WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:11.000 Now the base is better, excellent, if you go, you're in charge. 00:11.000 --> 00:12.000 Yes. 00:12.000 --> 00:14.000 Do you want more mic? 00:14.000 --> 00:15.000 Do you want this mic? 00:15.000 --> 00:16.000 Yeah. 00:16.000 --> 00:18.000 I hope this one. 00:18.000 --> 00:19.000 Okay. 00:19.000 --> 00:21.000 So I hope you are listening. 00:21.000 --> 00:22.000 Okay. 00:22.000 --> 00:23.000 So. 00:23.000 --> 00:28.000 Thank you. 00:28.000 --> 00:29.000 Thank you. 00:29.000 --> 00:34.000 So, for who might be wondering who I am. 00:34.000 --> 00:36.000 I am Francesco Napoloni. 00:36.000 --> 00:41.000 Another, they die hard Italian, like Lorenzo. 00:41.000 --> 00:43.000 Musician. 00:43.000 --> 00:50.000 And from user of Linux and open source and free software. 00:50.000 --> 00:54.000 Since almost 25 years. 00:54.000 --> 01:04.000 By the time I studied at university computer science, one professor told us, you are computer scientists. 01:04.000 --> 01:08.000 You have to learn some about Linux. 01:08.000 --> 01:10.000 Do you know Linux? 01:10.000 --> 01:11.000 Yeah. 01:11.000 --> 01:12.000 Let's try it. 01:12.000 --> 01:14.000 And so I tried it. 01:14.000 --> 01:17.000 And here I am. 01:17.000 --> 01:23.000 Almost ten years later, I ditched Windows and all of them. 01:23.000 --> 01:31.000 But I'm running on Fedora Linux since then. 01:31.000 --> 01:35.000 Red art before and Fedora next. 01:35.000 --> 01:41.000 So, you know, now who I am, I think is. 01:41.000 --> 01:51.000 And one thing I want to talk to you about is something and the same group as Lorenzo talk. 01:51.000 --> 02:02.000 And so what needs a musician to do. 02:02.000 --> 02:09.000 Some project, a nice project with professional requirements. 02:09.000 --> 02:11.000 Using Linux. 02:11.000 --> 02:15.000 Using software that is open source. 02:15.000 --> 02:17.000 There is free to use. 02:17.000 --> 02:26.000 We all know that the defect of standard in music production is all about Mac, so Apple platform. 02:26.000 --> 02:34.000 And all the software that is closed locked in all ways we can think of. 02:34.000 --> 02:38.000 And so you have to pay for anything you want to do. 02:38.000 --> 02:47.000 You want the nice library that does the violins with vibrate or articulation of kinds. 02:47.000 --> 02:49.000 Okay, you want staccato. 02:49.000 --> 02:52.000 You have to pay something more. 02:52.000 --> 02:56.000 You want to pay something more. 02:56.000 --> 03:00.000 Okay, this is fine if you are so rich. 03:00.000 --> 03:05.000 You can afford to buy all these instruments. 03:05.000 --> 03:13.000 All these libraries, all these kinds of things that are well marketed. 03:13.000 --> 03:16.000 Something that is not true for Linux. 03:16.000 --> 03:29.000 But this doesn't mean that we can do something that can be at the same level at this well-known software. 03:29.000 --> 03:40.000 So basically what I want to do to you is an example of one piece. 03:40.000 --> 03:53.000 One song I did in a rather crippled situation in which I didn't have full fledged studio to use for my production. 03:53.000 --> 04:03.000 And this was also my first attempt to a music production for another person, a pupil of mine and a former pupil of mine. 04:03.000 --> 04:18.000 Which one day asked me if I could help her to realize that song used a text she had written in Spanish. 04:18.000 --> 04:30.000 She is from Colombia and she had so many happy songs, not darker, like Lorenzo's one. 04:30.000 --> 04:40.000 Which apart from this I like very much because I was a metal head in my young years. 04:40.000 --> 04:52.000 Well, to many years ago forget it. Okay, so let's get into this discourse. 04:52.000 --> 05:00.000 Okay, so here's something that could be familiar for some of you. 05:00.000 --> 05:09.000 Here's a screenshot from my setup in Linux. 05:09.000 --> 05:14.000 I'm using all software from this distribution. 05:14.000 --> 05:33.000 And using a library called Audinux, which is very rich and has many software, wonderful software and this is precious for us to use. 05:33.000 --> 05:43.000 Fedora, it would be another distribution, but the key to this point is what do we need to do something professional? 05:43.000 --> 05:50.000 First of all, we have to choose one platform to use. I chose Fedora. 05:50.000 --> 06:09.000 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. 06:09.000 --> 06:21.000 And so back to the song, I decided to help this woman, this one that asked me to help her. 06:21.000 --> 06:26.000 And so how to do this song? 06:27.000 --> 06:46.000 We decided that it would be a late in a regular sounding song, something very tropical and gives a summer atmosphere. 06:46.000 --> 06:55.000 And so I chose to use electronic sounds to do all in this box. 06:55.000 --> 07:05.000 Using it as less as possible externally instruments, but this not religious and we'll see in a minute. 07:05.000 --> 07:14.000 So I'm going to fire up our door. 07:14.000 --> 07:17.000 Why? 07:17.000 --> 07:20.000 Okay. 07:20.000 --> 07:26.000 Yeah. 07:26.000 --> 07:33.000 Let's try once again. 07:33.000 --> 07:40.000 Oh, nice. 07:40.000 --> 07:42.000 Okay. 07:42.000 --> 07:45.000 Oh, man. 07:45.000 --> 07:49.000 You're still running, so I have to close it. 07:49.000 --> 07:52.000 About, about. 07:52.000 --> 07:54.000 Okay. 07:54.000 --> 07:58.000 Technology is not helping me. 07:59.000 --> 08:02.000 So. 08:02.000 --> 08:07.000 What next? 08:07.000 --> 08:13.000 Researching is still running, but it refuses to close about. 08:13.000 --> 08:15.000 But. 08:15.000 --> 08:17.000 Okay. 08:17.000 --> 08:23.000 Let's close. 08:24.000 --> 08:27.000 Okay. 08:27.000 --> 08:30.000 This isn't helping me. 08:30.000 --> 08:32.000 So. 08:32.000 --> 08:41.000 We can talk about the the various phases of this production. 08:41.000 --> 08:50.000 And I used and I use, I'm trying to use our door as a hub for all of my work. 08:50.000 --> 08:57.000 So I find that it's a great piece of software and the greatest things is that is free. 08:57.000 --> 09:15.000 So I could load it with more than 50 tracks just for a pop song, which was made by some tracks of drums. 09:15.000 --> 09:22.000 Okay. 09:22.000 --> 09:25.000 Okay. 09:25.000 --> 09:29.000 More and more embarrassed. 09:29.000 --> 09:30.000 Yeah. 09:30.000 --> 09:38.000 I have to resort to this. 09:38.000 --> 09:39.000 Okay. 09:39.000 --> 09:42.000 So. 09:42.000 --> 09:45.000 Okay. 09:45.000 --> 09:47.000 Five minutes left. 09:47.000 --> 09:50.000 Okay. 09:50.000 --> 09:52.000 So. 09:52.000 --> 10:00.000 Okay. 10:00.000 --> 10:05.000 The great things, it was working one minute before the talk. 10:05.000 --> 10:06.000 Okay. 10:06.000 --> 10:08.000 So let's try. 10:08.000 --> 10:09.000 Okay. 10:10.000 --> 10:12.000 Here we are. 10:12.000 --> 10:15.000 Here we are. 10:15.000 --> 10:17.000 Okay. 10:17.000 --> 10:19.000 So. 10:19.000 --> 10:21.000 Here it is. 10:21.000 --> 10:24.000 The session. 10:24.000 --> 10:30.000 Okay. 10:30.000 --> 10:33.000 Okay. 10:33.000 --> 10:35.000 Okay. 10:35.000 --> 10:37.000 Well. 10:37.000 --> 10:39.000 Let's start with the first screen. 10:39.000 --> 10:40.000 Okay. 10:40.000 --> 10:43.000 So. 10:43.000 --> 10:46.000 This. 10:46.000 --> 10:54.000 This long, long list of instruments there is the list of all instruments I used. 10:54.000 --> 11:02.000 But not only because all instruments go to some buses. 11:02.000 --> 11:05.000 Basically what I want you to. 11:05.000 --> 11:06.000 Okay. 11:06.000 --> 11:08.000 I want to have some. 11:08.000 --> 11:10.000 So cold stance. 11:10.000 --> 11:11.000 The. 11:11.000 --> 11:15.000 A sub mix part of the mix of the. 11:15.000 --> 11:18.000 Overall mix of the of the song, which I can use. 11:18.000 --> 11:20.000 For. 11:20.000 --> 11:22.000 Other uses. 11:22.000 --> 11:25.000 Mastering and so on. 11:25.000 --> 11:26.000 So. 11:26.000 --> 11:29.000 I created. 11:29.000 --> 11:31.000 Uh, sure to. 11:31.000 --> 11:36.000 An order of my instruments. 11:36.000 --> 11:39.000 Similar to the orchestra. 11:39.000 --> 11:41.000 Lorenzo showed you before. 11:41.000 --> 11:46.000 And so I have created tracks for it. 11:46.000 --> 11:48.000 You can see them. 11:48.000 --> 11:50.000 The. 11:50.000 --> 11:51.000 The drums. 11:51.000 --> 11:52.000 So the kick drums. 11:52.000 --> 11:53.000 The snare. 11:53.000 --> 12:05.160 I had, and so on, percussions, and the base, here we are, I'm using a fretless base which 12:05.160 --> 12:06.160 I played. 12:06.160 --> 12:16.600 And I used also a synth base, we made with Helm, a synthesizer that probably, you will 12:16.680 --> 12:25.240 know is a free and a great piece of software, I used a very, very often. 12:25.240 --> 12:38.240 And this allowed me to do a sound, a base sound, which it's mixed using a human blade base 12:38.240 --> 12:46.160 and a synthesizer one, which has a great effect, I think. 12:46.160 --> 12:56.560 And so, what I did is to create a bus for all the drums, a bus for all the base 12:56.560 --> 13:13.560 sounds, and all the buses, which we can see, we can see, we can see, we can see, much better. 13:13.560 --> 13:31.240 OK, so we have, and so on, there are many, many tracks, which in their first part of the 13:31.240 --> 13:40.080 life were media data, so I played the parts in media, and then I convert them to audio, 13:40.080 --> 13:50.920 charging them into a track, every media track was converted to audio using all these instruments. 13:50.920 --> 14:00.960 But that's not the most interesting part, the thing that was at challenge for me, was 14:01.040 --> 14:11.920 to do all in this box, and to do also a sound that was not a media sound, like any sound 14:11.920 --> 14:20.160 we could achieve using a keyboard to a synthesizer and play it, we want a big sound, 14:21.120 --> 14:32.160 mastered sound, like the ones we listened to, we thought if I music as a sound, we sound 14:32.160 --> 14:41.440 the way we can listen to, so for me, in this song, the thing was the reference songs were, 14:42.000 --> 14:54.880 OK, reference song was this particular by Luis Ponce, and some other songs in this area, 14:54.880 --> 15:08.000 and so what I did was to use all effects and processor that were available to me, 15:08.080 --> 15:24.160 and mainly LSP plugin set and call, so equalizer compressors and all of them, and they were 15:24.160 --> 15:36.800 very precious for me, because they gave me the sound I needed, so something like this, 15:38.880 --> 15:49.000 Oh, but we need that, no, not that strange, any of you are only talking 15:49.000 --> 15:59.520 about otherwise, yeah. OK, so this is, hmm, OK, OK, 15:59.520 --> 16:01.520 Okay 16:07.080 --> 16:09.080 Configure 16:13.840 --> 16:15.840 Hey 16:29.520 --> 16:58.640 Okay, so what is interesting about this, yeah, okay, yes, I made you listen to this, there's a 16:58.720 --> 17:06.880 was not really wanted, but it's interesting because I put the microphone on the speakers and you could 17:06.880 --> 17:19.360 hear loudly the voice, the bass and the kick the drums. So that's what we can listen to every song we 17:19.360 --> 17:28.560 can listen to the radio on the how I had fonts or whatever at a little volume. We can hear 17:28.720 --> 17:38.400 that music with that clarity. And so I was able to achieve this using this session in which 17:38.400 --> 17:47.040 I did all the stems and then I feed them, feed them to another sequence made with order, 17:47.040 --> 17:55.920 that was dedicated to master. So I took the stems and I put them together with another mix 17:56.880 --> 18:07.280 using the input. Okay, sorry about that, I mean, we are really running short of time and 18:07.280 --> 18:16.720 all about it in the next presentation. Big round of applause, I mean, this is from a song that 18:16.720 --> 18:20.960 he has released, you can also hear it on YouTube, I think it will be a great summer hit from 18:20.960 --> 18:29.200 the little that I've heard so. I hope so. And then next speaker will be my co-managerie here. 18:29.200 --> 18:37.040 Anyway, yeah, here we can put some more leaves and you can also share your slides on first them, 18:37.040 --> 18:43.040 they will be able to download them there. Okay, thank you very much for your presentation.