September Contest: Submissions "Classical Covers"

[DrApostropheX]

Classical Covers

It's time to roll over Beethoven and get switched on Bach! The theme for this month is to do a cover of a classical tune. What is classical music? That's up for you to decide, and you shouldn't feel limited to any particular century (isn't about time we heard some Pärt played on a Moog modular?). There's no time limit this month so if you want to do the full Ring cycle played on a circus calliope, go for it. Or maybe at this point classic rock is classical music? If you do a cover of a Deep Purple song where they're covering Bach will it lead to a complete cover inception? There's only one way to find out!

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Submissions MUST follow these rules:

1 - Encoded in either .mp3 or .ogg format.

2 -EDIT: NO time limit for tracks submitted this month!

3 - Entered into the contest by posting a DIRECT LINK (note: THIS MEANS A DOWNLOAD LINK) in this RULES & SUBMISSIONS thread (use the GOSSIP thread for everything else). If you cant provide a direct link, please contact one of the following people listed below, they will be happy to help you out. These people provide free hosting for the purpose of this contest only! They are not a hosting service. When contacting these people, please take the effort to understand the terms and conditions they provide.

Providers:
1 - knockman
2 - watto
3 - slartibartfast

In addition...
http://www.kara-moon.com/forum has offered "self service" space. Log into the forum to find out more.

4 - Submitted by early a.m. (US Central Time) Thursday, September 27, 2018.

5 - Your entry must be composed specifically for this contest (or, if a cover, arranged/recorded specifically for this contest).

6 - Your entry must be created with audio plugins or software studio.

7 - Your entry should have the FILE named in a format of "yearmonth_artistname_tracktitle" (eg "1809_SymphonyInEnamel_Wendy.mp3"), where the artistname is the same as your KVR name. Please do not use spaces and special characters in the filename. Special considerations will be given to those that have the hosting agent change the file name.

8 - If you are going to tag your mp3--and you should--the artist name is to be the same as your KVR name, and the title tag is to be the name of your tune.

9 - One person can participate either with one entry, with one entry and one collaborative effort or with two collaborative efforts.

10 - Every submission has to be tagged with:
a) used instruments (virtual and 'real')
b) players' and singers' names (if other than entrant; collabs are allowed, sometimes encouraged, but they must be credited)
c) origin of loops and samples, if they're not free of copyright (this includes CreativeCommons material; please read and follow the license of the samples and loops you use); naming the origin of copyright free loops is also encouraged, but not mandatory. Please only use samples you are legally entitled to use.
d) name(s) of composer(s) -- if an entry is a cover this should be noted in the file name and/or the mp3 "Title" tag as well as the submission post (not everyone reads the submission posts).

11 - If there are strong doubts about the origin of the composition or parts of it, the participant should have the possibility to send a project file to the moderator, who could give it to a trustworthy person with the right host to examine it. Important: the participant should not be forced to do it.

12 - No resubmissions without permission from the moderator, INCLUDING for time-overage correction. Please PM me for permission.

13 - Any tracks not adhering to these guidelines will be very naughty indeed. Possibly disqualified upon peer review. And at least mocked for all to point and giggle.

14 - Voting (members must have at least 20 posts to vote ... although contest entrants are exempt from this ruling) will run from the submission deadline until early a.m, October 1st. Anyone voting for themselves will find ALL their votes disqualified; any entrants not voting will also be disqualified.

If you have questions, send a private message to drapostrophex (that's me, Victor!) or ask in the gossip thread. There's a good chance I'll answer eventually!

[Tbase2000]

Well, had to go back to school on this one. The attempt was to play Bach Prelude from Suite No.1 for Cello using my bass guitar. Problem 1, it's fast, like 160BPM fast so I had to just download the sheet music and start from there on 120BPM. Had to learn how to read bass clef. This is all the time I have to spend on this experiment though. Computer has been acting weird and this was a logical place to stop in the piece, about half way through. Maybe down the road I will practice it more so I can really rock it like a solo, but until then, all 1/16 notes played to metronome.

SDGR Bass using DI and SM57 mic on a Ampeg Classic rig.

Fun challenge. Here's my link:
https://soundcloud.com/user-399989808/1 ... kabignasty

Here's a link to a guy just killin it on cello so you have a reference to what the hell I was trying to do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGQLXRTl3Z0

[Mister Natural]

https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/49820 ... ACspQlXg2P
https://soundcloud.com/mrnatural-1/mr-n ... -of-summer

LIVE 10
DimensionPro strings emulation(x16)
Ableton EFX
Valhalla Plate & Vintage Verbs
Ozone v.5

edit - the final .5 seconds of reverb :=)

peace

[Laguna Rising]

Brahms - Hungarian Dance # 1 - Gm

don't take it too seriously

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Dances_(Brahms)

HW:
Charvel guitar, Std-D 'Swamp' DIY Strat Alesis solo tube pre, Shure beta58, H&K Tubemeister 5, Alesis Nanoverb, Rocktron Chameleon, Electro Harmonix Soul Food, Waldorf Rocket, Behringer Model D
SW :
Truepianos, NI Bandstand, NI Battery, NI Massive, Crystal, Glaceverb, Camel space, KeFir, LFX-1310, Kjarehus classic bundle, Fusion Field, Nuclear Cranium

[px2018]

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[beanpole]

Cover of Edvard Grieg's In The Hall of The Mountain King in an 80's synth stylee

Mountain King 86

DAW
Tracktion 7

Plug-Ins
Synth 1
TDR Nova & Feedback Compressor
Tracktion 4-Band EQ, Sampler & Low/High Pass Filter
OldSkoolVerb
Dead Duck Gate & Filter
TAL Reverb-2, Chorus & Noisemaker
Addictive Drums 2

[kryptonaut]

Danse Macabre

An interpretation of Danse Macabre by Camille Saint-Saëns

Back in the late '70s I tried to record a version of this using a home-built analog synth (PE Minisonic 2) and an old tape recorder, but was defeated by technology and lack of skill.
This contest gave me the incentive to try again using soft synths - I think '70s Kryptonaut would have been surprised and happy with the result


Danse Macabre on SoundCloud Danse Macabre download

It's been a long while since I visited the KVR Cafe - good to see so many familiar names still here, and some new faces too!


Synths:
Nine instances of Camel Audio Alchemy

FX:
Kjaerhus Classic Reverb/Phaser/Flanger

DAW:
Magix Samplitude Music Studio 2014

[Music Bird]

Dexed doing Grieg
https://soundcloud.com/pigeon-city/grie ... on-for-kvr
I don’t have the MP3 at the moment because I’m not in my PC, I’m on mobile.

[jackoo]

I always wanted to do a recreation of this...
Wanted to do more (add some more instruments in harmony), but I ran out of time and the choirs weren't finished so I took them out.


J.S. Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D minor

J.S. Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D minor

Used:
- ZynAddSubFX and its included FX for the main / upper range of the organ
- DUNE for the bassy range (trying to emulate the pedal sounds).
- Rigged in EnergyXT 1.4
- Normalized and trimmed in Audacity.

EDIT: updated with direct link as per kryptonaut's instructions.

[per99]

Title of the song: The New World Stayin' Alive (1809_per99_thenewworldstayinalive)


This is a cover of the symphony no. 9 From the New World by Antonin Dvorak. As you will here it's very close to the original one, I have just changed one or two notes


Windows 10

Cubase Essential 5

Bass Guitar: Zynaddsubfx (settings by myself)

Electric Piano: Zynaddsubfx (settings by myself)

Guitar: Karoryfer Shiny Guitar Arch Top together with Sforzando soft sampler from Plogue

Strings: Miroslav Philarmonik 2; Sample Tank Free 2.5

Drums: GSCW-drumsamples, imported to Shortcircuit soft sampler v 1.1.2

Trumpet: VSCO-2-CE sgossner downloaded from GitHub; imported to Sample Tank free 2.5

Reverb: IR L96 Medium hall from Samplicity together with two times Reverberate free from Liquid Sonics (and four Cubase group channels).

Guitar overdrive: Tube Amp from Voxengo; Guitar chorus: Independence Free Fx

Limiter: Independence Free FX

Vocals: Myself

https://soundcloud.com/per_bellener/180 ... tayinalive

[Hellfog]

Wilhelm Peterson-Berger - Sommarsång Hellfog remake

This is my interpretation


https://soundcloud.com/psyerichybrid/su ... on/s-tvpB1





Omnisphere, Diva, Stylus Rmx

[Jay F.]

This is my interpretation of Erik Satie's Vexations. Only played once ... no repetition.

« Pour se jouer 840 fois de suite ce motif, il sera bon de se préparer au préalable, et dans le plus grand silence, par des immobilités sérieuses »

https://soundcloud.com/jay-f-2/vexations-1840

DAW : Reaper
Soft Synths : Korg Polysix, Korg Mono/Poly, TAL Bassline, NI Razor
Bass : Ibanez SR505
FX : ReaEQ,TAL Dub II, Guitar Rig, OldSkoolVerb, LoudMax

Image : extract from Erik Satie's manuscript

[farlukar]

Tchaikovsky's Russian dance from the Nutcracker suite
(as made famous by Gameboy Tetris)

Trepak ogg vorbis or mp3

Stuff used: guitars, tracktion, steven slate drums, boogex, lsp compressor