freakah wrote:I actually think it would be more inventive just to make an ENTIRE song out of that VSTi, including drums, percussion, FX, everything!
Been toying with the idea of doing this for a while, just for laughs, would be quite a good competition!
silkpantsman wrote:yeah gr8 idea but i think it shud really stay true to the idea that your limiting yourself to 1 synth => any sounds you make must come from that synth...i hav nt a fuckin clue how to make drum hits other than the basic how to construct a sound with a synth knowledge but ill def learn if im limiting myself to just that...and thats the point your getting at with progressing.
My opinion - as someone who's figured out successfully how to make drums from practically anything - is that while this would definitely step up the challenge, it's
A) a lot to bite off considering there'll be a relatively short deadline of maybe 2 weeks;
B) might produce a lot of sterile drum sounds just because some synths lend themselves to this process less than others, and
C) could be frustrating for those with a preference for more acoustically "real" sounding drums.
Drum synthesis is kind of its own beast, you know? The idea I stated before (to choose one drum machine from
this list, for example, and one break of the organizer's choosing) sounds more and more appealing the more I think about it, but again - I'll defer to you lot.
Speak up!
Drum samples provided or everything from the VSTi? And you know, even if we go with provided drum samples - if you
want to make percussion sounds from the VSTi too that'd be fine too. I just think requiring it raises the bar a little on the prohibitive side - we want both noobs and old hacks to participate, after all.
volcanogeorge wrote:I had this idea yesterday, I wondered whether I could use ONLY Albnino 3 to make a track, as in synthesising all drums, leads etc...
I think it'd be possible
In Albino? Totally - and it'd be easy to do too. But remember, we're talking about
freeware VSTi's only... no payware, no cracks. Levels the playing field.
Recessive Trait wrote:does it have to be dubstep?
Absolutely NOT. It can be whatever the fuck ya wanna make.
Hasezwei - sorry about your Mac woes. Get that shit sorted and come join us!
It's nice to see familiar folks like Frank Grimes, 3za, Surefya interested - not to mention everybody else who's expressed interest. I'm glad you guys are down. This is gonna be fun.
Here's my tentative suggestion then for the rules, but again, only if we get a majority agreement... Whatchoo fink?
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~ Songs can only be made from one drum machine kit and one breakbeat sample (provided by organizer) plus the featured VSTi in question (what about acapellas? Hmmm... 
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~ 2 weeks deadline with 1 week of voting;
~ Song run time can be no more than 3 minutes (learned the hard way from the samplepack contests);
~ Winner must provide patch/screenshot/some sort of basic documentation for how sound were made.
) and everything else is at the participants' discretion - i.e. you can use your own drum samples and anything else, and the VSTi can be used in any way we like for basslines, leads, FX... but also 
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