[VOTE] Potluck Sample Contest Voting thread

[deadly_habit]

Pick your favorite, all with the lovely filenames i got sent.
Poll will be open for 2 weeks

here's all the entries as a set as well
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[jrisreal]

Will listen when i get home

[jrisreal]

Difficult to decide between 2 and 5...I think I'm going to go with 5, but both are great. Mine sucks completely in comparison with these.

[Artie_Fufkin]

haha I found the songs before I found this thread. The reason for my lovely filename was because I didn't know if we were doing it anonymously like the 48 hr contests?

el diablo: alright... good use of the animal sounds! the glitchy drums were good for a few seconds and then it lost me. and the timestretching on the breaks wasn't my cup of tea. I was expecting the satan samples, son i am disappoint! I was eager to hear this one because of the name

lucky star: weird vibes. nice use of the crash cymbal! neat feel.

main: quirky and kinda fun. nice use of the drums and reese.

unimog: Interesting to listen to. almost too random but enjoyable nonetheless. favorite so far. vaguely reminds me of distance, but not as repetitive so I can listen to it over and over again.

vast grid: some "clumsy" sounding compression in the beginning and at 3:40 huh. Fun, wonky mixture of dark/minor and chiptune/poppy bits. heheheheheh thats the best bitcrush sound I've ever heard XD it sounds like one of those little yappy dogs trying to growl with a raspy voice. nice snares

Had I not voted for mine, I would've voted for unimog.

[jrisreal]

Artie, I really liked yours as well. Very cinematic.

[Electric_Head]

Mine shouldn't have been sent in but I decided to send it just for the sake of it.
I had no time and just rushed something the evening before in an hour or 2.
I just had too many ideas to be able to create something flowing and concrete.
It is admittedly not up to my stds.

I will say though, I wasn't even planning on adding beats.
I am pretty much in love with evolving textures and at the moment I tend to not even care with beats.

[Aufnahmewindwuschel]

ok to point out the obvious haha the 4th is ill but i nontheless voted for the second tune i loved the vibe

but big ups to everyone who finished his tune in time
i hope it will give another potluck someday

artie you did lazer beams? definitly keep that route than after that


that was my second tune didnt mix too much hehe
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[Artie_Fufkin]

Yup mine was the lasers. I've had metalocalypse on the brain...
Thanks guys! The rain sound came from your toilet, jr.
Your second tune is pretty sick as well, I would've voted for that instead of mine
I wanted to resample the reese more to make it less repetitive but I was running out of time. I need to know how to make lloydy's reese now
Which one was yours jr?

[deadly_habit]

Your second tune is pretty sick as well, I would've voted for that instead of mine

[Ongelegen]

The atmosphere of 1 did it for me despite the somewhat messy drums of the middle section. In the last section they were perfect in the background.

[lloydy]

Your second tune is pretty sick as well, I would've voted for that instead of mine

[lloydy]

I need to know how to make lloydy's reese now

1oz flour,4 eggs some chock chips a hamster and the cream of a 12 year old virgin.Simmer for roughly 10 mins then serve with a pint of dom perignon and some bread sticks.Thats the true path to reece heaven!!

[Aufnahmewindwuschel]

I need to know how to make lloydy's reese now

1oz flour,4 eggs some chock chips a hamster and the cream of a 12 year old virgin.Simmer for roughly 10 mins then serve with a pint of dom perignon and some bread sticks.Thats the true path to reece heaven!!

i knew it
thanks alot for liking my second tune i can never tell what people might like so i went for the easier one
lloydys long reece sample helped me realising that sampling longer wavs and then pick the best parts is really a good way of doing things i would not even call that resampling its more like rearranging so i learned alot here

[lloydy]

lloydys long reece sample helped me realising that sampling longer wavs and then pick the best parts is really a good way of doing things i would not even call that resampling its more like rearranging so i learned alot here

Yeah agreed.You have to look at it like this,when you do mad filtering and shit loads of automation some of it will sound good and some absolutely junk so cutting and using the rite bits is really important to getting devastating results.I love using slow moving notch filters,slow phaser/flanger combos.I like to chop it up into tiny segments like 1/4 notes or something like that and then set the playback in my sampler to forwards then reverse to get even more fucked up movement.
New tune i'm working on i used the sample i made for this and it's by far the most devastating track i have produced yet.

Honestly artie i made the reece in absynth,just a simple 2 saw patch with some frequency shifting set up and a waveshaping mod.Bounced out the 30 second note,dragged the audio file into my arrange and added volcano.The stabby reece sample was just volcano set to bandpass with a saw wave set to 8th notes i think maybe 1/4 notes.The other sample was volcano again set to bandpass but using a sine as the lfo and then just automated the lfo rate.
Nothing special,both took me about 10 minutes,i may have used some phaser/flanger but can't remember.Normally i do with sounds like this but am pretty sure i didn't want them to be really wide because i wanted people to find them slightly useable .The more i make reeces the easier i am finding putting them together,i will not be happy untill i take chasing shadows place
Hope that helps.

[jrisreal]

Mine was main...the 3rd one. Sucks balls.

[Artie_Fufkin]

Hardly. The sounds are kinda odd, but if you changed them all to piano, it'd sound beautiful.
Thanks, lloydy! I've always felt like notch filters/flangers/phasers make things hollow and weak sounding but maybe I've just been doing it wrong. Your chain sounds pretty simple, so you didn't do any layering or frequency splitting I'm guessing?

[lloydy]

Hardly. The sounds are kinda odd, but if you changed them all to piano, it'd sound beautiful.
Thanks, lloydy! I've always felt like notch filters/flangers/phasers make things hollow and weak sounding but maybe I've just been doing it wrong. Your chain sounds pretty simple, so you didn't do any layering or frequency splitting I'm guessing?

No i don't tend to frequency split,i do layer sometimes,maybe a sub or something.I always find if you make the patch as big as possible in the synth so you have the spectrum full in the beginning then it will always sound a bit fuller when filtering.I found the project i used yesterday to make them patches so will post a detailed list of what i used in the plugin chain.
Another good thing to remember is if when you have set a bandpass filter up on your reece you should always saturate be it with distortion or whatever to boost the signal back up and bring out all the nasty tones.Another thing is if notch filtering watch the resonance levels because if you saturate you will bring out horrible tones that will make the movement sound a bit fucked and not easy on the ears.
I never and i mean never over complicate my sound design,plugin chains can get long yes but i say no to frequency splitting unless its purely to layer.
On the filter/flangers/phasers sounding weak,its all about wet amounts and getting the rite tone in the first place.Camelphat is very good for giving tones some extra oomph after phaser/flanger combos but again less is more.
I'll have a look in a bit if i get chance and post up my chain on them two samples.

[lloydy]

I take that back about that project file i thought i found.It was actually the tune i started for this so i can't tell you exactly what chain i used.

[Artie_Fufkin]

I always find if you make the patch as big as possible in the synth so you have the spectrum full in the beginning then it will always sound a bit fuller when filtering.

Huh? I'm confused because filtering only takes away from the spectral content. Even the resonance in a filter only boosts a narrow band of frequencies that were to being kept anyways. Right?
Maybe I've just been putting these 'hollowing' effects in the wrong spot in the chain. I'll keep at it with your tips.

[lloydy]

Huh? I'm confused because filtering only takes away from the spectral content. Even the resonance in a filter only boosts a narrow band of frequencies that were to being kept anyways. Right?
Maybe I've just been putting these 'hollowing' effects in the wrong spot in the chain. I'll keep at it with your tips.

Yeah your correct in what your saying,the basics of a filter is that it filters out anything around,above or below the cutoff point depending on the type of filter you use but if you make a weak hollow sound to begin with the frequency's that the filter lets through will still be weak and hollow.The way i work is to make the sound as huge as possible pre filter so when i set automation or whatever on the cutoff the frequency's let through the filter are still huge and still have a presence to them.Also this is where saturation comes in post filter because it boosts the overall signal and adds more harmonics back to the sound that you might have lost due to filtering.
See with a bandpass filter you have to get the sweeping of the cutoff rite to begin with,i don't really set my automation to sweep past the upper mids because adding saturation or whatever adds nice harmonics to the top end anyway,i find the way to get the really hard dirty sound to your reece is to keep the sweeping of the cutoff just through the midrange and maybe the lows depending on how muddy they sound.Once i get a nice sweep through the mids that has a sort off dark hard edge to it that is when i set about building a chain that fattens the sound back up.
I'm not going to post the track in here because of the comp but check the wip i posted yesterday,the reece i used in that is the reece i entered into this comp yet it sounds waaaaayyy chunkier.