One-Synth-Challenge 23: Any Synth - Voting and Results
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- KVRian
- 687 posts since 21 Aug, 2010 from Cagliari - (Sardinia)
Congratulations to Yeager and all participants!
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Mac of BIOnighT Mac of BIOnighT https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=70598 - KVRAF
- 2521 posts since 3 Jun, 2005 from Italy
Darn viking...V'ger wrote:Yeager wins again!
Congrats
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PurpleCatfishBettie PurpleCatfishBettie https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=211816
- KVRAF
- 3278 posts since 22 Jul, 2009
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- KVRAF
- 6370 posts since 8 Jun, 2009
Congrats to Yeager and everyone. Thanks for the reviews and votes.
Going back to the mix after a break, I can hear how the levels or EQ could have been altered to stop the lead from dominating on some speakers: I put the track together quite quickly and didn't test on a range of systems.
Going back to the mix after a break, I can hear how the levels or EQ could have been altered to stop the lead from dominating on some speakers: I put the track together quite quickly and didn't test on a range of systems.
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 3922 posts since 15 Dec, 2009
Really liked your track Gamma, maybe the most creative and evocative of all and would have gotten top score from me in normal circumstances, but as you admit yourself, the bells were not very prominent unfortunately..
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- KVRAF
- 6370 posts since 8 Jun, 2009
Thanks, you're too kind. I picked a really bad synth for bells thinking it would be a challenge but managed to abuse the detune (combined with some layering) to get some that worked as bells. They then turned out to be a very poor fit for the track so I bunged them metaphorically underwater: Marsh Wall is a road in London's Docklands that runs between two of the (really quite deep) western docks just south of Canary Wharf. I worked down there about ten years ago: it's really quite desolate on an early winter's morning.V'ger wrote:Really liked your track Gamma, maybe the most creative and evocative of all and would have gotten top score from me in normal circumstances, but as you admit yourself, the bells were not very prominent unfortunately..
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Lunatic_Machinist Lunatic_Machinist https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=192752
- KVRist
- 297 posts since 2 Nov, 2008
Congratulations to Yeager! and thanks to everyone else for participating, great fun this was.
and I had my first point, woohoo. this was actually the third time I had began something for an osc, but didn't finish, this time I decided to pull this one off no matter how. and I did! got a point, too!
and I looked at that superwave thing and it looks like that's gonna be some fun. looking forward to that.
and I had my first point, woohoo. this was actually the third time I had began something for an osc, but didn't finish, this time I decided to pull this one off no matter how. and I did! got a point, too!
and I looked at that superwave thing and it looks like that's gonna be some fun. looking forward to that.
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- KVRAF
- 3257 posts since 28 Dec, 2007
Congrats Yeager 
.... and well done everyone for a quality collection of tracks. 
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- KVRian
- 1209 posts since 28 Jun, 2005
Thank you all for the votes, and the kind words, and the reviews.
I felt it was all pretty pretty..... pretty close. Some really nice tracks this time around.
A bit about the track, for those who are interested.
A while back I saw a documentary about Evelyn Glennie, a deaf percussionist, it ended like this:
Apart from the fact that I love those coloured furry balls, this piece stayed with me, I absolutely love it.
So this OSC we needed bells, made some bells with synth1, and tried to play it a bit like a marimba (well spotted Dwzel).
A small part of Glennies track (at 4:53 on the video, the lower notes) found its way to the beginning of my track (mine is much much faster).
When I came to the bridge of my track, someone asked me "What is this sound?", (he gave me the headphones of his Mp3-player), it's a SuperSaw I said.
"How's it made ?", so I copied the bells track, added a new synth1, and showed him how to make this awful sound , pressed PLAY..... and there it was.
The contrast between the bells and the saw (both playing the same theme) made me laugh.
So I said : WTF I leave it in, but I have to apologize to the people who listen to this up front, that's where the title came from (Well spotted V'ger).
And that's about all there is to it.
While reading some of the reviews it came to me how hard it is for a "REAL" artist to make a second album (<- see how old I am?). People have expectations, and sometimes it's hard to live up to them.
So my next entry will be under my new name : TAFKAY ( The A$$hole Formerly Known As Yeager) so that nobody knows it's me
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And... yes I would like a prize this time:
I would like this: http://www.genuinesoundware.com/?a=showproduct&b=27 MrRay73 Mark II.
Have been playing with it, and it sounds very nice, apart from the occasional noise burts.
OK V'ger, tell me what to do.
I felt it was all pretty pretty..... pretty close. Some really nice tracks this time around.
A bit about the track, for those who are interested.
A while back I saw a documentary about Evelyn Glennie, a deaf percussionist, it ended like this:
Apart from the fact that I love those coloured furry balls, this piece stayed with me, I absolutely love it.
So this OSC we needed bells, made some bells with synth1, and tried to play it a bit like a marimba (well spotted Dwzel).
A small part of Glennies track (at 4:53 on the video, the lower notes) found its way to the beginning of my track (mine is much much faster).
When I came to the bridge of my track, someone asked me "What is this sound?", (he gave me the headphones of his Mp3-player), it's a SuperSaw I said.
"How's it made ?", so I copied the bells track, added a new synth1, and showed him how to make this awful sound
, pressed PLAY..... and there it was.The contrast between the bells and the saw (both playing the same theme) made me laugh.
So I said : WTF I leave it in, but I have to apologize to the people who listen to this up front, that's where the title came from (Well spotted V'ger).
And that's about all there is to it.
While reading some of the reviews it came to me how hard it is for a "REAL" artist to make a second album (<- see how old I am?). People have expectations, and sometimes it's hard to live up to them.
So my next entry will be under my new name : TAFKAY ( The A$$hole Formerly Known As Yeager) so that nobody knows it's me
.And... yes I would like a prize this time:
I would like this: http://www.genuinesoundware.com/?a=showproduct&b=27 MrRay73 Mark II.
Have been playing with it, and it sounds very nice, apart from the occasional noise burts.
OK V'ger, tell me what to do.
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 3922 posts since 15 Dec, 2009
Always enjoy some background to the pieces, wish more would include it.
And I can see what you mean about the pressures that comes from reviews TAFKAY, I guess why one often hears how people have stopped reading them ..
Anyway, let you know ASAP how to get the prize.
And I can see what you mean about the pressures that comes from reviews TAFKAY, I guess why one often hears how people have stopped reading them ..
Anyway, let you know ASAP how to get the prize.
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- KVRAF
- 3257 posts since 28 Dec, 2007
Very interesting Yeager, and nice of you to mention Evelyn Glennie ... well worth checking out some of her lectures on sound, and her experience of learning/playing music as a hearing impaired person.
Evelyn is from the Aberdeen area, and some of us Aberdonians are actually more proud of what she has achieved in the field of music than we are of our other 'local hero' Annie Lennox.
Evelyn is from the Aberdeen area, and some of us Aberdonians are actually more proud of what she has achieved in the field of music than we are of our other 'local hero' Annie Lennox.
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 3922 posts since 15 Dec, 2009
Ok with Yeager having chosen his winners prize, next is you Bzur, what's your fancy now that the GSI prize is taken?
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 3922 posts since 15 Dec, 2009
Btw, just heard from Superwave that the latest Superwave P8 (2.2 as of now) is compiled with the latest SynthEdit version which of course means the multi-core bug is fixed, good news for OSC 25.
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PurpleCatfishBettie PurpleCatfishBettie https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=211816
- KVRAF
- 3278 posts since 22 Jul, 2009
Yeager, the bells on your piece were rocking my world... then much of the rest of the piece had me going, 'solid, but not as great as those bells.'
My own entry was all fairly simple. The hard panning of the two main instruments was an experiment.
If memory serves, the 'bells' were tuned to 'zero,' with the bass doing a detune ('uptune?'), oscillating from roughly 0 to +10 cents throughout. The 'horn' ('lead') was tuned up +10 cents or thereabouts.
With the tuning set up as it was, it sounded a bit different than it had with all 3 instruments at 0 tuning.
Anyway, Famisynth is pretty cool. One of its features is a relatively small CPU hit.
Because of all of the different synths and compositions, this entire contest was really cool.
My own entry was all fairly simple. The hard panning of the two main instruments was an experiment.
If memory serves, the 'bells' were tuned to 'zero,' with the bass doing a detune ('uptune?'), oscillating from roughly 0 to +10 cents throughout. The 'horn' ('lead') was tuned up +10 cents or thereabouts.
With the tuning set up as it was, it sounded a bit different than it had with all 3 instruments at 0 tuning.
Anyway, Famisynth is pretty cool. One of its features is a relatively small CPU hit.
Because of all of the different synths and compositions, this entire contest was really cool.
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- KVRist
- 185 posts since 12 Nov, 2009