October Contest: Submissions

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The Depths

This month you are asked to take us on a journey to the depths of the ocean.

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Submissions MUST follow these rules:

1 - Encoded in either .mp3 or .ogg format.

2 - A STRICT MAXIMUM of three minutes in length. If it shows up as 3:01 in my player, it's getting the boot.

3 - entered into the contest by posting a DIRECT LINK (note: THIS MEANS A DOWNLOAD LINK) in this RULES & SUBMISSIONS thread (use the GOSSIP thread for everything else). If you cant provide a direct link, please contact one of the following people listed below, they will be happy to help you out. These people provide free hosting for the purpose of this contest only! They are not a hosting service. When contacting these people, please take the effort to understand the terms and conditions they provide.

Providers:
1 - knockman
2 - watto
3 - slartibartfast

In addition...
Kara at http://www.kara-moon.com/forum has offered "self service" space. Log into the forum to find out more.

But wait! There's more! If you use SoundCloud to host your entry, you might find this tutorial by kryptonaut helpful. Bear in mind that SoundCloud's free accounts have a limit (per track) of 100 downloads.

4 - Submitted by early a.m. (US Central Time) Saturday, October 25th, 2014.

5 - Your entry must be composed specifically for this contest (or, if a cover, arranged/recorded specifically for this contest).

6 - Your entry must be created using at least some audio plugins, virtual synths, or software studio.

7 - Your entry should have the FILE named in a format of "yearmonth_artistname_tracktitle" (eg "1410_CreosoteQuartet_LikeaHatchetThroughanApple.mp3"), where the artistname is the same as your KVR name. Please do not use spaces and special characters in the filename. Special considerations will be given to those that have the hosting agent change the file name.

8 - If you are going to tag your mp3--and you should--the artist name is to be the same as your KVR name, and the title tag is to be the name of your tune.

9 - One person can participate either with one entry, with one entry and one collaborative effort or with two collaborative efforts.

10 - Every submission has to be tagged with:
a) used instruments (virtual and 'real')
b) players' and singers' names (if other than entrant; collabs are allowed, sometimes encouraged, but they must be credited)
c) origin of loops and samples, if they're not free of copyright (this includes CreativeCommons material; please read and follow the license of the samples and loops you use); naming the origin of copyright free loops is also encouraged, but not mandatory. Please only use samples you are legally entitled to use.
d) name(s) of composer(s) -- if an entry is a cover this should be noted in the file name and/or the mp3 "Title" tag as well as the submission post (not everyone reads the submission posts).

11 - If there are strong doubts about the origin of the composition or parts of it, the participant should have the possibility to send a project file to the moderator, who could give it to a trustworthy person with the right host to examine it. Important: the participant should not be forced to do it.

12 - No resubmissions without permission from the moderator, INCLUDING for time-overage correction. Please PM me for permission.

13 - Any tracks not adhering to these guidelines will be very naughty indeed. Possibly disqualified upon peer review. And at least mocked for all to point and giggle.

14 - Voting (members must have at least 20 posts to vote ... although contest entrants are exempt from this ruling) will run from the submission deadline until early a.m Saturday, November 1st. Anyone voting for themselves will find ALL their votes disqualified; any entrants not voting will also be disqualified.

If you have questions, send a private message to D.H. Miltz or ask in the gossip thread.
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PRIZES

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Ben from Camel Audio has been so kind as to donate a prize of ANY of their
products this month (and later months until further notice).

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Quinto from SKNote Software Sound Synthesis has donated any one of his plugins for the contest this month. (and later months until further notice). Thank you Quinto.

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Michel Rouzic the developer of Photosounder has donated a copy (with noncommercial license) of Photosounder or a copy of SplineEQ for the October contest (and later months until further notice).

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Dave Hoskins from QuikQuak has donated a copy of Fusion Field (full license) for December's contest (and later months until further notice). Thanks, Dave Hoskins.

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Varazuvi has donated a copy of Acoustic Guitar Pro for this March's contest (and later months until further notice. Thanks, Varazuvi.

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Uncle E from JRR Shop has donated any one of the following: UVI Mello, UVI Digital Synsations, SONiVOX Pulse, SONiVOX Vocalizer, SONiVOX Wobble, SONiVOX Twist for July's contest (and later months until further notice).
No longer a moderator.

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This month let me take you to discover some
Shipwreck Secrets

MP3 | OGG
[right click and 'Save as...' to download the files]

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Software: REAPER, Kontakt, Alchemy, Reaktor, RC 24, Guitar Rig, Ultrachannel, ReaDelay, Solid EQ
Hardware: Nord Drum, Tascam DR40, some percussions

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Freedive

Freediving - an extreme sport which entails diving as deep as possible without breathing apparatus, consciously overriding the body's urge to breathe for several minutes.

Below about 15 meters, compression of the lungs causes the the human body to become negatively buoyant.

The current record for freediving without adjusting weights is 128 meters.


Freedive (download)
Freedive (soundcloud)



Synths:
Alchemy, Synth1, UVI Mello, xoxos Fauna

FX:
Kjaerhus Classic Delay/Flanger/Chorus/Phaser
Melda MAutopan
Camelspace

DAW:
Magix Samplitude Music Studio 2014

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Click on the title:

TITANIC'S SOUNDSCAPE

Scenario:
1- Ship leaves port and you can hear the seashore\
2- Merrily on its way with the phosphorescence of ice in the distance
3- a long scraping unusual sound
4- A moment of reflection
5- Followed by a return to the merry carefree crossing mood
6- A gradual realisation of the sinking of the ship with ever increasing eariness
7- Ship descends to the depths and hits the bottom ocean bed with a final loud metallic bang
8- Nothing left but deep sonar pings of search parties and the sound of the dark deep

ABUSED: :bang:
Cubase 7.5
Giant piano and cinematographic effects
Alexias Keys
Reactor 5
Fusion Field (3 instances)

STOLEN: :evil:
two first bars of Seascape as arranged by Bill Evans
Heinrich Heine wrote: "Nothing is more futile than theorizing about music."
Me write: "I have no talent and regularly prove it in the Music Cafe contests"

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Many fish in the sea
https://soundcloud.com/clauderagonnet/1 ... ish-in-the
... but also submarines and strange HF emitting species.

Entirely made on an Ipad. No computer or any external device used for this track.
Freesound sample ( Sculptor's Water-Submarine 16937) downloaded using iDownloads+ and manipulated with Sinevibes Sequential .
Everything else recorded in Garageband through IAA :
Greenoak-Crystal
VirSyn-Addictive Synth
Icegear-Argon
Arturia-iSEM & iMini
Final mastering ,file conversion and Soundcloud uploading thanks to Audio Mastering by Igor Vasiliev. All I could not change is the image illustrating the song on Soundcloud.
There is a lot of room for improvement but many lessons learnt.

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Here's my entry for the month. I tried to go for a quick journey all the way from the beach to the ocean depths. There may be some singing whales along the way.

I Walked Into the Water and Voyaged to the Ocean Depths

https://soundcloud.com/davidstiles/i-wa ... ean-depths

Stuff I used:

DAW: Mulab 5

VSTs:

8Dio Claire Alto Flute, Adagietto and Adagio Violas
Impact Soundworks Rhapsody Orchestral Percussion
Soundiron Glass Beach, and Iron Packs 1 and 8
Embertone Canjo and Chapman Tuba
Native Instruments the Giant
Hollowsun Pulstar
Cinesamples Cinebrass Core

Pre-recorded sounds:

Steelcable_deck_contact2.wav by VNSS, from freesound.org (Creative Commons Public Domain)
Sonar.wav by infobandit, from freesound.org (Creative Commons Attribution License)
Humpback Whale Song from Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain)

FX and Processing:

Photosounder's SplineEQ
QuikQuak's Fusion Field
Audacity

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Unlit Colors

SW : String Theory, NI Bandstand, DSK Elektrik Keyz,StringZ2, S3, USM, Glaceverb, Nuclear cranium, Camel space, KeFir, LFX-1310, Kjarehus classic bundle, Fusion Field
SAMPLES : http://www.freesound.org/people/ryancon ... ds/183893/

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Here is a little bit of ambient goodness for you.

Inspired by the following video (which has beautiful images, but a rubbish soundtrack).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kj_vwleR6Q

Please immerse yourself in the Pacific

Constructed in Cubase 6.5 using the following plug-ins:
  • - HG Fortune Protoplasm
    - Alchemy (2 instances)
    - Padshop Pro (3 instances)
    - Kontakt 5
    - Absynth 5
Effects
  • - Kjaerhaus Audio GEQ7
    - Mobilohm
    - Ozone 5
Sample Sources
  • - Zero G Morphology
    - Zero G Distorted Dancefloors
    - Sounds of Nature Sound Effects
This is my first contest entry for a long, long time (and I used to enter every month back in 2005-2007). Good to be back. Thanks for the inspirational theme.
Time is an illusion - lunchtime doubly so.

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As the ocean is so full of old rubbish I've recycled various sounds and themes from several of my past OSC tunes and combined/reconstructed them into a new deep sea ambient track:

https://soundcloud.com/docjon/1410-docj ... henautilus

Wreck of The Nautilus

Created in Cubase 6.5

Plugins:
Cakewalk Z3TA+ 2
u-he Zebralette
u-he DIVA
Cubase Halion Sonic SE
AAS Lounge Lizard
Boscomac Air Piano

Fx:
Cubase Delay, Compression, Reverb, Autopan, Amp Sim
Valhalla Shimmer, UberMod
Various T-RackS modules
D16 Syntorus
Voxengo Span

and the Morse Code Generator
http://www.morseresource.com/morse/makemorse.php


Jon

(edited to add link that works)
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A folky thing.

The Mermaid Call

Used: minimogue va, tweakbench peach, valhallaroom, sampletank 2, guitar, kantele

cold-blooded beasts around me
cold silent fish surround me
i'm drowning, no one here to catch me
i'm drowning, no one here at all
to hear the mermaid call
did nobody hear the mermaid call?

lights in the darkness blind me
bone-fisted shadows bind me
i'm drowning, deep beneath the water
i'm drowning, cut me from the mast
to heed the mermaid's call
didn't you hear the mermaid call?

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Going Deep

https://soundcloud.com/aziraphal/going-deep-impro

Not much to show I'm afraid, just a short morning improvisation, the whole thing was played in real time.
Many of us had in mind a journey from the surface to the depths, and this one is no exception, starting in a ship on a calm sunny day, down to where the light don't shine and back again. Not a very smooth ride!

Cubase 5, Miroslav Philharmonik, Cubase Hypersonic II, GPO, some percussion from Roland JV Orchestral expansion board, IK 670 compressor

Cheers Matt
Every time you use autotune, God kills a kitten.
Please, think of the kittens.

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o4

https://soundcloud.com/shangsean/o4-1

http://k007.kiwi6.com/hotlink/okivgq10n ... ean_o4.mp3

This one's about travelling down to and entering a shipwreck. It's in 4 parts:

The Journey Down
Searching for a Way In
Travelling Through
Lost

Created in Sonar X3 using:
Kontakt 5 (Orchestra Essentials, Venus, Sick 3, Zero-G Alien Skies + Epic Horizons)
Galaxy X
Loom
Acon Digital DeClick
Dimension Pro
Breverb Sonar
Alloy 2
Camel Space
ProChannel modules for compression and EQ
Ozone 5

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Another collaboration with my friend Orbital Arbeiter (a.k.a. Doomedman on KVR forum)

It's time to meet the nice sea monster!

Leviathan

Made with:

- Ibanex Rx with Seymour Duncan “Invader” Coils, recorded with Reaper
- NI Guitar Rig 5
- Alesis Micron

- NI Kontakt 5 with the following libs: LASS lite, Spitfire Audio HZ 01, Project SAM Orchestral Brass Classic, East West Hollywood Orchestral Woodwinds
- Camel Audio Alchemy
- Magnus Ambience on send
- Host comp and eq
- Cubase Maximizer, Sheppi Free Spatial Enhancer

- Editing and mixing made with Cubase 6.5

https://soundcloud.com/bzur/leviathan

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Under The Sea

https://soundcloud.com/beanybhoy/1410_b ... a/download

DAWs
Reason 3
Tracktion 2

Instruments
Epiphone acoustic guitar
Peavey electric guitar
Shure SM57 mic

Plug-Ins
Tracktion Compressor & 4-Band Equaliser
Kjaerhaus Classic Chorus, Reverb, Phaser & Flanger

Used a sample oceanwavescrushing.wav by Luftrum downloaded from Freesounds
can't sing, can't play, looks awful.....

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I call this "Fathom": http://www.kaade.net/audio/1410_kaade_fathom.mp3

Deep beneath the ships, with the whales, and the synaesthetic sounds of seabed sunshine.

I used the following software: Logic 9, Audacity, EXS24, sforzando, Alchemy Player, Guitar Rig Player 5, Space Designer, TDR VOS Slick EQ, Toneboosters Omnisone, Reverberation CM, Pluggo Resonation, EVOC 20 Filter Bank.

I just recently upgraded to an old workhorse Mac Pro 2,1 that can effectively run Logic, so I've only been using it for a few weeks, and I used Audacity for fades and normalizing, since I'm still learning the mastering end of Logic.

I used the following sound banks and samples:
Water by Camelaudio, D. Smolken’s double bass by Karoyfer, Garageband Jampacks: Basses Legato, Tibetan singing bowls by Bolder Sounds, Z Glasses from Zampler Demo Library, Salamander Grand Piano sfz by #attack (our companion known as rytmenpinne on these forums,) SFX Waterphone from sf2midi.com http://www.sf2midi.com/c81-sfx-waterphone-210kb-sf2/ (http://www.sf2midi.com/c81-sfx-waterphone-210kb-sf2/), Ethereal by Digital Sound Factory from the Sforzando demo sound bank.

I also used my own Cetacean.sfz, which I created for the track "Star Whales' Lullabye" on an earlier CD. (http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/kaade3 (http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/kaade3))

I used randomized opcodes so that different combinations of whale song occur with each mix down, and derived those sounds from the following public domain recordings:
Internet Archive Avant Garde Project installment agp28 “Whale Songs” https://archive.org/details/agp28 (https://archive.org/details/agp28), and the Whale Song recordings of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration https://archive.org/details/WhaleSong_928 (https://archive.org/details/WhaleSong_928).

And as it seems that the custom on this forum is to post pretty jpegs with our submissions, lacking that you might want to look at some Calming Manatees while hearing my track: http://calmingmanatee.com (http://calmingmanatee.com).

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