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tattiemannie · Post by **tattiemannie** » Wed Sep 30, 2009 8:55 am

One week to go!

... And a couple of questions I would appreciate some response to....

1. With the Halloween comp due to be launched, which synth? Gargoyle or EZ-Poly?

2. Looking at the healthy number of entries for this and the last comp, and the fact that most are coming in early, is 3 weeks too long?

Mac of BIOnighT · Post by **Mac of BIOnighT** » Wed Sep 30, 2009 12:54 pm

tattiemannie wrote: 1. With the Halloween comp due to be launched, which synth? Gargoyle or EZ-Poly?

I know Gargoyle and it's great, I also believe it'b be challenging indeed if you want something other than horror atmospheres, the other one I don't know...

tattiemannie wrote:2. Looking at the healthy number of entries for this and the last comp, and the fact that most are coming in early, is 3 weeks too long?

I think it's OK, but I'd add some more days for the voting, it's hard to find the time to listen to all the tracks, and some more days would mean more chances to capture other casual voters who may also come back for the next osc's...

Gamma-UT · Post by **Gamma-UT** » Wed Sep 30, 2009 1:07 pm

tattiemannie wrote:One week to go!

... And a couple of questions I would appreciate some response to....

1. With the Halloween comp due to be launched, which synth? Gargoyle or EZ-Poly?

2. Looking at the healthy number of entries for this and the last comp, and the fact that most are coming in early, is 3 weeks too long?

Having played with Gargoyle (not so much EZ-Poly, but I'm assuming it's a fairly conventional subtractive), I would go for EZ-Poly but stipulate that the track should have a horror or Halloween theme.

tattiemannie · Post by **tattiemannie** » Wed Sep 30, 2009 1:22 pm

Cheers for the comments guys

... any more?

Kriminal · Post by **Kriminal** » Wed Sep 30, 2009 2:02 pm

out of interest, when i saw this thread i DL a few of GTG's synths, and have to say i was very impressed with the sounds, quality stuff

ianweb123 · Post by **ianweb123** » Wed Sep 30, 2009 2:05 pm

GTG = Unsung

njon6 · Post by **njon6** » Wed Sep 30, 2009 2:19 pm

Hi Tattiemannie, as to what synth for the Halloween OSC - I like all of Krakli's creations, Gargoyle, EZ Poly, stringz, the s series, it's all good stuff. I'm, as usual, going with the flow on this one.

As to the 3 weeks I am all for that. My work schedule is odd at best - 60 hours a week to nothing at times. Right now it's balls to the wall and I,m sitting here drinking strong coffee trying to jolt my bones into action yet again - I love the 3 weeks.

slugfest99 · Post by **slugfest99** » Wed Sep 30, 2009 2:46 pm

tattiemannie wrote:One week to go!

... And a couple of questions I would appreciate some response to....

1. With the Halloween comp due to be launched, which synth? Gargoyle or EZ-Poly?

2. Looking at the healthy number of entries for this and the last comp, and the fact that most are coming in early, is 3 weeks too long?

Ah, what the hell. It's gotta be Gargoyle purely for the horror factor - it'll be a weird set of entries though...

And 3 weeks is fine - the longer the better IMHO.

Cheers,
Mouxbar

Mac of BIOnighT · Post by **Mac of BIOnighT** » Wed Sep 30, 2009 4:39 pm

OK, I'll turn it into an official question (with Tattiemannie's permission, of course - feel free to tell me to shut the f*** up, OK?):
Do you guys think the voting time should be longer? I ask especially considering the growing number of submissions - I, for one, would have a problem finding the time to listen to the tracks within a week, considering my irregular schedule...

PurpleCatfishBettie · Post by **PurpleCatfishBettie** » Wed Sep 30, 2009 5:04 pm

Maybe that's the ticket, longer voting but an early entry shutdown?

It looks like Krakli Gargoyle is most likely going to be the synth; and that's fine by me.

I'll just throw a couple of others out there, not because they'd be great for the OSC, but because they're sort of Halloweenish in one way or another: Emily the Strange by Killapluggies, and 'Orange Lounge 2004' by Starrfish. They're both interesting, 'limited functionality' '70s cheap organ' type of synths.

I was thinking; since it is Halloween and all; how about allowing all of the Jark Dark VST effects?... oh and Pluggotic Necroloop; or how about any VST with a spooky name?

Kriminal · Post by **Kriminal** » Wed Sep 30, 2009 5:16 pm

mrblitz000 wrote:Maybe that's the ticket, longer voting but an early entry shutdown?

It looks like Krakli Gargoyle is most likely going to be the synth; and that's fine by me.

I'll just throw a couple of others out there, not because they'd be great for the OSC, but because they're sort of Halloweenish in one way or another: Emily the Strange by Killapluggies, and 'Orange Lounge 2004' by Starrfish. They're both interesting, 'limited functionality' '70s cheap organ' type of synths.

I was thinking; since it is Halloween and all; how about allowing all of the Jark Dark VST effects?... oh and Pluggotic Necroloop; or how about any VST with a spooky name?

Gargoyle + http://www.solid-state-logic.com/Special/halloween.asp

abstractcats · Post by **abstractcats** » Wed Sep 30, 2009 5:21 pm

tattiemannie wrote:One week to go!

... And a couple of questions I would appreciate some response to....

1. With the Halloween comp due to be launched, which synth? Gargoyle or EZ-Poly?

2. Looking at the healthy number of entries for this and the last comp, and the fact that most are coming in early, is 3 weeks too long?

1. I'm for EZ Poly

2. Three weeks is good

PS. Halloween is going to be a little sad this year with out Lux Interior

MaxSynths · Post by **MaxSynths** » Wed Sep 30, 2009 8:05 pm

Mac of BIOnighT wrote:By the way and OT, I do agree with him when he says "JX 10 by mda (maxim digital audio) is a rather old and misappreciated polyphonic synth that has no interface.[...] How come nobody feels like giving it a nice gui?

Already happened

The skinned version is JX-16 and as a Cubase user you should know what I'm talking about

As far as I know is also free (at first available only for Cubase users then made free for all, not 100% sure anyway), if I remember right I've spotted JX-16 in the "old gems from the past" thread. I have to check...

Max

EDIT: found it on the Steinberg FTP but this version only works on Cubase (FTP download)

Mac of BIOnighT · Post by **Mac of BIOnighT** » Wed Sep 30, 2009 9:03 pm

But wait, are we sure we're talking about the same thing? This is a JX10, not 16...

MaxSynths · Post by **MaxSynths** » Wed Sep 30, 2009 9:13 pm

Mac of BIOnighT wrote: But wait, are we sure we're talking about the same thing? This is a JX10, not 16...

Give me 5 minutes...

EDIT: yes JX-16 is the same as JX-10, If I'm right the only difference is the polyphony...

EDIT2: JX-16 presets sounds different from JX-10 besides the fact they share the same name, but I think the JX-16 patches are tweaked. If you reset both plugs to the init patch the sound is almost the same (btw I think there's something different in the filter or in the way the velocity influence the sound).

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