Now the base is better, excellent, if you go, you're in charge.
Yes.
Do you want more mic?
Do you want this mic?
Yeah.
I hope this one.
Okay.
So I hope you are listening.
Okay.
So.
Thank you.
So, for who might be wondering who I am.
I am Francesco Napoloni.
Another, they die hard Italian, like Lorenzo.
Musician.
And from user of Linux and open source and free software.
Since almost 25 years.
By the time I studied at university computer science, one professor told us, you are computer scientists.
You have to learn some about Linux.
Do you know Linux?
Yeah.
Let's try it.
And so I tried it.
And here I am.
Almost ten years later, I ditched Windows and all of them.
But I'm running on Fedora Linux since then.
Red art before and Fedora next.
So, you know, now who I am, I think is.
And one thing I want to talk to you about is something and the same group as Lorenzo talk.
And so what needs a musician to do.
Some project, a nice project with professional requirements.
Using Linux.
Using software that is open source.
There is free to use.
We all know that the defect of standard in music production is all about Mac, so Apple platform.
And all the software that is closed locked in all ways we can think of.
And so you have to pay for anything you want to do.
You want the nice library that does the violins with vibrate or articulation of kinds.
Okay, you want staccato.
You have to pay something more.
You want to pay something more.
Okay, this is fine if you are so rich.
You can afford to buy all these instruments.
All these libraries, all these kinds of things that are well marketed.
Something that is not true for Linux.
But this doesn't mean that we can do something that can be at the same level at this well-known software.
So basically what I want to do to you is an example of one piece.
One song I did in a rather crippled situation in which I didn't have full fledged studio to use for my production.
And this was also my first attempt to a music production for another person, a pupil of mine and a former pupil of mine.
Which one day asked me if I could help her to realize that song used a text she had written in Spanish.
She is from Colombia and she had so many happy songs, not darker, like Lorenzo's one.
Which apart from this I like very much because I was a metal head in my young years.
Well, to many years ago forget it. Okay, so let's get into this discourse.
Okay, so here's something that could be familiar for some of you.
Here's a screenshot from my setup in Linux.
I'm using all software from this distribution.
And using a library called Audinux, which is very rich and has many software, wonderful software and this is precious for us to use.
Fedora, it would be another distribution, but the key to this point is what do we need to do something professional?
First of all, we have to choose one platform to use. I chose Fedora.
And the song I made with old version of Fedora that I had installed for many years in this poor laptop that I almost melted trying to serve me for my needs.
And so back to the song, I decided to help this woman, this one that asked me to help her.
And so how to do this song?
We decided that it would be a late in a regular sounding song, something very tropical and gives a summer atmosphere.
And so I chose to use electronic sounds to do all in this box.
Using it as less as possible externally instruments, but this not religious and we'll see in a minute.
So I'm going to fire up our door.
Why?
Okay.
Yeah.
Let's try once again.
Oh, nice.
Okay.
Oh, man.
You're still running, so I have to close it.
About, about.
Okay.
Technology is not helping me.
So.
What next?
Researching is still running, but it refuses to close about.
But.
Okay.
Let's close.
Okay.
This isn't helping me.
So.
We can talk about the the various phases of this production.
And I used and I use, I'm trying to use our door as a hub for all of my work.
So I find that it's a great piece of software and the greatest things is that is free.
So I could load it with more than 50 tracks just for a pop song, which was made by some tracks of drums.
Okay.
More and more embarrassed.
Yeah.
I have to resort to this.
Okay.
So.
Okay.
Five minutes left.
Okay.
So.
Okay.
The great things, it was working one minute before the talk.
Okay.
So let's try.
Okay.
Here we are.
Okay.
So.
Here it is.
The session.
Okay.
Well.
Let's start with the first screen.
Okay.
So.
This.
This long, long list of instruments there is the list of all instruments I used.
But not only because all instruments go to some buses.
Basically what I want you to.
Okay.
I want to have some.
So cold stance.
The.
A sub mix part of the mix of the.
Overall mix of the of the song, which I can use.
For.
Other uses.
Mastering and so on.
So.
I created.
Uh, sure to.
An order of my instruments.
Similar to the orchestra.
Lorenzo showed you before.
And so I have created tracks for it.
You can see them.
The.
The drums.
So the kick drums.
The snare.
I had, and so on, percussions, and the base, here we are, I'm using a fretless base which
I played.
And I used also a synth base, we made with Helm, a synthesizer that probably, you will
know is a free and a great piece of software, I used a very, very often.
And this allowed me to do a sound, a base sound, which it's mixed using a human blade base
and a synthesizer one, which has a great effect, I think.
And so, what I did is to create a bus for all the drums, a bus for all the base
sounds, and all the buses, which we can see, we can see, we can see, we can see, much better.
OK, so we have, and so on, there are many, many tracks, which in their first part of the
life were media data, so I played the parts in media, and then I convert them to audio,
charging them into a track, every media track was converted to audio using all these instruments.
But that's not the most interesting part, the thing that was at challenge for me, was
to do all in this box, and to do also a sound that was not a media sound, like any sound
we could achieve using a keyboard to a synthesizer and play it, we want a big sound,
mastered sound, like the ones we listened to, we thought if I music as a sound, we sound
the way we can listen to, so for me, in this song, the thing was the reference songs were,
OK, reference song was this particular by Luis Ponce, and some other songs in this area,
and so what I did was to use all effects and processor that were available to me,
and mainly LSP plugin set and call, so equalizer compressors and all of them, and they were
very precious for me, because they gave me the sound I needed, so something like this,
Oh, but we need that, no, not that strange, any of you are only talking
about otherwise, yeah. OK, so this is, hmm, OK, OK,
Okay
Configure
Hey
Okay, so what is interesting about this, yeah, okay, yes, I made you listen to this, there's a
was not really wanted, but it's interesting because I put the microphone on the speakers and you could
hear loudly the voice, the bass and the kick the drums. So that's what we can listen to every song we
can listen to the radio on the how I had fonts or whatever at a little volume. We can hear
that music with that clarity. And so I was able to achieve this using this session in which
I did all the stems and then I feed them, feed them to another sequence made with order,
that was dedicated to master. So I took the stems and I put them together with another mix
using the input. Okay, sorry about that, I mean, we are really running short of time and
all about it in the next presentation. Big round of applause, I mean, this is from a song that
he has released, you can also hear it on YouTube, I think it will be a great summer hit from
the little that I've heard so. I hope so. And then next speaker will be my co-managerie here.
Anyway, yeah, here we can put some more leaves and you can also share your slides on first them,
they will be able to download them there. Okay, thank you very much for your presentation.