One Synth Challenge #140: Pendulate

Tracks which were submitted as contest entries.  Although they may not be my best work, contest entries are usually fun to create and may introduce new listeners to my other tracks.

Contest Entries

A rework of my entry for the October 2021 Tone2 Demotrack competition for Saurus3.  

The original version can be listened to here: https://hearthis.at/tonedef/tyrannosaur-stomp/

Demos

Tyrannosaur Stomp [R3worked]

A humble entry for HydraTek's first Modern Composer Domo challenge: a short, ambient piece written in G minor (based on an initial idea generated by the Lemonaid AI plugin) and performed by the following virtual instruments:

Cherry Audio Elka-X, Dream Synth, and Polymode
KarmaFX Synth Modular 2
Krotos Concept
Toontrack EZ Drummer 3

A big thanks to Modern Composer Dojo and HydraTek for motivating us music creators to create and finish some music.  I really dig the idea of creating a piece of music to accompany a visual image and hope to create more music with this inspirational method.

Gleaming Spire

"Stylin'.   Always in style.   Always in tune.   Dübreq Stylophone.   Simply stylin'."

A simple track composed for the Dübreq Stylophone 50th Anniversary Global Music Competition.  https://www.facebook.com/notes/stylophone/stylophone-50th-anniversary-terms-conditions/1805186966208182/

This song is comprised of six generously processed instances of traditional Stylophone sounds along with some drum loops and a little synthesized speech.

[Please note: as this un-mastered track was mixed using headphones, I recommend that it be listened to via headphones/earbuds to ensure the best listening experience.]

Stylin'

"The truth is whatever floats your boat..."

The sounds in this track were created exclusively by Newfangled Audio's Pendulate virtual instrument plugin for the KVR One Synth Challenge 140.

***Track Statistics***
Key and scale:  D minor/D Dorian

DAW: Studio One 5 Pro

  New Fangled Audio Pendulate: 12x
 
 Stock DAW FX plugins on channels and group busses:
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 Compressor: 10x
 Limiter: 3x
 Pro EQ: 8x
 Channel Strip: 2x
 Mixverb: 1x
 Room Reverb: 2x
 Gate: 1x
 Analog Delay: 2x
 Beat Delay: 1x

 Additional stock DAW FX plugins on the mix bus:
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 Limiter: x2
 Fat Channel: x1

Cognitive Dissonance - Selective Reality

not dance but...

29 Pedulate synths in Ableton Live
+ Abeton Reverbs, Delays, Compressors, EQs

Desktop

World Mechanics

A rock-oriented arrangement of John Carpenter's theme to Halloween suitable for a video game soundtrack.

Halloween 2020 (cover of John Carpenter's Theme to Halloween)

Tried to make a cinematic soundtrack that is unsettling, yet emotional and hopefully provides some closure.

As always, everything is synthesized and MIDI; no samples were used.

DAW: Reaper 6
Pendulate : 23 instances
Native FX: ReaComp, ReaEQ, ReEQ, ReaGate, ReaControlMIDI
3rd Party Free FX: RandArp, Leveling Tool, SN03-G Tape Recorder, OrilRiver, SuperMassive, Cocoa Delay, GClip, LoudMax, W1 Limiter,  OTT, MAutopan, A1StereoControl
Mastering: JS: DC Filter, TDR SlickEQ, TDR Nova, TDR Kotelnikov, GClip, LoudMax
Metering: SPAN, Youlean Loudness Meter 2

Tempest

Tempest (OSC 140 Pendulate)

Music made for the OSC Challenge 140, using only Pendulate to create all the sounds.

DAW: FL Studio 20.6
Pendulate: 55 instances

FL Effects: 
Fruity Parametric EQ2, Fruity Compressor, Fruity Limiter, Fruity Balance, Fruity Reeverb 2, Fruity Delay 3, Stereo Enhancer, Fruity Send, Fruity Delay Bank

3rd Party effect: OTT

Three Movements Of A Complex Pendulum

Leo Amaral - Three Movements Of A Complex Pendulum

"Watch... as a young ambitious camel, dreaming of getting both very rich AND entering the Kingdom of Heaven, sets off on an epic journey in search of the Big Giant Needle. A tale of dusty plains, dazzling cities and, of course, genies and bottles. Will The Eye remain shut...or open to reveal it's wonders ?"

Entry for the One Synth Challenge 140 ( Pendulate by Newfangled Audio ) at kvraudio.com

EQ was not used for sounddesign purposes.
No transient processing was used to create percussion. 
All 100% Pendulate.

The main players are:
12 instruments  (  flute-ish, reed-ish, 3 plucks , mallet, brassy, brassy-stringy, bass - sustained, bass - pluck )
7 SFX  ( buzz, creaky, metallic, noisy trickle, not-noisy trickle, bubbly laser sweep )  
10 percussives ( kick, snare (2i), clap, cymbal, hat, crackly boom, hand drum, short tom ) 

The support caravan:
ReaControlMIDI ( transposing to get noise )
BlueARP (4)  ( on SFX and briefly on Mallet )
TAL Dub II as bus effect for some instruments and SFX )
Valhalla Supermassive ( insert for Brassy  ) 
ReaQ (5)  ( light EQ'ing, light HP-filtering ) 
TDR Nova 12 ( light EQ'ing, light HP-filtering and sidechaining of kick to bass, also on master bus)
Blue Cat's triple EQ 4  (2) ( stereo control for Sustained Bass )
Oril River (14) ( seven pairs of mono instances )
ReaVerb ( very, very  lightly on master bus ) 
Chebyshev LP  ( on master bus ) 
Ozone Imager 2 ( on master bus )
Limiter No6 ( on master  bus )
Signalizer
Voxengo SPAN
Voxengo Correlometer
Youlean Loudness Meter 2

ELEX - 1002 : A Desert Odyssey

ToneDeF is a software engineer by profession, part-time composer by inclination. He is influenced musically by what he listens to, which consists of hard rock, hair metal, synth-pop, progressive rock/metal, new age electronic, techno/trance, and classics from the Romantic and Baroque periods. It is not unusual to hear tiny shades of commercially successful works within his own humble little ones -- he considers it an homage to the truly talented.

One of ToneDeF's guilty pleasures is recreating the music of classic computer/video games utilizing modern synthesized and sampled sounds. His first submission to SoundCloud was a re-imagining of the main theme music from the classic LucasArts game, "Ballblazer".

Although he has chosen "ToneDeF" as his handle, rest assured that he is not actually "tone deaf".

Who exactly are "The ElectroMetal Minstrels"? They are the virtual musicians "performing" the virtual instruments on each track sequenced by ToneDeF.

Cognitive Dissonance - Selective Reality

ToneDeF & The ElectroMetal Minstrels