2024-MAY-01 Info: Check out our current running Songwriting Competition 081 - which offers an interesting twist and a focus on sound design.
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- Wed Mar 27, 2024 03:35 CET
- Forum: Songwriting Competition
- Topic: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC079 March 2024 - Winners announced
- Replies: 68
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Re: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC079 March 2024 - Voting until 01-APR-2024 23:59 UTC+2/CEST
For me the hardest musical part was capturing, not the original sound that I remember, but how it is represented retrospectively. This is a different challenge, and one that has its own subtleties. Arelem - Glass Alloy Sonic: A patchwork of things that belong in the '80s, and things that belong in t...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 21:18 CET
- Forum: Songwriting Competition
- Topic: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC079 March 2024 - Winners announced
- Replies: 68
- Views: 5349
Re: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC079 March 2024 - Voting until 01-APR-2024 23:59 UTC+2/CEST
Koekepan: I am not a Cyborg Kudos to you for producing your track largely just with hardware, that's a great skill and a lost art these days. In places the drums are coming in a little bit behind the beat of the synths and the sidestick rhythm that starts around 3:40 feels a bit out of place. Music...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 23:56 CET
- Forum: Songwriting Competition
- Topic: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC079 March 2024 - Winners announced
- Replies: 68
- Views: 5349
Re: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC079 March 2024 - Submissions until 24-MAR-2024 23:59 UTC+1/CET
Whew. Just under the wire. URL for .wav file in a zip archive: https://files.catbox.moe/08uv00.zip I leaned more into the darker side of the neon soundscape. Lots of bright tones, gated reverb on kick and snare, all the sins of the '80s except for the cocaine, as far as you know, but a darker harmon...
- Sat Sep 02, 2023 17:01 CEST
- Forum: Songwriting Competition
- Topic: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC072 August 2023 - Winners announced
- Replies: 61
- Views: 29690
Re: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC072 August 2023 - results in preparation
Some vocal effects units will add formant shifting as well as pitch shifting. This can offset the ostensible masculinity/femininity of the singer's voice too. An example is the Boss VE500.
- Sat Aug 26, 2023 05:43 CEST
- Forum: Songwriting Competition
- Topic: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC072 August 2023 - Winners announced
- Replies: 61
- Views: 29690
SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC072 August 2023 - Voting until 01-SEP-2023 23:59 UTC+2/CEST
Reflecting on Process In terms of process, I think that for me the sequencing of the bed is the hardest part. I can handle the live session rendition and recording, no problem, and the process of sound design, while protracted, answers most of the mixing problems before they start. I follow Bob John...
- Wed Aug 23, 2023 08:16 CEST
- Forum: Songwriting Competition
- Topic: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC072 August 2023 - Winners announced
- Replies: 61
- Views: 29690
FINAL ENTRY
Here's my submission. https://files.catbox.moe/kxl4td.zip We have shoegaze. Shoes aren't that interesting. This sky is a lot more interesting. It's time for skygaze, and the vast spaces in our minds. I did some sketching in Caustic 3.1, but for full implementation I used: Synths: KORG Volca Keys (ch...
- Sun Jul 17, 2022 01:24 CEST
- Forum: Songwriting Competition
- Topic: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC059 July 2022 - Winners announced
- Replies: 70
- Views: 34211
Re: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC059 July 2022 - Submissions until 24-07-2022 23:59 UTC+2/CEST
Dear Fictional Game Company Please find a link to my initial draft for this commission at: https://files.catbox.moe/k27g0h.zip This is not a full-length draft, but is intended to serve as a demonstration of where I am taking the style for this commission. As my guidelines, I took the following: - In...
- Fri May 27, 2022 16:07 CEST
- Forum: Songwriting Competition
- Topic: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC057 May 2022 - Winners announced
- Replies: 48
- Views: 29608
Re: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC057 May 2022 - Voting until 01-JUN-2022 23:59 UTC+2/CEST
KukoBass flatters me - I think I won this competition because based on that comment, I nailed exactly what I was aiming for!
What a happy way to start the weekend.
What a happy way to start the weekend.
- Wed May 25, 2022 05:43 CEST
- Forum: Songwriting Competition
- Topic: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC057 May 2022 - Winners announced
- Replies: 48
- Views: 29608
Re: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC057 May 2022 - Voting until 01-JUN-2022 23:59 UTC+2/CEST
Ranking 1 (10pts) VCA-089 aka Infravolt 2 (9pts) becsei_gyorgy aka György Becsei 3 (8pts) patrlord aka Digital Genes 4 (7pts) GamaGama 5 (6 pts) KukoBass 6 (5 pts) Arelem 7 (4 pts) EsteveCorbera 8 (3 pts) OlliH Feedback I start by considering the basic theme, and everything has to somehow reflect SO...
- Tue May 24, 2022 00:33 CEST
- Forum: Songwriting Competition
- Topic: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC057 May 2022 - Winners announced
- Replies: 48
- Views: 29608
Re: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC057 May 2022 - Submissions until 24-05-2022 23:59 UTC+2/CEST
Becsei Gyorgy, I like your tune. It has bounce and energy. Parts are almost as if you're channeling Bodzin. While your mix is on the darker side, it's not to the point of being muffled, so it's quite workable in the sense of conveying that moody club feeling. I feel as if I should be finding a sketc...