Krits
by Ville Nurmi
on May 13. 2000
ville.v.nurmi@helsinki.fi
The chord progression came up very
good. Some magic there, I guess.
However, the samples suck. Too bad.
I hope I will some day be able to
compose a song to represent a
feeling I am thinking of before
starting to compose. This song
just emerged.
It's funny how every tracking
program holds on to patterns. I
see no reason why a song should be
divided into sections of varying
length. What would be cool is that
if tracks could be composed
separately and then combined as
the composer wanted. Like patterns
are now, but there wouldn't be the
need to take care of all the tracks
at the same time.
Also, more visualization would be
needed. Cubic Player had those nice
stereo cones that showed at which
frequency a note was played, by
which instrument and how loud. All
vibrato, portamento and arpeggio(!)
effects were shown there, too.
Speaking of visualization, Winamp
visualization plugins suck. All I
have seen seem to have almost
nothing to do with the music the
are "visualizing". They are all
blurry eye-candies, they don't
_visualize the music_ very well.
Cubic Player was much better. It
seems that Winamp doesn't allow
the plugins to get info about
module effects in case a module
is played. Not good.
And finally, if you're
interested in multiplayer games
on Linux, go see
http://awing.sourceforge.net/
-Ville '00
