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RichardSemper · Post by **RichardSemper** » Sun Feb 15, 2015 9:53 pm

Voted!
So many excellent tracks!

evo2slo · Post by **evo2slo** » Sun Feb 15, 2015 10:12 pm

Voted.

I tried to be very selective with my top list, but there are still more in there than I wanted to be. So glad I don't have to pick the winner myself, as I don't think I could do it. Some truly phenomenal tracks in this competition. And the ones that didn't make my top list are excellent as well.

Was so fun to be a part of the OSC again, hope to do it again soon!

chilledpanda · Post by **chilledpanda** » Sun Feb 15, 2015 10:12 pm

Voted lots of great tracks had to stretch my voting to get some pt difference so many great tracks

bh9090 · Post by **bh9090** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 2:13 am

Voted.

H-man · Post by **H-man** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 2:46 am

Voted.

Massive round. Head still spinning

bjporter · Post by **bjporter** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 2:55 am

H-man wrote:Massive round. Head still spinning

Indeed

Voted.

(Tomorrow the results will be posted sometime after noon EST 'New York' time

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LuxLucid · Post by **LuxLucid** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 4:20 am

Voted. Finally. I already listened to majority of the tracks before today, but much comparison needed to be done. So many solid productions, so much talent! I plan to go back and comment on as many tracks as I can tomorrow and the following days.

This has been a great journey with Hive and you all. I wish I would've been on the forum more with you awesome ppl! Alas, I must take a break from OSC for now, though I will be back. I am only to get busier for a while, and would like to focus again on music in a non-competitive mindset.

Peace,
Lux

LuxLucid · Post by **LuxLucid** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 4:21 am

double post, boy i must have a twitchy finger coupled with a sensitive mouse because this has happened to me alot

MegaMeganium · Post by **MegaMeganium** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 4:59 am

Voted! I really loved some of the tracks here. Z Prime, yours was definitely my favorite

gtrm8kr · Post by **gtrm8kr** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 6:56 am

Really impressed by the entries, and Hive. Don't have enough posts to vote for this one, but soon! Good luck, and nice work all.

Ameyah Audio · Post by **Ameyah Audio** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 9:57 am

bjporter wrote:
H-man wrote:Massive round. Head still spinning
Indeed
Voted.
(Tomorrow the results will be posted sometime after noon EST 'New York' time )

looking forward!

trance_lucent · Post by **trance_lucent** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 1:44 pm

Now when the voting is finished I want to write a bit about my track Bliss. Didn't want to write this before to not influence to the voting by my whining.

First of all, big thanks to all who commented my track. And I agree with all critics. Moreover, I can elaborate it:

Yes, track doesn't look finished, it needs more percussion, FX, even some more melodic components. The sound design could be better, now it is somewhat old-fashioned, and there are some mistakes I did. For example, this "Organ" is actually the strings. And it sounded like strings, but I tryed to add some modulation to make it more realistic, but forgot to set modulation a little random for every voice - now it is common for all voices and sounds like rotary chorus, hence the organ sound.

And I did want to make a balearic/progressive blend trance initially, but it quickly transformed to classic uplifting.

The mix could be better too, the main lead is too loud, and the overall sound is lacking of depth and width, yes, I agree.

But there is a reason: I planned to participate in this great contest, but so happened that I had no time all the month. But in Jan 31 I had 8 hours of free time, so all the track, including sound design and music was composed in these 8 hours. Don't know about other people, but It is very little for me. I usually spend up to 100 hours to track.

And I amazed by Hive - how quickly I have managed to make about 30 patches from scratch in it. I never was SO quick before. And Hive sits in the mix pretty well, so even a quick crude mix sounds quite good. Glad I purchased Hive.

In overall, the contest was very fun, and I amazed by how many talented people here on KVR. It was very hard to vote, first I marked all tracks in 3-5 range with so many 4s and 5s. But when, reading about how other people voted, I expanded the 3-5 range to 2-5 just to emphasize the difference between good and best tracks.

Markus808 · Post by **Markus808** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 2:26 pm

Hey Trance Lucent,

I love your track "Bliss" exactly the way it is!

At the first 2 listenings it didn't get too much of my attention, but after I had listened to it several times with headphones on some days ago, I absolutely loved it!

Every bit of the track makes sense to me, there's nothing that bothers me, the composition itself is nice and the composition of sounds is beautiful, a real nice, equally clear and warm soundscape. And it has the perfect length in my opinion as well.

I mean, you can work on a track endlessly if you want to (in the end it's a matter of taste, and sometimes it doesn't make a track better to work more and more hours on it; like Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean", Quincy Jones made about 80 (!) different mixes of it, and in the end it was mix number 2, hahaha!)

Great track, man!

Markus808

doctorbob · Post by **doctorbob** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 2:57 pm

Markus808 wrote:I mean, you can work on a track endlessly if you want to (in the end it's a matter of taste, and sometimes it doesn't make a track better to work more and more hours on it; like Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean", Quincy Jones made about 80 (!) different mixes of it, and in the end it was mix number 2, hahaha!)

This also reminds me of the folklore around the Animals track "House of the Rising Sun", recorded in the days when a take of the full band was a take, probably only 4 tape tracks, editing was done by splicing the tape etc ... some mixing/mastering to 2 track and then to the record pressing plant! I believe they went into the studio, did 4 or 5 takes ... and you guessed it, take number 1 was the one of the record. It does have that great live rawness to it - maybe later takes didn't have that feel and of course, probably bum notes here and there

I agree, the track is good as it is, yes you can fine tune for ever. The number of times I have gone back to an early mix or take of a track and thought, "Hmmm ... the later ones are not much better, if at all - what was I thinking?", but we all do it and try to be perfectionists. There are always things you can change for better or worse. The problem is that once you change one thing, you then go on to change another in that new context ... this constant re-iteration leads to some refinement, but you do have to ask the questions "has it really been worth it?", "could I have done it differently", "is it REALLY better?".

Just some thoughts while we are waiting for the results of this mammoth challenge!

dB

Erkenfresh · Post by **Erkenfresh** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 3:04 pm

I'm nervous now but we should know the results in just a couple of hours.

One Synth Challenge #71: Hive by u-he (Jasinski wins! 2+ hours of epic music)