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bibz1st · Post by **bibz1st** » Sat Nov 15, 2014 2:42 pm

People will vote for their friends, why wouldn't they, but maybe they actually like what their friends do.
Doesn't matter to me if its anonymous or not.
I know my track is a bit different, not everyone's cup of tea and that's not a bad thing, if they all sounded the same it would make it even harder to vote.

doctorbob · Post by **doctorbob** » Sat Nov 15, 2014 2:58 pm

bibz1st wrote:People will vote for their friends, why wouldn't they, but maybe they actually like what their friends do.
Doesn't matter to me if its anonymous or not.
I know my track is a bit different, not everyone's cup of tea and that's not a bad thing, if they all sounded the same it would make it even harder to vote.

I agree with all this. There is a "core" of people who submit regularly, each with their own style and production values. They like what each other do, and sometimes even collaborate across the globe - if they understand each others' music, then they most likely will vote for it - simples! That said, they also help out newcomers (I'm one!), and make valid and valuable comments which help me improve my game!
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mostlyjustj · Post by **mostlyjustj** » Sat Nov 15, 2014 4:29 pm

APZX wrote: Jlanthier - Thanks Ichiro!: Okay, I'm going to be the first to admit that the opening for this track is straight up awesome. I mean you did a lot of things right, sound design is more utilitarian with a few really interesting bits, but the thing really for me was movement in the composition. It just stayed too close to the original feeling and never really developed much IMO.

Pretty awesome of you to go out of your way to explain all of your low votes. And I agree with you 100% on your assessment of my entry. As a relative newbie to making music my sounds will almost all be utilitarian vs. the mindblowing/earcandy sound designs I've heard from a lot of the obviously more experienced people around here. But ya, in this case my composition sucked, haha it's true! I don't work very fast, so I can only do so much in a month!

Hopefully regular participation in this competition will help with that!

IrregularDan · Post by **IrregularDan** » Sat Nov 15, 2014 5:14 pm

Voted!

RichardSemper · Post by **RichardSemper** » Sat Nov 15, 2014 8:23 pm

Voted!

Well... I'm never going to have a chance in this comp as long as you lot keep putting in such brilliant entries!

The main culprits are:-

Pulse Width Modulation - your melody just blows me away, played with great feeling, a great piece of music!

Photonic - lovely memorable theme - great distorted guitar sounds near the end.

BJPorter - wonderful pads, epic sounding, fantastic chillout.

Skyzone - epic and grand - all my favourite sounds.

Caine123 - Huge sounds (only 1 day??!) love the whole feel of it!

DzAH - excellent follow up to last month with the classical theme!

APZX - great builder, gets better and better!

BlitBit - great tune, love it - and its seasonal!

G-Roove - great tune, good vibe had us dancing!

All the above i scored top points - all have great sounds, production, mix arrangement etc plus that subjective 'I Love It' factor.

twelve tracks got 4 points from me. All have great production, sounds and mix and something special about them. Many only just missed the 5 point score. Seems everyone pulled out the big guns for this one!

ten tracks get the 3 points - usually good sounds and decent mix, but some lacking in development of melody or just average production (compared with the above

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the twos and ones - All these had something interesting about them but again were either average in production, sounds or development compared with the above.

Interesting to note that even the lowest scores here would have fared better in many previous comps. One - does definitely not mean its rubbish, just that I use the full spread of scores. Scoring 5 for everyone would be meaningless - I would have liked a 1-10 scoring system here.
It seems the bar is being raised all the time.

Also, there is no special scoring for 'friends' - for me it's ALL ABOUT THE MUSIC!

I will try to add comments on soundcloud as soon as I have the chance.

Happy OSC-ing everyone and good luck

Orboscope · Post by **Orboscope** » Sat Nov 15, 2014 9:17 pm

voted

excessional · Post by **excessional** » Sat Nov 15, 2014 9:19 pm

APZX wrote:
Excessional - Bladerunners: Now, what is interesting about this was really the simplicity of the sounds themselves. Something I am a huge fan of. But the kicker was actually the mixing. There is so much room in the left & right channels to use still. Also, the low end just isn't there and I love me ample low end. But seriously those bells, A+.

Well as a total newbie I fully expect to be at the bottom - my only plan was not to embarrass myself too badly - I think I did get a couple of fairly catchy melodies going at times, so I'm not too unhappy (really needed to use a snare sound but the Bladerunner preset sound bank I limited myself to didn't include one).

As for your track, I scored it a 4 mainly for the section at 2.31 and just after when those gorgeous chords come in - real hairs of the back of the neck stuff. The mix sounded decent to me but I actually thought there was a bit too much low end - the best bits of the track for me were when you laid off that a bit and let the chords or arps soar above the muddier parts..

J.Ruegg · Post by **J.Ruegg** » Sun Nov 16, 2014 1:31 am

Voted!.

Caine123 · Post by **Caine123** » Sun Nov 16, 2014 2:05 am

still having heavy time issues atm so i am not so active but voted of course

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voting is still not my preference of course cause there are great people here which i normally would give all 5 points but of course this is no personal voting but the material voting so it's hard to decide but i mostly vote from a mixture of mixing/mastering/song/sound design.
of course the song itself is the most important aspect but i also like to learn new stuff or genres i dont listen to much or at all, and if so i also listen to it fully and judge objectively! a mess sounds like a mess, but even if i dont like a genre and it is present in osc i judge it from the musicwise, the work in it, if it catches me. so it's all a mixture.

again, it's hard to vote cause you may not check who is behind those songs and i think everyone should do it otherwise it's like EUROVISION song contests where it's mostly neighboring crap voting and whatever else.... ;D, if im good with XY and gave him 5 points i may give him 1 point if i dont like his/her next song in the next osc! this shouldnt hurt anyone

. so maybe an anonymous voting would be appreciated so people dont get upset and mocked up! we know how we humans act and feel

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bjporter · Post by **bjporter** » Sun Nov 16, 2014 2:10 am

Caine123 wrote:still having heavy time issues atm so i am not so active but voted of course !

Same here. I've listened to a lot of the tracks off line, very very very busy month. Next month will be more chill hopefully.

Amazing tracks too. BTW, Caine really nice to see you in here I missed you.

bjporter · Post by **bjporter** » Sun Nov 16, 2014 2:11 am

excessional wrote:Yes, I'd just like to add what a friendly and supportive community this is compared to many other internet message boards.

The overwhelming sense for a beginner like me is that the unspoken rule is to be supportive to other board members. ..if you can't say something good (or at least specific and constructive) about a track, then don't say anything at all...

I'm afraid my extremely limited sound design skills are going to defeat any attempt by me to enter this month though. After an hour of messing around with Flexoid, I haven't even managed to find the volume button!

Wow that's great to hear!!!!!!!!!

Caine123 · Post by **Caine123** » Sun Nov 16, 2014 2:13 am

bjporter wrote:
Caine123 wrote:still having heavy time issues atm so i am not so active but voted of course !
Same here. I've listened to a lot of the tracks off line, very very very busy month. Next month will be more chill hopefully.

Amazing tracks too. BTW, Caine really nice to see you in here I missed you.

thanks a lot bro, i try to be in for the osc 69 too if i get some more ideas, i wanna get started for some project you know very well atm more than osc

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and i updated my post!

bjporter · Post by **bjporter** » Sun Nov 16, 2014 4:47 am

Not many mentioned the genius literary work of William Synthspear, well how was it?

bjporter · Post by **bjporter** » Sun Nov 16, 2014 4:49 am

z.prime · Post by **z.prime** » Sun Nov 16, 2014 5:25 am

bjporter wrote:Not many mentioned the genius literary work of William Synthspear, well how was it?

Sheer genius.

One Synth Challenge #68: Synth1 by Ichiro Toda