Here is the next thing that we're are working on, This is nearly
finished, except for final mastering. Never know when you're done
really.
http://foolishu.com/sounds/fallaway.mp3
Hey all,
A tiny update to Doggiebox (1.4.1) is now available. This fixes the bug
that was responsible for causing exporting audio to fail under Mac OS X
10.4. Now you Tiger users can finally upgrade (again). :)
<http://www.doggiebox.com/distribution/Doggiebox.zip>
Also, as an aside -- I realised today, looking at
www.naturalstudio.co.uk, that it seems Douglas Whates has sold the
entire ns_kit project (to a Quebec-based company). Interesting. Also
looks like the former free version of nskit_7 is no longer anywhere to
be found... drag!
-ben
--
Ben Kennedy (chief magician)
zygoat creative technical services
http://www.zygoat.ca
One of the first recordings I made with Doggiebox was a song called
"Afterburner" back in 2004 or so. I knocked up a very simple drum
part using Mike Carlyle's .dbkit for ns_kit6 in just a few minutes,
and recorded it on my Roland VS-1680, running stereo audio to the
unit out of my iBook's headphone jack. (I think I may have used the
then-new MIDI MMC features in Doggiebox to control the VS-1680 ... or
maybe that was another song ... I don't remember!)
It was a pretty useful demo (for all that I never removed the
metronomic woodblock clicks from a couple of places), as the band I
played with for a couple of years in England used it to learn the
song for live performance. I always wanted to record a new version
(I eventually changed the main riff slightly), using Garageband, but
never got a guitar or bass sound there that I liked as well as the
one I had on the original VS-1680 recording. Then, when I left the
UK for South America, I had to sell the VS-1680, but I slurped my
recordings from it off to Garageband first.
This past week, I decided to revisit my old "Afterburner" recording.
I remixed it in Garageband, tarting it up in various ways -- notably
making new, fancier (and multitrack) drums in the Doggiebox. So from
the point of view of Doggiebox, it's all new. (Even if it still has
the same guitars, basses, and even the dodgy vocal of the the
original demo! ;)
Here's the link: <http://www.carlaz.com/music/Afterburner.mp3>
It's a pretty straight-up and shamelessly derivative space-rock/
stoner-rock in a kind of Hawkwind-meets-Kyuss-and-Monster-Magnet kind
of thing. (And, so, great fun to play live! :) The new version's
drums change ns_kit6 for the ns_kit7 samples I've been using of
late. Maybe someday I'll find the guitar/bass sounds to record an
all new version -- though I'll probably stick with the current
drums :) -- but I'm reasonably happy with the newly reinvented
version for the moment.
Cheers,
Carl
--
Carl Edlund Anderson
http://www.carlaz.com/