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Hi MX and AVL-MXE folks!

Attn Mods: If this is inappropriate for the MX Respins forum please feel free to delete it or move it to somewhere else.. I thought it might be interesting to have a thread/place for people using AVL-MXE for Audio and Video production to post their creations since it is MX tweaked for Multimedia Content Producers.. If this is the wrong place or this sort of thing doesn't meet the forum criteria please feel free to bring the yardstick down on my wrist hard!

I'll start with a Video just produced with AV Linux MX-21 Edition RC2, the Audio was done with Ardour and the Video was edited with Cinelerra-GG...

The straight goods: https://youtu.be/ixXQfIKc46E

The entire Blog post: http://www.bandshed.net/2022/01/11/band ... n-smiling/

If we get a go-ahead and the content meets with the general forum content rules I'd really like to see and hear what is being produced with AVL-MXE by others!

Best, Glen

You are the author of AV Linux MXE, and you are the musician who's content is featured. I do not see why it would be frowned upon or not allowed but I am but one lowly poor musician with a dream and a glimmer of Penguins in his eye.

pianokeyjoe wrote: Tue Jan 11, 2022 5:05 pm You are the author of AV Linux MXE, and you are the musician who's content is featured. I do not see why it would be frowned upon or not allowed but I am but one lowly poor musician with a dream and a glimmer of Penguins in his eye.

Hi, thanks!

To be clear I'm hoping many people's content is featured as things go along, not just mine, got anything to share?

I do have something small to share but I do not have it online. I have to figure out what to do to get some of my recordings online to then link here. I used youtube but then I took all my content off when the big adpocalypse happened that youtubers were being threated with a $42000 law suite if they posted videos in wrong categories. I think that has been sorted out now so I will see about making a slide show video with my music, to meet youtube minimum content rules. It is not sound cloud, although.. I could post my mp3 directly there!

This was done a couple of years ago with AvLinux.
Today, I try to do everything in AvLinux MXE, but the transition from Windows to Linux is still in progress. Mainly due to lack of support for RME Totalmix Linux.

https://youtu.be/r3QdVA7ltzQ

Hi!

Very nice, great playing and feel! Nice drumkit too! Well mixed in with the original recording..

It amazes me the talent that many of you have!

Looking forward to this growing.

Nice relaxing song (as somebody also said in the youtube comment)

Really Nice .. like the dog too.

Here's another new Video while we wait for more people to post their stuff!!

New Video from a new Band! This is the Elder Brothers performing their arrangement of Spirit’s - “Nature’s Way”. Recorded Live with a Zoom Livetrak L-20 and then bounced into Ardour 6.9 for a few post-production cleanups. Video was edited in Cinelerra-GG on AV Linux MX-21 Edition..

https://youtu.be/AoeUiUB0zYU

AVLinux wrote: Sun Jan 16, 2022 8:27 pm Here's another new Video while we wait for more people to post their stuff!!

New Video from a new Band! This is the Elder Brothers performing their arrangement of Spirit’s - “Nature’s Way”. Recorded Live with a Zoom Livetrak L-20 and then bounced into Ardour 6.9 for a few post-production cleanups. Video was edited in Cinelerra-GG on AV Linux MX-21 Edition..

https://youtu.be/AoeUiUB0zYU

I like that. The starting chords of the song make it interesting and draws you in.

asqwerth wrote: Mon Jan 17, 2022 3:45 am

AVLinux wrote: Sun Jan 16, 2022 8:27 pm Here's another new Video while we wait for more people to post their stuff!!

New Video from a new Band! This is the Elder Brothers performing their arrangement of Spirit’s - “Nature’s Way”. Recorded Live with a Zoom Livetrak L-20 and then bounced into Ardour 6.9 for a few post-production cleanups. Video was edited in Cinelerra-GG on AV Linux MX-21 Edition..

https://youtu.be/AoeUiUB0zYU

I like that. The starting chords of the song make it interesting and draws you in.

Thanks, appreciate that!

Here's something I did with Mixbus in AVLinux a while ago - I've since migrated to AV Linux MX. Great distro, it does everything I need for audio production.

https://soundcloud.com/bcalder01/john-b ... eft-behind

beecee wrote: Tue Jan 25, 2022 8:03 am Here's something I did with Mixbus in AVLinux a while ago - I've since migrated to AV Linux MX. Great distro, it does everything I need for audio production.

https://soundcloud.com/bcalder01/john-b ... eft-behind

Wow, great recording and sound, well played!

Thank YOU for all your effort and focus! I've been using AVL for several years, and it is a pleasure to boot it up and just get on with getting a song worked out and recorded(and on an old laptop as well!) without having to adapt to the software's limitations. Really well thought out and realized.

OK, lovefest over :D

pheeew, this is a welcome relief from the reason I came to this forum... Very inspiring. I came of age during the blossoming of DIY digital audio (Motu828 was my interface, and we did use Audacity on ubuntu for a minute until someone got a mac and no one in the band would tolerate waiting for plugins to render an more

Thanks for posting this. I just switched to MX after a couple years on Ubuntu. I've never heard of AV until this. I'm working professionally at the moment and I have been boxed into the Adobe suite due to a video art project that has been in production for 18+ months. However, a lot of the more original sounds are coming out of linux software (voice cloning, bytebeats--light programing that us artists can start to make work, especially with the fantastic documentation that comes with MX.

Really happy to see this today as I slowly as I try to convince my partner to load up on GPUs, learn Divinci and move 100% into linux. As an artist, i love the freedom of open source, and getting to know the inner workings of my tools. As a critic, I think it is absolutely imperative that all people born after the digital revolution spend some time understanding the nut and bolts of digital technology, and especially in the case of entertainment media and art -- so the creative minds of the future aren't swept down the virtual toilets with the Oligarchical metaturds of Silicon Valley.

Now how the heck do I make drums and vocals sound so good in a linux DAW? Great tunes

Thanks @beecee for the kind words and posting your work.. @forrhead Thanks, to be honest I'm not sure if Resolve is the best option on Linux or not, but each to their own. I also still require Windows for certain tasks (mostly upscaling Video/Photo work with Topaz Labs) and I was appalled when I discovered all the Adobe stuff was subscription-ware now...

Here is a new Video I just posted on YT done with Ardour and edited with Cinelerra-GG:
https://youtu.be/cXiHRzHdMvo

Great contributions from everyone.

@Glen: Very nice to put some faces on "Rated Blue". All your albums on Deezer are on my favs list.

I'm eagerly awaiting your next AVL-MX release. I'm on a new(ish) AMD system as well and I really need the 5.15.xx kernel.

Hi funkster1!

Nice to see you again and thanks for the support!

Glad to hear somebody is listening to RB, haha the style of music we play is not very popular where I live.. Just working on final tweaks and docs for the next AVL-MXE, hopefully out for valentines day!..

In the meantime here is our latest production with a new band I'm in with some friends and Studio clients 'The Elder Brothers':
https://youtu.be/YXB_uQO3nXE

Love Neil Young, nice cover.

Did you see the documentary on Youtube? https://youtu.be/mbmkek5j6Vs

funkster1 wrote: Tue Feb 08, 2022 8:16 am Love Neil Young, nice cover.

Did you see the documentary on Youtube? https://youtu.be/mbmkek5j6Vs

No, haven't watched yet.. Hopefully this coming weekend! Thanks for the reminder!

@AVLinux Thanks Glen, always nice to see your latest.

@pianokeyjoe 'I have to figure out what to do to get some of my recordings online to then link here.'

Have you given thought to using Vimeo or Bitchute, the latter quite popular with youtube 'refugees' ?

LU344928 wrote: Wed Feb 09, 2022 5:23 pm @AVLinux Thanks Glen, always nice to see your latest.

Appreciate that! Thanks!

I'm not normally so prolific with stuff, nor did I ever expect or want this thread to be so dominated by my material.. we've had a backlog through the Pandemic and also did 2 bands worth of new recordings and Video shoots over the Christmas holidays, I'll run out of stuff soon enough..

Any Blues fans here? Or even better more blues artists??

Our latest, Recorded and mixed with Ardour and Video Edited with Cinelerra-GG:
https://youtu.be/mm3OJ_OV9iU

AVLinux wrote: Tue Jan 25, 2022 10:37 am Thanks @beecee for the kind words and posting your work.. @forrhead Thanks, to be honest I'm not sure if Resolve is the best option on Linux or not, but each to their own. I also still require Windows for certain tasks (mostly upscaling Video/Photo work with Topaz Labs) and I was appalled when I discovered all the Adobe stuff was subscription-ware now...

Here is a new Video I just posted on YT done with Ardour and edited with Cinelerra-GG:
https://youtu.be/cXiHRzHdMvo

Love how that video starts out. "Just sitting on the couch. Think I'll play my guitar" and the band just happens to be set up lol. Awesome video! What kind of camera was used? Some very cool motion on it.

Took a second this morning to upload my latest. Havent done that for awhile, lol.

So far this one has been 100% AVLinux. Using Reaper cause it seems to be easier for me than Ardour.
Song info is in the description on Soundcloud.

https://soundcloud.com/unkle-bonehead/d ... al_sharing

unklebonehead wrote: Wed Feb 23, 2022 6:57 am Took a second this morning to upload my latest. Havent done that for awhile, lol.

So far this one has been 100% AVLinux. Using Reaper cause it seems to be easier for me than Ardour.
Song info is in the description on Soundcloud.

https://soundcloud.com/unkle-bonehead/d ... al_sharing

Hi, thanks for sharing and confirming that someone other than me uses AVL!

This is really great work, very well produced and mixed! Love the intersection of Metal and Hip-Hop it works well! The guitar sounds are perfect for the genre and the whole mix is punchy!

Wow! Thank you for the kind words!

There are a lot more people that use AVL than you think, lol.

As I've said before I've used it off and on for years. Switched between it and UbuntuStudio a lot. But I always come back to AVL.
Got a "new to me" computer arriving tomorrow. Can you guess whats getting installed on it? Lol.
Asrock X370 Killer SLI/ac
AMD 3600
AMD rx560
2 x 500 NVME SSD
16GB DDR4

Gonna be a major upgrade from my HP laptop with no screen that I've used for 10+ years, lol. Gonna be some serious content created.

Nice machine! Will look forward to what you produce with it!

AVLinux wrote: Sat Feb 19, 2022 6:13 pm Any Blues fans here?

Yes, John Lee Hooker for starters.

Our latest, Recorded and mixed with Ardour and Video Edited with Cinelerra-GG:
https://youtu.be/mm3OJ_OV9iU

You guys have got a good ear for music - the early Mac stuff was great.

LU344928 wrote: Thu Feb 24, 2022 12:36 am

AVLinux wrote: Sat Feb 19, 2022 6:13 pm Any Blues fans here?

Yes, John Lee Hooker for starters.

Our latest, Recorded and mixed with Ardour and Video Edited with Cinelerra-GG:
https://youtu.be/mm3OJ_OV9iU

You guys have got a good ear for music - the early Mac stuff was great.

John Lee Hooker! Nice!

Thanks very much for watching and commenting!

I read a review of AV Linux MX-21 by Jack Wallen this morning. He seemed pretty impressed, something that appears not easy to do.

So, kudos for impressing the un-impressable!

Leo wrote: Thu Feb 24, 2022 10:23 am I read a review of AV Linux MX-21 by Jack Wallen this morning. He seemed pretty impressed, something that appears not easy to do.

So, kudos for impressing the un-impressable!

Hi! Well that sounds good, got a link?

*EDIT.. found it! https://www.techrepublic.com/article/av ... come-true/

I don't mind getting some good criticism and the 'light theme' comments have some weight but the article isn't terribly informative and his complaints about MXPI vs. Gnome Software Ctr. are fairly petty... It's MX, why wouldn't I use the light and efficient native MXPI over some bloated entity from another Desktop Environment?? Also why would I ship a full Office Suite on an AV Workstation that's already 3Gb+..

But otoh that fact it got reviewed at all was pretty cool...

Hi MX'ers!

With very unhappy times occurring on the other side of the  world it's difficult to be too happy about anything but after more than a year of work and collaboration the (not) Willie Mack album is released! The good stuff is at the bottom of the post but hopefully you will enjoy at least some of the story of how it came about...:

These notes are as much for me to remember how this project came to be as to inform the listener... The story of the (not) Willie Mack album.

  Early in winter of 2021  while the Covid-19 Pandemic was going full bore I brought a drumkit into my living room..  Society was still locked down and vaccines were a dim and distant light on the horizon so really why NOT have drums in the living room?!  There was plenty of time to work on music so my original plan was to arrange a couple of Cover tunes I wanted to record and as something new to fend off Covid dementia I planned to track the drums myself. I laid down some bed tracks for 'Grandma's Hands' and 'Have You Ever Loved a Woman' and busied myself with adding some guitars. Around this time there was a bit of a lull in the Covid restrictions and I got a call from my friend Dave "Benny" Williams who was climbing the walls looking for some music to work on so I told him about these new tracks and we agreed to get together so he could lay down some Hammond and Piano parts. Tracking with masks on and remaining in separate rooms took some of the fun of of the proceedings but it didn't hinder Dave from laying down some amazing keys. As the mixes began to take shape I was getting the feeling that these tunes had potential to be much more than demos and an idea to do a collaborative fanboy bluesy album to pay tribute to some of my favourite artists started to take form. A dark and dusty cupboard in the back of my brain opened and I remembered a couple of unreleased songs I had done a few years back as a collaboration with another Dave: Dave Phillips.. This Dave is also a very talented musician, songwriter and one hell of a singer and this I knew having never met the man in person! Dave and I met on the Interwebs pursuing our common interest in Audio software and he'd written a great song called "Get On Board the Blues" and was looking for collaborators a few years back and as it turned out we were both Blues affectionados as well as Geeks. His song and a version of Blind Lemon Jefferson's "See That My Grave is Kept Clean" we had also collaborated on were in need of a little sprucing up but were perfect candidates for this project. As I dug deeper in my tickle trunk of broken dreams and languishing songs I found a couple of Instrumentals I'd written:  'Confluence' orginally worked on with Peter Cox and Jake McLean, and  'Hammond Fried Eggs' and indeed you could have fried eggs on the tubes after Peter and Benny were done with that one! Another Cover that I had been dying to try arranging was Fenton Robinson's "You Don't Know What Love is" and it turned out to be a perfect fit as well. As the tracks were coming together I thought some Funk might provide a nice contrast and a funky lick I'd been messing with as a couch doodle grew into a James-Brown-and-the-Average-White-Band-had-a-love-child called "(She Digs My) Funktionality". It grooved but something was missing... it turned out what it needed was some saxophone and Benny came through and hooked me up with his friend Ken Foster who was missing gigging and looking for something to do. Ken came into the studio and proceeded to slay, his great work transformed the song from lacking focus to being one of the highlights! Meanwhile the eternally sunny disposition of my partner Nancy and our mutual admiration for the slide guitar work of Derek Trucks inspired a Rootsy new song called 'When You Smile (I Can See Your Light)" complete with a surprise sax solo.. I'm blessed to play live with the best rhythm section in the world with my literal and musical family in 'Rated Blue' and my son Connor lent his considerable drumming skills where the old man wasn't quite cutting it and my soul brother Peter Cox manifested his patented 'Thunder Magic' on bass and took some of these tunes to funky town!

  My heartfelt thanks to everyone who were so incredibly generous with their time and talents, this is a really special project to me and it wouldn't have turned out nearly as well without everyone's unique contributions. One last thing to clarify... since this was a collaborative effort I really wanted to release it under a group name and the names Williams and MacArthur gave me a brainwave to use 'Willie Mack' ... I thought it was a lock, it sounded Bluesy and southern and at the very last second when I submitted the album for streaming Distribution I discovered there were already a few artists working as 'Willie Mack' so I had to think fast. Anyone who has ever had to name a band will tell you it can literally takes months to years to think up a good one and after working on this album for more than a year I didn't want to lose my spot in the submission queue so between that (and the ongoing malignant narcissism of course) I made a snap decision to put it out under my name. It really wasn't what I had envisioned it's just a formality that doesn't change the fact that the music is the product of a very fruitful collaboration of chefs... I'm just your waiter!

You can listen free online here at Bandcamp:
https://bandshedrecords.bandcamp.com/al ... soul-roots

If you are already a Spotify subscriber, you can find it here:
https://open.spotify.com/album/7lG7aax0 ... CLhjt-yXQQ

It is also available on every other major music streaming service, just search 'Glen MacArthur'. CD's and 8-track tapes are in the works and should be available in a couple of weeks..

I'll close with a thought/prayer/meditation for the unthinkable situation across Ukraine, especially in Kyiv. It's very disheartening that we really can't do better than this as a species...

Best, Glen

Hi,

Playing catchup here with a couple of new Videos produced with AVL-MXE, I was hoping to get lots of different folks posting self-produced Music and Video here with lots of variety but it seems people are either really shy or fairly disinterested in such topics here which just 'is what it is'. Not intended to be a place of 'high criticism' all submissions beginner or Pro are welcomed! I'd love to have showcase for people to strut their stuff and of course demonstrate the kind of work AVL-MXE is capable of.. I can see by the metrics there are lots of downloads and AVL-MXE is looking solid at Distrowatch so I know people are using it, don't be shy, let your freak flag fly!

When I put out Videos or albums I have a Bandshed Records mailing list.. I'm not down with Facebook and Instagram and their policies so I do the ML instead, what gets posted here is a copy and paste of the Mailing List articles in case anyone is wondering why there is so much info in these posts..lol.

Audio recorded in Ardour 6.9, Video edited in Cinelerra-GG on AV Linux MX-21 Edition and post-produced with 'VCartoonizer' in Windows 10..

I'm a huge Bill Withers fan and his first album from 1971 'Just As I Am' is arguably his best or at least his most consistent from start to finish.. Of course there are the wonderful 'Ain't No Sunshine' and 'Grandma's Hands' but two album cuts that really flipped my lid were 'Better off Dead' and 'I'm Her Daddy'.. At a time when soul music had become well established and when many large Stax and Motown acts were getting more and more ornate and excessive with platform boots, super big afros and gold lame suits Bill Withers first album was the antithesis of all of that. I'm Her Daddy is a gritty and real song told in first-person by a man who has just found out that he fathered a child with a lover that left him six years earlier. It is masterfully told and the few well-chosen lyrics frame a scene rich with detail from so few words. We understand exactly what has happened but are left to wonder what his intentions are and what he is going to do with this new revelation. I can understand why it was never a hit but the sad part is such a masterclass in songwriting craft never saw the light it deserved.

As a super fanboy and never one to turn down an opportunity to play more Bill Withers I brought it to Connor and Pete and we did a trio arrangement recording of it and shot a Video. The Video was a fine performance but since it closely resembled the other Videos we'd done with Adam in the same session I wanted to do something with it to set it apart and the idea to do the Video in a Graphic Novel (or as old people call them...'Comic Books') style occured to me. I thought such a great story song deserved a story format and here is what we came up with:

https://youtu.be/SQypLF28_rw

Thanks for reading/listening/watching!

Glen

I like the Elder Brothers video. Very well made video. Audio is very clear. Each audio element "sits" in the mix allowing you to clearly hear each separate part clearly. Most importantly you've choose to stay neutral in the Loudness war. It is a good example of what AV Linux is capable of with a good audio interface or multi-tracker. Very good job.


EDIT : Just listed to "Need Your Love So Bad". Just as well made, and more my style.

Hi and thanks!

Got something to share??

Really like the Graphic Novel style video.
Most excellent

Krogmos wrote: Thu Apr 07, 2022 12:35 pm Really like the Graphic Novel style video.
Most excellent

Thanks, appreciate that!

New Video out today:
https://youtu.be/L9b8zM-IJI0

Hi,

Trying to breathe some life back into this thread... AVL-MXe Users we want/need to see what you're doing and creating!!

I've just released a new Video with one of the bands I play in called "The Elder Brothers", it is a live filmed recording of us performing "When I Go Away" by Levon Helm. The Audio was mixed on AVL-MXe 23.5 using Harrison Mixbus Pro 11 and the Video was edited in my go-to editor Cinelerra-GG.

Comments welcomed!

https://youtu.be/e6x49v4ALYQ?si=2wxZYW-A6aDbKnnh

Got something to share? Show us what you're up to!!

Very cool! Love the sound and I am going to have to check out more of "The Elder Brothers"!!

Thanks @CharlesV

I really appreciate you taking time to watch and comment..

There are some other Videos of the EB's and other groups on that same 'Bandshed Records' Youtube channel and I've also started putting some stuff on Bandcamp:

https://bandshedrecords.bandcamp.com/

AVLinux wrote: Wed Aug 13, 2025 1:19 pm Thanks @CharlesV

I really appreciate you taking time to watch and comment..

There are some other Videos of the EB's and other groups on that same 'Bandshed Records' Youtube channel and I've also started putting some stuff on Bandcamp:

https://bandshedrecords.bandcamp.com/

I started checking that Bandshed Records channel out, but ran out of time today. ('everyone is on me' :-) ) .. But I shall revisit when I have some time to really check it out - it looked VERY interesting - and huge Kudos to you for being in it and working with it all. I have worked for years with several DJ's and many recordings, but my guitar skills have taken a VERY backseat to my real work and sadly I never seem to have any time.

CharlesV wrote: Wed Aug 13, 2025 2:48 pm

AVLinux wrote: Wed Aug 13, 2025 1:19 pm Thanks @CharlesV

I really appreciate you taking time to watch and comment..

There are some other Videos of the EB's and other groups on that same 'Bandshed Records' Youtube channel and I've also started putting some stuff on Bandcamp:

https://bandshedrecords.bandcamp.com/

I started checking that Bandshed Records channel out, but ran out of time today. ('everyone is on me' :-) ) .. But I shall revisit when I have some time to really check it out - it looked VERY interesting - and huge Kudos to you for being in it and working with it all. I have worked for years with several DJ's and many recordings, but my guitar skills have taken a VERY backseat to my real work and sadly I never seem to have any time.

No worries and no obligation at all, everyone today has very busy lives, that's why a view or a comment are so precious

As far as that guitar, it will wait for you and it will also never limit you to what you can learn or how well you can play, it doesn't need to be added to your schedule it has infinite patience and infinite learning potential whenever you can get to it..

AVLinux wrote: Wed Aug 13, 2025 3:43 pm
As far as that guitar, it will wait for you and it will also never limit you to what you can learn or how well you can play, it doesn't need to be added to your schedule it has infinite patience and infinite learning potential whenever you can get to it..

Thank you for that! It is patient thats for sure.. it sits here by my side, 6 feet away, quietly waiting for me :-)

I grew up always wanting to play guitar (electric), but my parents were 7th day advent(ur)ists and they knew I would play "rock AND roll" with it if I did so my mom cleverly said "learn the piano and then you can play guitar" at the time I wanted to play so badly that I was like "ok, I'll give it a shot" 4yrs later I knew how to play the piano but because my parents still hadn't bought me a guitar, I gave up angrily and in rebellion to my own detriment... a fan of grunge and metal, I always had my eye on a Jackson Dinky Reverse and a couple years ago (I just turned 46 on Elvis' death anniversary) bought an early 00's mint specimen & it's been sitting at my dad's where I have my studio, gathering dust =((( Some day, before I die, I will pick it up and get around to learning... some day! waaaahhhh

Aye, I know that feeling. I bought my first electric guitar (And still have it too), in 1974, and my second in 1986, )Also still have) ... around 1978 I "experimented" with various sound techniques and ended up with 3 different amplifiers blown out and useless. Around 1984 ish... I bought two more amps and *immediately* spent a few hours doing reverbs and blew those out. (I kind of liked the amazing screaming reverb sounds I could make |-) ) ... along about y2k I purchased a very nice amp and have played around with that for a while... but I am still hung up on my brass slide and reverb's and probably always will be.

My pattern is : Start playing, get back in to reverb's ... blow out an amp or get "my blonde telling me to find another place to play" .. or get into my work so deep I no longer 'see' the guitar ... then wonder why I am not playing.. and then back into the cycle I go :-) .... as you said ... some day ...