Lamp Sessions (Monthly Challenge #011) – July 2019
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2019-07-02 at 21:44:29 #87226,
shrikeParticipantLamp Sessions #011 (July 2019) – Single Sample Challenge
First off, I would like to give a MASSIVE shout out to Mr Harry R4nsom for a good solid year of running these challenges. We have seen increased & interest involvement, some have credited their continued success to the challenges, and Harry has worked tirelessly, not only to bring us monthly challenges, but in many areas of Sample Genie. He does it for the love, and I am personally grateful to the souls like him that you will find wandering these halls.
This month, and for a bit, we are going to switch things up, and I am going to run the challenges. I have some exciting stuff planned, so I hope you’ll join us on this journey. I’m going to try and chellenge the group to new ideas and concepts, with the hopes that you’ll maybe struggle a little but ultimately grow as an artist. And once again, the intent for these challenges is for users of ALL SKILL LEVELS to participate. This is to help you learn and grow, and no one should refrain from entering because they feel like they “aren’t good enough”. All skill levels, all comers.
The challenge for this month will be a SINGLE SAMPLE CHALLENGE. In other words, I will provide a sound, and from that all elements of a track, drums, bass, atmos, fx, etc, will be created. Don’t be afraid! It’s not as difficult as it sounds. And we will be here to help along the way. I may even throw a few tutorials up along the way to help out with some stuff.
The sample is something I recorded, and includes a variety of types of sounds in one sample. If you’re curious, it’s foley of me picking around on my wooden beard comb. And yes, you can absolutely make an entire track from this one sound.
The sample is downloadable from here:
https://soundcloud.com/the_shrike/lamp-onesamplechallenge/s-EoWuW
It’s a 24/48 uncompressed WAV file. There is a section where the gain boost brought up the noise floor, but honestly that noise is super useful, too.
Sample it, convolve it, make wavetables from it, stack it layer it, chop it, screw it, whatever. The point is to avoid using synths or other samples as the primary means of sound design. There is so much you can do with this one sound, try and stick to it.
I am going to do some stuff a little differently than has been done in the past, just trying to see what sticks and what doesn’t.
The first thing is:
If you intend to participate, please give reply with some sort of positive affirmation. Even if you just *think* you might, I think a public promise might encourage more users to stay the course. (of course no harm if you can’t follow through…we all know life happens)
Secondly:
I would like to give us all the chance to have a mid-month check-in, if we so desire. That can be everyone’s chance to get feedback, get help with issues, etc. I’m definitely down to help in any way I can.
Once submissions are in, please listen to the submissions & pick one demo as your favorite, other than your own submission; if you cannot participate but listen to the submissions, add your voice to the discussion. Feedback on final submissions is encouraged as well, but not required. Just remember “Want feedback? Give feedback.”
SUBMISSIONS DUE: July 31, 2019
VOTES DUE: Before the August samples go live, usually the 2nd of the month.
Genies and Moderators are exempt from prizes, so be sure to vote for another member.SUBMIT: Upload a private track on SoundCloud and share the link in this thread any time after July 21, 2019. Collaborations are okay, but if you post a collab, you cannot also post a solo piece or additional collaborations.
PRIZE(?!?): GENIE HQ has final say, and will announce a winner at the conclusion of each month. Typically the winner will get a free month of Sample Genie next month, and possibly some additional feedback from a Sample Genie artist.
Any questions, just ask. Also, if you have any recommendations or ideas for future challenges, send them our way please!
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2019-07-02 at 22:20:08 #87239,
HarryModeratorLamp Sessions 2.0! Thanks Shrike for taking on running the challenge, and I really like the changes you’re introducing.
For those wondering why I’m stepping back for a little bit, lil yung R4NS0M jr. is debuting in early September, and I’ve had a few other big life changes happen over the past six months.
And that said, I’ll be taking a stab at this month’s challenge.
"Knowledge kept is knowledge lost." - Bobbito Garcia
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2019-07-02 at 23:03:19 #87241,shrikeParticipant
Nice one Harry.
Oh and obviously I am in on the challenge. Excited for it!
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2019-07-02 at 23:35:53 #87252,GENIE HQKeymaster
Big thanks Harry for all your great ideas and challenges over the last year and more. It has provided some really interesting angles to look at things from and has also bought forward a number of new names onto the radar as a result. So we can’t thank you enough!! Also big news about September! Understandable you’ll need to be putting your energies into that. Massive congratulations btw!
Shrike – many thanks in advance for picking up the baton on this, really excited to see what you come up with to get the creative juices flowing!!
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2019-07-03 at 02:00:36 #87270,
FreemanParticipantCongrats Harry! Thanks Shrike for taking the reigns and continuing the lamp sessions, I’m looking forward to this challenge. I didn’t follow through on the last few but no excuses this time. Cool sample by the way, what recorder did you use Shrike?
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2019-07-03 at 02:33:03 #87277,shrikeParticipant
It’s a privilege to be involved with this group, but you’re welcome, of course.
I used my trusty Tascam DR-05 field recorder.
I really like it, good signal to noise, decent mics, well priced. Nice piece of kit.
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2019-07-05 at 19:04:08 #87697,shrikeParticipant
This challenge is gonna be a tough one, fellas. Not something you can start last minute.
I’ve got something going…spent ages on the snare and kick. We may all need to help each other along the way.
I’ll tell you, though, you will learn so much from doing this one! It’s difficult, but those that persist will be rewarded with new levels of confidence in skill.
If anyone wants help or tips or even proof that it works, just let me know!
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2019-07-09 at 12:51:11 #88052,
JOPPAParticipantyeah i feel intimidated for sure lol not sure about this….
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2019-07-09 at 14:53:39 #88066,GENIE HQKeymaster
yeah i feel intimidated for sure lol not sure about this….
No discomfort = no growth 😀
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2019-07-09 at 16:17:33 #88082,shrikeParticipant
Start small, Juan. Use the sound and just make a snare, or a kick.
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2019-07-09 at 16:28:32 #88083,
FakeParticipantMan I’m sad to see Harry’s passing Lamp Sessions on, thanks for all your hard work keeping this going!
Great start to a new season though Shrike, I love this sample, especially the noisy bit with a DC offset. It’s really made me realise how reliant I am on 808s though, from everything from tuning samples to filling out basses, it’s really strange writing without them.
I’ve got some interesting samples down though, it could be cool if we had a dropbox or google drive folder where we could each submit samples with little explanations on how we made them? Then even if you struggle with sound design you can still arrange something to submit by the end of the month while learning something along the way. Or we could keep it on the forum and use clyp or just soundcloud?
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2019-07-11 at 22:19:06 #88314,HarryModerator
Thanks man, and I’m still going to come up with challenges, just need to cycle out for a bit.
"Knowledge kept is knowledge lost." - Bobbito Garcia
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2019-07-09 at 20:26:12 #88106,shrikeParticipant
Big suggestion, Mr Fake, I agree 100%.
I’ll setup a Dropbox dir tonight for us to all pitch into.
And keep in mind, everyone, if the problem is too big or overwhelming, break it into smaller pieces. I’ve had some success by using the sample to create some wavetables in Serum (I will share), and there is no doubt in my mind that from the sample you could extract simple waveforms: a single cycle sine, or saw, or square, or whatever.
Get the sample into a sampler, cut your in and out so short that you get a single cycle waveform, tune it, then go to town. You basically now have a simple synth, start stacking them to get complex sounds. I used to do something like this in the MPC. It needs a lot of spicing up with FX, but that’s perfectly okay.
Fake, I bet I can actually create an 808 approximation this way. Challenge accepted! I’ll try tonight…
DO OR DO NOT, THERE IS NO FUCKING TRY!
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2019-07-09 at 20:28:07 #88107,
RADARParticipantJust started an idea of a track, first time trying this technique and loving it. Really making me think.
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2019-07-10 at 01:26:10 #88131,JOPPAParticipant
im probably not going to be able to get more time on this so here we go lol horrible
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2019-07-10 at 01:45:43 #88134,JOPPAParticipant
Lamp Sessions 2.0! Thanks Shrike for taking on running the challenge, and I really like the changes you’re introducing.
For those wondering why I’m stepping back for a little bit, lil yung R4NS0M jr. is debuting in early September, and I’ve had a few other big life changes happen over the past six months.
And that said, I’ll be taking a stab at this month’s challenge.
big up harry i really enjoyed last years and before that thanks for your video breakdowns as well really useful
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2019-07-11 at 22:20:19 #88316,HarryModerator
Thanks, and I’m planning to keep up with the video analysis project. There’s a bit more I want to do with it, beyond just giving a timeline and get a few ideas down.
"Knowledge kept is knowledge lost." - Bobbito Garcia
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2019-07-10 at 11:07:31 #88154,RADARParticipant
Sup Sample genie bros,
I have been producing for about a year and half now, but have been doing lots of homework. Loving working on this project, really pushing my sound design skills. I have only used ableton live, no extra plug-ins/ vsts and the sample itself. so really happy of how this has come out. main down fall has got to be them damm hats. so any advice on creating some nicer hats from the sample would be sweet.
Thanks and take a listen
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2019-07-10 at 16:17:07 #88197,FreemanParticipant
@Radar Comb filtering, or super tight Delay switch sync to time and use between 0 and 30ms on left and/or right channels to get a more metallic tone and then EQ to remove tonality. Erosion if you need more white noise to shape it, play around with the signal flow, also write the midi pattern out beforehand and shape the sound of the loop as it plays imo.
You got some nice sounds so far keep it up! I like the grunt-y sound you’ve got playing in there.
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2019-07-10 at 16:32:17 #88198,shrikeParticipant
Ok! Here is a central shared repository that we can all dump our stuff into.
If possible, please preface your file titles with some version of your name.
My stuff is prefaced “SH”…several goodies already uploaded…yes all made from the sample.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/t193mq0lotat5jx/AABpz7ziF67BqrpwmHldzG3ia?dl=0
Radar, Live’s Vocoder is also good for laying in reactive, soft tops. I used it in my hat loops in the dir above.
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2019-07-10 at 18:14:12 #88208,RADARParticipant
Vocoder trick works perfectly. Thanks for the feedback 🙂
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2019-07-10 at 17:43:12 #88207,lomadnbParticipant
I’ll give this a bash!
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2019-07-10 at 23:32:02 #88234,
aphez
ParticipantHello everyone, first of all congrats Harry and thanks Shrike for the lamp sessions! This is my first one, I would like try!
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2019-07-11 at 22:21:39 #88317,HarryModerator
Thank you, and nice one getting in on your first challenge! I’ve made some good connections with others here based on doing these.
"Knowledge kept is knowledge lost." - Bobbito Garcia
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2019-07-11 at 08:30:19 #88248,shrikeParticipant
So I decided to take the “808 Challenge” with this sample to see if I could truly & somewhat accurately hit the mark of making something similar to the iconic boom-bass kick sound.
This is all media res. Don’t take anything to seriously!
001 – Ok, need to put the sample in a sampler so I can loop it…aiming for a single-ish cycle waveform of some shape. For review – single cycle means that there is one cycle that runs positive, -inf – 0dbfs one time only, and then negative for only one cycle. That’s it. It’s not a fucking wavetable, it’s a single cycle sample! Bass. Science.
So a pro task needs a pro tool, right!? I’m in Live, and I know many of you are in Live, so I would like to make something that as many of you could follow as possible (if your little heart so desires). Like a pro tool, I reach for the pro tool of…Live’s sampler. Not simpler. Sampler. Well, this is the farthest I can zoom in on a sample. So much for PRO FUCKING TOOLS. Yer 86’d, Ableton.
002 – Very well, lots of people have Kontakt…I’ll do it in there, then they can follow. NOPE. Waveform, while zoomed in, looks like this scene from early 1980’s Missile Command. I still am only on 5, cuz in 6 THEY OPTED NOT TO UPDATE THE SHITTY ASS INTERFACE, so fuck em. I know this is a subversive hot sports opinion, but: I have never fucking liked Kontakt, ever since I first used it forever zillion years ago. I know you can make cool shit in it, but also, Jennifer Lawrence is hot or whatever yet I do not find her attractive. We all think differently and have individiaul tastes! Fuck you, Kontakt.
(oh and also this is the part where the radio caller might inform me that I maybe could have sliced up my sample a bit in audio, and in not dealing with the whole sample, I might not have these resolution issues. Fair point, but I am being a purist and actually working from the sample, and plus I honestly just thought of it, but also plus I can’t be bothered, and also fuck to you.)
003 – Running out of options, I go to what is actually my real goto sampler these days, UVI’s Falcon. Is that thing fucking expensive? Yup, you bet. Will they even give you a demo? *Not even if you email and ask nicely, arrogant French fucks* (I love you, my French dnb brothers!)
But is it a hell of a tool? Absofucckinglutely. It’s an incredible piece of sound design gear, with some of the fattest OSC’s I’ve heard, the lowest artifacting. (I love me some Serum, but that naked init Saw drives me bonkers cuz you can hear the aliasing like crazy (hint it sounds like high-er freq digital water dripping, somewhat like bad mp3 encoding, but in a higher register. Even at 4x oversampling at the global level. Can’t hear it? CONGRATS, your sanity is somewhat saved. Falcon don’t do dat, at least not this bad. Plus loads of sampling options (reg, granular, multi granular, etc), tons of mod options, loads of extremely high quality FX. You win this one, you beautiful fucks…you’ve made an tool worth the price of admission. Well done. I honestly think you could have a DAW and just this VST and do all you ever need. Yeah, I know…just a DAW is technically all you ever need, but that is just fucking *boring*.
004 And while I think the vertical resolution should be better, it is from this sampler that I get the first step of what I need: my single cycle waveform. I know if I can catch this little monster, I can grow this bass into SOMETHING.
005 I do need to tune it though. And this plus the single cycle thing might be the two biggest key components of the entire process. A Sine OSC, which we know makes some of the gnarliest sub bass ever. It is second in power only to the mighty square wave, which creates the most time at full energy of any waveform, as it jumps from full positive to full negative instantaneously and never even hits -inf dbs (that’s right, Bass Fucking science…you know who you are, fucking noobs), but that square also gives us a bunch of audible harmonics in the upper registries (more proof that it is the strongest), so we are looking for something that isn’t flattened against the ceiling or floor. But fortunately we are dealing with a decent mic, decent recording, of a fairly organic sound captured as a sample. Remember, it’s a bamboo wood comb bristle, being “strummed” by me. It’s actually loaded with tasty harmonics. If I get a wave in the spectrometer (SPAN). So this is before I tuned it down in Falcon:
006 This is the “downtune”. I had to go to G8 (the highest falcon will go), and then even knock down by -12 more semitones. I’m looking for somewhere around my man ~44hz, aka F0. I like that low end fundamental bass note, and so do many of your friendly neighborhood dnb producers. It’s a good low note, and also a note that scales up very well, IE next is ~88hz, 175hz, etc, and these spots are often left vacant by a nice sounding kick and snare (but of course by no means the only key through which to sonically arrange your tune). Also, could I have lowered my midi note? Yeah prolly. Gofuckyerseflwithyergoodideas.
007 Here is our SPAN now (image below). See that big ass fucking hump on the scr left? No not that far, not that half hump, we’re actually gonna have to shave that down. I’m talking about that juicy hump sitting right around 50hz. We’re fucking reeling him in now, boys. Thar be a WHALE.
008 I try to fix the pitch a level up, in falcon, but between the shortness of the sample, and falcon’s inherent limitations, I need another plug to do this. I use KHS pitch shifter for this, my goto pitch shifter. BTW, does thing thing sound like shit right now? AWFUL. Patience, my son.
009 I throw in an oft-used rack of mine. Very simple, just meant to split the low freqs from the high, and in this case I have one fixed at 70hz xover. Could I assign a macro knob to adjust freqs? Yup, got one of those, too. But sometimes I like to work *real fucking fast*, and I know what I want.
010 Solo’ing only the low end, I have two FFQ’s in succession. The first one is set to linear phase so that I get a clean crossover with the higher freqs with no phase-anomalies (kinda like the aforementioned aliasing, but at the xover point). The second one is me filtering out that super low end, which, at those values, will absolutely suck away headroom/energy from our target, the F0 sub note. Bass fucking science!
Oh, and could I have combined these into one EQ instance? Absolutely. I just didn’t. It’s gonna be ok, I promise.
011 I currently have two goto ways through which I beef up a sub. I try the Izo Trash version 1st, cuz I know you all have it, it’s like your pass into starting to produce dnb. Tape saturation is a good algo to try. I get the gain where I want it. But as oft tends to happen in trash, and it’s something I kind of don’t care for, is that it can provide too many smaller side harmonics, which is why you get “rumble” in bass. The fundamental freq of 43.66666666 has to fight with little microinstances of 42 & 45, and lots of little bits in between, and for me, it just takes away from that pure, gooey, focused low sub note that is clean and makes you shit your pants. But some like that rumble, as it can also widen or thicken your sub note. YMMV. But I digress, not tonight, trash.
012 Onto the greatest free VST of all time if you are making dnb, the bx_subfilter. This little badboy is a fucking nuclear weapon of bass, in that it doesn’t just gain boost, it actually resynthesizes the bass fed in, or some shit like that in which only BASS SCIENTISTS like us understand. But seriously. It’s a fucking grenade. And it’s free. Go get it on plugin-alliance.com. Right now. I’ll wait.
013 This sample is such a weak piece of shit in the bass area right now that I get to do something I am never able to do: I get to go hamfist on the bx_subfilter. Generally I am turning the rez to lowest, bringing down the gain, etc. but in this case we get to go to 11. That’s a Spinal Tap reference. Not an actual instruction. Dial in your target freq, turn it up, and SMILE.
Fuck me, this sounds so nice already, I am uploading a clip to the dropbox. It’s called “SH_Lamp_SSC_SUB_F0.wav” or someshit. You’ll find it.
014 I now load this sample back into a Live Sampler. I’m sorry I ever hurt you, baby, I didn’t mean those words I said. Come here, you dirty dirty slut.
015 Since we are aiming for an 808, I need a reference. Battery comes with a decent library of 808’s (Hey Battery, you tell Kontakt to go fuck himself, next time you see him around the office. Yes, still.) I happen to like the “808 12”. Nice and long with a poppy start. Let’s match. (I tune it down in the clip by -2st, to get us to the matching F0 note)
016 First is the pitch env. That’s how that kick gets its poppy transient. No, seriously. That is how Roland fucking did it. Fortunately we can too.
(pro tip- at this point just turn on the pitch env, jack up to 48st, leave the timing as is, and you now have every fucking kick from every gabber or happy hardcore tune ever. Pro sounds, bro!)
But we make modern tough guy drum and bass…serious hard 808, no mucking about here. After a little micro tuning in the sampler to pull the freq down a little more to sit firmly at F0 (Hey, pobody’s nerfect, fucker), I set the pitch env. And, honestly…we done? It sounds as identical to the 808 as it needs to, especially given all of that bullshit that you are going to lay over it. ;P No seriously, it’s nearly identical.
017 I set the amp env to give it that fade out 808 kick miami bass goodness…
018 Hear the results for yourself, the wav file is called “SH_Lamp_SSC_SUB_F0_808_SUCCESSION.wav”, and it is the 808 sample, and then my Sub, played back to back for several loops.
Now go forth and make bass sounds that have never been exactly created before, you dirty filthy bass sluts.
Time to get back to making the musicz…Hope this helps!
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2019-07-11 at 18:16:33 #88295,Participant
Thanks shrike, for the sound design tricks!
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2019-07-11 at 17:56:05 #88290,FreemanParticipant
Well written walkthrough @Shrike, I gave it a stab as well, similar process. I made a kick from the sample, turned that into a long sine wave using sampler, bounced it threw that into Sampler then I referenced a stock 808 in Ableton Live, slight EQ matching (Pro-Q3) , tiny Frequency Shifting, and then a transient shaper, and a tiny amount of stock Glue Compressor.
I couldn’t upload to your folder though, so here’s the file
https://www.dropbox.com/s/jypwe4j0556wp85/LS11_808Replica.wav?dl=0-
2019-07-11 at 18:12:42 #88292,Participant
wow nice work!
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2019-07-11 at 18:13:23 #88293,shrikeParticipant
Nice! Well done, sounds great.
If you guys give me your email addresses, I will add you as someone who can edit (and thus upload) to the dropbox. I’m not sure how to make it fully shared with just a shared link.
You can post your email here, or if you don’t want to do that (and I fully understand) you can ping me at:
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Glad this helped, Freeman!
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2019-07-16 at 13:16:25 #88792,GENIE HQKeymaster
Both submissions so far are very good!
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2019-07-16 at 14:31:23 #88803,HarryModerator
I had a play around with making some wavetables in Serum. My process is typically a 172 BPM track, with a 6.3.2.1 length MIDI note, usually F-1. Can’t remember why I went this route, but I’ve made loads of wavetables this way the past few years. With this month’s sample, I cut it in to four sections that were that same 6.3.2.1 length (and a fifth section that was shorter), then tried loading them to Serum using different methods (FFT 512, etc.). I also tried some of the processing functions in the wavetable editor, normalizing each frame (got lots of distorted sines this way), different table orders, etc.
I also did a slice at transient/onset function on the audio file, got lots of different clicks to try.
Next I plan on trying some ideas with the Bitwig sampler, and The Grid, which was just released in Bitwig 3.0.
"Knowledge kept is knowledge lost." - Bobbito Garcia
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2019-07-17 at 08:04:36 #88873,CymbalistParticipant
been checking in on these since I joined but have never entered. Have decided that as this is a new season I should get into it more 🙂 I’m in!
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2019-07-17 at 13:50:04 #88895,shrikeParticipant
Happy to have you, Cymbalist
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2019-07-17 at 15:10:36 #88900,StruktchaParticipant
this seems like a great challenge, thanks for organising this stuff, Harry R4nsom and shrike
sample is now in the DAW and ready for tweaking so i guess this is me chipping in saying i’m going to attempt the challenge, and it does sound challenging. looking forward to what myself and others come up with.
thanks for the helpful mini tutes on this thread shrike, good ideas to work with
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2019-07-17 at 16:47:36 #88910,FakeParticipant
Thanks for going into all the detail on that walkthrough Shrike!!! I find making 808s, much like meals, are never as good when you make them yourself and yours and Freeman’s certainly prove this!
One bit of feedback, I’ve been using -48st detuned and -96st detuned versions of the original sample which have been bounced down in my Samplers so you can zoom in much further. I did find that the -96st sample actually exceeded the allowed size of a wav file so I’ve had to use FLAC. It reveals some really cool aliasing at the top end that’s fun to play around with too.I’ll try get a google Drive link of some of my own samples with a brief explanation uploaded tonight (finally)
I’ve had yet ANOTHER ssd fail on me over the weekend then got baited into a discount NVMe replacement on Prime Day just to find my BIOS doesn’t support booting into them so I’ve been set back a bit in the Studio this week!-
2019-07-18 at 22:41:59 #89003,FakeParticipant
Here they are, lots of obnoxiously poppy snares and weird bass hits!
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1IfQdmTEiR9cFELzncO0lbXn7Wodl9e9s
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2019-07-18 at 01:12:11 #88939,FreemanParticipant
Here’s my samples so far, might update later
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1V8VKwLMyqTD55EeaFuQW1y8sDnuLb3sx?usp=sharing
Heavy re-sampling to achieve most of these.
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2019-07-31 at 23:40:13 #91275,FreemanParticipant
Wanted to get more done but I didn’t, looking forward to the next challenge.
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2019-08-01 at 16:06:39 #91409,shrikeParticipant
Freeman! That is rad man, esp given that it came from one shitty little sample! And that nod to the original sample at the end is classic. TOP WORK.
My entry below, it is seriously lacking in structure, but it did what I needed it to do, for me, which was to LEARN.
I know this one was hard. I hope you learned a little to a lot. Thanks to all who participated. Next challenge up soon!
https://soundcloud.com/the_shrike/sh-lampsessions11-singlesample-wip02/s-2z6iS
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2019-08-01 at 23:17:24 #91472,FakeParticipant
Got some real bangers there boys, we all seem to have gone pretty hard this month!
This could have probably been 12 minutes long but I ran out of time so there’s some janky transitions and I forgot to do drum fills lol, enjoy! -
2019-08-02 at 04:39:04 #91497,shrikeParticipant
Faaaaaaaakkkkkkkke
So good, as always.
Let’s get some votes folks, doesn’t matter whether you participated or not.
Really down to Freeman & Fake, and they’ve each done a fackin good job in my estimation.
Honestly these could each take the title, but I’m gonna vote FREEMAN
VOTE!
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2019-08-04 at 14:06:40 #91931,GENIE HQKeymaster
Joppa – Love this! what a great vibe and idea – it could suit some kind of weird AV art installation. The only thing missing is an evolution of the idea and progression towards something…
Radar – slick sounding idea. simple and concise.. missing an element of surprise perhaps? some of the sounds too familiar perhaps?
Freeman – Excellent effort levels, very impressive audio manipulation skills. Mixdown is great. Modern idea in sound and grooves.. top work
Shrike – Impressive resampling! Great idea for the challenge too!
Fake – Vibes! Very nice mid and low-mid mixing. Super electronic and interesting tune!
. The house pick goes to Freeman this month :)
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2019-08-04 at 15:20:25 #91938,shrikeParticipant
Well congrats to FREEMAN! Step right up and claim your giant stuffed teddy bear prize, and also email to: [email protected].
Thanks everyone for playing, I hope you all got something out of this.
Check out the new Challenge #12, freshly posted, and let’s roll the beats again…
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2019-08-05 at 21:09:08 #92133,FreemanParticipant
Thanks guys, just getting to reply to this now.
I liked everyone’s tunes, and as Fake said we all went for more aggressive type beats which is interesting must be something about Shrike’s comb (the little sample wasn’t shitty at all!) that cued us into that mode. I’ll be sure to collect my giant stuffed teddy bear haha.
Joppa’s idea was cool, if he had more time I think it could’ve been molded into a pretty interesting experimental beat that develops over time.
Shrike I really like the groove you have going on, and the way it built up the call and response as the track progressed. The drums sound pretty sweet too, and once again good challenge idea. Would be interesting to see this in contrast to a minimal sounding drop as the 2nd part with the more or less same rhythms.
Fake as always killing the rhythm game, you had a bunch of solid ideas progress and good sound effects through out which kept things interesting and moving, nice hefty mix down too
Looking forward to the next challenge.
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2019-08-06 at 03:30:48 #92159,JOPPAParticipant
YESSSS FREEMAN
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2019-08-06 at 12:05:23 #92200,GENIE HQKeymaster
Freeman drop an email to: [email protected] 🙂
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