Just found that in MAR10: Koji Kondo, Nintendo Mario Bros composer, talks music – enjoy…
In German / auf Deutsch: Arbeiten mit Linux
Wer Deutsch kann und mit Linux und freier (und meist kostenloser) Software Musik machen möchte sollte sich den Artikel Arbeiten mit Linux von Michael im Musiker-Board durchlesen:
In English: if you can read and understand German, and if you’re interested in making music with Linux and free (mostly also cost-free) software, then you should read Michael’s article “Arbeiten mit Linux” in the German-speaking Musiker-Board.
Recommended reading. Thanks for your interest.
Started to play again
Today, for the first time since quite a while, I stood and sat down with both my upright and also my fretless basses, playing to some template/song from Wikiloops again. And it’s fun. And although I’m not after perfection anymore – the journey is the reward – I’ll have to put in some time again. Can’t wait…
Like always, thanks for reading, and for viewing.
A good decision & “Nerve Net”
Yesterday I encoded a snippet of video out of a much longer (almost 3 hour long) one – and saw that when transcoding it with Handbrake, all 8 cores and 16 threads of my CPU were used as they should – looks like this if you have conky on your desktop:
Average framerate was over 140fps, so more than 4.5 times faster than the realtime video. Cool; for jobs like these we’ve bought the right machines, or rather CPUs (I build all our desktops myself).
When making music, these machines are quite overkill for what I’m doing with them. Here’s a screenshot from the new Ardour 7.3 with codename “Nerve Net” (funny, “nerv ned” could be Cologne dialect or so):
1% CPU usage, and even with a few tracks more it’s still pretty bored. I don’t use many MIDI tracks and instrument plugins, mostly – or rather, almost always – audio tracks only.
So that’s nice to know. And like always, thanks for reading.
P.S.: I quite like the Ardour install script on Linux – it asks if you want to keep 7.2 (I said “no”) and 6.9 (I said “yes”) installed, and it runs the uninstall scripts for those you don’t want to keep, and cleans up. Very nice.
Flageolet
Like always, thanks for viewing.
Saying hello to and thanks for the “Blonde Bop”
Glen MacArthur aka GMaq, farmer, musician, and inventor/creator of AVLinux and the AVL drum kits has decided to give us all a new gift, his “Blonde Bop” drum kit. Here’s kind of a “making of” and explanation:
So if your DAW can take sfz or sf2 samples or even better, LV2 plugins, go and have a look – and as you can see, you can – at least in Ardour – even spread out Robin Gareus’ nice plugin over separate channels just like a drummer would do in the studio.
Seen/found in Linux Musicians and the Ardour Discourse, and thank you very much Glen – again!
Jim Stinnett (RIP) & Charles Berthoud
Someone opened a thread in the German-speaking bass players’ forum bassic.de, asking peoples opinions about Charles Berthoud who is well known because of his Youtube channel. I answered that I first saw and heard Charles together with his teacher, Mr. Jim Stinnett (RIP), and that I liked both of them, alone and also together. Here are the videos I embedded in that answer:
Both are/were incredibly good players, too bad that we lost Jim a while ago. Thanks for everything, sir!
Heard a lot of good music last Wednesday…
… and that all happened here:
Last one to play was Aki, with their newest composition “Sappho”, in 5/4. Thanks everyone for a wonderful evening!
P.S.: the school’s homepage has some nice photos in their post about the event.
One of my favourites
Olivia (OKO) posted this on Soundcloud a while ago, just found it there. We have so many good bass players on Wikiloops, so I feel quite honoured that she chose the version with me on my upright bass:
Thanks Olivia and friends, what a pleasure to jam with you all 🙂 <3
“… if a cat can play, a cat can play”
One of my favourites from Roy Hargrove (RIP) is his famous “Strasbourg / St. Denis”:
He also has the opening track of this great album – one for bass players and others alike:
This one? I was recently asked what makes a good bass line, and/or how to compose one. After giving it some thought, my answer would be that if I’d get this album as a birthday present myself and started studying the bass lines and where all the players come from, then I’d had enough to do for the next few years…
Enjoy, and thanks for reading & listening.
Edit: prefer a live version of that famous stop in the Parisian Métro? Here you go:
Again, thanks for viewing.