KVR Audio

tconrardy · Post by **tconrardy** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 12:28 am

A diver start his journey into the aqautic waters, encountering glimmerings of colorful fish and coral , while proceding further into the deep. All of a sudden Octopus tentacles are all around him as he tries to break free. Fortunatly, the struggle is over and he is abandoned and makes for the surface again into the twilight of the sun.

Octopus World

http://www.wusik.com/song.php?id=1062

( Ok..not too good at stories, but you get the idea)

All done with the new ( and not out yet) LinPlug Octopus. No external effects. Recorded in eXt and Tracktion.

vtx · Post by **vtx** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 12:42 am

pretty darn good interpretation,
very nice, sparkling clean and expansive sounds,
must check that out, thanx

Gargoyle · Post by **Gargoyle** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 12:42 am

Great track, Tim and extremely impressive sound palette from Octopus! Flawless production too IMHO

Patrick9 · Post by **Patrick9** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 12:53 am

Loverly sounds TC - when can we try it?

rbet · Post by **rbet** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 4:04 am

Conrardy is such a synthwhore

Sorry Tim, just kidding, fabulous demo.

Sounds like it is awesome at metallic and glassy sounds, a la Absynth.

ugo · Post by **ugo** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 4:06 am

wow...very cool.
great track, and great sounds!

-ugo

tconrardy · Post by **tconrardy** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 6:18 am

rbet wrote:Conrardy is such a synthwhore

Sorry Tim, just kidding, fabulous demo. Sounds like it is awesome at metallic and glassy sounds, a la Absynth.

YOUR RIGHT!!!

I have 4 folders full of practacly every free vst and a good amount of commerical synths. Some I bought, some I earned by Sound design work. My Receptor is the same way

Krakatau · Post by **Krakatau** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 6:48 am

Gargoyle wrote: Great track, Tim and extremely impressive sound palette from Octopus! Flawless production too IMHO

let say i (more than just) agree...really amazing demo, even more when thinking all sound are from the same synth !

annode · Post by **annode** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 7:10 am

A very nice exposé of fm synthesis from the Octopus.
Well done.
I think I can assume much of what we hear in this are your own creations.

Hunter · Post by **Hunter** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 11:31 am

Nice sounds tim! Almost cameleon-like, some of them, with that FM depth and punchiness.

Hunter · Post by **Hunter** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 11:38 am

That pad at 53 seconds is worth the price alone!

ianweb123 · Post by **ianweb123** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 1:02 pm

<irony> Blimey, this is nearly as good as Cygnus

</irony>

safeaim · Post by **safeaim** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 2:51 pm

Very cool and nice sounding demo

Laguna Rising · Post by **Laguna Rising** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 4:28 pm

Hi
Nice interpratation and superb sounds
great leads, too

Cheers

tconrardy · Post by **tconrardy** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 4:41 pm

annode wrote:A very nice exposé of fm synthesis from the Octopus.
Well done.
I think I can assume much of what we hear in this are your own creations.

hey Thanks, and yes...my own creations. It's actually a mixture of FM, additive and Samples with FM textures.

While the additive is not as complex as say a Cameleon, I basically created different types of partials for each oscillator , panned them differently and put them together, as well as different envelopes.

and that Pad at 32 is a sample!It's actually a split keyboard patch of thunder type atmo with the nice pad.The Bells before that is a patch I named " Prof Allen Strange" a tribute to my electronic music teacher. I think he would like the patch. Funny thing- he is known for his avant guard stuff, but he actually taught a class in country music at san jose state!! LOL!

But I found a new way of composing doing this piece.
I had Octopus set in eXT. Then simply opened up the audio recorder, and recorded lots of performances ( all in the same key and hopefully same timing) with different patches seperatly and saved as indevidual wave files.Then opened Tracktion and assembled/arranged EJAY style. Did not have to worry about CPU ( although the CPU on this thing is VERY GOOD)Then added "Final MIx" mackie plugin , and then rendered the whole thing.A good days work!