Dedicate yourself to one softsynth only for the next 3 weeks

Fretwired

Missed this which is a shame .. I'd have had a bash with old school Massive or Omnisphere.

Snap

Clarky said:

my god this challenge looks like fun...
I'd love to have a crack at it but right now I'm part way through recording 2 albums for two different bands

if I could have a go at this I'd like to try creating pieces with only:
Omnisphere [maybe this is too easy]
Sylenth
Cypher

eyup pal, good to hear the music is busy. I thought this would be up your street. MInd you, not a bad thing you are too busy a you'd probably put in some fandagling opus lol.

Next time, I might use Oddity or Polycom (a polymoog emulation). 

Fretwired

stratman3142 said:

Springywheel said:

Yeah I’d be up for having a voting thread.

Hopefully we’ll have a sudden influx of entries before the deadline  

a three monthly event sounds good if everyone else is game for that. 

Do we extend this past 1st July, or just go with the three we've got?

Let me know as I could enter something I've already written or create something new.

stratman3142

Fretwired said:

stratman3142 said:

Springywheel said:

Yeah I’d be up for having a voting thread.

Hopefully we’ll have a sudden influx of entries before the deadline  

a three monthly event sounds good if everyone else is game for that. 

Do we extend this past 1st July, or just go with the three we've got?

Let me know as I could enter something I've already written or create something new.

@Springywheel I don't mind hanging on a bit longer, unless you'd like to start a fresh one.

midiman1962

just seen this - great entries - will enter the next one deffo

Fretwired

I've entered something ... hopefully it's OK. It was all done with one synth ...

Springywheel

Fretwired said:

I've entered something ... hopefully it's OK. It was all done with one synth ...

Hey, yeah that’s fine! As soon as @stratman3142 adds it to the playlist I’ll start a voting thread

stratman3142

Fretwired said:

I've entered something ...

I very last minute entry. I'm sensing a pattern here

Added to playlist below. That makes 4 entries.

https://soundcloud.com/thefretboard/sets/synth-challenge-1

Springywheel

Head on over to the voting thread folks! 

Fretwired

stratman3142 said:

Fretwired said:

I've entered something ...

I very last minute entry. I'm sensing a pattern here
 

That's me ... last minute Fret ...

And yes, mine has a Kraftwerk vibe .... 80's electronica .. :-)

digitalkettle

Interesting thread...what controllers are you guys using?

stratman3142

digitalkettle said:

Interesting thread...what controllers are you guys using?

For me it's a Novation Impulse 61 keyboard. But as I'm not really a keyboard player there's a lot of quantization and manual editing in Reaper's midi grid.

Springywheel

Same here, novation impulse 49 key version....I record midi (badly) then tidy everything up in the DAW

Fretwired

Native Instruments S61 .. the integration with Komplete is cool and the NKS functionality allows me to link my Maschine controller and other NKS enabled software.

digitalkettle

Thanks...I'm sticking with my 25 keys for now

Fretwired

digitalkettle said:

Thanks...I'm sticking with my 25 keys for now

Unless you're a concert pianist that's all you need.

digitalkettle

Fretwired said:

digitalkettle said:

Thanks...I'm sticking with my 25 keys for now

Unless you're a concert pianist that's all you need.

Yep...prod keys with left hand...right hand on mouse - as mentioned above...must be the guitarist's way!

Clarky

Snap said:

Clarky said:

my god this challenge looks like fun...
I'd love to have a crack at it but right now I'm part way through recording 2 albums for two different bands

if I could have a go at this I'd like to try creating pieces with only:
Omnisphere [maybe this is too easy]
Sylenth
Cypher

eyup pal, good to hear the music is busy. I thought this would be up your street. MInd you, not a bad thing you are too busy a you'd probably put in some fandagling opus lol.

Next time, I might use Oddity or Polycom (a polymoog emulation). 

yes busy is good...
one is 2nd album by Circu5 [who I play guitar for..]
the other album is my own.. SY3ERIA.. so I've basically taken a year out from the movie trailers and media music to do this..
nice to be working on music for me for a change.. lmao

Snap

@clarky keep us posted, sounds interesting

Clarky

Snap said:

@clarky keep us posted, sounds interesting

I've recorded the guitars and vocals for the first 2 SY3ERIA songs.. they came out really nice..
just finished recording the guitars for the 1st Circu5 song and that's sounding nice too..
but as this is the first song of the album, I'm still scouting around for some of the guitar tones..
so I'm messing with amp options in the Axe-FX and reamping them until I'm happy..
that then nails the tones for the rest of the album