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Here's the completed song and continuation of part 3 of recording on my Mac/Pi SE30 computer. Check out the making of this computer here https://youtu.be/_kTrrJAzC1M and check out the

This is a video made by request of José on Facebook. He asked "Hey. I use audacity but I don't play drums or have anything to record drums. I wanted to record songs on audacity with midi drums but I don't know how. Can you make a video on that, please? Stay cool!" Since Audacity doesn't work with MIDI very well, I showed a work around by using a tempo track, label grid, and loops. Hopefully this will help Jose and others looking to make their own beats without drums in Audacity.

Night Gallery was created in Octamed Pro 4, for the Amiga Computer on a Raspberry Pi running Amibian. The song was then copied to a Zoom PS-04 where I added live drums in real-time to recording this video. Equipment Used: Custom Tama Imperialstar, 20" 14" 12" 14s" Hairline Blue Finish 20" Paiste 505 Medium Ride 19" Paiste PST5 Rock Crash (rehammered) 15" Nuvader Medium Hi Hats 17" Kasza Dirty Bell Crash 16" (trash hats) Meinl MCS Trash Crash / 16" generic brass crash 8" Meinl MCS Bell 8" and 10" generic Rototoms Tama Iron Cobra Hi Hat stand Yamaha Snare Stand PDP double kick pedal with cannon felt beaters Ludwig flat base cymbal stands (crashes and ride) Vintage Olympic Hi Hat stand (trash hats) Head batters are all Attack Single Ply Medium Coated, except kick and snare which are Attack Single Ply Coated No Overtone. Bottom heads are all Tama Medium Clears. Mics used: Nady RSM-5 Ribbon mic (overhead) CAD KBM-412 (about 3 feet away from the kick) Sticks: Aquarian X-10 Graphite 5A drumsticks

New song and video recorded using a Tascam Porta 02 MKII cassette 4 track recorder. Mics I used on the drums were Nady RSM-5 ribbon on the overhead, and a CAD KBM 412 placed about 3 feet out in front of the kick. I ran the bass direct into the 4 track and the keys are software synths going out from my computer into the 4track. Only 4 tracks were used. Mastered in audacity. Drums/Cymbals used 60s Slingerland 4 Piece kit with Tama Steel snare. Paiste 505 20" ride Paiste PST5 19" Rock Crash Kasza 17" Dirty Bell Crash Nuvader "15 Medium Hi Hats

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Here's a pretty 90s sounding ambient song that I could see in an old top down RPG in some exotic land. I composed the track in Rosegarden and used the Qsynth/Fluidsynth soundfont player for sounds. The soundfont is of a Kawai K1 Synthesizer. Dedicated to Fornax Void.

I'm still having a lot of fun with Rosegarden. This was made with all soundfonts I've created played in Qsynth/FluidSynth, and sequenced in Rosgarden along with a guitar track. The soundfonts are a 68 Slingerland drum kit, Casio CT-370 and Kawai K1. I also used Rosegarden's time stretch feature on a couple of the guitar clips. The visuals are provided by ProjectM. System is Ubuntu 16.04LTS with Icewm instead of Unity on a 2007 Santa Rosa black Apple Macbook.