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# new music update
- URL: https://wootangent.net/new-music-update/
- Published: 2011-10-05T12:20:43.000Z
- Updated: 2011-10-05T12:20:43.000Z
- Author: Leigh Dyer
- Tags: Linux, Music, Rants, ardour 3, blofeld, calf, hydrogen, linuxsampler, lv2, midi, vst, #Migrated-1792830072870, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-10-24 08:21

A few months ago I posted that I was [working on new music](https://wootangent.net/ardour-3-midi-progress/) using Ardour 3, and I'm glad to say that my new track is now all but finished. Working with Ardour 3 was a bit nervewracking at times, as you'd expect when testing alpha software -- there were several times, in fact, when I couldn't even open the project's session due to one bug or another. It all held together somehow, though, and after many bug reports and fixes, I definitely feel like it's helped

The new track is a bit of a downbeat, ambient-ish thing, with some lo-fi sounds mixed in with some glitchy elements. I definitely put Ardour's MIDI features to the test: there are MIDI tracks running out to my Blofeld and to Hydrogen, along with LV2 synths (Calf Monosynth and Linuxsampler), along with automation of CC parameters on the Blofeld and automation of plugin paramaters on Calf Monosynth. I've done quite a bit of effects automation as well, particularly with the bitcrushing Decimator plugin.

There's even a VST plugin in there now; I had been beta-testing [Loomer Cumulus](http://blog.loomer.co.uk/2011/09/loomer-cumulus-computer-music-exclusive.html?ref=wootangent.net), using it as a standalone synth, but with Ardour's new VST support I now have it running within Ardour directly. Cumulus is somewhere between a synth and an effect: it lets you load a sample, and then trigger its playback using granular synthesis with varying paramaters, altering the starting point, pitch, and playback rate, among other things. You can define up to eight sets of those parameters, and then trigger those via MIDI keys. It can turn all sorts of sounds in to eerie textures, but it can just as easily take a drum loop and turn it in to a wonderfully glitchy mess, which is exactly what I used it for.

I'm pretty sure the track is done, but I don't want to release it just yet. I plan to sit on it for a few days at least, while I read more of my copy of [Mixing Secrets for the Small Studio](http://www.amazon.com/Mixing-Secrets-small-studio-Senior/dp/0240815807/ref=ntt%5Fat%5Fep%5Fdpt%5F1?ref=wootangent.net), but I like the idea of putting together at least an EP with a couple of other tracks and releasing them all at once. That might not be practical if it takes me four months to finish each track, though, so I may post the individual tracks here when they're ready, and then do an official Bandcamp release once they're all done.