Re: [Jazzplusplus-user] General Thoughts and Web Review

[Kevin C. <ke...@co...>]

On 9 May 2008 at 18:11, Pete Stieber <pst...@ve...> wrote:

> I'm an electrical engineer.  This is my profession.  I write C++ and use 
> wxWidgets at my place of employment.

I'm also an electrical engineer.  I design analog integrated circuits 
(chips) for my day job.

> When I was a kid, I took drum lessons and had some excellent 
> instructors.  I did well in school, so I pursued engineering instead of 
> music.  Drumming is now my hobby.

I took 6 months of lessons after I'd been playing drums for about
15 years already.  I'm up to 29 years now.  Drumming is a hobby
for me too.  I play live, virtually, and do some recording.


The webpage of the Linux-only virtual band is here:

http://packet-in.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

We wrote and recorded a CD in February this year.  All songs are 
creative commons licensed.  You can here them at the site.


You can find some of my recorded work with Kevin Ferguson here:

http://cdbaby.com/mp3lofi/kevinferguson3-01.m3u
http://cdbaby.com/mp3lofi/kevinferguson3-09.m3u
http://cdbaby.com/mp3lofi/kevinferguson3-15.m3u

Those are the only 3 of his tunes on which you'll find my drum tracks.

All of my drums on both projects were recorded with Ardour.

> I am fortunate enough to own a Roland TD-20 electronic drum kit 

I used to play a pair of Yamaha electronic kits which I'd merged.  
Now I play an acoustic kit, but I have a whole pile of Sabian tone 
control pads.  I'm planning to attach those to the kit and attach 
triggers to those.  Then I'll plug the triggers into my Alesis DM5.

For MIDI I use Rosegarden now.  I *really* miss the Harmony Browser 
in jazz++.

Cheers....


--
Kevin