My dog's toy pig rehearsing on a drumloop. Needs a better arrangement but sounds already funny.

Piggybeat

Yesterday Rui anounced the release of qtractor 0.4.4 so I went downloading and building it. I remembered all Rui wanted back for his efforts to write that great software is that I'd have some fun with it, so that's what I did. First I played some SPD11 drums without a metronome, then added the Korg Poly 800 synth and some tjingle twingle Yamaha CS2x piano solo where I edited one note that was out of tune. Both synths each take a mono channel and the SPD11 a stereo channel in my Tapco Blend6 mixer with Mackie pre amplifiers. The Blend6 then goes to 2 inputs on my Delta1010 soundcard into the mixdown audio channel in Qtractor.
I've set up Qtractor to record in wav and converted the mixdown wav file with audacity to a 192 kbps mp3, available here as the 'original'.

Cold feet-mixdown1-1

16step octave Jacob

A PureData looping sampler experiment-sound_scape-story made with an in and out breathing, a microphone and PureData.

Breathing-hihat-monster-stereo

testing qtractor 0.4.3 and roland spd11, korg-x3

Drumbeat-mixdown1-5

This song started named "dubstep-collector".
While testing the new Qtractor (version 0.4.3 alpha), I brought it to this stage after talking to a fat guy from the government's administration with long hair on the back and bold on top.

Features Korg-X3 and Roland SPD-11 sounds , and my voice :-)

Dubstep collector-mixdown-with voice1-1

A tune made on tuesday, with a X3 violin added on wednesday

Dubsteptuesday+basslineX3-mixdown1-1

Dubsteptuesday+basslineX3-mixdown2-2

In 1999 I got my first pc and Cubase 3.5, after years of fun and troubles with proprietary software, I choose to make a switch to Linux.

For a while I kept a blog about this experience: http://freqrush.blogspot.com

I've been writing a Roland SPD-11and Yamaha CS2x driver for JSynthLib, and also been trying to blow some new life in that project. So for that purpose, I've written jsynthlib.wikispaces.com.  