Re: Raining in Amsterdam (Maemo Summit 2009)
 

This is awesome! What a great community we have here.

I will be following up with volunteers ASAP!

Re: Raining in Amsterdam (Maemo Summit 2009)
 

great idea.
too bad I cannot participate, I have no music instrument or the ability to play and and the vocal if I sing I am pretty sure the speakers will blow out and people will loose faith in music.
I can be an audience though.

Re: Raining in Amsterdam (Maemo Summit 2009)
 

You might also be interested in the Electronic Maemo Summit theme song by Karoliina Salminen: Maemo Summit 2009 Opening Music (direct download link)

That said, I'm looking forward to the final, vocalized version of your song :)

Re: Raining in Amsterdam (Maemo Summit 2009)
 

Very cool! Karoliina's song needs more publicity.

Next year we need to do an entire album. :)

Re: Raining in Amsterdam (Maemo Summit 2009)
 

@Texrat
What software do you use for composing, or you have your own instrumental slaves? :D

Re: Raining in Amsterdam (Maemo Summit 2009)
 

As mentioned earlier, Band in a Box for composition (sometimes Realband), Sonar for mixing and pre-mastering. I'm learning to use Wavelab for final mastering.

Re: Raining in Amsterdam (Maemo Summit 2009)
 

Alright, I spent last night improving the mix... especially making the drums crisper. They may be a little loud now, but I usually worry about final levels when I have vocals in. I actually want the drums a little hot on this one anyway.

I'm excited about this song on one hand because I think it's some of my best mixing work so far, but also because a few people here have volunteered to try adding vocals.

Speaking of which, I hope to add in some "template" vocals tomorrow and alert those who have expressed interest. Hang tight!

Note that all links in the first post are updated with new mixes. If you don't hear any handclaps (just added) then you have the previous mix cached.

Re: Raining in Amsterdam (Maemo Summit 2009)
 

I'd like to try something-- does anyone have audio they can send of crowd conversations? It might be cool to include it during the instrumental or fade out. If we did this, would there be permissions issues? If so it might be helpful to limit the audio to small crowds so as to make permissions easier.

On a different note, can someone add more tags to this since I can supply only 2? For instance, song, etc.

Finally, I am trying to record rough vocals today for those interested in contributing that way. Pray for what's left of my voice! :o

Re: Raining in Amsterdam (Maemo Summit 2009)
 

http://free-loops.com/download-free-loop-86.html

Generic, but... ;)

Tim

Re: Raining in Amsterdam (Maemo Summit 2009)
 

Thanks Tim. I plugged in some from freesound.net... including authentic Amsterdam ambient sounds. ;)

By the way-- are you interested in providing vocals?