Res: Composition thread

[D. Michael McIntyre]

On Saturday 08 December 2007, Pietro Bergamo wrote:
> I'd add Pure Data to the list. You might have to work on it for a while,
> and maybe study a little bit on synthesis funtamentals, but Pd's
> practically unlimited. I do love it.

I'll go play with it, though it sounds too far over my head to be my kind of 
thing (like AMS.)

And hey, thanks (to whomever) for bringing the topic up, and leading me to 
blow the dust off my old friend ZynAddSubFX.  I'm repeating the Zynfidel 
phenomenon and in the middle of creating Zynspiration, which will be my first 
pure (K)Ubuntu Studio endeavor.  Two notes, a funky patch, and an idea.  It's 
a fast thumpy techoie kind of thing with beautiful and weirdly out of place 
melodic Spanish bullfightery trumpet (real trumpet) stuff woven over top of 
it.  If I can quit screwing up the trumpet part, and actually manage to 
accomplish the thing.  (Inspiration comes so rarely, and tends to evaporate 
almost instantly.  I'm trying to grab it and channel it into something before 
it goes away.  Sure would be a hell of a lot more efficient if there were a 
more direct way to extract what I'm hearing in my head into what I want to 
hear with my ears.  Like a brain radio stream tuner or something.  :)  )

Which actually brings about a problem, come to think of it.  I don't have any 
way to listen to Zyn unless my microphone can hear it too.  No headphone jack 
on my ice1712.  I wonder if I could rig something using my AudioBuddy 
backwards as a headphone post-amp routing the analog outputs from the card 
into my ears.  (I have the audible out going to SPDIF.)

No, NO NO NO NO!!!  I will NOT get caught up dicking around with technical 
hardware crap, and thereby obliterating my infrequent little nugget of 
creative inspiration.

I'll just record the other parts right in the trumpet recording and get it 
done while it's still here.  Or it will never get done.  Even though it will 
be all muddied up with parts out of sync, and I won't be able to remix it if 
the levels aren't any good, which they won't be.

This stuff is all too hard.  I really like the brain radio idea. This thing 
sounds great in here.  Not so good yet actually coming out of my speakers 
though.
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D. Michael McIntyre