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Righto, I've done mine now :)

[url="https://soundcloud.com/mornats/apocalypse-forest"]https://soundcloud.c...ocalypse-forest[/url]

Here's the spiel:

I tried to go for an eerie steampunk affair although I'm not sure what it's turned out as but I like it. This is the first time I've used Sonic Forest (a beautifully inspirational VI), Storm Choir (hard to work with but good results if you get it right) and Kirk Hunter Solo Strings - an absolute beauty that cost me around £13! NI's Kontour makes an appearance. It's a very underrated synth that sounds great and I'll be revisiting it more and more. I auditioned over 200 different drum samples and presets to find the one that I used. Originally I had a midi drum beat going into one of the Sonic Forest presets. It sounded very quirky, with a plastic percussion feel to it but it lacked impact and most importantly, lacked a good solid kick drum (as it wasn't a drum sample to be fair). I'd encourage anyone to put a drum beat into any instrument to see what happens. Kinetic Metal still gives me a lot of great usable sounds although the relative instability of it in Reaper is a bit of a chore (NI are working on a fix).

I initially tried to compose this entirely from Sonic Forest. I'm convinced that you can create an entire track out of that one instrument, the options are seemingly endless. That's why it's called Apocalypse Forest. However the sounds of the instruments I ended up using were calling to me and I couldn't resist. Here's the full list:

Impact Soundworks Sonic Forest
NI Kinetic Metal
NI Supercharger GT
NI Battery 4
Heavyocity Damage
NI Passive EQ
NI Reflektor
Kirk Hunter Solo Strings
ReaEQ
NI Kontour
Strezov Sampling Storm Choir
NI Replika
Focusrite Red 3 Compressor

Put together using:
Focusrite Forte interface
Komplete Kontrol S61 keyboard
Cockos Reaper

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[quote name='Rikki1984' timestamp='1465940793' post='3072375']
Well here's my entry for this month - https://soundcloud.com/rikki-boyes/junkyard-funk

I knew I wasn't going to have much time this month to come up with something (still setting up in my new job) so I decided to set myself the challenge to limit myself to one evening to compose and record this months entry and this was what resulted. It's kind of sloppy/thrown together and the ending is a bit rushed but I did enjoy making it, at least! I wish I could spend more time polishing it, but it is what it is!

I apologise for the all the inadequacies! :-)
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I've slightly reedited my entry.

I've also added a vocoded vocal part. I'm not sure if it actually works but I thought it needed something to give it a focus.

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[quote name='Leonard Smalls' timestamp='1466355653' post='3075217']
I've kept mine mercifully short'n'sweet!
Warning, contains purely-executed scat content and other things that some of a sensitive nature might find deeply offensive.
:gas: :P

[url="http://soundcloud.com/dredd-and-the-badass-weed/harry-monk-and-his-steampunk-funk"]http://soundcloud.co...-steampunk-funk[/url]

Now remixed....
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I've fiddled with mine too!

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Done!

Cool picture this month. It made me think of a ‘Mad Max’ post-apocalypse. And it also made me think about summer festivals, especially some of the more deliciously extrovert parts of Glastonbury that I used to enjoy when I was a young(er) raver during the early 90s. Good times :)

So I took a more summery, frivolous, rave-themed route - and also because I wanted to write something upbeat after last month’s sci-fi shootout.

And that’s that.

http://soundcloud.com/skollob/fantazia

In keeping with the new show and tell ethos pioneered by Mornats, here’s a list of the plug-ins used. Those marked with an asterisk* are specific to Reason DAW. The others are widely available in all formats, as far as I know…

Alligator Filter Gate*
Buffre Beat Repeater*
Kong Drum Designer*
MClass Stereo Imager*
NN-XT Advanced Sampler*
Ozone Maximizer
Re-2A Leveling Amplifier
Rob Papen Distort
Rob Papen Predator
Softube Saturation Knob
Softube TSAR-1 Reverb
Softube Tube-Tech Classic Channel
The Echo*
Thor Polyphonic Synthesizer*

…plus Reason’s own channel strip EQs and filters (emulating an SSL 9000k console). Oh and a Stingray bass. Not a plug-in, just plugged in.

[b][size="4"][color="#800000"]VOTING WILL COMMENCE ON FRIDAY![/color][/size][/b]
[size=2]Not that we'll all be truly sick of voting by then, of course.[/size]

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[quote name='Skol303' timestamp='1466636109' post='3077545']
[size=2]Not that we'll all be truly sick of voting by then, of course.[/size]
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One thing's guaranteed, we'll all probably really like the result :)

Good to see your list of plugins, I've always wondered whether I use too many, too few or just the right amount. When I'm picking sounds I can fall into the habit of constantly saying "ooh that's nice" over and over until I run out of RAM :)

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