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reusenoise · Post by **reusenoise** » Sat Feb 06, 2021 12:50 pm

Voted,so many good tracks

doctorbob · Post by **doctorbob** » Sat Feb 06, 2021 1:45 pm

@tj Are you lumping my Yamaha DX-11 in with the DX7's ???

dB

Tj Shredder · Post by **Tj Shredder** » Sat Feb 06, 2021 2:46 pm

doctorbob wrote: Sat Feb 06, 2021 1:45 pm @tj Are you lumping my Yamaha DX-11 in with the DX7's ???

dB

No, not at all. Unfortunately it only appeared once, so it didn't get an extra mention.
Maybe I made a mistake, for checking out I set up a spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing

doctorbob · Post by **doctorbob** » Sat Feb 06, 2021 2:56 pm

@tj OK, I see how you have done it ... dB

Spring Goose · Post by **Spring Goose** » Sun Feb 07, 2021 1:34 pm

Thanks to Elex, who took some time to listen to 2 of my not-OSC songs, when i raised a query over Elex's comment about my OSC song.

ELEX · Post by **ELEX** » Sun Feb 07, 2021 6:39 pm

Don't mention it...

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Sun Feb 07, 2021 7:14 pm

I will mention it, ty ELEX, it's nice to see this spirit alive and well in newer members...

ELEX · Post by **ELEX** » Sun Feb 07, 2021 8:11 pm

Thank you ! That spirit is well worth keeping alive.

ElVincente · Post by **ElVincente** » Mon Feb 08, 2021 3:53 pm

Voted! There are a lot of tracks I liked this month. I hope there will be other challenges like that as I finally just received my hydrasynth an I need to justify that expense

IrionDaRonin · Post by **IrionDaRonin** » Mon Feb 08, 2021 6:17 pm

Voted few days ago, i didn't remember the rule about posting "i voted" here, but just in any case...

As usual, voted by giving 1 point for each feature:
·Technique/musicality ★
·Feelings/emotion ★
·Use of sounds and effects/under rules ★
·Keep interest along the track/arrangement ★
·Overall sound output quality/mastering ★

Have a good day!

IV! · Post by **IV!** » Mon Feb 08, 2021 7:46 pm

Oooh! I voted. It was... long.
This month there were exceptionally many tracks that I liked musical composition! I'm glad of that. Soon I will have so much good music with OSC that I will do without anything else!

What I didn't like - I think that in a "Any ... synth" type of challenge that allows you to use different synths, you need to adhere more strictly to the form of the track name (including Name, Synth, Track name), so that you don't have to spend a lot of time searching for this information. Now you can accuse me of being biased, but what matters to me is the choice of synthesizer - it shows how much the participant has overcome its limitations.

doctorbob · Post by **doctorbob** » Mon Feb 08, 2021 8:00 pm

@IV! If I had used Synth1 or Dexed, I'm pretty sure that my track might have sounded "better" in some ways. BUT, my personal challenge was to use all hardware, partly because I could (and I understand many/most here do not own synth hardware), even though it was old, sitting in an attic, not knowing if it would work etc. One of my FX units stopped putting out audio (so not a lot of use!), and another, the Boss Digital Reverb needed some new capacitors. The mixing desk is very old, noisy, but using line-level signals, there was enough headroom to not worry about that other than careful gain staging at each and every stage.

Having used most if not all the soft synths in this round before, I could make reasonable judgements about the sound design etc.

Making a good tune and having fun is what it's all about. Again, thanks for the lovely comments, very much appreciated

dB

RuediRena · Post by **RuediRena** » Mon Feb 08, 2021 8:36 pm

Voted.
Super interesting month despite a marathon of 50+ tracks!

ELEX · Post by **ELEX** » Mon Feb 08, 2021 9:05 pm

IV! wrote: Mon Feb 08, 2021 7:46 pm Oooh! I voted. It was... long.
...What I didn't like - I think that in a "Any ... synth" type of challenge that allows you to use different synths, you need to adhere more strictly to the form of the track name (including Name, Synth, Track name), so that you don't have to spend a lot of time searching for this information. Now you can accuse me of being biased, but what matters to me is the choice of synthesizer - it shows how much the participant has overcome its limitations.

Just 'reposting' the track description with the track on SC would suffice, at least for the duration of the voting. You'll always find mine with the track. Didn't start with synth this time, though. Bit clumsy, that. In case you missed it: I used the KORG Odyssey VSTi, without velocity control, synced LFO or polyphony. But with the three filter types, as these are also on the KORG Odyssey hardware, which the VST emulates ( not the original Odyssey )

IV! · Post by **IV!** » Mon Feb 08, 2021 9:39 pm

@DoctorBob @ELEX

It's all right, I still went to every track SC page to find out (or remember) what synth it was made with (along the way leaving comments if they came to mind) because I wanted to be honest. Agree that if you hear two tracks with a similar technical / musical level, but one is made with Diva, and the other with VL-1, then your ratings for these tracks will differ.

Personally, I did not deduct points for softsynth, but sometimes I added them for heroism and creativity for the fight against hardsynth. I'm especially inspired about Leonard Bowman's little monster, RuediRena's manipulation of the Casio VL-1 and the fully analog way of DoctorBob! I myself had to play in an awkward key and in a limited time due to burning keys and troubleshooting, which would not have happened with VST

@DoctorBob @ELEX

and your tracks are among my favorites, absolutely!

One Synth Challenge #143: Any Hardware or Emulation (Taron Wins!)