KVR Audio

liqih · Post by **liqih** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 2:31 am

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Elephant in the Kitchen Dub

sounds from:

Pouring water from a bottle plus bottle hit on the table,
Oven door,
Refrigerator door,
Kitchen drawer,
Rain,
Elephant voice.

Only reverb and delay effects used, very few processing on samples, a little more on elephant voice, what I tried to do is to build the groove of the song on the natural feeling of the samples,
the result is a minimal ambient Dub track which I quite like, I hope you do too.

I have also a 3 minutes version here, listen after voting on the short one.

nikp2000 · Post by **nikp2000** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 4:16 am

Shit, this was hard.
Anyway, various recordings of me hitting pipes, ducts and canned air plus my electric screwdriver whirling all recorded and manipped in Soundforge, imported into RMIV and tuned by ear then played and arranged in Traction with Reaktor Session, classic EQ, MDA EQ and classic limiter, then finished off in Soundforge.

http://www.nikp2000.com/the_pipes.mp3

Nick

Guitarjeff · Post by **Guitarjeff** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 9:30 am

My entry has sort of a "Home Security" theme, you could say.

I have to admit, I wasn't very excited about this month's theme. I don't have much interest in this type of sound manipulation and have never really tried it so I'm sure I suck at it.

Anyway I just returned from 2 weeks plus of out of town gigging. I always take my laptop with me to record ideas (and obviously a microphone to sing into) On this trip, I managed to get in a little hunting as well, so I thought I'd record a good shotgun blast while I was at it.

So here is what I used. A sample of a shot from my Remington 870 SPS for all drum sounds. Different parts of the sample were used for each "drum" and the "Hi Hat" (or is it a ride?)

The raw sample also appears at the end of the song. The cymbal sound is the result of adding LOTS of reverb.

The other sample is the tone you hear when you arm our home security system (Brinks) I basically pitch shifted it and mapped it out in Halion. Some notes definitely sound better than others, so I really changed it radically by pumping the lines through Amplitube (finally found a use for this big waste of money) to try to emulate a guitar. The "bass" is the same sample shifted down and fed into Reaktor. I used an SM-58 to record both sounds.

So the bottom line is, I tried to make non-musical things sound as musical as possible. The sound quality on this bugs me a little, and it is definitely a rush-job since I'm heading back out to Palm Springs Friday morning, but here it is....

The Armed-peggio Song (#1 with some buckshot)

Cheers!

Markleford · Post by **Markleford** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 3:45 am

Empress Schwa Demands Tribute from the Universe

Most prominent sources...
Schwa the Cat: Lead and snare, wavesequence steps
Cat litter bin: Kick
Drinking Straw and big pot: Bass layers
Lysol spray, crinkly plastic bags: Hats and cymbals (white noise loops)
Pots and pans and lids: Percussive transients, wavesequence steps
Rolling crystal ball: "Ride" overtone

I trimmed out many single cycles, sometimes resynthed them, and mostly combined them in Reason NN-XT in the style of a layered wavetable synth. The wavesequence was done in Wusikstation. Everything mixed in SONAR.

- m

mystahr · Post by **mystahr** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 9:51 pm

Some time ago I took a borrowed memorecorder to record a variety of sounds from my work (and I work as a cranedriver in a concrete factory). At home I recorded that through a mic into the computer. I cut the audio in cubase over 4 tracks; and used QuadFrohmage, Mobilohm and endless tone for FX

Musiq Cohmplete

Ohmboys

Did not have too much time to keep up this month, let alone to make some music; so pfew I made it

dbavirt · Post by **dbavirt** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 5:03 am

Slosh

This was a great learning experience. I had never seriously used a sampler before. I had no mic, so I used the crappy mic on my camcorder. This was problematic because of all the camcorder noise I had to filter out.

gurgle: several samples of water dumped into pot, pitch shifted down.
drums: water-filled pot hit and tilted; crock-pot lid dropped into water-filled pot; lid dropped onto spoons; empty milk jug (not pictured) hit with spoons.
bass: wine glass hit with knuckle, pitch shifted down and layered.
crystal piano: wine glass hit with knuckle and spoon, sometimes tilted. Multi-sampled and layered.
chiff sound: regular glass hit with spoon, multi-sampled with slower attack to get the harsh bowing sound.
high lead: wine glass looped and layered in three octaves plus a third...made a lame organ sound, but effects saved me.
organ-like chords: same as high lead, mostly. Used Quad Frohmage to play the melody line on a comb filter.

All samples manipulated with Kontakt and tracked/mixed in Cubase SX2. Smallest loop size was 3000 samples. Everything was squashed and mangled with Quad Frohmage, Mobilohm, and Blockfish. (The Ohm Force group buy was good to me...) Selected tracks sent through two instances of Spektral Delay and one of Cubase Reverb B. Whole thing was compressed with Cubase Multiband Compressor.

knockman · Post by **knockman** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 6:15 am

here's my entry:

Lost In Art

i didn't have the time i'd hoped, so this is a 'work in progress'. if it doesn't get disqualified it will make other submissions shine brighter than they already do.

saw, vice and wood from a discount store. i used a budget condenser made by Seide through a budget tube preamp by SM Pro Audio. this photo should explain...

the rest you can guess!

regards

Mo Verdigast · Post by **Mo Verdigast** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 11:52 am

Well, it went like this, Officer. I was minding my own business when I saw this microphone sticking out the trash and it had a USB pre-amp attached to it, so I took it home and decided this meant I should enter the contest after all. And I had it in mind that I would sing a song and that would be my contribution.

Well, then some said we couldn't sing, so I decided that I would try anyway because my singing is so awful that it really doesn't qualify as musical. So all the sounds you hear are natural from my voice, and then I added some nice effects using Pristine Space convolution reverb and Spirit Canyon impulses.

And besides, I felt guilty last month, so my song is an impassioned plea for a certain KVR member to come back to these entertaining contests.

I do sincerely apologise for the pain my voice will now inflict upon you. Despair not, it only gets worse!

Please Come Back

Deja Vu times two!

PS: I really did find a mike and pre-amp in the trash. Fairly good quality, too. And I promise not to sing again.

joehaann · Post by **joehaann** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 4:31 pm

First post on these forums.. best just start off with a track then i spose

its a bit low-quality..mainly because of the samples used.. but hey, its my first time making a track consisting only of non-musical elements :]

Go Lop

sounds used are
-a starting car (bit distorted etc)
-ticking against a glass (pitched)
-a sliced sample of someone speaking (not singing!)
-a sliced sample of someone scrunching a piece of paper

( btw; used some harmonic resonants here and there.. :/ )

Mephit Blue · Post by **Mephit Blue** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 2:37 am

This song is actually my second attempt at an enty for this month's contest. When the contest started, I came up with this big idea and spent several weeks working hard at it. The problem was, it just wasn't working. So I abandoned what I had done and on Tuesday started over. So, here it is:

Rain Dance

The song uses a mix of samples I recorded and various sounds of wind and rain that I found on the net. The sounds I recorded include:

Water bottle hit with a spoon - Bass Drum
Glass hit with a spoon - Most melody instruments
Large pot hit with a spoon - Bass line
bits of sliced up words - percussion effects

I used Tracktion to record it and had some of the sounds played using the sampler in Reason and others directly copied into Tracktion itself. The Luniox VST plug-in provided reverb for some of the instruments and there was a compression plug-in used on some of the tracks as well. The whole thing was then run through TracktionFinalMix.

Hope you like it.
Drake

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 9:40 am

anyone for coffee

starmelt · Post by **starmelt** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 10:37 am

This is my first post in Music Cafe and my first contest entry - so hello to everyone.

starmelt - A3 Passau Suben

I went for a real noisy approach to the topic.

The samples I used where one of cars and trucks passing by and one of a car horn.

What I did to the traffic sample was cutting it into pieces and changing the pitch of these pieces, but not much beside that.

The samples used were quite lo-fi - and so is the result

I used energyXT (1.2.8 beta with sampler) as a host and as a VST.
Plugins used: slim slow slider 4pole LPF, Kjaerhus Classic Master Limiter, Senderella

-- starmelt

rsmus7 · Post by **rsmus7** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 11:34 am

My song is made of my

espresso tin can
a ruler and a big waterglass
and my watery can used as a flute/trumpet

I recorded 4 tracks in total.
These I topped with a bunch of FX.
From bufferoverride till ohmygod till agonyxFX til...
but no sampler used.

Everything is done in traction.
and "mastered" in ---> energyXT <--- with NyquistEQ and SlimSLowSlider Comp

Mp3 done in audacity.

CanAssYouCan

Paulie Phonick · Post by **Paulie Phonick** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 2:41 pm

Phew, that was close! I mean the deadline - but I made it

Microwave Blues

Samples from, in order of appearance (no time for photos, sorry):

Bongos - my computer table (played as if it was a bongo drum

) - samples layered in octaves

Hihats (tambourine?) - a finger click pitched way up and distorted

Hammond solo - my microwave, heating me a glass of milk - looped and played through PVExag and PS-1

Hammond organ chords - same microwave sample with different EQ settings, mda Stereo and no PS-1

Bass - a piece of rubber stretched between handles of two drawers in my kitchen

Kick - one of the samples used for bongos, pitched down and filtered

Snare - Same finger click sample as for hihats, through pvExag, RoomReverb and TriDirt

Arranged and produced in Renoise, a bit of sample editing done in SoundForge. All samples played using Renoise's built-in sampler.

All samples recorded using the shittiest recording device you could imagine - a Trekstor pendrive-mp3 player with recorder function

, which records at 8kHz with -20dB noisefloor...

I know, I know, I should've bought a mic long time ago... but the results are surprisingly good

Enjoy!

pHz · Post by **pHz** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 5:12 pm

thats us done then ... voting about to open ...

slainte

rob

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