One Synth Challenge #92: Digits 2 by Extent of the Jam (z.prime wins!)

[rghvdberg]

We can do an OSC with it!

yep we did that one, it was my first OSC! I think you joined in just after I did so you must have missed it.
It's a super cool synth though! I still use it.

Yeah, just needs a v2 with Mac support. Wink, wink.

and linux support ! (wink, wink, nutch, nutch, say no more, eh?)

[Dragonsongz]

It feels kinda weird posting my song now; I'm usually one of the first few people to shove out a song, but the one time I wait, only 4 other people have put their songs out there before me.

Is almost no one participating, or am I still too early? XD

Anyways, here's my thing: https://soundcloud.com/real_skylake/pariah-v7-final


14 Digits
12 Easy Qs
2 Nasty VCSs
6 A1 Stereo Controls
2 Classic Master Limiters
A couple of Spectrum Analyzers no one needs to care about
4 OTTs
4 GFM Distorts
1 Bittersweet
2 Blue Cat Gains
4 Dimension Pluses
1 Engineer's Filter
1 MGF Babyblue (I feel like I need some new distortion plugins...)
1 Fruity Delay Bank
1 QX 24

[Taron]

You're all very early. But at the end it really doesn't matter. Nice sound! Interesting experiments.

[ontrackp]

My Digits 2 entry.

https://soundcloud.com/ontrackp/ontrackp-ataraxia

25 instances - all original sounds. Logic Pro X EQ, compressors, reverb.

[z.prime]

How in the sam hell are you all finished with entries?!? I don't even have an 8-bar loop yet! *sigh*

[ATN69]

How in the sam hell are you all finished with entries?!? I don't even have an 8-bar loop yet! *sigh*

I worked for 2 full Days straight ..but the fact is I started out earlier with a completely different track and then changed my mind. Parts of the sound design was however recycled from the first track. You still have half a month. Plenty of time

[TrojakEW]

How in the sam hell are you all finished with entries?!? I don't even have an 8-bar loop yet! *sigh*

Fast doesn't mean good. I have not force myself to make anything or even participate. I'v just played with knobs and sliders on this thing and then I spliced together thoose sounds. Looks like a cheating to me because I didnt try to do anything specific to overcome synth limitations (maybe just little) Real challenge with digits will be tracks that sounds like it were performed by Herbert von Karajan and real orchestra.

[Taron]

The real challenge with digits is to make it not sound like a degraded digital signal from 1987 and to get around the world's worst envelopes!
...too negative? Hmmm...with good care one can get some crazy sounds out of it that are likely unique.

How in the sam hell are you all finished with entries?!? I don't even have an 8-bar loop yet! *sigh*

If one doesn't noodle the hell out of every bar, it can go very quickly!
You guys made me produce reasonably sounding tracks, because of how inspiring your meticulous craftsmanship radiates from your productions, but before then I would make up to five songs a day (some 30 years ago, hahaha), most of them fully composed with intro, verse, refrain, bridges and outtro....well..."most" of them. When I joined the OSC it took me 2 - 3 days to make my entry. NOW I use the whole month, making a few test tracks in the first few days, but then, once I like it, I work on it only for an hour or two each day, skip a few days, but I take the whole time to let it simmer and check again, noodle here, noodle there.
But now that I'm trying to do the dubsteppy thing, I can barely move forward, still being firmly stuck on the piece I've already posted, only having noodled a bit more on mix and sounds.
It's not really "making music" so much as it is engineering effects and certain qualities. I can likely make a dirty little song within an hour or two, but doubt it could make the cut here... you're all too darn good! ....hmmm...but I could try again?! But Digits is the wrong candidate for it. It takes an hour to make a single sound work halfway properly, if you want anything vaguely specific.

[liqih]

I'm honestly not the dubstep expert (my tracks are not really dubstep most of the time, despite what you may think... but certainly some influences and other types of modern music... and 80s music). But there are a few tracks I think most dubstep fans would tell you are good with dubstep elements..... Anyway, here are the few tracks I think capture the basswork portion of the genre (though some may not actually be dubstep, but rather complextro):
....

Thanks for sharing those links.
Dubsteps is quite various, of the ones you posted I liked
Kaskade - Disarm You ft. Ilsey (Grey Remix) and
Two Fingers - Vengeance Rhythm (KOAN Sound Remix)

I care for Dubstep in the measure it brings some interesting variations to the
music I already like. So for instance I don't like the Dubstep that goes
toward Electro EDM or House.

Here are some of my Dubstep selections:

Noisy and delicate:
Burial - Fostercare (HQ)

Fun wobbly:
Rusko - Cockney Thug

Reggae punchy:
Rusko _ Jahova

Dub punchy:
Caspa & Rusko - Brixton Blow Out (Rubber Dub)

Dub and dance:
Benga && Coki - Night {FULL} [HD]

Rap wobbly:
Kid Sister - Pro Nails (Rusko Remix)

Noisy masterpiece, but longish:
Burial - Kindred

Pop song:
Skylar Grey Dubstep remix The Words I never said

How to listen quite fast to the tracks, avoiding YouTube mess and slow download:
1) go to http://convert2mp3.net/en/
2) at "Enter something..." paste one of the title above
3) click "search and convert"
4) click "convert" in one of the selections that appear below, usually the first one
5) a window open, click "convert" again and wait few seconds
6) use "play this file:", alternatively you can download the mp3 using "continue"
Looks like many steps but it's really fast.

[Guenon]

It's not really "making music" so much as it is engineering effects and certain qualities.

As good a way of making music as any imo. I have equal respect for both extremes, virtuoso live playing with great traditional musical forms, and virtuoso 100% engineered stuff with no traditional harmony etc. Both are exhilarating when executed well, and just as valid "music making".

[Edit: I'm not looking for a debate on this one, especially in this context and thread; just expressing my own view, and I know this is a very subjective thing. If our views differ on that, I'm sure we can just disagree on it in good spirits, T ]

[Taron]

Oh dear, I hope you didn't mistake my comment for any sign of less respect I'd have for the latter. I'm in awe by much of the engineering that's going on here for darn sure! My major appreciation goes for something that evokes sensations I can really enjoy and that might even last. Problem with pure engineering feeds can be that they vanish as quickly as they appear and nothing really sticks in any meaningful way, you know. When that happens I find it to be like gold plated soda cans, you know...you could put them on a shelf if you liked that sort of thing, but you rather wished, you could get the gold off for prettier uses!

You, sir, are pretty much a master, though, managing to create lasting atmospheres, gorgeously engineered. So...I'd take you off the shelf, just to pl...naahh that line I better not finish! ...dig your stuff!

[Guenon]

thanks a lot. I have serious respect for your talent as well. And yeah, a good response, I get where you're coming from. For me, some of the strongest sensations and emotional responses have been from those "engineered" tunes (I guess it's like... the most subjective thing there can be, haha - and on the other hand, some of the strongest reactions I've had have been from delicate acoustic works that are at the opposite end of this spectrum, of course). I can relate to all of that

[opoint]

Having some fun with the ipad version.

I tried sitting with only the ipad in front of me, barely looked at screen, and recorded audio like an old mulitrack.
Felt good, seemed to clear my head of the infinite possibilities of modern daw effect programming today.

Will recording ipad audio be against the rules? I can't think of a way to prove it's the synth, other than sharing a lot of patches.

In all I really like it on ipad. It can create some interesting , gritty subtle modulation sounds, kind of spooky Halloweenish stuff.
It will be another go synth with Addictive Synth and Animoog, for those times you really feel like jamming or twiddling some virtual knobs.

[z.prime]

Will recording ipad audio be against the rules?

Yes, this will not be allowed. You are right, it won't be possible to determine the sounds came from the synth. The project must be able to reproduce the track with synth presets and all.

[WYG_E]

Will recording ipad audio be against the rules?

Yes, this will not be allowed. You are right, it won't be possible to determine the sounds came from the synth. The project must be able to reproduce the track with synth presets and all.

Unless you film the whole recording session.