Product Notes

Read me for Gnome Sausage Bean NoveltyYou can see a movie I made using Gnome Sausage Mellow Footstep at UTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RChbRKvycqg For some reason, no clue, lol. It is difficult to find free music to provide a background for amateur animations and stuff. Having found this frustrating I downloaded various free music creation software and set about making my own. Having done this, I am uploading 'albums' of 'music' for other artists to use for free. It is generally good enough to listen to as background music when doing something else and should serve well enough as background tracks to animations you make. It does not quite support focused listening to just the music, not quite that well patterned. Feel free to cut and sample, while the overall coherence is a little weak, most include some riffs or sequences which are fairly nice. The music is in midi format, but can be easily converted to .mp3 and other formats with free software from the web. Most of any given album will be the same structure with different orchestrations and sometimes other modifications to tempo, period, mapping, etc. So, a lot of the tracks will sound similar to one another. There will be greater difference between different albums. Most tracks are named something like this: BN short for Bean Novelty, name of the album then a name for the orchestration Africa is a collection of instruments from Africa, more or less base is strings horns tubular bells and drums Bells Harps is tubular bells and harps Bells Shakuhachi is tubular bells and shakuhachi choir is voice ohs aahs, harps bells and strings drums is a lot of drums thrown together gunshot is sound effects with some instruments hick is woodblock, blown bottle, dulcimer and harmonica keyboards is a bunch of organs, pianos, etc. mixing it up oriental is shakuhachi, taiko drum, and shamisei pianos is all pianos synth is a bunch of electronic synth instruments wind is wood and brass mixing it up bells and synth is tubular bells and synth names may include -9 a nine was removed from the structure or -11 two ones were removed from the structure in quasi fractal composer or something similar. They may say fast, slow, faster or slower, this is relative to other tracks with similar names. Usually fast tracks are shorter than slow tracks. The compositions are created on quasifractal composer by Paul whalley the help file in the program gives this as his email address pallwhalley@yahoo.com, and this as his URL http://members.tripod.com/~paulwhalley. It is an interesting little program and you might want to download it. The qfc files are included with the midi files, so you can load them and play with them and change them around if you want. A free program for converting the midi files to other file formats can be downloaded here. http://www.nch.com.au/switch/support.html It seems to work well, and allows you to use other free software to edit the music. One free program for editing the music is available here. I have downloaded and installed it, loaded some files into it and looked at it. It appears to have features for cutting, pasting, basic editing and changing speed and some special effects, I have not gotten that far into making music yet, so I can just say it is there and seems to work. You should listen to a track and feel free to cut out a few seconds here or there to use on its own, or to shorten the piece, or whatever. http://www.free-audio-editor.com/ Another free program for editing the music is available here. Same as above seems similar in features and stuff, I have not spent enough time with it to say one is better than another. http://www.free-sound-editor.com/ The name of the 'band' is "Gnome Sausage", it is an old Everquest joke, everything eats gnomes. I have a gnome mage named Arrogathor on almost every Everquest server, though I rarely play these days. The name Gnome Sausage was actually randomly generated on a random band names generator on the web, it just popped up and caught my eye. It just seemed appropriate to the material. If you ever visited Ak Anon, the Gnome City in Steamfont Mountains, you would realize that this kind of tick-tock music is right up gnome alley. Gnome Sausage albums will be named with random names from the random name generator, so expect no rhyme or reason there. Gnome sausage orchestration tends to be heavy on shakuhachi, harps, tubular bells and drums. Though there are variations. I like the way it sounds, have no clue if you will or not. So, download some Gnome Sausage and serve it up as background music on your animations, videos, picture shows, etc. Or, pick something you like from a Gnome Sausage album and use your art to make a music video. Enjoy.