July Contest: Submissions

[DrApostropheX]

SEVEN

It's the Seventh month! Let's do a song featuring the number seven! How you do that is up to you: do you write a piece in 7/4 time? Have a song with "only" 7 tracks? Is the duration of the song a number that's divisible by seven (resulting in an integer -- does that integer have a seven in it)? Does it have seven verses? Built on a seven-note motif? Does your song answer the age-old question "What's in the box?" ALL OF THE ABOVE?! (No -- that would be too crazy!). Seven!

NOTE: When you submit your track, please note in the thread below just how many and what kind of sevens your track contains. Can you make a track with seven sevens?


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Submissions MUST follow these rules:

1 - Encoded in either .mp3 or .ogg format.

2 - A STRICT MAXIMUM of three minutes in length. If it shows up as 3:01 in my player, it's getting the boot.

3 - entered into the contest by posting a DIRECT LINK (note: THIS MEANS A DOWNLOAD LINK) in this RULES & SUBMISSIONS thread (use the GOSSIP thread for everything else). If you cant provide a direct link, please contact one of the following people listed below, they will be happy to help you out. These people provide free hosting for the purpose of this contest only! They are not a hosting service. When contacting these people, please take the effort to understand the terms and conditions they provide.

Providers:
1 - knockman
2 - watto
3 - slartibartfast

In addition...
http://www.kara-moon.com/forum has offered "self service" space. Log into the forum to find out more.

4 - Submitted by early a.m. (US Central Time) Tuesday, July 26th, 2016.

5 - Your entry must be composed specifically for this contest (or, if a cover, arranged/recorded specifically for this contest).

6 - Your entry must be created using at least some audio plugins, virtual synths, or software studio.

7 - Your entry should have the FILE named in a format of "yearmonth_artistname_tracktitle" (eg "1607_Festus_DefenestrationTango.mp3"), where the artistname is the same as your KVR name. Please do not use spaces and special characters in the filename. Special considerations will be given to those that have the hosting agent change the file name.

8 - If you are going to tag your mp3--and you should--the artist name is to be the same as your KVR name, and the title tag is to be the name of your tune.

9 - One person can participate either with one entry, with one entry and one collaborative effort or with two collaborative efforts.

10 - Every submission has to be tagged with:
a) used instruments (virtual and 'real')
b) players' and singers' names (if other than entrant; collabs are allowed, sometimes encouraged, but they must be credited)
c) origin of loops and samples, if they're not free of copyright (this includes CreativeCommons material; please read and follow the license of the samples and loops you use); naming the origin of copyright free loops is also encouraged, but not mandatory. Please only use samples you are legally entitled to use.
d) name(s) of composer(s) -- if an entry is a cover this should be noted in the file name and/or the mp3 "Title" tag as well as the submission post (not everyone reads the submission posts).

11 - If there are strong doubts about the origin of the composition or parts of it, the participant should have the possibility to send a project file to the moderator, who could give it to a trustworthy person with the right host to examine it. Important: the participant should not be forced to do it.

12 - No resubmissions without permission from the moderator, INCLUDING for time-overage correction. Please PM me for permission.

13 - Any tracks not adhering to these guidelines will be very naughty indeed. Possibly disqualified upon peer review. And at least mocked for all to point and giggle.

14 - Voting (members must have at least 20 posts to vote ... although contest entrants are exempt from this ruling) will run from the submission deadline until early a.m Sunday, May 1st. Anyone voting for themselves will find ALL their votes disqualified; any entrants not voting will also be disqualified.

If you have questions, send a private message to drapostrophex (that's me, Victor!) or ask in the gossip thread.
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PRIZES


Quinto from SKNote Software Sound Synthesis has donated any one of his plugins for the contest this month. (and later months until further notice). Thank you, Quinto.

Michel Rouzic the developer of Photosounder has donated a copy (with noncommercial license) of Photosounder, a copy of SplineEQ, or a copy of Spiral (until further notice).

Varazuvi has donated a copy of Acoustic Guitar Pro for this March's contest (and later months until further notice). Thanks, Varazuvi.

Uncle E from JRR Shop has donated a copy of SONiVOX Pulse, SONiVOX Wobble, or SONiVOX Twist for June's contest (and later months until further notice).

[bluerobot]

I guess I'll be first out of the gate this time. Woke up feeling seven-sy this morning.

This track is in 7/4 time, and the main sequence is seven notes (with variation).

I used mostly hardware: Moog Mother 32 and Slim Phatty, Make Noise Telharmonic, Waldorf Blofeld. Samples from Audio Modern. Plugins: Eventide Blackhole, NI Replika, D16 Sigmund, plus various Live 9 plugins.

https://soundcloud.com/bluerobotmusic/p ... en-sisters

[Mister Natural]

download : https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/27221 ... YYO50NUGpJ
https://soundcloud.com/mrnatural-1/0716 ... nterdepend
7 instruments > 7/4 time
LIVE9 environment
Hybrid2
Alchemy
Stratocaster
Ableton ePiano
Drumrack
Ableton Finger Bass
UltraAnalog2
EFX : Corpus, Valhalla SpaceMod & VintageVerb, EchoBoy, WhamDrive, Home-made Ableton MasterBus Rack

peace

[ClaRago]

https://soundcloud.com/clauderagonnet/zazpiak-bat
Most of the track is in 7/8 in 115 bpm (1+1+ 5 = 7 ) or 1/2 that tempo.

Same old PRS SE Soapbar II (a mere six string guitar) + NI Guitar Rig
Drums :EZ Drummer
Bass : Sub Boom Bass
Synth : Prisma
Mastered with Ozone 5 in Live 9 (5+9)/2 = 7

I expect a surge of entries on the seventh

[chemeleon]

I am going to give this a try!

[chemeleon]

https://soundcloud.com/chemeleon/mits
The track is in 7/8. 160 bpm (1 + 6 + 0 = 7). Used 7 tracks in my DAW

Renoise as DAW.
VSTis: 2 instances of Helix, 1 instance of Massive, 2 Instances of Reaktor 5.
VSTs: Lots of Trash 2, Nectar, Kerovee, Volcano.
Mastered with Ozone 5, recorded live with Guitar Rig.

[Chickenman]

https://soundcloud.com/postalpro/1607-c ... n-sesvsesn

Hey guys, have only lurked around here for a long time. My entry is terrible but I wanted to at least get past the "I should do something" phase for once.

Track is in 7/8 and that was as far as I got with the theme.

Cubase
VSTi - Superior drummer
Real bass - but I just played it once then looped it
Guitars were first takes - Ibanez RG, rough as guts. Using my new Boss GT-001 - presets were just a couple from factory.
Strings are so old the high E wont intonate properly haha.

I could go in and do a heap more, change all the drums, play it all in the right key and make a huge production out of the melody but... then it would never be finished and/or posted :S

[rachmiel]

https://soundcloud.com/rachmiel/seven-s ... or-strings

Seven Strands is a seven-voice canon for string orchestra. The subject, a melodic palindrome in Aeolian(ish), is stated clearly in the violin at the beginning and mirrored by every other voice at different octaves and tempos. Voices fade in and out to give the polyphony a dramatic arc.



I used:

Sonar to compose and mix the piece
Kontakt to realize the string sounds
Sound Forge to edit the mix
Ozone to master

Enjoy!

(If I'd had my druthers the piece would have been 7 times as long ≈ 20 minutes. Alas rules is rules.)

[Laguna Rising]

The Seventh Seal

• - 7 tolls of the bell - Intro
  - section in 7/4
  - section in 7/8
  - section in 7/16
  - 7 notes leads
  - 7 lead sections
  - 7 Instruments (Drums, Bass, Guitar, Hammond Organ, Moog, Recorder, Church Organ)

HW:
Charvel guitar, DIY strat, Tech21 GT2, Mostortion, Alesis solo tube pre, Shure beta58, Marshall studio 15, H&K Tubemeister 5, George Dennis Wah, EHX DoctorQ, Jackson bass, Rocktron Chameleon, Behringer bass OVD, Rocktron Gainiac II pre -> IMG Sta500 Power amp -> Custom 4x10 cabinet
SW :
Minimogue VA, NI Bandstand, NI Battery, MT-PowerDrum, NI B4, String theory, Glaceverb, Camel space, KeFir, LFX-1310, Kjarehus classic bundle, Fusion Field, Nuclear cranium
Samples :
Edsward excellent sample of a bell :
https://www.freesound.org/people/edsward/sounds/341866/
Thanks !

[Eric Danger]

This is Richard Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries.
The original German name, Ritt der Walküren, is, including spaces, 17 characters long. The Valkyrie was first performed in the United States on 2 April 1877. The project used 7 MIDI tracks. The track length is 2 minutes and 7 squared seconds. It gave me 7 pains in my ass, and I made a 7-sided fractal knot for the cover art. Finally, I cursed it 7 times before uploading it to SoundCloud.

If you've been counting, that's seven instances of the number 7.

DAW: Sonar Platinum
Synths: Serum, Diva
Samples used: None!

https://soundcloud.com/eric-danger/ride ... -valkyries

[Ahornberg]

I worked in SuperCollider using a tuning that divides the intervall from a base note to it's seventh pure overtone into 7 x 7 equal steps (inspired by Stockhausen, who did a similar thing in 1954 using the number 5).

https://soundcloud.com/ahornberg/7-times-7th-root-of-7
So 2 octaves and a pure seventh are divided by 49, that results in steps of 68.755 cents. Then I took an imaginary dice with 7 sides and used it to randomly generate everything from the number of notes, note-lenghts, volumes, pan-positions, gain and filter envelopes, amout of reverb and so on. All this was done by the following SuperCollider-code. Every time this code is evaluated, it will produce a randomly different output.

Code: Select all

var throwDice, songLenghtInSeconds, sectionCount, sectionLength;

SynthDef(\saw, {| freq, freqDiff, amp, attac, sustain, release, filterAttac, filterRelease filterFreqMul, pan, mix, room, damp |
	var sig, panned;
	sig = RLPF.ar(Saw.ar(freq - freqDiff, EnvGen.kr(Env.linen(attac, sustain, release, amp), doneAction: 2)), EnvGen.kr(Env.linen(attac, 1, release, 1)) * freq * filterFreqMul + 10);
	panned = Pan2.ar(sig, pan);
	Out.ar(0, FreeVerb2.ar(panned[0], panned[1], mix, room, damp));
}).add;

SynthDef(\sine, {| freq, freqDiff, amp, attac, sustain, release, filterAttac, filterRelease filterFreqMul, pan, mix, room, damp |
	var sig, panned;
	sig = RLPF.ar(SinOsc.ar(freq - freqDiff, 0, EnvGen.kr(Env.linen(attac, sustain, release, amp), doneAction: 2)), EnvGen.kr(Env.linen(attac, 1, release, 1)) * freq * filterFreqMul + 10);
	panned = Pan2.ar(sig, pan);
	Out.ar(0, FreeVerb2.ar(panned[0], panned[1], mix, room, damp));
}).add;

SynthDef(\blip, {| freq, freqDiff, amp, attac, sustain, release, filterAttac, filterRelease filterFreqMul, pan, mix, room, damp |
	var sig, panned;
	sig = RLPF.ar(Blip.ar(freq - freqDiff, 100, EnvGen.kr(Env.linen(attac, sustain, release, amp), doneAction: 2)), EnvGen.kr(Env.linen(attac, 1, release, 1)) * freq * filterFreqMul + 10);
	panned = Pan2.ar(sig, pan);
	Out.ar(0, FreeVerb2.ar(panned[0], panned[1], mix, room, damp));
}).add;

throwDice = { | diceCount, throwCount |
	var dice = (diceCount .. (diceCount * 7));
	Pxrand(dice, throwCount);
};

songLenghtInSeconds = throwDice.(1, 1).asStream.next * 25;
songLenghtInSeconds.postln;
sectionCount = throwDice.(2, 1).asStream.next;
sectionCount.postln;
"---".postln;
sectionLength = songLenghtInSeconds / sectionCount;
fork {
	sectionCount.do { | i |
		var layerCount = throwDice.(1, 1).asStream.next;
		layerCount.do { | i |
			var noteCount = throwDice.(1, 1).asStream.next, instr = Prand([\saw, \sine, \blip], 1).asStream.next;
			Pbind(
				\instrument, instr,
				\freq, (throwDice.(10, noteCount) + 40 * 0.68755).midicps,
				\dur, sectionLength / noteCount,
				\sustain, throwDice.(1, noteCount) * 20,
				\pan, throwDice.(1, noteCount) -1 / 2.5 - 1,
				\attac, throwDice.(1, noteCount) -1 / 5 + 0.1,
				\release, throwDice.(1, noteCount) -1 / 5 + 1,
				\filterAttac, throwDice.(1, noteCount) / 3,
				\filterRelease, throwDice.(1, noteCount) * 2,
				\freqDiff, throwDice.(1, noteCount),
				\filterFreqMul, throwDice.(1, noteCount) * 2,
				\mix, throwDice.(1, noteCount) -1 / 5 + 0.3,
				\room, throwDice.(1, noteCount) -1 / 5 + 0.8,
				\damp, throwDice.(1, noteCount) -1 / 5 + 0.1,
				\amp, throwDice.(1, noteCount) / 200 + 0.1
			).play;
			noteCount.postln;
		};
		sectionLength.wait;
		"---".postln;
	};
}

I attached a tuning file (for Diva, Zebra, Pianoteq and so on), so you can play around with this tuning without messing around in SuperCollider.

[Jay F.]

Wow !! This is what I call stick to the theme !
Great

[Jay F.]

The Seven Rings of Saturn

The theme of this month inspired me to go back to an unfinished track.
I always wanted to try to write music in 7/4 or 7/8 time signature. But I was never able to nail it down.
All I got was the title and a chord progression.

So here I am after all.
And I got to play with the recently acquired Korg Legacy Collection.

Track for this month’s KVR Music Cafe. The theme is “Seven.”

https://soundcloud.com/jay-f-2/the-seve ... -of-saturn

Here are the relations with the theme :
- The Seven Rings of Saturn
- piece is in 7/8 (except fills in 4/8)
- tempo is 63 bpm (63 / 9 = 7)
- length is 2:55 or 175 seconds (175 / 25 = 7)
- published on the 21st of July, the third full week of the month ( 21 / 3 = 7 )
- … on Belgium National Day. Belgium is 7 letters long.

DAW : Logic Express 9
Sofsynths : Korg Legacy Collection : Wavestation, M1, Polysix, Mono/poly
Drums : TR-808 samples
Electric Bass : Squier Jazz Bass + Guitar Rig Amp Simulation
Usual Suspects : TAL DUB-II, TAL DUB-III, TAL Reverb-II, OldSkoolVerb

[kryptonaut]

Seven-Seven Boogie

Seven beats to the bar
Seven bars per section
Seven sections in the song

Seven Seven Boogie (download)
Seven Seven Boogie (soundcloud)



Synths:
Magix Vita, Magix Beatbox2, Minimogue
FX:
Bifilter2, SplineEQ32, Kjaerhus Classic Delay/Reverb/Compressor
Mic:
Zoom H1
DAW:
Magix Samplitude Music Studio 2014


https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/27491 ... YYO50NUGpJ

[beanpole]

Se7en

DAWs
Tracktion 7
Reason 3

Instruments
Epiphone acoustic guitar
Peavey electric guitar
Shure SM57 mic

Plug-Ins
Tracktion 4-Band Equaliser & Compressor
OldSkoolVerb
Blue Cat Triple EQ & Gain