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A traditional from Shetland (probably) arranged for high and low D tin whistle, accordion, kantele, saz and acoustic bass and percussion. The piece is in swung 6/8 in a moderate tempo. Recorded, mixed and mastered in Ardour on Manjaro Linux, with a MIDAS MR18 digital mixer / audio interface and a Behringer C-2 small condenser microphone. Everything played by me. Acoustic bass and percussion from a Yamaha MODX workstation, kantele from samples I recorded myself.

A moody, minimal synth pop / new wave track with German lyrics about the journey we're all on. This is a new polished 2025 mix of a track originally created in 2021. For more information on the genesis of this track, please visit www.osamc.de/archiv/2021kreiskomposition2/ You can also buy this track on my BandCamp page at https://spotlight-kyd.bandcamp.com/track/am-gleis-2025-mix

A brisk instrumental version of the well-known Irish traditional with my Alba high Tin Whistle as the lead instrument. This is a recording I did in 2023 with my BOSS BR-600 digital recorder for practicing the whistle. I found the audio files today in my unfinished projects and decided to mix it properly and add some bass and percussion.

My submission for the Libre Music Challenge # 35: Vaporizer 2 The challenge for October 2024 was that all sounds must come from the Vaporizer2 synthesizer. More info on the LMC: https://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?t=27527 I mainly used Vaporizer 2 factory presets and tweaked most of them. I created the snare and the hi-hat sounds from scratch. I didn't do any wavetable editing or importing. Composition, MIDI performances, production and mixing by Christopher Arndt The intro is heavily inspired by a track from "Stellar Supreme" by Cosmic Baby. Released under the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA-4.0 license. Software used: * Ardour 8.10 on Manjaro Linux * Kid3 for tagging exported FLAC file * Sound Converter for conversion of FLAC export to Ogg Vorbis and MP3 Plugins used: * Vaporizer2 (by VAST Dynamics) * x42-eq - Parametric Equalizer Stereo (by Robin Gareus) * x42-dpl - Digital Peak Limiter Stereo (by Robin Gareus) * ACE Compressor (stereo) (by Ardour Community) * CHOWTapeModel (by chowdsp) * ZaMultiCompX2 (by Damien Zammit) * Korg 35 LPF (by chrisarndt.de) * DFJPverb (by chrisarndt.de) * DFZitaRev1 (by chrisarndt.de) Hardware used: * Tuxedo AMD Ryzen 7 laptop * Behringer UCA 222 USB audio interface * Sennheiser in-ear headphones * Novation Launchpad X as MIDI controller Cover image made with https://perchance.org/ai-text-to-image-generator

My submission for the Libre Music Challenge 33: "Chiptune" https://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?t=27334 Composed, performed, produced, recorded and mixed by Christopher Arndt Made in Ardour 8.6 on Manjaro Linux Softsynths used: * SFX8 by SocaLabs * Commodore 64 SID by SocaLabs FX used: * MDA Degrade (by MOD Team) * MIDI Delayline (by Robin Gareus) * DFZitaRev1 (by chrisarndt.de) * CHOWTapeModel (by chowdsp) * ZaMultiCompX2 (by Damien Zammit) * x42-dpl - Digital Peak Limiter Stereo (by Robin Gareus) Released under the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA-4.0 license. Cover art created with Llama-based text-to-image AI using https://perchance.org/ai-text-to-image-generator.

My submission for the October 2020 challenge on https://mittelalternativ.de Adaptation of a melody by Nils Hilbricht (released under CC-0) and performance of all instruments by Christopher Arndt. Recorded, mixed and mastered in Ardour 6. Instruments: - Alba Tin Whistle (in D) - Kerrywhistles Chieftain V5 Low Whistle (in D) - Mandolin - Violin - Xaphoon Standard (in C) - Tambourine - Bongo - Sela Cajon - Shaker egg - Drum sticks - Fingersnaps, Tongueclicks - Cymbal roll, Zill (Samples) Effects: * Zero Convolv with "Big Gee's Lexicon 480L Reverb" "Medium Hall" Impulse Response * StereoCrossDelay * EQ4Q Equaliser * Ardour a-compressor * ZamMultiCompX2 FLAC Tagging: EasyTag Photo of my Alba Tin Whistle, all rights reserved.

This cheerful little tune was done entirely with sounds only from Mutable Instruments Shruthi-1 synthesizers. The original sketch for this song had more of a chip-tune / arcade game theme style, but it turned into kind of an electronic pop / trance track in the end. Here are direct download links from my web server for the track in Ogg Vorbis and MP3 format: http://chrisarndt.de/music/homerecording/Restless.ogg http://chrisarndt.de/music/homerecording/Restless.mp3 I am selling one of my Shruthis (with a 4 Pole Mission filter board), so I wanted to record one song that showcases this fun little synth before I give it away. There is one pad sound, for which I sampled the notes from a Shruthi with a SSM2044 filter board. All other sounds, including drums and FX, are from the 4 Pole Mission Shruthi. Multitracked on a BOSS BR-600 without MIDI, then mixed with Tracktion 6 DAW on Linux. The drum sounds and a pad where sampled from the Shruthi and then sequenced in the DAW. Effects used: Delay and Chorus from the BR-600, Calf Vintage Delay, zita-reverb, ZamComp, Tracktion Chorus and EQ. Image by xuuxuu from https://pixabay.com/en/tunnel-light-speed-fast-auto-101976/, CC-0 Public Domain

Inspired by John Carpenter's "The Thing". Six tracks from a Roland JX-3P, delay from a BOSS BR-600, plus reverb (Klangfalter) in the DAW. Image by Eli Duke, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://www.flickr.com/photos/elisfanclub/4543702831

This the first track of a songwriting session I did in mid-May, entirely composed and recorded in about 4 hours (most of which I wasted on solving technical issues). I wrote this as a simple jam track with a simple arpeggiated bass line and chord structure to test my setup and get in the songwriting mood. The drums (Simmons SDS emulated with Waldorf Attack plugin) are played by hand via a Roland Octapad II and are rather sloppy. I spent more time than I really wanted to record and edit the track and it's still very rough, but I think it has a certain appeal, so I'm putting it up here on SoundCloud and maybe somebody will enjoy it. Synthesizers used: Kurzweil PC 3 (Choir), Waldorf Microwave XTk (Bass, Lead 3), Yamaha AN1x (Lead 1, Lead 2), Waldorf Attack VST (Drums) Recorded with Tracktion 6 DAW on Windows 7. Reverb added with TAL-Reverb VST plug-in. Image by Daniel D'Auria from https://www.flickr.com/photos/drdad/4982397317, CC BY-SA 2.0

A selection of demos for motion and pad sounds. All sounds in this demo are single programs and have just one layer, sometimes with dual unisono, i.e. four oscillators per voice. All sounds are from the Waldorf Microwave XTk synthesizer and were programmed by me, Christopher Arndt. Recorded with a BOSS BR-600 hardware digital recorder and mixed with Tracktion 6 DAW on Linux. Reverb added with zita-reverb LADSPA plug-in. Image CC0 Public Domain from mmtmonline on pixabay: http://pixabay.com/de/audio-ton-muster-technologie-585399

Well, cherry blossom is almost over here now, but I stumbled over this well-known Japanese children's song again a few days ago and I couldn't get it out of my mind. So I created a simple second voice, added a bass drone and a synth choir - "feddisch is' die Laube!", as we say in German. All sounds come from a Waldorf Microwave XTk and were programmed by me, Christopher Arndt. Share & Enjoy! Image by Hans Braxmeier from Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cherry_Blossom.jpg, CC0 1.0 Universell