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.
Here is my last track for the contest. This one is for category Z.
I used Zynseq and i wrote the notes in every sequences, but i planned in advance the positions in Zynpad in order to obtain an easyer (…i guess) live playability. So i recorded the track “playing” the sequences using my Launchpad Mini mk3. I suppose i could play that on a bigger touch display (5 inches maybe).
Here we have the mp3, the snapshot, a pair of screenshot, a video of the live recording and a scheme of the sequences, just in case someone wants to replay the song.
The title is Everything must flow (wich is what i was trying to obtain studying Zynseq ). Enjoy!
Hey Zynthianers!
Cutting it a bit close to the deadline, but I managed to finish my track for the competition
It’s called Zynesthesia
(a little pun, with Synesthesia being the phenomenon of associating colors or shapes with music; I’m in love with the concept )
I went for a relaxed downtempo vibe, inspired by meditation & lounge music as well as some chill house tracks I like.
The track was made 100% on my Zynthian, with some sequences entered manually in the pattern sequencer (like the drums) and others recorded into it (Rhodes, Flute…). I only used external tools to record the final result. Should fit in CATEGORY Z
It’s got 6 Tracks, featuring Linux Sampler presets for the 808 drums, StereoRhodes & Flutes, as well as Helm for the deep Bass & Arp and MDA DX10 for the melodic toms.
I used some audio effects like Roomy & MDA Delay to give it some depth and dimension. There’s also an arpeggiator with matching BPM on Chain 4 to fill the mix with a lush atmosphere.
BEAUTIFUL!!! Unfortunately I can’t think like you do with these little loops… I’ve always played with people and the drummer took care of the percussion or drums. I really like the sounds.
When I was young if you wanted a sequencer you had to get this:
This final stretch is being really interesting, with last-moment players applying with very good proposals on the Z category. Congratulations to everybody who applied!!! Amazing!!!
Well, let’s see what these last hours bring us. I’m really intrigued …
Title: machinery
Description: a synthwavy track with some progressive elements sprinkled in
This was a bigger technical challenge than I had expected. I jammed on it with the beatstep then moved to ableton to arrange it. Had some troubles exporting as a multitrack midi from ableton so I had to export separately and use reaper to export as multitrack. Now I have my midi file, great! But now I realise I don’t know how to get it into Zynthian again (or at least make the file play somehow). So I had to generate audio has from ableton, it is using all the same instruments and plugins as zynthian, hopefully that’s acceptable. I’d be happy to create audio from zynthian once I figure out how to get the midi working.
The contest is closed now. Please, don’t send more works because we can’t accept them.
I mean, you can send them if you like, but they wont be eligible.
In the next days we will make public the list of finalists. Although i think all works presented in the Z category will be finalists.in the X category we will have some work to do.
Although it’s a little bit “too late”, I’ve a rule-change proposal, but i would like to ask you first:
10 is a very long list for the final voting. As the Z category already have 5 songs, i propose to also reduce to 5 the finalist song list for the X-category. I really think this would ease voting and would increase participation. Also, it would reduce the risk of tie, etc.
In other words, i propose that the jury make a list of 5 finalist pieces for each category: X & Z
Of course, this change can’t be done without asking contenders . If any contender disagree, we should keep the rules untouched.
What do you think about? You have 2 days for complaining if you disagree this change. After this time i would consider everybody is OK with this.
The seas of Mars by @Nicolaz (link to original post)
The inspiration came from one of my favourite science fiction writers, Kim Stanley Robinson", who wrote a trilogy about the colonization of Mars. The whole story is complicated but at the end of the terraforming process, Mars have oceans. “The seas of Mars” is the image i created in my mind when i read this part.
Inneremerald by @Aethermind (link to original post)
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.
WesternBrassBand by @ivaneo (link to original post)
It is a WesternStory; about an aventure man who loose itself in a field of a great technology: a land far far away : The Zynthian land…
The Prayer by @ejdzi (link to original post)
Prayer to Archangel Michael by Pope Leo XIII in Polish Language!
Clouds Coming on Planes by @erasmo (link to original post)
My goal was getting a soft, natural but authentic sound. I know some of you will find a bit of reverb excess, but was intended. I forced it to expand an “airy” atmosphere.
Zynesthesia by @Kosro (link to original post)
A little pun, with Synesthesia being the phenomenon of associating colors or shapes with music; I’m in love with the concept I went for a relaxed downtempo vibe, inspired by meditation & lounge music as well as some chill house tracks I like.
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