Skol303 Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 May's Composition Challenge is now underway! Here’s the image for your inspiration, chosen by last month's winner, Rikki1984… Rules: Avoid any content that other forum users may find offensive. Make sure you have permission to use any 3rd party sounds and samples in your track. Entries should be no more than five minutes long and written/produced during the month of the competition. The deadline for entries is midnight on Thursday 24th May. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mornats Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 Oh, nice and creepy! I like it 😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xgsjx Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 Yeah! Now we're talking. I'll give this mumph a go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akio Dāku Posted May 6, 2018 Share Posted May 6, 2018 I think I'll make use of our bank holiday tomorrow and track something for this. I'm really digging the vibe of the image. 🙌 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akio Dāku Posted May 7, 2018 Share Posted May 7, 2018 (edited) Bank holiday made use of! Just a rough demo mind but I figured it's a composition challenge not a mixing/mastering challenge. Edited May 8, 2018 by Akio Dāku Typo just noticed it haha. 😜 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BreadBin Posted May 7, 2018 Share Posted May 7, 2018 @Akio Dāku I like that - more than the video you posted in the other thread as it happens! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akio Dāku Posted May 7, 2018 Share Posted May 7, 2018 Cheers @BreadBin, when inspiration strikes an all that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean-Luc Pickguard Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 (edited) Edited May 9, 2018 by Jean-Luc Pickguard 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old_Ben Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 (edited) Been a long time since last on here but started writing again recently, here is something I did today. The Bare Bones for a song. Might call it Hope Inside. Will update it if I get a chance to finish it before the deadline. Edited May 9, 2018 by Old_Ben Fix link 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akio Dāku Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 @Old_Ben the link you posted is broken for me for some reason this one works though; https://www.soundcloud.com/ben-webb-15/hopeinside boss track as well man, really digging it! 🙌 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mornats Posted May 10, 2018 Share Posted May 10, 2018 (edited) Here's mine. Had a nice opportunity to test drive the appropriately-named Temple Drums from Soundiron and the new Ethera EVI vocal/synth library. Also in here are some amazing instruments from Sound Dust - Cloud Cello, Cloud Bass and Plastic Ghost Piano (which is mixed with a sprinkling of The Giant piano which you may remember from some of my earlier tracks). I went for the story that I saw in the picture - the German U-boat docking next to a mysterious temple as part of Hitler's obsession with the occult. The lone figure gets drawn deeper into the temple's mysteries and never comes back out. Edited May 10, 2018 by Mornats 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akio Dāku Posted May 10, 2018 Share Posted May 10, 2018 @Mornats man this is sick! I'm well impressed, the Ethera EVI synth sounds awesome. I wasn't aware vocal synthesis could sound so good, I might have to get a copy, I'm in awe. 🙌🙇🙌🙇🙌🙇🙏 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mornats Posted May 10, 2018 Share Posted May 10, 2018 Thanks I've got a few versions of Ethera. The vocal phrases are sublime and this one, plus the Ethera Soundscapes one have a lot of synth, soundscape, ambient texture type stuff that's really good quality. I use them quite a lot in my tracks. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurksalot Posted May 11, 2018 Share Posted May 11, 2018 Oh,, we have a challenge in progress i am well impressed so far, great stuff, I have a musical outline ready to enter , but think a vocal would work on it. I might upload the instrumental and edit if I get the right voicing , I won't subject you to my dire vocal tones this month Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dad3353 Posted May 12, 2018 Share Posted May 12, 2018 (edited) Here is my contribution to the May 2018 Basschat Composition Challenge, inspired by a picture chosen by last month's winner: Rikki1984. The ruined vestiges of a once-powerful empire, long-since engulfed by the ocean's depths. Joined, many centuries later, by a now-rotting hulk, another failure of mankind, another symbol of the ephemeral nature of 'power'. Quite complex, really, combining deceptively simple percussive elements (cymbal swells, taiko drums and more...) with more exotic timbres, such as sitars and operatic voices, (very...) deeply underpinned with several drones, aptly generated by a software synth, 'Atlantis' (the name is not a coincidence, but the appropriate timbre of the sounds certainly is...). The ocean's voice is expressed through renderings from hump-backed whales; these may well be leagues away, as their tones carry over vast distances under the surface. Thanks for listening, if you already have; if you're about to, enjoy. Edited May 12, 2018 by Dad3353 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurksalot Posted May 12, 2018 Share Posted May 12, 2018 @Lantis ...... fair play Douglas 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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lurksalot Posted May 12, 2018 Share Posted May 12, 2018 I'm in what we have here is a random composition attained by preloading some drum patterns and instrumentation onto the keyboard , choosing a style for it to play in (C&W with a little seg in the middle to ID it) and then choosing a chord sequence for it to follow. The random bit comes in as I chose 3 chords all a semitone apart and changed them on every beat , except the little country bit in the middle, this put the 3 chords on a different part of the beat each time around until 12, I think, I couldn't work that bit out ! Still , it seems to work , but may of benefitted from shortening a touch , but I was in the groove playing it and couldn't find the way out of it enjoy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xgsjx Posted May 22, 2018 Share Posted May 22, 2018 Here's my last minute entry. All sounds played on the Roli Seaboard. Just made it tonight (Mrs is wondering where I am ). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoonBassAlpha Posted May 22, 2018 Share Posted May 22, 2018 The only way I am going to get a shot this month is to jam something out with the lads at practice tomorrow night. Seems highly unlikely! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skol303 Posted May 25, 2018 Author Share Posted May 25, 2018 Well done guys! Voting thread is up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SH73 Posted May 26, 2018 Share Posted May 26, 2018 @Skol303 Can i still join the comp. Been working nights etc. had no time to upload. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SH73 Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 On 25/05/2018 at 09:50, Skol303 said: Well done guys! Voting thread is up. is it too late to enter? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurksalot Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 2 hours ago, SH73 said: is it too late to enter? Probably as Skol has set the poll up he would need to amend it and as he hasn't clocked your tag , he is probably busy doing family stuff , by all means post your tune , and we can work out whether the voting poll can be edited when he logs in Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SH73 Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 55 minutes ago, lurksalot said: Probably as Skol has set the poll up he would need to amend it and as he hasn't clocked your tag , he is probably busy doing family stuff , by all means post your tune , and we can work out whether the voting poll can be edited when he logs in cheers. I'm not near my pc but will do this afternoon 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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