KVR Audio

gorgorgathgorgorgor · Post by **gorgorgathgorgorgor** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 2:24 pm

michael2 wrote:
gorgorgathgorgorgor wrote:No vocals, as you don't use the synth to create the vocals, you use your voice. no vocal, no guitar, no tuba, as they are not the "one Synth" as the name of the challenge implies. Just use the synth, man.
Jesus dude, no need to get nasty and talk down to people.

I am so sorry, reading back it was pretty harsh. not much sleep this week, and that apparently makes me grumpy!

V'ger · Post by **V'ger** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 9:09 pm

glokraw wrote:the reality I experience over the years is that Reaper is the best vst host for linux

Serendipity again as I just saw this by chance:

Reaper installer for Linux

glokraw · Post by **glokraw** » Sun Apr 24, 2011 4:49 am

V'ger wrote:
glokraw wrote:the reality I experience over the years is that Reaper is the best vst host for linux
Serendipity again as I just saw this by chance:

Reaper installer for Linux

It may be nice, but I suspect there is an added level of complexity.
Reaper installs all in one folder, anywhere you want it

wine reaper375-install.exe

Perhaps there are some special goodies provided by the reaper folks.
Wouldn't be surprising. Their crew came up with a joystick app
you can use a logitech dual pad joystick as a midi controller, great
with all those midi-learn capable synths

Cheers

painpotato · Post by **painpotato** » Mon Apr 25, 2011 5:48 am

Thumbs up ancient

i like your track very much~

tattiemannie · Post by **tattiemannie** » Mon Apr 25, 2011 11:12 pm

Hi guys, I'm way late getting stuff done, but got a good chunk done earlier today ... so will get a track in.

Good to see a healthy number of tracks in, and good to see the thread spanning so many pages.

gorgorgathgorgorgor and michael 2, glad you have resolved your perceived differences, but hey, a bit of argy-bargy does the comp no harm ... keeps the thread bumped and gets folks engaged ....

.... When I had time to run this comp, one of my tactics when I felt things were a bit quiet was to write something either silly as hell or outrageous so that folks would respond ... taking the piss was also a cool trick

..... we're not a science convention nor a church congregation where we are all obliged to breathe quietly as we nod approvingly at the words of the speaker/minister .... So I would encourage discussion, even heated discussion, and conversation where we get to know a little bit about fellow participants ... and have a wee bit of fun.

Keeping the threads active does wonders for attracting new participants, as well as voters ... so feel free to air your disputes, and throw in the odd silly post you think might get a reaction. we have had some beautifully bizzarre exchanges in the OSC threads which have been great fun... off topic is good for traffic

Have fun folks, hopefully get my track finished tomorrow morning and mixed by tomorrow night.

tattiemannie · Post by **tattiemannie** » Mon Apr 25, 2011 11:15 pm

Oh, by the way V'ger, the above is in no way a criticism of how you are running the comps, I think you're doing brilliant .... my comments are more designed to encourage others to use the thread in a more fun kind of way for the benefit of retaining a dynamic community feel.

tattiemannie · Post by **tattiemannie** » Mon Apr 25, 2011 11:17 pm

(Ahem ... yeager, dont you dare post that bloody conversation between myself and me!!!! )

ancient · Post by **ancient** » Tue Apr 26, 2011 3:17 am

painpotato wrote:Thumbs up ancient
i like your track very much~

Thanks very much. Are you going to be posting soon?

glokraw · Post by **glokraw** » Tue Apr 26, 2011 12:26 pm

tattiemannie wrote:(Ahem ... yeager, dont you dare post that bloody conversation between myself and me!!!! )

I had to sign an NDA with myself, just to keep it secret

tattiemannie · Post by **tattiemannie** » Tue Apr 26, 2011 6:50 pm

Got my track finished, but Soundcloud appear unable to send me a confirmation email .... grrrr .. I'm sure it'll get here eventually.

Here are the details anyway

Tattiemannie - Albhabetcha

Host: FL8

Sounds: 13x FreeAlpha (old version )

Fx, 1x Plate Reverb, 7x mda Dynamics

Automation at intro only.

IrionDaRonin · Post by **IrionDaRonin** » Tue Apr 26, 2011 7:01 pm

Hi tattiemannie, i am your confirmation mail (lol) I can see your song already uploaded.
I will take a look.

See you.

Sound Mechanics · Post by **Sound Mechanics** » Wed Apr 27, 2011 7:39 am

tattiemannie wrote:Got my track finished, but Soundcloud appear unable to send me a confirmation email .... grrrr .. I'm sure it'll get here eventually.

Here are the details anyway

Tattiemannie - Albhabetcha

Host: FL8

Sounds: 13x FreeAlpha (old version )

Fx, 1x Plate Reverb, 7x mda Dynamics

Automation at intro only.

Which plate reverb are you using?

gorgorgathgorgorgor · Post by **gorgorgathgorgorgor** » Wed Apr 27, 2011 2:54 pm

michael2 wrote:
V'ger wrote:
michael2 wrote:i wasn't sure about that myself. pored over the rules (and thread) and didn't find anything about vocals, so I went ahead and sang over it. stuck to the freeware premise though for my vocals. if this is something of a grey area, I can always pull the song.
Yes live voice is not really made very clear in the rules and can see the confusion with that, will update them before next competition. But basically the synth should make ALL sounds which excludes any other sources.

Anyway terrific vocals, you might want to look at using songs with vocals for entries in the other KVR competition in the Music Cafe section here where they traditionally do well.

bstageboss wrote:@michael2

I don't think gorgorgathgorgorgor meant any disrespect, but I think he just wanted to explain the point of the competition.
The idea is to let your creativity be the thing that overcomes the limitations of the contest. In other words, how good is the stuff that's in your head?

It used to be that the ultimate test for songwriters was how good their material sounded with a simple "campfire orchestra", i.e. using cheap bongos and badly tuned (and often badly played) acoustic guitar. This is sort of KVR's version of that; "simple" in this case meaning one synth and some free FX that available to anyone in the world.

In any case, I give you props to you for singing; it's a rare thing for us electronic musicians to work up the courage. Keep it up!

STV
you know I usually chalk things up to the difficulty of interpreting the written word, and just ignore stuff like that. but for some reason that irritated me that morning. I think you guys are right as to his intent, and my reading into it the wrong way.

gorgorgathgorgorgor if you're reading this, sorry for getting into bitch mode; it was uncalled for. no hard feelings on my end, hope you can say the same.

will definitely check out the other challenges.

I finally got the chance to read the whole thread, It's been super crazy in Church-land (happy Easter everybody). Definitely no hard feelings, and I hope to see you in the comp again!

elipsis1 · Post by **elipsis1** » Wed Apr 27, 2011 10:19 pm

I was reading the rules, one question, so what "external" free effects are allowed? I was thinking I'd use a TAL delay, TAL Reverb, and a free Compressor or Ferric.

Do we avoid chorus/flanger effects that are external?

elipsis1 · Post by **elipsis1** » Wed Apr 27, 2011 10:28 pm

Hmm, I answered my own question by reading the whole thread... DOH!

elipsis1 wrote:I was reading the rules, one question, so what "external" free effects are allowed? I was thinking I'd use a TAL delay, TAL Reverb, and a free Compressor or Ferric.

Do we avoid chorus/flanger effects that are external?

One-Synth-Challenge 27: Free Alpha - Submissions and gossip