wow thanks, will try it out !
sure thing!
Grabbing this!
The AdventureKid waves are awesome, thanks for that! I’m using the Reaktor version of it and man that’s a handy set of sounds.
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yeah man, they’re great! the sinharms are especially useful for sub bass and 808s, imo
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Got something started, hope to have a version to contribute soon, within a week or so.
While I’m quite comfortable loading up a few drum samples and hand-drawing a few oscillators;
using a sine wave only is wickedly mind-bending… was a real struggle to make a snare but that
is finally sorted.
Thanks again for the cool challenge idea, learning alot along the way!
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Great. Glad to hear it’s a worthwhile endeavor! There’s something amazing about creative constraint and how it helps us learn, experiment, and grow… Ya, drum synthesis is challenging, period. Sine snares perhaps more so…
looking forward to hearing your tune!
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made another one, this one’s kinda housey… dunno if psyhouse is a thing, but if it wasn’t already, it is now, lol. All sounds began as sine waves, though used the lofimat to get some white noise and the ringmod to get a saw wave. lmk what you think!
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Damn! I dig your style! Keep doing what you’re doing. The alien vocalisations are dope. How do you get those sounds? And the mix is fantastic. Listening in my car and the bass thumps but doesn’t get too murky. And those atonal swooshes add a cool drunken spaceship feel. Nice work!
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thanks man, appreciate the listen and the kind words. definitely glad if the mix sounds good. which alien vocalizations in particular? can definitely share how it’s done, just not sure which instrument you mean
Great tune, fun vibe, interesting too; yeah this does have a nice psyhouse vibe.
Totally dig that drippy woodpecker doin those swooshy roll sweeps that solo around 2:35
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ah, yeah, thanks! I call those kinds of sounds “squelches.” in this case I took the top of the sine wave for dc and ran it thru a ringmod to get a low pitched saw wave, set that to single cycle forward looping, then tie a macro to pitch over a couple/few octaves… Tie that same macro to a resonant band pass or highpass filter, but reverse the polarity on the filter relative to the pitch, so that when the pitch is high, low frequencies pass, and when the pitch is low, higher frequencies pass. dial in the ranges of the macro to taste. kind of a staple sort of sound in psytrance production. you can also use a looping click or bit of noise instead of a saw wave. yeilds some nice texture when using organic noise as the click loop source, but the saw wave is real clear and distinct sounding
Had some fun with this, learned alot, like sine’s make pretty alright jungle bass drums,
and with some work, can make a good house synth.
I’m getting a lot of spooky bell vibes from using just the sine.
The bassdrum was way easier here than the whitenoise compo.
That said, struggled a bit with the snares and hats compared to whitenoise.
Below is my contribution to the compo, its 108 KB:
Jek_SW_Compo.xrns (108.3 KB)
Thanks @slujr for organizing this, really helpful, and makes it fun to practice!
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wow… really cool tune, @Jek. ethereal & alien, but simultaneously deep and tribal in the rhythm section. really nice juxtaposition of vibes. some great sound design in there, too. evocative of insects and birds and strange undreamt of vistas… 
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really good, I like how your tracks have a consistent style. Would be cool to hear a dj mix made of your tracks !
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Here is my attemt at sintetik electro 80ies pop gated drums(100bpm):
2021-02-26-PancakesInTheMix-80iesElectroBeat-for-Renoise-SIN-comp.xrns (24.8 KB)
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Liking the hihat arrangement, they sound good and its a nice pattern.
Got a question if you dont mind, how are you making those Xs on the channels?
Couldnt find any commands in the effects columns or automation doing that.
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Thanks!
The ‘X’ are on the individual pattern ‘bricks’ in the Pattern Matrix.
Select a pattern brick, then click it with middle-mouse - to disable it - afaik - it stops playing its notes for the given brick.
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Ahhh got it, thanks for sharing!
I’ve seen it on a few tracks and it had me stumped for awhile now.
Coming from fasttracker 2 the pattern bricks are not something ive used before.