Can I add vocals or only synths?
Bird sounds must be synthesized or can be sampled?
One Synth Challenge #134: Easter Lockdown Special - Any Synth (Voting Ended. Results pending)
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- KVRist
- 36 posts since 31 Mar, 2020
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- KVRAF
- 2266 posts since 10 Jul, 2008 from Orbit NE US
Here’s a good place for info:
https://youtu.be/9MYKnze7Zaw
https://youtu.be/9MYKnze7Zaw
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if this post is edited -it was for punctuation, grammar, or to make it coherent (or make me seem coherent).
old stuff http://ww.dancingbearaudioresearch.com/
if this post is edited -it was for punctuation, grammar, or to make it coherent (or make me seem coherent).
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- KVRian
- 937 posts since 31 May, 2017
Oh wait, the birdsong thing was for real?
I thought that was just a bit of April 1st humor.
I thought that was just a bit of April 1st humor.
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- KVRist
- 193 posts since 4 Jul, 2018 from the nest
I was hoping it wasn't just an April Fool's joke 
Even if it was a joke, I would still do it for the joy of it. It's a fun exercise too, and this will help me guide my songwriting.
Even if it was a joke, I would still do it for the joy of it. It's a fun exercise too, and this will help me guide my songwriting.mostly here for the One Synth Challenge
you can hear some of my newest music at: https://wrenharmonic.bandcamp.com/ or https://www.youtube.com/@wrenharmonic
you can hear some of my newest music at: https://wrenharmonic.bandcamp.com/ or https://www.youtube.com/@wrenharmonic
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- KVRAF
- 2165 posts since 7 Mar, 2014
As with all One Synth Challenges, samples are not allowed. Also, if your synth processes wavetables, you cannot load e.g. a birdsong in as a wavetable and reproduce the sound that way (still using a sample in a sense).
Bird sounds for the track MUST be synthesised in the same synth that all the other sounds are made from, including all percussion (kicks, snares, cymbals, shakers etc!).
The name in the comp says it all "One Synth Challenge"
HTH
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- KVRist
- 69 posts since 7 Jun, 2018 from Ukraine. Kharkiv.
I want to ask. Can I use a free formant filter?
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- KVRian
- 506 posts since 10 Nov, 2018
You can use it only if it is part of your chosen synth's on-board effects.
If it is an external effect, irrespective of free or commercial, it's not allowed.
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- KVRer
- 9 posts since 1 Apr, 2020
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- KVRist
- 36 posts since 31 Mar, 2020
if you can read this, your screen is big-
- KVRAF
- 2165 posts since 7 Mar, 2014
The basic rules about external fx (ie those not on the synth) is that you should not use modulating fx, that is, those which affect the overall sound. So chorus and phasing EXTERNAL to the synth are NOT allowed. The interpretation of the rules though is really that the applied fx should not alter the sound to be unrecognisable direct from the synth. So, a little "mild" saturation/distortion might be OK, so long as the underlying sound of the synth is not overly compromised.
probably doesn't help much …
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probably doesn't help much …
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- KVRian
- 593 posts since 14 Apr, 2019
So, does the first 9 seconds of this sound like it has birds? To me it does and it works perfect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_6-wFbTZwQ
Does anyone else hear a flock of birds at the beginning of this? To me it again sounds perfect, far better than an actual flock of birds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJC-oiWZe5Y
I think though I have strong tendency to imagine sounds as being made by live creatures where others don't hear it.
My point being I could make what to me are beautiful otherworldly "birdlike" noises and others are just going to think, "that doesn't have any bird noises in it, he didn't follow the rules."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_6-wFbTZwQ
Does anyone else hear a flock of birds at the beginning of this? To me it again sounds perfect, far better than an actual flock of birds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJC-oiWZe5Y
I think though I have strong tendency to imagine sounds as being made by live creatures where others don't hear it.
My point being I could make what to me are beautiful otherworldly "birdlike" noises and others are just going to think, "that doesn't have any bird noises in it, he didn't follow the rules."
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- KVRist
- 195 posts since 16 Mar, 2018 from Canada
Yeah, I found a lot of the bird calls actually sound a lot like synth patches. For example, I find some of N.I.'s Monark patches sound a lot like the recordings from the Bird Sound website that Frostline posted. I've heard a couple of bird calls, just in my back yard, sound artificial and synth-like.
