{"id":360,"date":"2011-07-11T20:06:56","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T19:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/?p=360"},"modified":"2011-07-26T08:52:33","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T07:52:33","slug":"first-software-instruments-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/first-software-instruments-test\/","title":{"rendered":"First Software Instruments Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is probably my penultimate proof of concept piece. I successfully created a few software instruments from the sounds I recorded so far. Here is a photo collage of the ensemble:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ensemble.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-361\" title=\"The First Cork City Gamelan Ensemble\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ensemble.jpg\" alt=\"The Ensemble\" width=\"363\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ensemble.jpg 363w, https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ensemble-300x247.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 363px) 100vw, 363px\" \/><\/a>And here is <a title=\"Litterbinary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/litterbinary3.m4a\" target=\"_blank\">The Music<\/a> (2.3 MB \/ 2:16 in the iPod \/ iTunes MPEG 4 format, opens in a new window). It&#8217;s got warts and pimples, but I know how to deal with them.<\/p>\n<p>There are three software instrument prototypes involved in this: the sounds of the stainless steel gate from Oliver Plunkett Street into the English Market, a heavy metal door in Grafton Street, and one of the common litter bins&#8230; and some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.waterphone.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Waterphone<\/a> samples by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toddbarton.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Todd Barton<\/a> towards the end &#8211; they are available as a software instruments for the Native Instruments Kontakt player. The sound of the Waterphone seems to blend really well with my Gamelan. I am still patiently waiting for my own. Meanwhile, thanks for the samples, Todd!<\/p>\n<p>One more test to go: blending between different sounds according to key velocity&#8230; and then I am all set to make music with my (hopefully) forever evolving Cork City Gamelan.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-29\" title=\"trademark\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/trademark.jpg\" alt=\"my trademark\" width=\"128\" height=\"42\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is probably my penultimate proof of concept piece. I successfully created a few software instruments from the sounds I recorded so far. Here is a photo collage of the ensemble: And here is The Music (2.3 MB \/ 2:16 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/first-software-instruments-test\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-downloads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":422,"href":"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions\/422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}