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Community Project
Help us write SynthDefs that take two parameters - hz and amp and makes a drone! Well, technically they aren’t SynthDefs, but they look and act just like them. To contribute, simply drop a similarly formatted function in the /engine/drones directory. Then, Engine_Dronecaster.sc dynamically scans the directory via OSC (!) and loads our “DroneDefs”. Here’s the acceptance criteria. We want to keep it simple:
- I expect the drones to be synthesized with Supercollider.
- I expect no audio (
.wav, etc.) samples to be used.
- I expect the
DroneDef to follow the formatting pattern established with other files in /engine/drones.
- I expect the
DroneDef to accept an amp and a hz parameter.
- I expect the
hz parameter to inform the note the drone plays, but chordal smears, subtle (and not-so-subtle) detune-ages, deep LFOs, and other sonic mutilations are very welcome.
- A drone may be of original inspiration or picked from the artisanal drone menu below.
Artisanal Drone Menu
| Status |
Drone |
Description |
Author |
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Mt. Lion |
Roars through a twisting canyon. |
@license |
|
Mt. Zion |
Thee rusted satellites gather + sing. |
@license |
|
Nautilus |
Dusty waves, chaotic undercurrent. |
@Taubaland |
|
Sine |
The TestSine. Old faithful. |
@tyleretters |
|
Square |
Big sister, opinionated on her pulsewidth, but reasonable. |
@Taubaland |
|
Supersaw |
It slices, it dices. |
@cfd90 |
|
Thx |
Recreating the THX deep note. |
@infinitedigits |
|
Triangle |
Little brother to Sine. |
@Taubaland |
|
Twin Peaks |
Retro stylings, timeless horror. |
@21echoes |
|
UNEABLIN |
Uneasy ablative inspection. |
@zebra |
|
UNMEMQUA |
Un-memorious quantum. |
@zebra |
|
UNREANTH |
Unreachable anthem. |
@zebra |
|
UNRELACC |
Unreliable accretion. |
@zebra |
|
UNWEALNE |
Un-battered in mind? |
@zebra |
 |
Belong |
Thick, enveloping, shimmering. |
|
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Canada |
Scientific, detuned, dignified. |
|
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Coil |
Traversing the tunnels of goats. |
|
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Dreamcrusher |
Chaotic, strobey, actually really nice IRL. |
|
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Eno |
Bandpassed, understated, airporty. |
|
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Gristle |
Primal sawtooth. |
|
|
GY!BE |
The car is on fire. |
|
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Hecker |
Noisey, imaginary country, suspended animation. |
|
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LaMonte |
Inharmonic static-tone combination. |
|
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Sachiko |
High-tone space-cutting. |
|
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Shields |
Bendy, Bloody, Loud |
|
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Starlids |
Symphonic, meek, radiant. |
|
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SUNN O))) |
£XX,XXX worth of structural damage to the venue. |
|
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Toshiya |
Object-bound resonate space. |
|
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V/Vm |
Compressed sausages of embalmed rave. |
|
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Others… |
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Changelog
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v1.0.1 - Crow support thanks to @zzsnzmn.
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v1.0.0 - Migrate to Northern Information GitHub organization. Future updates require deleting and re-installing via maiden.
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v0.0.10 - Add UNWEALNE, UNEABLIN, UNMEMQUA, UNREANTH, & UNRELACC. Big refactor thanks to zebra. Out of beta.
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v0.0.8-beta - Add Thx.
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v0.0.7-beta - Add Nautilus, Square, and Triangle.
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v0.0.6-beta - Long press
k1 to move through hz and amp faster.
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v0.0.5-beta - Add Twin Peaks.
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v0.0.4-beta - Recording - but not now you probably/maybe/might think: drones go OUT to your pedal board which then returns IN to norns to be recorded in
/data/audio/dronecaster/. Headphones will give you the dry so if you want wet (like me) use some type of Y adaptor at the end of your pedals/fx chain. Still very much a beta but we’re now available via maiden.
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v0.0.3-alpha -
SynthDef are now decoupled from Engine_Dronecaster.sc . This is a massive QOL improvement to developers. No functional changes.
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v0.0.2-alpha - Four drones. Supersaw from cfdrake and Mt. Lion. Bug fixes.
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v0.0.1-alpha - Two drones. No recording yet. Rough around the edges but serviceable.
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