KVR Audio

objectman · Post by **objectman** » Sat Oct 09, 2010 12:02 am

@Majken. You really have a beautiful, unique synth here but it's a tad unstable. Are you planning to update it and are you making any paid-for synths? I guess you'd use something other than Synthedit? Congrats on possibly the most unique synth in the world. A solid paid for version would rock the house. It'd be my goto for haunting natural sounds.

PurpleCatfishBettie · Post by **PurpleCatfishBettie** » Sat Oct 09, 2010 3:11 am

MajorBloodnok and V'ger; as far as covers in the OSC, those match my recollections as well; 1 by Steplton in the Synth1 contest, and another one (or two?) by Dwsel along the way.

Be that as it may, my Chimera entry is:

Drusilla by mrblitz000
Renoise Host, 2 instances of Chimera
Buzmaxi3 Limter

dwsel · Post by **dwsel** » Sat Oct 09, 2010 1:16 pm

V'ger wrote:Yes that's right, forgot.. But didn't hurt his score too much tho..

Now that I think of it, I believe Dwsel also did a cover once.

Yup... I covered during OSC 15: StringZ2 this one: which is actually cover of this one:

You may laugh at me but 2 bars of OSC 12 Yeager's - All Too Familiar (starting from 1:46) remind me of 'La Vie En Rose' in version played and sang by Louis Armstrong

Yeager · Post by **Yeager** » Sat Oct 09, 2010 1:33 pm

dwsel wrote: You may laugh at me but 2 bars of OSC 12 Yeager's - All Too Familiar (starting from 1:46) remind me of 'La Vie En Rose' in version played and sang by Louis Armstrong

You are spot on, only it's more the Grace Jones version (I laughed out loud when I played that solo part), there is also the Pachelbel Canon in D and a bit of Owl City Fireflies in there.

But I hoped the title somehow gave that away

vanmorrison · Post by **vanmorrison** » Sat Oct 09, 2010 3:48 pm

loquat wrote:I really like the sound of this synth, but it is going to take me some work to get good percussion sounds out of it. any hints?

This vst make me crazy... but I made some nice presets for percussive sounds... so if yo u want some hints contact me and I'll try to revisit what I've done (or even send you the presets... if you have fl studio they should work I think... I'm not sure of how to ave banks...)

vanmorrison · Post by **vanmorrison** » Sat Oct 09, 2010 4:03 pm

here you can see how I made some sort of bongo http://plixi.com/photo_map/home/49608868

V'ger · Post by **V'ger** » Sat Oct 09, 2010 9:53 pm

The link leads to a sign-in page in my browser. You might wanna try Box.net for sharing files like presets etc, very easy and hassle-free site.

vanmorrison · Post by **vanmorrison** » Sun Oct 10, 2010 2:01 pm

ok I'll try it as soon as I can (it was a link to a pic of chimera where you could see the "knobs")

objectman · Post by **objectman** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 1:51 am

Tell us how much to twiddle them and we can copy the position. I need to learn about all this knob-twiddling. I'm such an amateur knob-twiddler.

vanmorrison · Post by **vanmorrison** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 5:24 am

I'm finding very nice presets, but this vst is... strange. Does anybody like me doesn't listen to some sounds when you export your work in mp3 (I use fl studio). I made a nice lead, but in the mp3 it doesn't exist... I tryed to redo it, but... nothing. sometime I have to replace an instance becausesimple doesn't play any more???

For the bongo:
1 bypass warp and clip to max - HADSRT to 0
1 bypass warp to max - H0 A0 D5 S0 R5 T10
filter: lowpass q=100 cutoff=6

The rest is all to 0 (no delay)

vanmorrison · Post by **vanmorrison** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 5:25 am

Ah... Distort on and the two relative knobs to 100

objectman · Post by **objectman** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 5:34 am

vanmorrison wrote:I'm finding very nice presets, but this vst is... strange. Does anybody like me doesn't listen to some sounds when you export your work in mp3 (I use fl studio)

Yeah, I had to freeze some sounds before they'd show up in the WAV (Using Live) and then some sounds - such as wind came out "gated" on one channel. Like it has a digi-clipper in it or something? If you freeze, don't forget to give the reverb a bit of time, so fade tracks down softly otherwise they clip a bit.

sauli · Post by **sauli** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 12:53 pm

So what's the general opinion when it comes to automation?

The rules say

All Fx used must .....
**be freeware, and easily available via download.
**generally usable in a wide range of hosts
**not be used in such a way as to transform the sounds to a degree
which makes them unrecognisable as those achievable from Chimera

In a way automation could be considered an effect, so I just want a clarification of what is ok - direct modulation? only modulation via midi? anything as long as it doesn't make it "unrecognisable" (like using million lfo's and curves in a fancy way)?

vanmorrison · Post by **vanmorrison** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 2:14 pm

Sorry objectman, what do you mean with freeze?

vanmorrison · Post by **vanmorrison** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 2:23 pm

PS: are you using the last version?

One-Synth-Challenge 21 - Majken's Chimera!