TGF Do Something Challenge Season 8 Week 7

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TGF "Do Something Challenge"
Season 8 - Week 7

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Season 8 Week 6 slides over the line with 7 submits, more than double from last week! Thanks to new participants @Aleksi, @riffy and @Gothi!! Great to have you all on board for the Challenge. Shout out to continuing contributors @Alex Kenivel and @FuzzyAce for keepin' it real with their contributions!!!

OK people Week 7, time to make some music ;~)) 123 new pieces of music so far in the Season 8 Challenge, so let's pat ourselves on the back! We now only need 31 entries to tie the previous Challenge Season record and 32 to set a new record ;~)) And we have 2 weeks still left to make that happen!! Let's shatter that record!!! To put things into perspective, that is less than 2 submits total over the course of 2 weeks for each of our 18 participants, so one per week from each of us for the next 2 weeks and we have a new record)!!!

Champ, where y'at? Hope you are OK!

Here is a print screen of the spreadsheet through S8W6:

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Looking forward to seeing > numbers for week seven ;~)) Great work so far everyone! Remember to put your tags (#cover-song, #original-song, #hot-noodle or #collab) in your submission posts. It helps me to do checks on the number of submits. If you see any mistakes in the numbers, do let me know and I will correct as quickly as I can!

OK, now giddyup! Make some noise with grace and poise!!

 

[Aleksi]

#original-song

Here's a generative piano piece I programmed and recorded while having my morning coffee. I'm using a pentatonic minor scale, so it's pretty vanilla and safe. It's a long one, meant to play in the background while relaxing with a hot coffee (or tea, or beer, or whatever you like!). I have a few more of these lined up with increasingly exotic scale choices. I'm hoping these will finally help me reach my goal of a 100 000 subscribers by wednesday!?!? I also asked Gemini for a thumbnail pic and used Microsoft Designer (who knew we had all these free things in Windows?) to add some text. I'm something of a graphic designer myself, you know!

I'm already thinking of doing one of these with a marimba and a handpan, so be sure to subscribe!

Please, I just want to quit my job and make low effort youtube content

 

[Alex Kenivel]

I've been making these crappy little webcam videos as submission pieces for a free guitar, tried recording video while I comped takes for something I wrote on the spot so the video takes are jumpy. Decided to play with some video effects in Reaper even if they're a bit buggy.



HX Stomp into Reaper, Laguna tuned to C# Standard and Ibanez Talman bass tuned to standard.

 

[Aleksi]

#original-song

Stumbled on a cool, creepy drone while playing around with my modular. Then I added a few elements and ended up with this atmospheric piece. It's almost 100% modular synth, only the Mercury X and Oxi One are outside the rack. The beauty of modular is that once I undo my patch, I might never be able to recreate it perfectly. It's better to just let it go and move on. I've lost so many patches and musical ideas that I thought were really cool, but I never recorded them. That's one of the reasons I decided to start uploading my music to youtube. I make music for myself and for my own mental health. It feels good to create and to have the confidence to put my music out there. I never had that when I was trying to make music on the guitar.

 

[HomespunEffects]

I'm still learning how to use Logic Pro but this is the first song that I finished. I'm just not really great at mixing or mastering.



#original-song

I was going for something lo-fi and moody. The B3 at the end kind of got buried by the ambient guitar thing (reversed, added reverb, reversed again) so i may take the guitar thing out.

 

[Aleksi]

I'm still learning how to use Logic Pro but this is the first song that I finished. I'm just not really great at mixing or mastering.

This is great!

 

[HomespunEffects]

#original-song

Stumbled on a cool, creepy drone while playing around with my modular. Then I added a few elements and ended up with this atmospheric piece. It's almost 100% modular synth, only the Mercury X and Oxi One are outside the rack. The beauty of modular is that once I undo my patch, I might never be able to recreate it perfectly. It's better to just let it go and move on. I've lost so many patches and musical ideas that I thought were really cool, but I never recorded them. That's one of the reasons I decided to start uploading my music to youtube. I make music for myself and for my own mental health. It feels good to create and to have the confidence to put my music out there. I never had that when I was trying to make music on the guitar.

This is awesome!

 

[HomespunEffects]

This is great!

No, yours is!

You’ll have to show me how to get those rich tones.

 

[Whizzinby]

Not much of a song, but a little futzing around with the H90.



#original-song

 

[Aleksi]

No, yours is!

You’ll have to show me how to get those rich tones.

Spend a bunch of money on gear? The funny thing is, I'm just running all the gear you're seeing into an inexpensive ART line mixer and out of that into a Behringturd audio interface that's tucked under the desk I normalize to 0db in Reaper and that's all I do for post processing. I think it sounds pretty good anyway!

 

[HomespunEffects]

Not much of a song, but a little futzing around with the H90.



#original-song

Great job, man! I really dig it.

 

[Aleksi]

Not much of a song, but a little futzing around with the H90.



#original-song

This aaaaaaalmost makes me miss my H90!

 

[HomespunEffects]

I've been making these crappy little webcam videos as submission pieces for a free guitar, tried recording video while I comped takes for something I wrote on the spot so the video takes are jumpy. Decided to play with some video effects in Reaper even if they're a bit buggy.



HX Stomp into Reaper, Laguna tuned to C# Standard and Ibanez Talman bass tuned to standard.

Jammin! Great tones and playing.

 

[Whizzinby]

#original-song

Stumbled on a cool, creepy drone while playing around with my modular. Then I added a few elements and ended up with this atmospheric piece. It's almost 100% modular synth, only the Mercury X and Oxi One are outside the rack. The beauty of modular is that once I undo my patch, I might never be able to recreate it perfectly. It's better to just let it go and move on. I've lost so many patches and musical ideas that I thought were really cool, but I never recorded them. That's one of the reasons I decided to start uploading my music to youtube. I make music for myself and for my own mental health. It feels good to create and to have the confidence to put my music out there. I never had that when I was trying to make music on the guitar.

LFG. Awesome.

I'm still learning how to use Logic Pro but this is the first song that I finished. I'm just not really great at mixing or mastering.



#original-song

I was going for something lo-fi and moody. The B3 at the end kind of got buried by the ambient guitar thing (reversed, added reverb, reversed again) so i may take the guitar thing out.

Badass dude.

 

[Whizzinby]

This aaaaaaalmost makes me miss my H90!

I’m still kind of trying to figure out how to use it best when recording the more pitch/synth based patches, otherwise I just sit droning notes on the Blackhole/Wormhole reverbs and not doing anything productive. It’s a cool pedal though, I dig it so far.

 

[HomespunEffects]

Does this one count as a #hot-noodle ? Maybe #hot-garbage.

 

[HomespunEffects]

I’m still kind of trying to figure out how to use it best when recording the more pitch/synth based patches, otherwise I just sit droning notes on the Blackhole/Wormhole reverbs and not doing anything productive. It’s a cool pedal though, I dig it so far.

I have their Micropitch pedal and I really like it but I just never end up putting it on my pedalboard. It is a sweet algorithm though.

 

[Whizzinby]

Been in full Boston mode since I got the shipping notification for the Rockman x100. This is my best attempt in the Fractalverse. For a good laugh with your morning coffee....



#cover-song

They obviously didn't play to a click. The vocal rip speeds up and down throughout, so I had to splice and nudge throughout to try to keep it on beat.

Major bitch to try to mimic the harmonizer or just Scholz in general, but it was fun trying to cop the vibe.

 

[Alex Kenivel]

#original-song

 

[Aleksi]

#original-song

Here's an exotic sounding composition mostly using my modular synth. Inspired by the background music in video games. The patch is a bit lazy, but Mutable Instruments Rings and Plaits just sound sooooo good. Oxi One is used once again for sequencing. There is some subtle modulation of parameters going on to give the sequence some variation.