians on this one is:

Thanks for listening. And thanks to my friends there for a killer track.

Edit: here’s a new mix of this, made by OliVBee:

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Thanks again to Oliv for another one of his fabulous mix jobs! 🙂

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How to use free instruments in free software

Just a small example here:

I had integrated the XLN Audio Addictive Keys (windows version) “Studio Grand” piano into Ardour on Linux – but Windows VSTs (virtual instruments) on Linux need something like Wine, and are more resource-hungry than they’d need to be. Meaning that yes, I can play nice sounds from that awesome Steinberg D grand piano somewhere in Sweden, but the cost is that I’ll get lots of xruns (basically buffer overflows) in my software if I need more than one of these tracks.

The solution? Free samples of course – and yes, they exist like free software does exist. So I just set up my latest key presses (on my 49-key MIDI keyboard) to use the free “Salamander” grand piano which is a nicely sampled Yamaha C5.

And there’s an article on LibreMusicProduction on how to do just that, using Ardour, LinuxSampler, QSampler plus whichever soundfonts you’d need.

Maybe I’ll still buy PianoTeq for Zuleikha one day – first, the basic stuff isn’t that expensive, second, it’s a modeled piano, not a resource-hungry sampled one, and third, it even comes in a version for Linux. And this alone should be honoured. It also should sound much better than Zuleikha’s Yamaha Arius piano which she uses to record stuff (that one has a MIDI out of course).

So – let’s make some music… 🙂

Thanks for reading.

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The Christmas Album MMXVIII

This morning I published my 5th Wikiloops album of collaborations with friends from all over the world, some of whom I’ve never even met in real life until now. And because I published this on the 2nd day of Christmas, it got the title like in the headline. Looks like this:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/wjlonien/44655794290/sizes/o/

You can listen to it and/or download it from Wikiloops as usual.

Thanks to all participants, and to Richard without whom Wikiloops wouldn’t even exist.

Thanks to you for reading, and for listening, downloading and/or even supporting us there.

Merry Christmas 2019.

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I miss you already – another remix

I remixed mpointon’s drum add to this lovely track. No video this time, so enjoy the music:

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The list of musicians until now (I asked the next one to remix onto mpointon instead of my “mixer” add):

Thanks for listening.

Edit:

Shortly after uploading this, Tof came up with an own remix and an add of his lovely guitar and guitar synth work – so I remixed that again as well. Here it is:

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That makes 6 musicians if you count the mixer’s job, like here:

So again, if someone wants to add something then he/she should add his or her work to Tof’s remix (even if they took my mix for it).

And again, thanks for your interest, and for listening.

And now have a nice Christmas Evening in case you celebrate that.

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I miss you (already) – featuring Shi

Shi uploaded her version of Arnosolo’s lovely tune, and I instantly tried, and yes my bass from yesterday fits as well – so here’s the combination of us:

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That makes the list of musicians on this track:

I’ve had two other remixes on my track, and a remix of one of those remixes as well – so in case you want to hear those, just go to my track (click here to go there), and have a listen.

Maybe (and hopefully) more will follow…

Thanks for listening.

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I miss you already

An awesome track again from Arnosolo, and a very nice and intelligent lesson in composition. So I couldn’t resist to add some low notes (and some 10s for colour) to it:

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Musicians so far:

Thanks for listening.