KVR Audio

liqih · Post by **liqih** » Wed Apr 17, 2019 12:11 am

Sorry but I have to say what I honestly think: the votes, I see now, for me very very rarely reflect the quality of the entries, either musically/sound design/composition/mix. Therefore when I read in the comments always the same: "well deserved", it makes me sad, because even in such a little and friendly competition the quality is exchanged with commercialism, like in all mainstream Pop culture for sale. But here we shouldn't be "selling out", I think.... But obviously I'm wrong. I have the naive ideology of thinking that who is free from commercial restrains would produce more interesting and beautiful music.

mclstr · Post by **mclstr** » Wed Apr 17, 2019 12:21 am

liqih wrote: Wed Apr 17, 2019 12:11 am ... I have the naive ideology of thinking that who is free from commercial restrains would produce more interesting and beautiful music.

There is a lot of truth to that. Music is a matter of personal preference. The only thing we can do when judging the quality of music is consider the effort, creativity and originality.

I try, but there will always be subjective likes and dislikes that will get in the way.

ontrackp · Post by **ontrackp** » Wed Apr 17, 2019 12:22 am

So winning the OSC is "selling out"? Can you elaborate? It's not like all the top tracks are EDM of sound the same....

generaldiomedes · Post by **generaldiomedes** » Wed Apr 17, 2019 12:23 am

Congrats to the winners .. here's a belated comment on Rellik's track that I meant to post .. that was my favorite track, dude!

exponent1 · Post by **exponent1** » Wed Apr 17, 2019 12:25 am

liqih wrote: Wed Apr 17, 2019 12:11 am Sorry but I have to say what I honestly think: the votes, I see now, for me very very rarely reflect the quality of the entries, either musically/sound design/composition/mix. Therefore when I read in the comments always the same: "well deserved", it makes me sad, because even in such a little and friendly competition the quality is exchanged with commercialism, like in all mainstream Pop culture for sale. But here we shouldn't be "selling out", I think.... But obviously I'm wrong. I have the naive ideology of thinking that who is free from commercial restrains would produce more interesting and beautiful music.

Wonderful thought and thanks for sharing your honest opinion. I can now better understand your rationale for voting the way you do (I've been getting 2s from you since I started participating) and totally respect it. Much love for your synths and your music, thoroughly enjoying Modelonia!

liqih · Post by **liqih** » Wed Apr 17, 2019 12:39 am

exponent1 wrote: Wed Apr 17, 2019 12:25 am Wonderful thought and thanks for sharing your honest opinion. I can now better understand your rationale for voting the way you do (I've been getting 2s from you since I started participating) and totally respect it.

And I respect what you do, but I would like that you (and others here) would dare more... experiments, surprises.
DoctorBob and Guenon completely different tracks, this months, are examples of what I mean, the first that come to mind.
But please don't give too much weight to what I say, who am I to judge? I only needed to say what I felt.

liqih · Post by **liqih** » Wed Apr 17, 2019 12:43 am

ontrackp wrote: Wed Apr 17, 2019 12:22 am So winning the OSC is "selling out"? Can you elaborate? It's not like all the top tracks are EDM of sound the same....

Not polite I think to do not reply to direct questions, so I say yes, for me they almost sound always the same. The same intention.

exponent1 · Post by **exponent1** » Wed Apr 17, 2019 12:51 am

liqih wrote: Wed Apr 17, 2019 12:39 am
exponent1 wrote: Wed Apr 17, 2019 12:25 am Wonderful thought and thanks for sharing your honest opinion. I can now better understand your rationale for voting the way you do (I've been getting 2s from you since I started participating) and totally respect it.
And I respect what you do, but I would like that you (and others here) would dare more... experiments, surprises.
DoctorBob and Guenon completely different tracks, this months, are examples of what I mean, the first that come to mind.
But please don't give too much weight to what I say, who am I to judge? I only needed to say what I felt.

Oh I surely will experiment, with time. But having started my music production from scratch 7 months ago (started OSC in the 2nd month of my production journey), I didn't/don't have the confidence to do enough experimentation without knowing how to make listenable music in the first place

I understand what you're implying though and it's a very valid point. As I get more experience, I'll surely experiment more (and dare more).

Can't run before knowing how to walk, would be my situation. The names you mentioned are masters of their craft and I'm still a noob, so do pardon my almost good music. I'll get there eventually.

mmGhost · Post by **mmGhost** » Wed Apr 17, 2019 3:37 am

hey big ups rellik! masterful piece, that one was!

and as i said before super insane round - i found myself inspired by all the ridiculous sound design and creativity this month. like, dissecting some of y'all's chord progressions and composition.

also congrats to everyone for entering and putting in the massive amount of work it takes to do these things. everyone is just pushing the bar imho, and it blows my mind what people are doing with one synth.

cheers!

Rellik · Post by **Rellik** » Wed Apr 17, 2019 4:40 am

thanks for the kind comments and all the feedback! Congrats to everyone on an ambitious and inspiring round (amazing entries of course from mmGhost/CS_TBL/loris/schiing, but definitely some seriously mindblowing stuff elsewhere in the list.) OSC is such a valuable community - thanks so much to everyone involved in operating it (I know of bjporter and Richard Semper, at least)

happy 10th! (Did you know I participated in OSC 12? And then not again til 116

)

Prize-wise, I'm pretty interested in the $100USD from our gracious anonymous donor

- imo the lure of this unique prize added a special spicy kick to this 10 year anniversary round, so it's much appreciated, whoever you are.

And

to spotify/itunes/etc for rghvdberg!

liqih, for the record, if I were capable of producing work as interesting and original as yours, I would absolutely be doing that

(even if it had to cost me some prizes

)

liqih · Post by **liqih** » Wed Apr 17, 2019 4:51 am

Rellik wrote: Wed Apr 17, 2019 4:40 am liqih, for the record, if I were capable of producing work as interesting and original as yours, I would absolutely be doing that (even if it had to cost me some prizes )

And if I were capable of something else I would have stolen you the prize, LOL
Top job you with that FM guitar!

Full Bucket · Post by **Full Bucket** » Wed Apr 17, 2019 6:35 am

Thanks to all participants, congrats to the winners!

Cheers, Björn

tomx2188 · Post by **tomx2188** » Wed Apr 17, 2019 7:32 am

RichardSemper wrote: Tue Apr 16, 2019 8:45 pm If you check again I think you will find the correct synths are listed

Almost .. my entry says Podium (the DAW) instead of Tyrell N6, sooo ...

zarf wrote: Tue Apr 16, 2019 9:02 pm Yes, cool graphs - looks like U-He won

one more for U-He

And congrats to everyone, this has been an awesome challenge!

ThePresent · Post by **ThePresent** » Wed Apr 17, 2019 8:04 am

In the Results tab, Full Bucket’s synth and mine are switched.
In the Synth’s tab, it checks out, indeed I used Bazille

RichardSemper · Post by **RichardSemper** » Wed Apr 17, 2019 8:14 am

I see it - seems a few have got switched - looking into it now, thanks

Corrected now! - Though the graphs may be slightly off for the moment.

One Synth Challenge #121: Any One Synth (Rellik Wins!)