The “Old MacBook” is always great!! I use it with High Sierra and MixBus32C … If you use the Zynthian that doesn’t force its processor, it’s always a “Big Old” 
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Totally agree!
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I’m starting a rumour that favour will be shown to those that show up at zynthclub. . .
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OK Only 6 days for closing the contest and nobody applied in the Z category (snapshots using zynseq only) yet…
Hello everybody,
This is my entry for the V5 demo contest: INNEREMERALD.
The piece portrays a mental voyage through the depths of cosmos, in search for the discovery of an emeraldine life-form, based on mineral elements. It develops in three dovetailed sections: the approach through stellar layers of coloured dust, the revelation of a shimmering landscape of sentient gems, the retreat into space, with a reflection on such glimpses of crystalline cities, as an exact counterpoint of mirroring concepts.
Technical layout: it employs twelve channels (Zynadd, Helm, Dexed, Noize Maker and Fluidsynth for drums), with various effects from the plugins inventory. The snapshot sounds clean and with no detectable artifacts, on an official Zynthian V4 at 256 samples per duty-cycle.
Aethermind_Paolo Ramacciotti_INNEREMERALD.mid (35.8 KB)
Aethermind_Paolo Ramacciotti_INNEREMERALD.zss (64.1 KB)
I hope you enjoy 
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I want to submit a small composition for the zynthian contest. I allways like to mix folk music with electronic. This is a song inspired in a Quechua/Inca Dance called Huayno.
Title: Carnavaleando con Chispeza
Description: A little composition inspired in the rythm of Huayno but made with zynthian.
Snapshot:
012-Carnavaleando con Chispeza.zss (38.3 KB)
Midi File:
Carnavaleando con Chispeza.midi (5.7 KB)
Personal Preset for ZynAddSubFX:
0030-PFMIDS-PAD.xiz (1.8 KB)
Audio Track:
The secuence was made using mostly Seq64:
But there is a little Piano Intro made with Musescore, you can check the score here;
https://musescore.com/user/30642890/scores/11277334
Finally, a little screen capture of zynthian itself:
I hope you enjoy this music.
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Que lindo tema 
Sería fantástico si lo pudieras portar al Zynseq. La categoría Z está desierta de momento.así que incrementarías tus posibilidades de ganar un V5.
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Nice composition!
It would be fantastic if you could translate the Seq64 composition to Zynseq. The Z category is empty by now, so your chances to win a V5 would increase a lot.
The best!
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A hint: You can import .mid files as sequences. A set of sequences are created, one per MIDI channel, each with the required quantity of patterns. It uses some of the current parameters to make decisions like bar length.
You may need to manipulate things a bit afterwards to qualify for a valid / sensible zynseq sequence.
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I have to be honest, I’m not proud of what I’m doing. This is very Lazy. I had to admit that I made this composition in Musescore, I exported to MIDI, I tweaked the channel of every track and imported in Zythian sequencer.
Title: Pequeño Landó
Description: A little composition in a folk afro-peruvian rythm called landó.
Snapshot:
013-Pequeno Lando.zss (44.5 KB)
Audio Track:
Screen Captures:
Main Screen:
Zynseq:
Remmina (VNC Connection):
Here is the full score in Musescore:
https://musescore.com/user/30642890/scores/11297380
I hope that this qualifies for the Zynthian category. I’m learning to use Zynseq yet 
PD: I use to make my compositions in Musescore (or Lilypond when I’m not busy) export to midi and import the midi file in seq64. Then I can cut and make all the loops. I think that is easier to work in a score than in a pianoroll. Is not a very productive workflow but it works for me, I would very happy if I could do this in Zynthian.
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I think you’re being too hard on yourself - I liked it a lot and found your description of the workflow (and why) very interesting and useful. Thanks!
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Thanks for this @Lanfranco ! This is a little embarrassing for me but I’m very very happy that you like this tune
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Why embarrassing? If something is beautiful and creates emotions, it is fair to say so.
Yesterday I put your song in my Zynthian and I tried to put some piano notes in it… but it’s beautiful like this and I let it go. 
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I would suggest changing the playmode to singleshot so that you can stop playback within the piece and not have it loop at end. I notice the faders are all set to unity gain. Maybe you balanced the audio levels somewhere else?
Your workflow is very interesting and may indicate areas where Zynthian’s sequencer can be improved.
It is for @jofe to decide whether this use of ZynSeq qualifies for category Z. You used my suggestion to import but then there was no further manipulation within ZynSeq. (Maybe because it was already perfect??? 
)
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What an impressive variety of musical languages and cultural backgrounds this initiative has revealed!
If it was in the mind of the promoters to discover what the nice bunch of Zynthianers was really doing, with their ingenious little boxes, well I think that they just nailed it.
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That’s not the reason 
. I want to manipulate the sequences but I was able to succesfully import the mid file arround the 2 am (in my country) I was sleepy to learn how to use ZynSeq at that time. And I need to finish the song yesterday because I will not be able to work in the song today and tomorrow. That’s the same reason why I didn’t ajust the volume in the faders.
I’m not proud of my work, I have to be honest.
Oh thanks. I use a lot of sequences, but I really like doted notes that are easier to make in a score editor, at least for me, also I use to get lost in a piano grid.
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Hello everybody!
This is my contribution to the competition.
Title: Origin
Description: a little dreamy electro/synth tune with some inspiration from hungarian folk music.
The song is self-contained. It was sequenced with Renoise and Zynthian (I created some Renoise phrases inside an empty song and translated it to zynthian sequences with a custom-made converter utility via SFTP).
Here’s the audio recording (played using zynpads). Some compression was applied, otherwise I recorded it through a UMC1820 sound card. No custom preset is used.
Snapshot:
origin.zss (64.4 KB)
Screenshots:
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