One-Synth-Challenge 15 - Krakli's StringZ!

[V'ger]

A shortish one from me this time.

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Io - V'ger

5 x StringZ II 
1 x Ambience

That's Io as in 'in and out' reflecting the composing this month, but also the planet, here's a space pic to set the mood:



Regret not being able to get fully stuck with the tune and synth for the month as I actually really enjoy the sound it makes, a nice difference to most others synths and genres I usually play with.

[glokraw]

A shortish one from me this time.

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Io - V'ger

5 x StringZ II 
1 x Ambience

That's Io as in 'in and out' reflecting the composing this month, but also the planet, here's a space pic to set the mood:



Regret not being able to get fully stuck with the tune and synth for the month as I actually really enjoy the sound it makes, a nice difference to most others synths and genres I usually play with.

Looks like my back yard, and one of the giant shrooms coming up, home of the rare
3 eyed two tailed alleycats

[PurpleCatfishBettie]

All right; here we go; may the listening and voting commence!

It might sound pretentious, but whilst working with and listening to StringZ, i felt transported back to the late 19th or early 20th centuries. It's got a serious, 'chamber/parlour/cafe music' vibe about it as far as i can tell.

[tattiemannie]

Cheers for the submission V'ger ...

OK, thats a healthy number of entries! ... maybe not quite enough to warrant a 5 vote system ... or then again ....

Anyway, I wont have time to launch the voting thread today ... so time to have your say about the voting format ... For now, I'm leaning more towards a 3 vote format as in the Anubis comp.

[Mac of BIOnighT]

5 - it's a bit less painful to decide...

[V'ger]

It might sound pretentious, but whilst working with and listening to StringZ, i felt transported back to the late 19th or early 20th centuries. It's got a serious, 'chamber/parlour/cafe music' vibe about it as far as i can tell.

Hm, I got a definite space/ice feeling with it, but maybe that had something to do with them running through Ambience as well..

[V'ger]

Looks like my back yard, and one of the giant shrooms coming up, home of the rare 3 eyed two tailed alleycats

Where do you live?

About the voting, I guess we need more than 3 as we not only have to decide a winner but a loser to decide the next synth as well.

Tattie, in your mission to try all trackers, have you tried Aodix? It just came up on plugin-of-the-hour and claims to be "the ultimate bridge between tracking and sequencing". It's from the same guy who made Voyager. http://www.kvraudio.com/get/264.html

And welcome to the OSC newcomers, nice entries.

[objectman]

Just listened to all the entries in the OSC and also the KVR general comp (on a thread?). While I want to enter the other comp which has arguably better (commercial?) prizes, I can honestly say that this comp proves that "Poverty is the Mother of Invention". I feel that the limitations of this comp force you to think harder about your tune.

I've (perhaps stupidly) bought nearly all the VSTs and a couple of good DAWs and so have a potentially amazing Home Studio, but sometimes I'm just shocked by choice. This comp gets you to focus and, if you're really keen on something you produce here, you can always tizzy it up in another VST later.

Although I must say - this (unstable?) VST has a beautiful and unique sound. Something olde worldey and yet very 1960s about it. Could be our tunes.

If the author of this VST is keen, it'd be nice to see a stable version. I reckon you'd get $35 (minimum) for it easy by adding a bit of stability and also a support thread here. More (maybe $49?) if you Tizz up the interface and offer support (interfaces do help impress wannabes like me - even if they have no effect on the sound quality).

Having said that, the usability of Stringz2 is excellent so it might be best to leave that aspect alone (Steve Krug's "Don't Make Me Think" is a good book for interface designers).

What do you other guys think of price point on this VST - if some of the bugs were ironed out? I reckon it's a bit better than a totally FREE thing. Or maybe keep this version free and release a paid version? Similar to what HGFortune does. The FREE version would sell it based on the innate algorithm and motion of held notes alone, don't you reckon?

[V'ger]

"shocked by choice" is a good way of putting it and a phenomena I know well..

About StringZ I had an awful time with crashing etc too, until I ticked an option in Reaper to load them 'in buggy mode' and after that there were I think no crashes. Don't really know what that option does, but it seems a lot of issues are with multiple instances of Synthedit vst's on multicore CPU machines, so maybe it uses only 1? The new version of SE should anyway cure this and thusly updated StringZ made into a pay version like you say perhaps.

[dwsel]

Have you tried to rename each instance differently or turn off multicore usage in your host? These are known solutions for SE multicore bug.

[tattiemannie]

OK guys, I'm working on the voting thread now ... will post here when its up.

Looks like a 5 vote system is favoured over a 3 vote system .... I'm thinking perhaps a compromise is more suitable .... like a 4 vote system in allocations of 5, 3, 2, and 1 ....

V'ger, thanks for the recommendation ... looks interesting! .... I need to see what the demo restriction would be though. ... oh, and it's not just tracker I'm interested in using for comps ... any kind of vst host/sequencer will be of interest. ... I know there are a couple of drum machines which can also host vsts, and might actually do the job ... cant remember for now which ones though

[tattiemannie]

V'ger, I found out that Aodix is now free! .... and it is one fkn cool tracker!!! I see it as something of a hybrid between Madtracker and Buzz ... will def use this for a future comp ... the downside is, that playing with it has put me four hours behind with everything else I had to do

However, I'll get there!
... here's the OSC15 Voting thread ...


http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=4077748


Hope to launch OSC16 in the next hour, then relax with a nice czech lager from the co-op, and see in my birthday

[tattiemannie]

Sod it .... OSC16 can wait another day ... been too busy playing with Texture to launch the comp ... I'm trying hard to think which FX we are gonna need ... and apart from dynamics and maybe stereo width enhancement, I dont see what else is required! ... Think I'll go have a look at the permitted fx in the GTG Sputnik comp and take it from there.

Meanwhile, I think I'll play with texture a few more minutes .... Cool synth!

[V'ger]

Hope to launch OSC16 in the next hour, then relax with a nice czech lager from the co-op, and see in my birthday

Happy birthday! And thanks again for your work arranging these comps.

I tried Aodix once to see what trackers was about, but couldn't make head or tails of it really, but I guess I'm too stuck in a horizontal linear mode. I saw though from another KVR thread someone posted an screenie about some VST showing that Aodix is still used as main DAW..

[Mac of BIOnighT]

Happy birthday!!!