tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2784568059679528342024-03-21T17:22:53.901-07:00Audio, Linux and the combinationA blog about Audio production under Linux with a strong emphasis on usability.
The link with the current industry standard in audio production (Mac) is never far away.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278456805967952834.post-19130229800422290992017-03-17T01:07:00.000-07:002018-01-09T11:45:58.702-08:00new elektro project 'BhBm' : Hydrogen + analogue synthsIt has been a long, long time since i posted anything here !<br />
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Let me present you our newest elektro project <b>BhBm </b>(short for "Black hole in a Beautiful mind")<br />
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All drums and samples are done with H2. Almost all bass and melody melodies are analogue synths controlled by H2 via MIDI.<br />
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Softsynths and FX are done using Carla and LV2 plugins.<br />
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I use H2 as a live sequencer in stacked pattern mode controlled by a BCR200 running, so there is no 'song', ony patterns that are enabled/disabled live > great fun !!<br />
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Check out our <a href="https://soundcloud.com/bh-bm">demo songs on Soundcloud</a> :<br />
Or <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BlackHoleBeautifulMind/">follow us on Facebook</a><br />
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Enjoy and comment please !<br />
ThijsUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278456805967952834.post-25248460774898032922016-02-29T00:23:00.001-08:002016-02-29T03:59:36.407-08:00MOD DUO has arrived !Hi all !<br />
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I know that it has been a loooong time since i posted anything but i do have a life you know ;-)<br />
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Anyway, i just wanted to share that my <a href="http://moddevices.com/">MOD DUO</a> arrived and my son an I made a little <a href="https://vimeo.com/156763224">MOD DUO unboxing video</a> about it !<br />
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Great device, really nice build and so far the interface just blew me away !<br />
I plan on doing some more vids on the MOD, but no promises !<br />
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Enjoy !<br />
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<a href="http://portalmod.com/home">The MOD team</a> has been working on this guitar stomp box for quite some time, and everything they learned from making their prototype (the <a href="http://portalmod.com/products/quadra">MOD quadra</a>) has been applied in the MOD duo concept.<br>
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And I must say I'm impressed, so impressed that I just ordered one !<br>
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I's been a while, i know, but i have some really, really good excuses for that :-)<br />
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On October 11th our daughter <b>Mare</b> was born !<br />
Mom and daughter are doing great and her 2 brothers treat her like a princess :-)<br />
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Secondly i have been studying really hard to get my <b><a href="http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/certifications/associate/ccna/index.html">CCNA</a></b> certification, and on September 30th i finally got it !<br />
It was a lot harder than i expected and it took a lot of time, but i'm really glad i did it.<br />
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Oh, and in between we also managed to 'upgrade' our house (+1 bedroom)<br />
How's that for an excuse ?<br />
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Now i'm back on the linux/audio track and making some great progress with arps, synths and controllers.<br />
More on that soon !<br />
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Grtz<br />
Thijs<br />
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In this post we will split up the song into different parts, making it is easier to analyse.<br>
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<b>1) Preparation</b><br>
While i was preparing this post i was looking for a way to visualize the waveform and add some sort of indication or markers to identify the different parts in the song. <br>
My first idea was to take a screenshot of the waveform and use Gimp to add a couple of lines and some text, similar to the way Soundcloud lets you to add comments to a song as you are listening to it.<br>
I could actually use Soundcloud to do this -and it would simplify things for you guys-, but since it's not my own work this could potentially get me into trouble (yes i know that chances are very very small, but you never know)<br>
Exit Soundcloud, back to to Gimp.<br>
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While i was preparing to go the Gimp way i started up <a href="http://audacity.sourceforge.net/">Audacity</a>, loaded the song, started playing around with markers and accidentally discovered the 'label track' option. <br>
A 'label track' is a non-audio track that lets you add comments at a specific moment in time, and also allows you to define a time range and give it a name : brilliant !<br>
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<a href="http://audio-and-linux.blogspot.com/2013/03/move-from-garageband-to-linux-can-it-be.html">- read part 1 first -</a><br>
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To make it a bit easier to understand what exactly we are trying to accomplish i would like to tell you first what our current setup(s) looks like :<br>
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<b>1) the setups</b><br>
As you probably know we have been <a href="http://www.hydrogen-music.org/hcms/node/29">using Hydrogen live</a> for a while now and that worked out quite well so far. The Hydrogen setup consists out of a midi drum controller, an old <a href="http://audio-and-linux.blogspot.com/2011/10/rugged-laptop-for-live-usage.html">laptop-in-a-box</a> (LT1 on the drawing) and <a href="http://audio-and-linux.blogspot.com/2011/11/rugged-laptop-part-ii.html">some extra wiring</a> to be able to use the Left and Right output as 2 individual channels :<br>
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We (my cousin and I) are currently working on a rather interesting experiment : the goal is to move my cousins setup from Garageband (on OSX) to Linux.<br />
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First some background on the current setup(s) and where we want to end up:<br />
Currently I'm running AmSynth + Calf Monosynth on my Ubuntu laptop and Stijn (my cousin) is running Garageband on his Macbook 13". We both have a midi keyboard hooked up to our laptop and use the built-in sound card. <br />
An important detail : we are using these laptops live on stage so whatever we run it needs to be rock solid and easy to set up.<br />
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The idea to switch to Linux is not new, in fact I already dual-booted Stijn's Macbook some time ago, but it was more of an experiment because it wasn't clear what we really wanted to do with these laptops. Since that time we started using the laptops for some songs we play with the band so now we have a better understanding of 'who-will-do-what' and also what sounds we need.<br />
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Being guitarist with 0 piano playing skills we use an _absolute_ maximum of 3 fingers to play the keyboard, so you can probably guess that we mainly use the laptops for a couple of monophonic electro/dance riffs and also some more old-school sounds like Hammond or piano as backing to create a richer sound.<br />
Sounds pretty simple, but in fact that covers almost the complete spectrum of existing synth types : soundfont player, modular analog synth emulators, sound modeling synths ...<br />
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This should be interesting to see how/if we will move from Garageband to Linux.<br />
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To be continued ...<br />
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<a href="http://audio-and-linux.blogspot.com/2013/03/move-from-garageband-to-linux-can-it-be_21.html">- read Part 2 here -</a><br />
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This is a listing of music that was (partially) made with linux and is really well recorded IMHO.<br />
Wether you like the style of music is a totally different question of course :-)<br />
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Hope you enjoy it !<br />
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Jazzy-electro by Attack<br />
<a href="http://sharpattack.bandcamp.com/">http://sharpattack.bandcamp.com/</a><br />
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Electro-ambient by Pneuman (some nice Air influences)<br />
<a href="http://pneuman.bandcamp.com/">http://pneuman.bandcamp.com/</a><br />
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Avant-garde rock by Platypuse Egg<br />
<a href="http://platypusegg.bandcamp.com/album/little-street-of-happiness-2">http://platypusegg.bandcamp.com/album/little-street-of-happiness-2</a><br />
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Experimental-electro by Chordpunch<br />
<a href="http://soundcloud.com/chordpunch">http://soundcloud.com/chordpunch</a><br />
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Crazy stuff by Sebkha-Chott<br />
<a href="https://soundcloud.com/Sebkha-Chott">https://soundcloud.com/Sebkha-Chott</a><br />
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Metal by Pupkovem (drums are Hydrogen)<br />
<a href="http://soundcloud.com/pupkovem/cutthroat_notalive_instrumenta">http://soundcloud.com/pupkovem/cutthroat_notalive_instrumenta</a><br />
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If you know of any other album/demo that was recorded using Linux be sure to let me know in the comments below!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278456805967952834.post-68654086805772757632012-10-25T13:33:00.001-07:002012-11-06T02:30:53.838-08:00Hydrogen drumkit creator script V5 is here !<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjzc7t_iluaDNG-1AeseY4NOAk35vguw4bighPFCDVZD3Guoaxt9-jOotVlRRw2kUWzmB254pkQv-BjJ2zeucC1skgU25gUBiJQUj6TdopmKlAMgfquyoahRO5MA0t0OpRn2JFSaXRNecY/s1600/dice5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjzc7t_iluaDNG-1AeseY4NOAk35vguw4bighPFCDVZD3Guoaxt9-jOotVlRRw2kUWzmB254pkQv-BjJ2zeucC1skgU25gUBiJQUj6TdopmKlAMgfquyoahRO5MA0t0OpRn2JFSaXRNecY/s200/dice5.jpg" width="200"></a>YES I KNOW!<br>
It should have been V3, but V3 and V4 sucked big time so i had to put them down ...<br>
amen<br>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">here is V5 !</span></b><br>
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<b>And what does it do that <a href="http://audio-and-linux.blogspot.com/2012/04/hydrogen-drumkit-creator-script-v2.html">V2</a> couldn't do ?</b><br>
It can take an existing drumkit as input and convert it to FLAC and OGG<br>
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<b>Why ?</b><br>
Because that is really cool + it reduces the size of the drumkit drastically.<br>
An example: Gabriel's 'AC guitar strums' drumkit (<a href="http://www.hydrogen-music.org/hcms/node/2327">the one that won the Hydrogen Drumkit contest</a>) is 370MB in it's original form (using WAV samples), 135MB in FLAC format and only 7MB in OGG format !!<br>
Of course the conversion to OGG does have an impact on the sound quality while the FLAC version maintains the same quality as the original.<br>
What format you want to use is you choice, but 1 good reason to use OGG is to save space, both on disk and in RAM when the drumkit is loaded.<br>
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I finally found some time to finish my 'Denon Rhythm Box' Hydrogen drumkit<br>
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A Denon Rhythm Box ?<br>
That's right, a Denon Rhythm Box :<br>
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Check out <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkDq7ugqBjE&feature=player_embedded">this video</a> if you want to see it in action (note that this box has been modded), a<span style="text-align: center;">nd I even found </span><a href="http://crb90.wordpress.com/" style="text-align: center;">a blog</a><span style="text-align: center;"> dedicated to this device !</span><br>
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As you probably have noticed : the capabilities of the box and the quality of the sounds are not all that fantastic compared to what other boxes can do, but keep in mind that this box dates from ... euh ... way back !<br>
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Btw: I actually don't own the Denon box I used to record the sounds from. A friend just kinda left it at my parents home after one of our rehersals and 'forgot' about it, but now that I have the samples I can give it back to him (he'll be really happy ;-)<br>
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The <a href="http://hydrogen.popez.org/hcms/node/2035">drumkit contest</a> was quite a bit of work (a LOT more than expected!), but I'm quite happy with<a href="http://hydrogen.popez.org/hcms/node/2327"> the result</a> !<br />
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The drumkit contest chapter is not yet completely closed (I still need to get the prizes to the winners and upload the drumkits), but already I'm thinking about possible future contests : song contest, pattern contest, artwork ...<br />
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However, I wonder if we could change the formula? Would it be possible to create a virtual money-box that people can donate some money to, and once the money-box reaches a certain amount, we launch a contest and the money-box money is used to pay for the prize(s)<br />
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Mmm ... wonder if someone has done something like this before ?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278456805967952834.post-5237657113127003652012-04-24T14:06:00.000-07:002013-06-16T13:15:18.247-07:00Hydrogen drumkit creator script V2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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An improved version of <a href="http://audio-and-linux.blogspot.com/2012/04/hydrogen-drumkit-creator-script.html">the original script</a> is ready.<br>
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What's new:<br>
- some small bugfixes<br>
- more options<br>
- espeak sample generator<br>
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Click the link below and find out :-)<br />
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In a next post i'll explain a bit more how i did this and also post the new python script that creates a drumkit starting from a txt file.<br />
Stay tuned !Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278456805967952834.post-8584425305534075402012-04-16T04:41:00.000-07:002012-04-24T04:16:15.584-07:00Hydrogen GM espeak test kit : the drumkit that can speakA couple of days ago Emanuel Rumpf (one of the H2 users) pointed me to the fact that it is really important to follow the <a href="http://www.midi.org/techspecs/gm1sound.php">GM midi mapping</a> when you create a new drumkit, and right he is!<br>
Since we are in the middle of the Hydrogen spring drumkit contest I updated the info in the H2 manual right away, but while doing that i noticed that there is something very weird going on with Hydrogen's 'GM kit' : is't not GM compliant :-(<br>
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While figuring out the correct mapping i decided to create a GM compliant drumkit template, and added something extra ;-)<br>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfpmUTru8NwR5rIOhDuhosiD0AmeAuz_4CyIRbq7lewGMMjW_pdkdHy_Bfx7lXnogeTNcTa4xkkP_XvjYdwyteQUTrDIm4cUWYwSf_3F0RTwum8ksvi47FoamOebsrs7sDzbliHVPMkDKf/s1600/drumkit.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfpmUTru8NwR5rIOhDuhosiD0AmeAuz_4CyIRbq7lewGMMjW_pdkdHy_Bfx7lXnogeTNcTa4xkkP_XvjYdwyteQUTrDIm4cUWYwSf_3F0RTwum8ksvi47FoamOebsrs7sDzbliHVPMkDKf/s1600/drumkit.png"></a>Some time ago we (the Hydrogen team) launched the first edition of the '<a href="http://hydrogen.popez.org/hcms/node/2035" target="_blank">Hydrogen Spring Drumkit Contest</a>'. <br>
The goal of this contest is to encourage the Hydrogen users to contribute new drumkits.<br>
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The goal of the 'Hydrogen drumkit creator' script is to make it easier to make these drumkits.<br>
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It turned out to be a lot more work than expected : finding the jury members, preparing the contest page, thinking about the prizes, what license should the drum kits be released under, the disclaimer, start/stop dates ...<br />
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I'm quite curious about the response, hopefully some good kits will be submitted !<br />
I'll be preparing 1 or 2 drum kits myself (but that's a secret) and maybe make some screencasts while doing it.<br />
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So now i have a decent mic, a Saffire LE as audio interface, my Linux DAW and the Nano Patch to control the volume of my KRK VXT6 speakers.<br />
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Hit songs are on the way ... any minute now ... ;-)<br />
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It still needs work, but it's getting better IMO !<br />
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The goal : control a hardware FX unit with Hydrogen<br>
Why : to be able to select a specific FX per song (or part of the song)<br>
How : using Midi + minimal tools<br>
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After some googling and great help from the <a href="http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev" target="_blank">Linux Audio Developer mailing list</a> (thanks <a href="http://harryhaaren.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Harry</a>, <a href="http://linux.autostatic.com/" target="_blank">Jeremy</a>, Clemens, Frank, Olivier, Adrian) my FX unit now switches to a specific preset whenever i jump to the next/previous song in Hydrogen !<br>
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I really enjoyed the day and my cousin got inspired by the 'wall of sound' workshop by the Belgian band <a href="http://thesorelosers.be/" target="_blank">The sore losers</a>. They had some really good tips on how to create your guitar sound, and one of the key elements in their setup was a simple A/B switch. They use the A/B switch to switch between 2 amps. This is a very simple -but clever- way to get a punchy solo sound : hit a button, second amp switches on > instant boost. <br>
The trick is to set the second amp relatively 'clean' so you don't loose the 'punch' of your sound.<br>
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A couple of days later my cousin asked me if i could build such a switch, and this is the result :<br>
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<a href="http://www.hydrogen-music.org/hcms/node/1978" target="_blank">see this post</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278456805967952834.post-28697321226033886752011-12-01T13:01:00.001-08:002011-12-01T13:13:41.620-08:00Hydrogen GUI updateI'm currently working on some updates for the Hydrogen manual, and i also made some mock-ups of the Hydrogen GUI. More specifically the pattern editor control buttons (the part just above the pattern editor)<br />
Currently this is a mix of buttons, 'LCD' displays and dropdowns. This inconsistency has been bugging me for some time now and i decided to have a go at it.<br />
First priority : replace the different elements with simple, intuitive buttons. Simple.<br />
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The buttons are all bitmaps so it is quite time consuming to get a good looking 'icon' on them.<br />
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It's far from perfect, but it's a start !Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278456805967952834.post-14421812262133189032011-11-23T13:41:00.001-08:002011-11-23T13:57:32.347-08:00rugged laptop : part III upgraded my <a href="http://audio-and-linux.blogspot.com/2011/10/rugged-laptop-for-live-usage.html" target="_blank">rugged laptop</a> with a 3.5mm stereo jack > 2x 6mm mono jack sockets 'assembly'.<br />
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This makes is a lot easier to connect the laptop to the mixing console since i can now use regular guitar leads + the fragile 3.5mm jack is tucked away safely :-)</div>
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I also added a power strip. You can never have too many power outlets !</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278456805967952834.post-5856950412681367172011-11-07T03:23:00.000-08:002011-11-07T03:26:29.234-08:00PRO DSP1000P automation with Hydrogen ?Up until now we have always rehearsed and gigged without any FX applied to the vocals. In fact we use almost no FX on any of our instruments either. I guess that mainly has to do with the no-nonsense in-your-face type of pop/rock we play.<br>
However, after or last gig my niece said we should add a bit more reverb to the vocals. <br>
When i told her that we have no FX unit (not even built into the mixer) she looked at me as if i was some sort of alien ;-)<br>
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I dont like people looking at me as if i'm an alien, so today we bought a second hand FX unit<br>
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