Undoubtedly you have put in a lot of time making this!

How is this comedy? It's so moody and serious. I really love these bending strings, sounds a bit post rock!

I like your description, that is a lot of instances, effects and notes you used! This is a very epic track that clearly took a lot of work, it's a stand out effort! Btw I think you should give Death Stranding a try if you haven't, it left an impression on me and I think you might enjoy it. You are a courier! I like cats too :)

there are parts where drums sound incredibly good for synth1, the theme of track is not as strong but I like the quartet ending.

Well done my friend, this is badass and impressive

ครั้งแรกบนเวทีเดียวกันของ 3 หน่วยงานผู้มีส่วนในการขับเคลื่อนเศรษฐกิจดิจิทัลของประเทศไทยอย่าง จิรายุส ทรัพย์ศรีโสภา จาก Bitkub, รื่นวดี สุวรรณมงคล จาก ก.ล.ต. และ ชญาวดี ชัยอนันต์ จากธนาคารแห่งประเทศไทย บนงานเสวนาเศรษฐกิจดิจิทัล จะทำอย่างไรให้กระบวนการยุติธรรมไม่ตกขบวน 

Cracking Crypto จะมาสรุปวิสัยทัศน์จากทั้ง 3 หน่วยงานเกี่ยวกับประเด็นที่ว่า แนวโน้มของเศรษฐกิจสินทรัพย์ดิจิทัลในอนาคตจะมีหน้าตาเป็นแบบใด และการมาถึงของสินทรัพย์ดิจิทัลนั้นจะส่งผลต่อกระบวนยุติธรรมไทยอย่างไรบ้าง

Cracking Crypto EP.7 ท๊อป Bitkub พบกับ เลขา ก.ล.ต. และแบงก์ชาติ บนเวทีเดียวกัน

Different piece, but kind of on the same thought process - at least in my compositional conceptualization. This is still very much a work in progress. 

I continue to tinker with the idea of different perspectives - how the “same story” can be told by different people and vary slightly or a lot. I talked about the juxtaposition of natural vs. human-made.

I'm responding to everyone's feedback with this new composition, too. @gis_sweden said my previous track was like several short pieces. So I'm working through this piece differently. I have yet to record the vocal part, so this seems like a useless piece of information for those listening, but I started with the lyrics. My dad was recently diagnosed with dementia. And I keep thinking about memories. How do we share memories if we don't remember any more? Did we even have the same memories even if we experienced something together? 

Anyway, I ended up with sappy lyrics about the times we'd go to the beach in Chiba (we lived in Tokyo), how we'd play in the water all day and our skin would hurt in the bath, how we'd go buy kakigori (shaved ice) after we'd slipped under the futon, and how I insisted I'd get the same flavor as my dad, even though matcha was too bitter for me and I really just wanted the neon colored strawberry ...

When I at first worked on a melody with the lyrics, then set it to a bass line and drums, it ended up super mellow at 90 bpm in e minor ... Then, as fate would have it, my program crashed and I lost the entire piece. I took it as an opportunity to transform it into an upbeat piece, 130 bpm and in G major. So, a different way of tackling the conceptualization of the "same story" from various perspectives AND a way to respond to @gis_ sweden 's comment. 

I also wanted to work on feedback from @howthenightcame - on the notion of the natural vs. the human-made. So, I kept the mellow acoustic sound of the "original" piece in the first 16 bars while really pushing it to become a, well, 80's pop/dance tune.

Remembrance (disquiet0545)

Awake > JF > nearness > prism > vortices
field recording > sisters > center channel on nearness

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My submission for the July 2022 One Synth Challenge:

https://sites.google.com/site/kvrosc/2022/osc-161-synth1

- 83 instances of the classic freeware VST Synth1 v1.13
- All effects either freeware VSTs or FL Studio native effects
- 113 mixer tracks, lots of bussing
- 353 effects in total, not all used
- No modulation effects, overdrive/bit-crushing applied subtly per the rules
- 7886 notes
- No samples obviously, no presets used
- Upload is undoctored straight from the FL Studio render
~90% average CPU usage on average, with some parts peaking above 100% (meaning these portions take longer to render than to glitch through in realtime lol)

I tried to keep it short, promise. There are many songs for people to evaluate in this competition with undoubtably a lot of skipping-through. But this is song is many different sections strung together by a common chord progression. For such reason these markers are provided for easier evaluation:

0:13 Breakbeat/Rock instrumentation
1:12 Techno/909 section
2:20 Chiptune deviation
3:40 Electro/808 section
5:09 Acoustic string ensemble

Namesake: I played-through Fallout: New Vegas this month, often alternating between exploring The Wasteland and producing this song. In F:NV the player-character is a Courier tasked with bringing many different things concrete and otherwise to very different places with widely varying environments. Similarly this song's widely varying sections delivered to you with only brief transitions. I am The Courier.

Production: Between running out of time and being sick of hearing this track a thousand times, I am finalizing it here and now. I have good monitors but poor acoustics, no headphones and a motorbike instead of a car. As such the bass management/spectral profile is what it is. Crossing my fingers and walking away.

Happy to share the sound design behind any elements in the song, and after the competition is finalized presets can be provided on request.

I love synthesizers and cats.

One Synth Challenge July 2022

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Entry for One Synth Challenge #161
14 Instances of Synth1 - all from init.

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The Chase - The Courier (July 2022 One Synth Challenge)

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