So What...

i used to think, fantasize or dream with ink or graphite on a fresh new ream
the words formed thoughts, the thoughts told a story
that was way before i got so boring
i've lost some nerves, put out the fire
just the other day i saw my new spare tire
sat down for the barber in his swivel chair as he hacked away at my graying hair

so what if you think life is so unfair?

got a bachelor degree in two thousand three
then spent 7 more years to get a PHD
haven't been a bachelor since i was seventeen
now there's lucas ethan gavin 3 more boys like me
now the misses she be crazy, maybe i'm a bit too lazy
i can not understand she spins my head til i'm hazy
some say that i should "grow a pair" but i know that my situation is rare

so what if you think life is so unfair?


-Shhh!

Virtual Instrument Resources

I've just started finding cyber-hot-spots to get virtual instrument sounds that I can control with a midi sampler (I like Qtractor and Muse so far). So far it seems there are two key ways I can produce sound from my computer sound card: digital synthesizer and recorded samples. There are two classes of sample formats I've seen that I can play with a few different software. SoundFonts (.sf2) are usually downloaded as an archive (compressed to .sf2ARK) and can be decompressed with the SFARK utility (sfarkxtc). I like using Qsynth (by Rui Nuno Capela) to play these samples. GIG or Gigaedit (.gig) files are also available and I have been able to play them best with Jsampler, however, I have noticed some playback trouble on my desktop when trying to control Jsampler with Qtractor and record to Ardour. I wonder if I can figure out how to use Qsampler would it sync better with Qtractor? Jsampler runs with Java, whereas Qsampler and Qtractor (both by Rui Nuno Capela) run on top of Qt.

For a nice library of SoundFonts check out HomeMusician.net

Download

I wanted to make sure that music could be easily downloaded from this site. Below is a simple way to supply any download from my server space. You can right click the link to the song i08.mp3 and "save link as:"

nOe-i08.mp3

or you can download the collection "i" as a zip file:

or as a self-extracting zip file (windows only):

However, it turns out that if you "right-click" the xspf player (look more lefter), there is a "download" option. For me this would open the file with a music player embedded in firefox web browser, but you can still "save page as" under "File" in the browser.

Better than the above link would be using the simple player shown below my xspf playlist (left). I'll have to look into that later.