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https://github.com/lorenzosmusic/Could-take-for-years

The Ardour sessions for the song "Could take for years" by Lorenzo's Music. An abstract deconstruction creative commons band.
https://github.com/lorenzosmusic/Could-take-for-years

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The Ardour sessions for the song "Could take for years" by Lorenzo's Music. An abstract deconstruction creative commons band.

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# Could take for years

## These are the Ardour DAW session files for the song "Could take for years" by Lorenzo's Music.



This is a song recorded by the abstract deconstruction creative commons band [Lorenzo's Music](https://www.lorenzosmusic.com/?utm_source=github&utm_medium=bandlink&utm_campaign=couldtakeforyearsreadme) using only open-source tools and software.



# The Song

Here is the ["Could take for years" on YouTube](https://youtu.be/FcH63z8l_BQ)

[![Lorenzo's Music - Could take for years - audio](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/FcH63z8l_BQ/maxresdefault.jpg)](https://youtu.be/FcH63z8l_BQ)



You can also **download this song from our website**

[https://www.lorenzosmusic.com/2021/10/could-take-for-years-by-lorenzos-music.html](https://www.lorenzosmusic.com/2021/10/could-take-for-years-by-lorenzos-music.html?utm_source=github&utm_medium=couldtakeforyearssonglink&utm_campaign=readme)



# The GitHub for music Concept

## We decided to create an experimental recording method.



We thought of a way to use **GitHub for music** to record remotely with the recording software **Ardour** and the Linux OS **Ubuntu Studio**. This is another song from that experiment.



Since **Ardour** is all controlled by a main code file and distributes the tracks it uses to folders in the project, we realized recordings could be version controlled by GitHub.



From that, the band could share our sessions and create branches for each new track or instrument idea that was made to the song using the the full Ardour sessions with audio and all!



We use Github for the working Ardour files of our songs to collaborate, make changes and record our parts outside of the studio.



# Using this repo

View the description of the original idea for this **Github for music** process on our website [How we came up with a way to use GitHub to write songs remotely.](https://www.lorenzosmusic.com/2019/05/how-we-came-up-with-way-to-use-github.html?utm_source=github&utm_medium=articlelink&utm_campaign=variationwitchreadme)



We use the free and open source [Linux](https://www.linux.org/) based operating system [Ubuntu Studio](https://ubuntustudio.org/). The Ubuntu studio OS has programs and plug-ins for this project preinstalled and ready to use.



The song is recorded with [Ardour](https://ardour.org/) an open-source digital audio workstation.



Most of the effects used come from the open-source audio effects software projects [Calf Studio Gear](https://calf-studio-gear.org/) or [Guitarix virtual guitar amplifier plugins](https://guitarix.org/).



# Requirements Needed

If you would like to clone this repository to see how it's done, do a remix or build upon it.



In order to use the files you will need both of these.



* **Ardour DAW** [https://ardour.org](https://ardour.org/) This is the recording Software that is used for these files so you will need to install this :)

* **Git LFS** [https://git-lfs.github.com](https://git-lfs.github.com/). This is the "Large File Storage" plugin that needs to be installed on your computer to access the large .wav files from the recording stored in the Github repository. If it's not installed there won't be any music to hear in the recording and **you will get an error saying files don't exist when you open it.**



## Not required but useful

**Effects and EQs**



These should be installed to recreate the actual version of the song we made, but the recording is still able to work without them, **it will just sound very different without these effects.**

* **Calf** Plugins Effects. [https://calf-studio-gear.org](https://calf-studio-gear.org/). These are the EQ and compression effects. These are only available for Linux operating systems but some of them come pre-installed in Ardour. If you can't install them the songs will still play the original files without these efects.

* **Guitarix** The guitar pedal effects used on the tracks. Sadly these are only available for Linux. You can still play the files without them if you are on another operating system you will just hear the un altered sounds. - [https://guitarix.org](https://guitarix.org/)



# If you already use Ubuntu Studio

The only thing you you need to install is the "Large File Storage" Plugin **Git LFS** [https://git-lfs.github.com](https://git-lfs.github.com/) to download the large .wav files from the GitHub repository.



If you create anything from this song, remix it or build anything from it let us know! We would love to hear it!



You can message us on Twitter [@lorenzosmusic](https://twitter.com/lorenzosmusic) or email us from the contact section on our website [here at lorenzosmusic.com](https://www.lorenzosmusic.com/p/contact.html?utm_source=github&utm_medium=contactlink&utm_campaign=couldtakeforyearsreadme)



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