The Graindance & Plasmatron Challenge

[brambos]

Access have a habit dreaming up kickass preset names for press shots of their products. The corresponding presets however are not available in the actual products.

So for the TI SNOW pictures they had Graindance and for the TI|2 shots they chose Plasmatron.

How about we create these patches ourselves? A sort of sound design competition/challenge...

If enough of us join we'll eventually have a bank of ubercool graindance and plasmatron patches - which we can share with Access as a "big community thank you!" for offering us the OS 3 for free on our Viruses.

Anyone likes to join?

[marc]

Originally Posted by brambos

Access have a habit dreaming up kickass preset names for press shots of their products. The corresponding presets however are not available in the actual products.

So for the TI SNOW pictures they had Graindance and for the TI|2 shots they chose Plasmatron.

How about we create these patches ourselves? A sort of sound design competition/challenge...

If enough of us join we'll eventually have a bank of ubercool graindance and plasmatron patches - which we can share with Access as a "big community thank you!" for offering us the OS 3 for free on our Viruses.

Anyone likes to join?

we will even reward the winner of the competition with a t-shirt ... but only, if it becomes a real competition with a couple of entries ...

best, marc

[HiEnergy]

This is an interesting idea. I'm tempted to create some patches.

Graindance sounds like involving one of the newer wavetable modes.

The name Plasmatron somehow reminds me of a Wavestation factory sound which had a name including the word "Quark" sounding like an odd morphing bowed bell, of course containing wave sequences.

Let's see if I can whip up something on these...

stay tuned
HiEnergy

[Splat!]

Count me in I'm anyways designing some sound libraries for work.
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[Ceri JC]

I'd be interested in this; especially the "graindance" one. I'm already working on a few graintable patches; they're currently called "grainola" 1-5, but I'm sure I could tweak them into graindance.

[brambos]

Originally Posted by marc

we will even reward the winner of the competition with a t-shirt ... but only, if it becomes a real competition with a couple of entries ...

Cheers Marc, that's really cool. You can say what the minimum number of entries should be to make it count

Personally I'd like to participate as well so I'm not sure yet how to go about voting for "winners".

So far we have:
- HiEnergy
- Splat!
- Ceri JC
- Brambos

but let's wait for more people to join in.

[Timo]

Very nice idea, Brambos, and thanks for the offer Marc.

Shall we set some criteria/rules first, and then a challenge-end date?

* Virus TI only, or all Viruses? (I guess with a name like "Graindance" non-TI Viruses wouldn't be able to use the graintable element of the TI).
* Should the overall winner be chosen by Access themselves, or by user (forum) voting?

I think each entry should have a brief >20 second demo MP3 (made by the entrant themselves) showcasing their patch (to let people hear it to its best potential, or how it's meant to be played), along with the patch dump/data (not to be made available to everyone until the competition is over).

The patches should (obviously) be evocative of the Graindance and Plasmatron names.

Discuss! And then let's set a time limit.

[Totty]

Sounds very interesting, yes I'd like to.

[Ceri JC]

Timo's proposed rules/format sounds fair.

How about "Graindance" limited to the TI and "Plasmatron" open to all?

28th of February (my birthday ) as a final entry date?

Shall we wait to see if Access want to host/judge this before determining where exactly people should send entries, etc?

EDIT: Might be worth making a rule on whether or not people can submit multi-mode entries or not. People might get narky if they get beaten by someone using more than one voice if they don't realise they were allowed to.

[Splat!]

How about 26th of Feb? (My birthday) Hahaha!
Anyways, since we're on multimode..... err how exactly do we access multimode or save multimode patches using VC?Are there presets already? Sorry if i sound like a n00b. My baby sn0w is only a month old.
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