Synths & Friends Halloween Challenge: Spooky Reagan - Signup Toxx Thread

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Select a panel of 3-5 judges from common community members or mods	6	27.27%
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toadee: Aug 16, 2003; North American Turtle Boy Love Association

Cabbages and Kings posted:

I will submit something to this context by 12pm midnight GMT on 10/31/2022, which meets the criteria explained above

me toooooo

# ¿ Sep 8, 2022 20:50

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 21:40

toadee: Aug 16, 2003; North American Turtle Boy Love Association

May be of interest to some for this challenge - Dave Griffiths and Aphex Twin just released this weird spectral morphing/mashing sample tool for free. It takes a target sample and a collection of �brain� samples and tries to fit the sound of the brain to the target, but with varying user designed block sizes and analysis algorithms and such.

https://gitlab.com/then-try-this/samplebrain

# ¿ Sep 26, 2022 22:40

toadee: Aug 16, 2003; North American Turtle Boy Love Association

petit choux posted:

cool, yeah, somebody just mentioned it above, may have to look into it.

I'm here to announce that we need to rename this challenge to the Reagan Synth Revolution Challenge and I'm going forward with that on all fronts. And I think we should probably do something like this once a quarter, and not require that they be effort pieces. I mean I had a great time just running a speech through Stutter Edit last night and had a lot of fun. I suddenly realized I can put an arp in front of Stutter Edit while he talks, some good clean fun here by gosh.

oops, totally missed it!

# ¿ Sep 27, 2022 16:11

toadee: Aug 16, 2003; North American Turtle Boy Love Association

petit choux posted:

No, redundancy is good! I will look into it now that two people have posted it here.

Well, for some related content then, here's some snips of stuff I got while playing around with it!

https://vocaroo.com/152h2KqlhruO
https://vocaroo.com/1cERyUW8foVR

Both of these are using "Drugs are menacing our society" as a "brain" and a short snippet of weird audio from Japanese Television that I got from an old Bogdan Raczynski MOD.

There's definitely a lot more to the tool to be had for sure. General tips Ive gleaned from playing around with it are: Block Size of the Target has a HUGE impact on what kind of thing you're going to get. Tiny block size(~200 or so) gives you audiorate mishmash, whereas very large block sizes will get you recognizable repeating snippets of the audio from the brain and rhythm from the target. The other sliders have much more subtle effects, it's very tough so far for me to tell what algorithm and such will produce until I try it.

edit: Also feel free if something in those strikes your fancy to use it!

# ¿ Sep 27, 2022 17:55

toadee: Aug 16, 2003; North American Turtle Boy Love Association

It's a thing. I wanted to do more but I lost track of time and ran out of it.

https://soundcloud.com/tenfingerstentoes/rr1

# ¿ Oct 31, 2022 01:44

toadee: Aug 16, 2003; North American Turtle Boy Love Association

Cabbages and Kings posted:

LESS THAN 24 HOUR WARNING

if I don't finish something before I take kiddo trick or treating tonight, when I get home I am going to take 2g of mushrooms and just twist knobs until 11:59pm and submit my last 2 mins of recording

Do note that the contest ends at midnight GMT, not EST, so 8pm EST (or 5pm PST, etc)

# ¿ Oct 31, 2022 18:07

toadee: Aug 16, 2003; North American Turtle Boy Love Association

Cabbages and Kings posted:

I don't want anyone to get banned over this silly poo poo

if you toxx'd and for some reason can;t make a godawful VCV rack creation with the provided samples in the next 3 hours, at least email me at deconstructed@gmail.com with your sob story and I will probably send you an unban gift cert key

if your reason is good

and I think I'll skip the toxx if I do it again, I don't want this to be stressful for anyone, more than it needs to be

I submitted mine last night but don't see it on the spreadsheet, not sure if the spreadsheet is still updated or not though

# ¿ Oct 31, 2022 22:03

toadee: Aug 16, 2003; North American Turtle Boy Love Association

I can't speak for anyone else but I kind of just ignored the competition part of everything and made a tune

# ¿ Nov 1, 2022 18:34

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 21:40

toadee: Aug 16, 2003; North American Turtle Boy Love Association

Cabbages and Kings posted:

this is now in front of the best minds and calmest voters CSPAM has to offer

I asked Azathoth to pin, and also fix the hosed up thread tag on the smaller thread

main thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4016385

unrecognizable thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4016387

Oh I guess I should have mentioned but mine was very much unrecognizable

# ¿ Nov 2, 2022 00:04

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