Oatmeal really deserves more videos, that's one of the reasons I made this episode.
Showing posts with label vst. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vst. Show all posts
Saturday, April 7, 2012
Music Hacker - Trancey Breakfast Cereal
Oatmeal really deserves more videos, that's one of the reasons I made this episode.
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Transmusical Distortion now 100% on youtube!
Great CD from a Christmas party. Of course, had this been any other holiday I would have said it was great for that. Meh.
Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3265A73F5656A79A&feature=viewall
Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3265A73F5656A79A&feature=viewall
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Music Hacker - Season Debut
This episode ended up running a lot longer then I originally thought. I think it turned out for the better though.
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Kairatune
While I'm taking a turn farther toward game design on this blog, I still haven't quit music. Today I want to recommend a great free VSTi, especially in the neighborhood of Drum and Bass or Dubstep.
Kairatune came out this year, 2011, and is the perfect solution for those of you who want a strong monophonic synth. I've added it to my VST collection quite happily. Here's a good demo, which still only shows a chip of what's possible with this synth.
Kairatune Demo by Kairatune
Most of the knobs don't turn properly, probably due to a bug. But I found a workaround by using LMMS's VST parameter converter to set the knobs.
Happy tweaking!
--LazerBlade
Kairatune came out this year, 2011, and is the perfect solution for those of you who want a strong monophonic synth. I've added it to my VST collection quite happily. Here's a good demo, which still only shows a chip of what's possible with this synth.
Kairatune Demo by Kairatune
Most of the knobs don't turn properly, probably due to a bug. But I found a workaround by using LMMS's VST parameter converter to set the knobs.
Happy tweaking!
--LazerBlade
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Advanced LMMS - Keyboard tips
I was originally planning on a twenty minute episode about trance music, but some last minute "technical difficulties" forced me to resort to throwing together a few tips.
I also announce the release of my new album. Go download it. Right now. Right here: http://www.mediafire.com/?5ldo8md8h6mc2zc
I also announce the release of my new album. Go download it. Right now. Right here: http://www.mediafire.com/?5ldo8md8h6mc2zc
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Fun in craziness
Between studying full-time and being in a wedding recently, my schedule has maintained a constant state of flux and unpredictability. I unfortunately haven't had time to write up any cool articles or anything for you, so this time around I just have a quick update.
The tracks on my new album are pretty much finished, with October 22nd looking like a probable release date. That's only a week away, so I'm scrambling to get things 100% ready. Track listing art looks good, so here's a preview of the more or less finished version:
The idea started as being themed after the Synth1 Virtual Synthesizer. Then it morphed it's way from being based on LMMS plugins to a cyberpunky imaginary synthesizer that was drawn completely by me. I like the outcome, so I hope you enjoy it.
So yea, nothing much else going on. The reason I haven't been doing a lot of game related stuff is because this music is part of my official education, giving it priority over the more fun things like programming. Hopefully I will soon have more time to spend on programming and games, but we have yet to see what the future brings.
--LazerBlade
The tracks on my new album are pretty much finished, with October 22nd looking like a probable release date. That's only a week away, so I'm scrambling to get things 100% ready. Track listing art looks good, so here's a preview of the more or less finished version:
The idea started as being themed after the Synth1 Virtual Synthesizer. Then it morphed it's way from being based on LMMS plugins to a cyberpunky imaginary synthesizer that was drawn completely by me. I like the outcome, so I hope you enjoy it.
So yea, nothing much else going on. The reason I haven't been doing a lot of game related stuff is because this music is part of my official education, giving it priority over the more fun things like programming. Hopefully I will soon have more time to spend on programming and games, but we have yet to see what the future brings.
--LazerBlade
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Music work
Hey all. For some time, I've been learning and producing music. Starting with playing piano, then learning to compose and improvise, then moving on to computer synthesis with ABC2MIDI in FreeDos, beast, Audacity, FL Studio, LMMS, and more, I managed to stick a little experience under my belt.
I recently realized something. I've almost always worked under one program or instrument. I never mixed things together. Only recently have I began to change my perspective to more of a studio point of view. I even shelled out the space on my HD for Ubuntu Studio, which I highly recommend for optimal music production on Linux.
I realized that many people have several synths and programs running, and link them together using JACK or something similar. I've started doing this a bit myself. I'm even considering throwing in recordings of my piano with the rest of a track.
I also picked up a new open source synthesizer:
This, my friends is Phasex. It's really a pretty cool synth, although missing detune knobs on the oscillators. It's not a VST, and it's not an LMMS plugin or anything like that. It's stand alone, which means I can't open it in LMMS. However, it does support MIDI I/O. So, I just have to open up JACK and plug the output of some track into phasex and I can sequence that way. The major disadvantage is that I can't figure out if there is a way to automate it yet.
This same solution is how I can fix the delay problem on my keyboard, should I ever end up playing live. I guess the delay problem is exclusive to LMMS, which apparently has really frumpy MIDI latency.
So yea, I'm still experimenting with a lot of this stuff, including trying to see if I can hack together VST automation through this setup. It's pretty fun right now, even though school still takes up most of my time.
--LazerBlade
I recently realized something. I've almost always worked under one program or instrument. I never mixed things together. Only recently have I began to change my perspective to more of a studio point of view. I even shelled out the space on my HD for Ubuntu Studio, which I highly recommend for optimal music production on Linux.
I realized that many people have several synths and programs running, and link them together using JACK or something similar. I've started doing this a bit myself. I'm even considering throwing in recordings of my piano with the rest of a track.
I also picked up a new open source synthesizer:
This, my friends is Phasex. It's really a pretty cool synth, although missing detune knobs on the oscillators. It's not a VST, and it's not an LMMS plugin or anything like that. It's stand alone, which means I can't open it in LMMS. However, it does support MIDI I/O. So, I just have to open up JACK and plug the output of some track into phasex and I can sequence that way. The major disadvantage is that I can't figure out if there is a way to automate it yet.
This same solution is how I can fix the delay problem on my keyboard, should I ever end up playing live. I guess the delay problem is exclusive to LMMS, which apparently has really frumpy MIDI latency.
So yea, I'm still experimenting with a lot of this stuff, including trying to see if I can hack together VST automation through this setup. It's pretty fun right now, even though school still takes up most of my time.
--LazerBlade
Saturday, July 2, 2011
Advanced LMMS, part 1
I'm starting a video tutorial set about making advanced music with LMMS. If this goes well, I should be posting every Saturday with the next episode in the set. Here is the first episode:
For those of you who are wondering, no I haven't given up 3D or programming. Things are moving pretty slow though, so I've started this series to keep the content rolling. Enjoy!
For those of you who are wondering, no I haven't given up 3D or programming. Things are moving pretty slow though, so I've started this series to keep the content rolling. Enjoy!
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
First CD album: The Experiment
After quite a bit of work, I've finally finished up my very first CD album. It is available for download right now, in MP3 format, here: DOWNLOAD
The album cover:
Track listing:
All this music is done in LMMS with all free VST's and samples, except for track 9, which was a project I started in FL using Nexus and Zeta, and imported into LMMS when I became converted.
The goal of this album is to expand my knowledge of LMMS and music in general. Most of this music sounds good, and all of it is here to demonstrate or experiment with some kind of algorithm, instrument, chord progression, style, or whatever.
A lot of this is also available on my Youtube channel, where I will probably gradually be uploading the rest of it before collaging it in a playlist.
I will point out that this is technically my second album, my first being an unreleased album titled "Indecision". A lot of the music on it is too pitiful for me to put online, so it will stay unreleased. I have however, posted some of the tracks from it on Youtube, including WarGanes and my Vivamine remix.
So, lay on the comments and criticisms. ;)
Don't go easy on me. As long as you are constructive, say what it is that could be improved, and how I might improve it, be as critical as you want.
--LazerBlade
The album cover:
Track listing:
All this music is done in LMMS with all free VST's and samples, except for track 9, which was a project I started in FL using Nexus and Zeta, and imported into LMMS when I became converted.
The goal of this album is to expand my knowledge of LMMS and music in general. Most of this music sounds good, and all of it is here to demonstrate or experiment with some kind of algorithm, instrument, chord progression, style, or whatever.
A lot of this is also available on my Youtube channel, where I will probably gradually be uploading the rest of it before collaging it in a playlist.
I will point out that this is technically my second album, my first being an unreleased album titled "Indecision". A lot of the music on it is too pitiful for me to put online, so it will stay unreleased. I have however, posted some of the tracks from it on Youtube, including WarGanes and my Vivamine remix.
So, lay on the comments and criticisms. ;)
Don't go easy on me. As long as you are constructive, say what it is that could be improved, and how I might improve it, be as critical as you want.
--LazerBlade
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