Listen to Spade!
The young and promising Adrian Cardwell, known as Spade, is already quite known I would say. 75 followers on Soundcloud is more than most amateurs can brag about. With his own official site already up together with a own Facebook site, he seems successful so far. And the music is of the highest quality I must say, and of course it is the music we care about.
On his soundcloud site he has said that he does not keep within one genre, but tries them all. I would say he - at least on the current date - is mostly mixing and making electronic music. Also dubstep and house is two fitting genres. He uses a lot of catchy rhythms and melodies, which I guess is what describes good music... Sounds and instruments which often are heard in the songs from this genious are: synths, piano and house-drums.This is not noisy music. It is sometimes calming even with drums, and Spade definitely has managed to keep the tunes beautiful and controlled. Dubstep could be somewhat messy, but I think Spade has a strict order in what old people would call chaos with bad telephone sounds (dubstep).
Many of his tracks is so good that it is hard to understand how this could be made with LMMS, but he states that it is just pure LMMS. He is just as good at mixing as Macrowave, or better, and Macrowave uses Ardour! If someone is going to get famous making music with LMMS, this guy right here is very close, at least with his music. Now go listen to his tunes before he moves on to Ableton or Logic .
http://spadeofficial.com
Friday, 17 May 2013
LMMS 0.4.14
The new version of LMMS comes with a bunch of new features and improvements. About time, some of us might say, it has been over a year since the latest release. Now the final version is here! I haven´t really got around to make use of all the features yet, but I´ll throw my opinion at you anyway.
A feature I personally like is the auto-naming of soundfonts and VSTi´s. It comes in very handy if you have a file and you don´t remember which soundfont or VSTi you used. Of course it also means you don't have to name all your different tracks strange names... At least my tracks often got some weird names. A strange thing I found was that if I opened old tracks made in 0.4.13 the names I had given them was overwritten by LMMS. Not a big deal, I ain't working on them no more, however if I were it would definitely be a problem. So I suggest finishing all songs in 0.4.13 before going to 0.4.14.
I am not the best guy in the world when it comes to mastering, perhaps less successful in mastering is more fitting.I have never tried to master a song in another program (Audacity, Ardour), which probably is the best thing to do, and so I have yet to actually need the feature "Export Tracks". I have tried it once, it worked, and so I guess it will be well accepted by many of you, and me in the feature.
The auto-save feature could be nice, but I have also experienced that LMMS crashes when saving in the middle of a play, and thus I have learned to save regularly and not in the middle of a play.
Just to get this article out before 0.4.15 arrives I quickly finishes now. I got the Hydrogen import to work, and I have used Hydrogen before. I somehow find that it is easier to produce good drum patterns in Hydrogen, and so with an easy import to LMMS this is getting really interesting.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/lmms/files/lmms/0.4.14/
A feature I personally like is the auto-naming of soundfonts and VSTi´s. It comes in very handy if you have a file and you don´t remember which soundfont or VSTi you used. Of course it also means you don't have to name all your different tracks strange names... At least my tracks often got some weird names. A strange thing I found was that if I opened old tracks made in 0.4.13 the names I had given them was overwritten by LMMS. Not a big deal, I ain't working on them no more, however if I were it would definitely be a problem. So I suggest finishing all songs in 0.4.13 before going to 0.4.14.
I am not the best guy in the world when it comes to mastering, perhaps less successful in mastering is more fitting.I have never tried to master a song in another program (Audacity, Ardour), which probably is the best thing to do, and so I have yet to actually need the feature "Export Tracks". I have tried it once, it worked, and so I guess it will be well accepted by many of you, and me in the feature.
The auto-save feature could be nice, but I have also experienced that LMMS crashes when saving in the middle of a play, and thus I have learned to save regularly and not in the middle of a play.
Just to get this article out before 0.4.15 arrives I quickly finishes now. I got the Hydrogen import to work, and I have used Hydrogen before. I somehow find that it is easier to produce good drum patterns in Hydrogen, and so with an easy import to LMMS this is getting really interesting.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/lmms/files/lmms/0.4.14/
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