One Synth Challenge #158: Surrealistic MG-1 Plus by Cherry Audio (MilksterX Wins!)

[YouSampleMe]

https://soundcloud.com/sampleme/yousamp ... al_sharing

I used FL Studio 20 and 10 instances of Surrealistic MG-1 Plus.

Thank you for listening.

Sample Me

Hi, you can download the 10 presets here:
https://www.sampleme.info/2022/05/02/surreal-street/

Good luck to all!

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[noitka]

My voting is done. Many good compositions and three outstanding songs. It was a pleasure to hear this. ty

[gorgorgathgorgorgor]

+++ Submission 【eCleCtic】 +++
https://soundcloud.com/p-e-t-e-r-h/eclectic
Last Update of Track on soundcloud【14.04.2022】

Details:
【Daw】Bitwig 4.2.3
【Daw FX】EQ+, Reverb, Delay, Dynamics, Multiband-Containers, Compressor, Tool, Instrument-Layer, Arpeggiator, many, many Bitwig-Modulators like Audio Side-Chain, Steps, LFO, Note Counter, Adsr,...
【Additional FX】 1 Instance of Oculus Rift 3d Panner, QuickHaas, LoudMax, 1 ValhallaSuperMassive, Shout out to MeldaProduction MTremolo for making everything Pump ... I love the Left-Right Phase-Shift setting that let's you add extra width ... Melda MSaturator
【Synths】 I'd say around 40 Instance, many are just in layers ... snare is about 3 meticulously crafted layers. All stuff fom init.
【Tested on】 Beyerdynamics DT880 Pro, Dynaudio BM5mkIII, a Car, a set of consume speakers, a mobile phone speaker and finally mobile phone earplugs.
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【License/Archive.org】 Track is not released under CC and must not be put on archive.org.
【Downloadable period】 01.05.2022 to 04.05.2022. Afterwards download will be disabled

Comments disabled? What up yo? (if this has already been answered, I apologize, I haven't had time to keep up with the thread...)

[SeBaer]

Comments disabled? What up yo? (if this has already been answered, I apologize, I haven't had time to keep up with the thread...)

Yup, answered: viewtopic.php?p=8418859#p8418859

[liqih]

I hope people listen these songs with decent equipments when voting. Before voting I have listened every now and then these songs with my phone speakers and definitely not liked some songs. Now when I started this massive voting process I noticed the most obvious thing that decent speakers or headphones really counts! I remember couple songs that I dint´t like much but now after listening them with decent speakers I ended up liking them much much more. Low end really matters! I think many people has used lots of time finishing these songs so to respect that the least we can do is listen them through with decent equipment so that we hear all the things artist did insert in their music. Just my 2 cents.

Yes I agree, we at OSC don't make tracks for portable radios or tablets, not even for earbuds (usually).
The whole spectrum range is meaningful since we experiment with sound design using a single limited synth. At least from 50 Hz to 18 Hz is required I guess.
Moreover it helps to have volume, low and high tone controls handy while listening, because mixing style can be so different from one track to another.

[] Peter:H []

Let's put it this way, rather authentic constructive criticism than obviously exaggerated pseudo-greatness-comments. Not to say, every comment falls into this category, but there are some.

Genuine question - am I understanding correctly what you mean by 'exaggerated pseudo-greatness-comments' - do you mean a really positive comment that you think is not sincere?

Yes. I don't have a exhaustive overview of all comments but while skiming through the tracks and some of the comments occured to me that some comments are eagerly looking for a positive thing to be able to say something positive...

[zarf]

Let's put it this way, rather authentic constructive criticism than obviously exaggerated pseudo-greatness-comments. Not to say, every comment falls into this category, but there are some.

Genuine question - am I understanding correctly what you mean by 'exaggerated pseudo-greatness-comments' - do you mean a really positive comment that you think is not sincere?

Yes. I don't have a exhaustive overview of all comments but while skiming through the tracks and some of the comments occured to me that some comments are eagerly looking for a positive thing to be able to say something positive...

OK - thanks for clarifying
I suppose some of my comments might be seen in that light - I do always like to find something honestly positive to say and to be encouraging. But I also do my best to be bold and share my critique/suggestions for improvement though as well.
I try not to think about any influence my comments have on voting - life's too short for those head games for me

[doctorbob]

I would agree that @zarf does indeed make very useful critiques!
dB

[schiing]

I do believe in positive reinforcement when there is little else to say. Anyway, in the interest of full transparency, here's the Ted "Two-Face" Mountainé Comment Section for Dummies: *

1. "Love the cowbell!" [no additional comments] -> The composition has major flaws, the production is sloppy and your programming skills are pretty basic. Well done for stumbling onto that cowbell, though.
2. "You may want to consider introducing some dynamics to make it a bit more interesting" -> Could I BE any more bored?
3. "There's a LOT of stuff going on here!" -> You have no idea what you're doing, do you??
4. "An enjoyable track!" [may contain lots of sub-points, but no mention of "love" or "brilliance"] -> 3 points.
5. "This somehow reminds me of [a purple elephant bass trombone section blowing a Euro House fanfare intro to the mistresses of make-believe ruler of the Heavenly Alpine Slopes of the Upper Julian Alps]" -> Sure, there may be tons of imperfections and a general lack of competence here, but I REALLY ENJOYED THE VIBE OF THIS TRACK!
6. "Some nice moments" -> Doesn't really work, though, does it?
7. Any comment containing "love", "adore", "brilliant", "superb", "great", etc. - anything more powerful than "good" -> True praise, the unfiltered truth.
8. Any reference to musical theory/history/name-dropping -> I respect your ability as a musician.

(* Disclaimer: I'm exaggerating!!)

[silverpants]

Hi, everybody, first timer with a dumb question: Is there a criteria on how to vote? What I mean is, there are a lot of tracks that are not "my cup of tea" so to speak, but are really well made. So, what should the vote be based on? Production, composition / arrengment, "you like it or not" (and everything in between), other...
Again, sorry for the dumb question and good luck to everyone.

I've been doing this a few months, so I'll put down my method. But there is no official method. And we should not be afraid of being subjective.

1 - A bad song. I've not used this so far.
2 - Not a good song.
3 - OK. Not bad as such, but doesn't impress me in any way.
4 - Good in some way. Eg. Could be great production, but I don't like the song writing so much. Or vice versa.
5 - Great idea and well executed. I want to listen to it again!

I mostly give out 3, 4 & 5, since the quality is usually pretty high. Some people use lower scores than me (mostly 2 to 4) and that's fine. It doesn't matter in the end - as long as you are self-consistent.

With so many entries in #158, I might have to knock everything down a point and reserve 5 for a select few. I'll have to see.

I think there is luck involved in each round. If you write a good jazz song and it happens that there are no jazz fans in the round - then you're not going to win and that's how it goes. But you might be lucky and get a good audience!

[silverpants]

Ted "Two-Face" Mountainé Comment Section for Dummies: *

Nailed it!

[diaseis]

Yes. I don't have a exhaustive overview of all comments but while skiming through the tracks and some of the comments occured to me that some comments are eagerly looking for a positive thing to be able to say something positive...

I think such comments are actually very useful IMO. I'm often doing exactly this, and it can be way harder to do than it looks like. Let's say I hated a track (which is rare but it does happen). I think it will be more useful for the author to tell them the one thing I really liked instead of making an extensive list of all the flaws of the track.

This contest is full of persons who are not confident about their work (I'm one of them), and I feel that too many negative comments could easily discourage someone to do something that they could enjoy, and could be good at with more practice.

Each time I really felt I learnt something was when someone pointed at me that a particular element in one of my tracks was really good. The reason is simple : if I get some negative critic like "your lead is dull" (I got this comment so many times that now I just picture myself as a very bad "lead maker" lol), I just feel a bit sad and move on and probably make another dull lead the next time. But let's say at some point I manage to make a proper lead (I hope I'll get to this). Well I probably won't be able to tell that this one is better than other because I live in my own lifestream continuity (lol this sentence). So if someone points that at me, I'll be like "Oh ok so this is where I should be going".

In fewer words : negative criticism just corners me. I don't know how to improve and if someone tries to tell me how they would have done it to make it better, I just feel that it wouldn't be my music anymore. On the contrary, if someone points at something they like, I'll try to push in that direction : because it would be "mine" so I can just push further my own stuff, by focusing on the things that do work.

In even fewer words : I post only positive comments. That's a choice and I believe it makes sense.

[IV!]

I do believe in positive reinforcement when there is little else to say. Anyway, in the interest of full transparency, here's the Ted "Two-Face" Mountainé Comment Section for Dummies: *
...
3. "There's a LOT of stuff going on here!" -> You have no idea what you're doing, do you??
...
(* Disclaimer: I'm exaggerating!!)

I always getting this paragraph in the comments!

[empphryio]

My first time someone said, "Bold bass!"
Oh they like my bass huh, great... I figured it out eventually.

[diaseis]

My first time someone said, "Bold bass!"
Oh they like my bass huh, great... I figured it out eventually.

Yes ! Exactly what I wanted to say, in 1 line and much clearer