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VitaminD · Post by **VitaminD** » Sat Jul 03, 2004 6:26 am

these are some amazing entries

no wonder it will take so long to judge the entries.. (imo) all 4 posted so far are really good.

my question though (for dystonia) is where did you get the snare drum sounds and the brass(?) in the background in your annihilist entry?

I think snare is something I was missing in my own entry because of the contest rules..

sculptsnd · Post by **sculptsnd** » Sat Jul 03, 2004 6:28 am

this is certainly no claim to greatness, but at least i finished something. i haven't actually finished a track for longer than i can remember.

here you go:

sculpturesinsound-1962cadillachearse2800onebay

thanks

joel

marcelus · Post by **marcelus** » Sat Jul 03, 2004 9:51 am

just wanted to say the 4 already submitted tracks are ALL REALLY good indeed

that will make it very difficult to stand out but, on the other hand, my iTunes lib now has 4 new very very interesting tracks.

kudos!

Bram · Post by **Bram** » Sat Jul 03, 2004 9:56 am

All names changed, happy now? (

)

In a bit it will be announced who made it through round 1... The second round is sadly going to have to wait until the end of August

Most of the members (me included) are going on a vacation and everyone needs to be present for the judging...

But no worries, I'll mail everyone who entered the competition with more information once we're through round 1 (which should be this week)

- bram

marcelus · Post by **marcelus** » Sat Jul 03, 2004 10:00 am

thanks for the name change

dystonia_ek · Post by **dystonia_ek** » Sat Jul 03, 2004 2:02 pm

These entries do sound really good! If they're all of this quality I can see why we're going to have to wait...

VitaminD wrote: my question though (for dystonia) is where did you get the snare drum sounds and the brass(?) in the background in your annihilist entry? :?:

Snare is raw data, trimmed short, faded, run through H20 for snap, then through Supaphaser for width.

The background droning sounds were the easiest. It's just that FM-ish buzzing sound from one of the raw files run straight through Scrubby, Transverb and Ambience. It played itself.

The kicks are all One Ping Only, which is the only instrument used.

I actually prefer working with limitations like this.
Apart from the time limit anyway!

Next time we should be limited to one plugin!

_jmz.h

Bram · Post by **Bram** » Sat Jul 03, 2004 3:15 pm

dystonia_ek wrote:Next time we should be limited to one plugin!

Next time will probably be a remix-a-famous-artist-song-with-our-plugins, most likely. A bit 'boring', but it'll attract more "regular" people

- Bram

emaia · Post by **emaia** » Sat Jul 03, 2004 4:35 pm

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Bram wrote:
Next time will probably be a remix-a-famous-artist-song-with-our-plugins, most likely. A bit 'boring', but it'll attract more "regular" people

- Bram

Why would you want "regular" people when you can have freaks like us?

Thanks again for the contest. I'm just starting with digital music production, so this was a great way to figure things out. I just wish I could use more of your plug-ins.

Here's my track:
http://www.maia-arts.com/music/files/ib ... trains.mp3
This is all raw - no instruments used at all.

There are production details on the site: http://www.maia-arts.com/music/ (http://www.maia-arts.com/music/)

Thanks - Eric

Steven West · Post by **Steven West** » Sat Jul 03, 2004 5:36 pm

August, huh? Holy cripes I was close then!

Remix next? Man, I got a Soupy Sales tune that'll make XL eat my shorts!

VitaminD · Post by **VitaminD** » Sat Jul 03, 2004 7:29 pm

dystonia_ek wrote:
VitaminD wrote: my question though (for dystonia) is where did you get the snare drum sounds and the brass(?) in the background in your annihilist entry?
Snare is raw data, trimmed short, faded, run through H20 for snap, then through Supaphaser for width.

The background droning sounds were the easiest. It's just that FM-ish buzzing sound from one of the raw files run straight through Scrubby, Transverb and Ambience. It played itself.

The kicks are all One Ping Only, which is the only instrument used.

that is awesome.. it sounds JUST like a sampled snare drum hit to me.. so much that last night I was going through the SMEX pages looking for the drummachine plugin I must have missed! Also, the background droning sound is.. wow.. its almost as if this song wanted to be created.. as if it had a life of itself. Great job, really I mean it.

dystonia_ek · Post by **dystonia_ek** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 2:22 pm

VitaminD wrote:its almost as if this song wanted to be created.. as if it had a life of itself.

Thanks very much VitaminD. Though with Scrubby (which does have a life of its own and always seems to hit the random notes in exactly the right way) I can't really take credit for the drony bits.

-Jmz

R.A.W. · Post by **R.A.W.** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 10:34 pm

Bram wrote:All names changed, happy now? ( )

thx, bram!!

well, i have to say that all entries i heard so far are all of extraordinary quality.. you smex-guys must be very proud to have such nice sounding plugs.

(i think there has to be a special edition of all competition-songs on a double cd

)

Bram · Post by **Bram** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 5:17 pm

http://www.smartelectronix.com/competit ... ed=compRes

congratulations to those who made it to round 2...
better luck next time to those who didn't.
thanks to all

more news..... later!

- bram

mystahr · Post by **mystahr** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 5:29 pm

Congrat to those going through....

I didn't make it to the next round, but I had fun anyway....

Might as well drop the tune

http://www.mystahr.com/Music/Imnotsmart.mp3

counterfeit · Post by **counterfeit** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 9:09 pm

yes!!!

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