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Post by andrewwerdna on Jan 1, 2017 7:21:03 GMT -5
I propose a songwriting exercise!
The only rule is to make a song within one day, and then post it here. You don't have to spend all day working on it, you don't even need to spend an hour working on it, just you can't continue working after 24 hours have passed.
Whenever I'm having writer's block, I find it helpful make something really quickly and just call it finished and move on. Considering some of the best dungeon synth is some of the most unpolished and improvised, this exercise might bear some quite interesting fruit. At the very least I think it would be good warmup for working on the larger projects.
I have a day off tomorrow and no plans so I'm going to take at least a couple hours to try and quickly cobble something together. Now the question is, where to upload? I'm thinking youtube.
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Post by nahadoth on Jan 1, 2017 13:43:03 GMT -5
Cool - I'll take you up on this.
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Post by andrewwerdna on Jan 2, 2017 6:58:20 GMT -5
Ok, this ended up pretty sloppy, but I'm pretty happy with this result. So far this experiment seems very promising to me.
For any synthesizer geeks who are interested, this is made entirely using presets from the Roland SR-JV80-02 Orchestral Expansion board.
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Post by Ananoriel on Jan 2, 2017 10:40:59 GMT -5
Sounds very epic, you don't notice that it is made in 'just' one day.
The idea of this experiment is cool. Makes me want to mess around with it as well, but I never made synthy music, so one day would be way too short for me.
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Post by curwenius on Jan 2, 2017 12:16:11 GMT -5
Good work, Andrew. Following your proposal, I'll try to make something during this week, it's a great idea.
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Post by andrewwerdna on Jan 3, 2017 8:18:27 GMT -5
Ok, tonight I'm here to demonstrate a technique I've been working on. Evolving synths have been a thing since the beginning of the synthesizer, usually heard with traditional analog-style oscillators. Well, I say, why can't our crusty rompler samples evolve!? This took two hours to make, it's just one riff. But the idea is that the instrument starts out with the raw rom sample at the beginning of the track, and while it's playing I'm manipulating the amp, filter, and lfo to change it into something different by the end of the track, so that the instrument texture itself evolves as the song is progressing. I'm going all-out here to demonstrate the effect, but when used conscientiously I think this technique can create a great subtle magical effect, and ds is all about subtle magic imo. I'm using a JD-990 btw.
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Post by Ananoriel on Jan 3, 2017 10:03:30 GMT -5
Sounds pretty spacy and very hypnotising. Especially on headphones.
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Post by andrewwerdna on Jan 4, 2017 8:44:59 GMT -5
I hope nobody minds if I hog this thread a bit until other people start using it. This thread probably should've been in Chambers, right? Sorry, feel free to move it mods.
A continuation of the "randomly mangling ds in real-time" experiment. Here I'm mangling four tracks at a time rather than two, no track is unaffected. I think this is probably pushing the limits of the effect, but when not randomly improvised I think it will sound much more natural, even with all of the tracks evolving.
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Post by nahadoth on Jan 4, 2017 15:00:34 GMT -5
Cool stuff so far. Your last two experiments helped me to figure out a different way of thinking about an issue I was having with a track I'm working on. Yesterday, while waiting for a student, I recorded two pieces on piano. I added some synths and reverbs last night, and both pieces were done in 24 hours total. Almost completely improvised, so a little messy Here's the first one: soundcloud.com/user-46022715/sunrise-on-ashen-field-demo |
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Post by andrewwerdna on Jan 5, 2017 10:01:32 GMT -5
This is cool. It's a bit ornate to my tastes, but I can definitely respect your skill. I like the bombastic drums. And I like how complex it is for such a small timeframe. I think it breaks away from ds a bit in that it has a more organic, flowing structure rather than the traditional riff-based structure, but I think this is somewhat special and unique, in that it has that sound but still sounds very much like ds.
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Post by nahadoth on Jan 5, 2017 10:23:35 GMT -5
Thanks! All the drum sounds are just the lowest notes on this piano, which is not particularly in tune, and the fact that it was recorded poorly on my stereo recorder. It's definitely more ornate melodically than a lot of the stuff I do - it's interesting to me that I get this result working quickly, where getting fully minimal music takes practice for me.
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Post by nahadoth on Jan 6, 2017 10:59:54 GMT -5
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Post by andrewwerdna on Jan 6, 2017 11:11:13 GMT -5
That's very nice, like dungeon synth meets classical, skipping over neoclassical entirely. Initially I wasn't feeling it, but this track very quickly grows on me.
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Post by Svarograd on Jan 16, 2017 15:16:28 GMT -5
So far I've listened to 010317, 010417 and they sound great. They bring the memories of old towers from the first RPG sessions in my life (I was around 10 years old or something like that). 20 years ago ! By then this is how I imagined the perfect RPG music and it did not change till today. It sound perfect.
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Post by Svarograd on Jan 16, 2017 15:18:55 GMT -5
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