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The birds are named Joe, Beth, and Alex:
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by @tyleretters && @license && the lines community
;install https://github.com/northern-information/dronecaster
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
DroneDefto follow the formatting pattern established with other files in/engine/drones. - I expect the
DroneDefto accept anampand ahzparameter. - I expect the
hzparameter 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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Fieldsteel | /*Inimitable, boundless, knowledge. | @tenenmatt |
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Apparatus | Drone simulating old sinusoidal generators. | @klinik |
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Belong | Thick, enveloping, shimmering. | @infinitedigits |
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Coil | Traversing the tunnels of goats. | @infinitedigits |
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Dreamcrusher | Chaotic, strobey, actually really nice IRL. | @infinitedigits |
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Drumm | Sometimes gentle, the other time intense. | @infinitedigits |
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Éliane | Feedback, slow beatings, highs and lows. | @sixolet |
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Eno | Bandpassed, understated, airporty. | @infinitedigits |
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Gristle | Primal sawtooth. | @infinitedigits |
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Grove | There is no conductor. | @sixolet |
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Hecker | Noisey, imaginary country, suspended animation. | @infinitedigits |
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Magicicada | Unsettling, organic, chaotic. | @sixolet |
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Malone | Thick, organ, stepped. | @infinitedigits |
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Mika | Hum and beeps. | @infinitedigits |
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Mt. Lion | Roars through a twisting canyon. | @license |
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Mt. Zion | Thee rusted satellites gather + sing. | @license |
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Nautilus | Dusty waves, chaotic undercurrent. | @Taubaland |
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Rehberg | Dense, distorted, overwhelming. | @infinitedigits |
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Ruins | A reality darker than fiction. | @rplktr |
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Sachiko | High-tone space-cutting. | @infinitedigits |
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SUNN O))) | £XX,XXX worth of structural damage to the venue. | @infinitedigits |
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Shields | Bendy, bloody, loud. | @infinitedigits |
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Sine | The TestSine. Old faithful. | @tyleretters |
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Square | Big sister, opinionated on her pulsewidth, but reasonable. | @Taubaland |
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Starlids | Symphonic, meek, radiant. | @infinitedigits |
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Supersaw | It slices, it dices. | @cfd90 |
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Thx | Recreating the THX deep note. | @infinitedigits |
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Takita | Rhythmic. | @sixolet |
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Toshiya | Object-bound resonate space. | @infinitedigits |
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Triangle | Little brother to Sine. | @Taubaland |
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Twin Peaks | Retro stylings, timeless horror. | @21echoes |
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UNEABLIN | Uneasy ablative inspection. | @zebra |
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UNMEMQUA | Un-memorious quantum. | @zebra |
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UNREANTH | Unreachable anthem. | @zebra |
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UNRELACC | Unreliable accretion. | @zebra |
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UNWEALNE | Un-battered in mind? | @zebra |
Wishlist
| Status | Drone | Description |
|---|---|---|
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AFX | Red Face Monkey |
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Canada | Scientific, detuned, dignified. |
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Conrad | Moving while standing still, violin, smooth but harsh. |
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GY!BE | The car is on fire. |
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LaMonte | Inharmonic static-tone combination. |
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Schmickler | Barberpole💈. |
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V/Vm | Compressed sausages of embalmed rave. |
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Wanda | Hazy, paul stretched, fading and abrupt. |
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Others… |
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