This song was recorded with Ardour on AVLinux. The post-production and mixing were done with Mixbus 10 Pro on Ubuntu Studio.
Kosmoosio Orchestra’s second released song: "Maan juhla (Celebration of Mother Earth)
Composition, lyrics, and guitars: Jouni Hallikainen
Vocals, bass, and theremin: Juha Salminen
Keyboards and studio wizardry: Mika Kilpi (Sojuz Studio)
Artwork in the video: Iida Ojanperä (BirdWay)
Mastering: Jykä (Dreamhouse) exact software used unknown, as this step was done elsewhere
No AI, no autotune. Instead, the joy of playing and the passion of creation!
Very nice work! Great production from start to finish! A theremin!!? I’m curious what was used for the drum sounds, some nice sounds in there well suited to the song. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for your kind words. As far as I remember, the drums have AVL drumkits and Ardour GMsynth drum sounds. At least Jouni uses them. I taught him a year ago how to create demos at home on an old laptop. He started almost from scratch, recording on a computer for the first time. Now he’s pretty independent. These days, he builds demos at home, and we refine them into finished tracks in my studio.
Nice surprise, Haha I wouldn’t have guessed it was the AVL kits… So tell me as a longtime customer, is Ubuntu Studio preferred over AVL?(lol, don’t sugar coat it). People need to use what suits them best but if there is a problem or issue that I can improve I’m open to criticism…
We can discuss in another thread if you want so you can keep this one for feedback on your song…
AVL is really good, and so is Ubuntu Studio. AVL is lighter and works well even on less powerful machines. I had to switch to Ubuntu Studio for now because the Enlightenment version wasn’t very stable for me. The AVL optimization for audio, however is better in my opinion. Maybe I’ll return to it in the future. But if the best features of both could be combined, the package would be unbeatable. Additionally, the MX Linux forum is an excellent place. But the idea is that I want to use Linux for studio work. Both can get the job done. And they do it well. I appreciate that you are doing AVL!
Tell me more… I hear this from some Users but rarely with detailed descriptions and on my own 3 systems running AVL daily I don’t really experience instability (sure Enlightenment has some quirkiness) but I’ve never had actual showstopping production problems so I’m very keen to identify what may be the cause so I can see about either fixes or workarounds.
As far as combining the two and a best of both worlds scenario I pressure tested KDE Plasma 5 for several months, it’s a very nice DE and it is full featured… On my development machine it used 3X the RAM of Enlightenment and the way Plasma poops out it’s configuration files here there and everywhere for every conceivable QML module may not bother the end User but it is a real mess to set up for customized deployment and Distribution. It’s last nail in the coffin was that when I uninstalled it it left a lot of KDE and GTK configurations in such a mess that a reinstall was the only way to cleanse my system back to it’s original state even when every KDE and QT related package had been properly purged… The premiere Linux DE should have better campsite manners and much more logical handling of it’s configurations. XFCE4 and Enlightenment are all contained to their own tidy little hidden subfolders, this is a sane way to handle these things…
Anyway, almost none of my beefs with KDE Plasma will be of any consequence to people who simply install it with their Distribution so I’m not a KDE hater, there’s plenty to love about it on higher spec machines. I simply don’t like it from a deployment standpoint and I really gave it a thorough evaluation.
Anyway, enough OT here, you know where to find me, let’s get back to your song!
You’re right. I’m not a Linux guru though. Happy user. I will take the next AVL version to the test. And it may be that it is the one to continue with.
I enjoyed that, it was really nice. As Glen said, it’s well produced and sounds good, though I think the vocals could have maybe used a little more high end.
It brought to mind an album I bought years ago called Kahden kuun sirpit by the band Viima, but that’s no doubt in part due to that also being in Finnish
