Free Music Software (#N-3 in a series)

[filkertom]

New versions of Reaper and the ReaPlugins (for using in any Windows-based VST host). And a Mac build.

Fat-Ass Plugins has made their BeatBurner VSTi freeware.

And DSK Music has released a new Asian-based multi-instrument, Asian DreamZ.

Anything cool you've downloaded lately?

Comments

[scifantasy.livejournal.com]

Yes, actually, and it's music related. But not creation--propogation.

kPlaylist (http://www.kplaylist.net/) is a great PHP script for making your music available online. I installed it on devil, my webserver, and it's now a lot easier for people who access my music to search, browse, stream, download...the whole bit.

Plus, it's PHP/MySQL, so it's tweakable.

[shockwave77598.livejournal.com]

Using Reaper myself. Have an odd biasing problem that I havent' licked though. It's either the front end of the computer LineIn or it's the mixer. Not sure yet. But it sure is killing my dynamics.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

I'd say, check around in the forums. And if there's nothing about it there, post. The guy is very responsive.

[shockwave77598.livejournal.com]

*nods* I'll do that if this week's troubleshooting doesn't isolate the problem. Thanks.

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

"Ass" and "plugin" are two words that don't belong next to each-other.

[realinterrobang.livejournal.com]

I've just recently grabbed three tracks (half her catalogue!) of an obscure acoustic blues artist who recorded under the name Geeshie Wiley (http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=creator:%22Geeshie%20Wiley%22) in 1930 and '31. She recorded six sides in her brief career, and basically seems to have not existed at all other than a couple of appearances in the two years mentioned. Nobody even knows her real name. ("Geeshie" is a demonym/nickname synonymous with "Gullah.")

On the other hand, she was one hell of a guitar player and a genius arranger. Her version of "Last Kind Words," which afficionados of the genre consider definitive, uses seven chords. That's so far out, it's not even weird.

My favourite track is "Skinny Legs Blues," however, just for the first four bars.

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"Ass" and "plugin" are two words that don't belong next to each-other.

Um, speak for yourself. Lots of people like that kind of thing...