VST: All you need

Relaxing Over the Easter break. And here is another little 1min 47 sec Techno ditty here:
AdrianBruce-Come_With_Me.mp3

Other than the vocal, everything is PC Software and free VST instruments and effects.
The list being: GTG Drum Sampler II, Alpha Free(LinPlug), Synth1 , Endorphin compressor, Classic EQ(Kjaerhus Audio), Polyblit (Andreas Ersson), Ambience (Reverb), Stardust (Arguru Software). All great. ASIO4ALL and Reaper make any PC with on board sound into a low latency multi-track music production system. Technology triumphs over talent (and Art), yet again.

This was pretty much just played into Reaper with an old Roland PC-180 Midi Keyboard Controller. Took about an hour, everything just off the top of the head... Recycled the drums from the track below.
Musically very simple, but then so is Smoke on the Water, Paranoid, Living After Midnight and a million other tracks.


And for some Distortion that may be illegal in this state, try guitar based:
AdrianBruce-After_Midnight.mp3

A short version of a Judas Priest classic, but the vocal sounds more double tracked country than metal. Just Intro, verse, chorus, short bridge, solo and ending.

Software Quality

Software Quality for a shrink wrapped commercial product is serious business. Proving enough feedback to software developers is tough. We currently work with a great QA Lead, Phil. Everyday is Fabulous with Phil.

To encourage reporting bugs and to make the 'we found one' not so stressful we have a robot Chicken toy that signals big ones.
Here is a musical skit (a very compressed arrangement) about this in our techno-metal : AdrianBruce-QA_Phil_the_chicken_is_on_standby_3.mp3

Software is serious business.

And for the few who want to know, the lyrics are:

We've got our build
Phil's feeling fabulous
This time for sure
Today could be the best day of his life
feeling fabulous

And the Chickens on standby
And the batteries have been replaced

And the Chickens on standby
And the batteries have been replaced

Phil's feeling fabulous
I think we've got a problem
Hey guys, hit the Chicken

OZ Industrial Grunge Techno Metal Politics

A FREE mp3 track of a work in progress: Lets Hope it is a Really_Good_Year

It is the outcome of playing with the Reaper Audio/Midi Sequencer, with a few free VST instruments for drums, bass and backing, and real guitar over that.

And for a different all electronic instrumental sound try: AdrianBruce-stratos.mp3

Google Ranking

Like many others, I noticed the drop off in visits before the stories about Google changing their page rank algorithm hit the tech media and tech blogs.

In my case there seem to be a few scrapping sites that have content from, or links to, Concept Design Sketches at wwww.artandtechnology.com.au The affect of the change seems to hurt the page rank of even the originator of the content.

It does seem to indicate that if Page Rank is that important to you, whatever your doing is way too dependant on the whims of the Google Programmers!

Fairlight CMI Artist Videos

There is a moderated group for users and fans of the old Fairlight CMI. As one of the developers of those machines I think I was too busy to notice a lot of the stuff that was happening around them at the time.

On YouTube there are lots of Artist videos using the machines. This is a You Tube Special with Sakamoto and others discussing Electro Rock and demoing the system.

It was very high tech at the time, honest!