#41

http://soundcloud.com/xrmx-1/xrmx-fog-and-steam

Mostly Permut8 and Turnado, plus a lot of cutting and pasting, delay, reverb, compression, distortion, etc.

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#42

Train whistle: time stretched (1,2 & 3 minutes) & pitch shifted in Max. (0ve, -8ve, +5th)
additional sounds created from some of those sounds in Metasynth
Ship’s Horn: used Iris to remove one of the horns to create a more lear pitch, and then made an fictional version a fourth lower.
Assembled & mixed in Harrison Mixbus. Extra pitches created using ValhallaShimmer (which I’m going to have to be careful not to overuse!)

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#43

Nice piece!
Yeah, I’ve been loving Iris for some years now.
What MIDI guitar do you use?

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#44

Here’s my track for the week.

I took a chunk of the fog horn and ran it through Stutter Edit to create a base of a beat, though you can’t hear it much in the final mix.

Next I chopped up the fog horn into small chunks and used those to create a pulsing beat. Lots of copying of little snippets. At such a short length the sample doesn’t sound like a fog horn anymore.

Next I brought both samples into PaulStretch and used the train whistle stretched 100x and the fog horn stretched 30x as an ambient bed throughout the track.

Then I put both samples into Kontakt and laid them out on the keyboard. The samples are pretty rough to work with
like that, and you can clearly hear the loop points in the higher synth pad notes. They also have a bit of an unsettling air to them when played on a keyboard like that.I took the synth stabs (train whistle) and ran them through some delay and pitch processing for the semi-melodic component. (There’s also a robo-voice effect on it that you can hear toward the end.)

The train whistle at the top and end of the track is processed with some delay/pitch and reverb for it’s synth-y effect.The more thumping beat is part of the train whistle recording run through some EQ and sub-harmonizer.

Add some more overall shaping effects and compression, and voilà!

Thanks for listening!

https://soundcloud.com/alt-formant/beating-the-fog-disquiet0254

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#45

Hi there. First time participating in this Junto invitation, I am generally a very slow composer so the challenge was multilevel. So much inspiring work here.

The recorded steam is possible due to the hand which clicks the final sound or closure of that sound made perpetual and free. Choosing microcells of two non exact seconds as a drum mesh of clicks which will guide the steams of train in land and ship at sea the steam is fog and the fog is steam. This is an Audacity software made sound collage. Basically leaft - right pans 40% - 30%, delayed and layered tracks, a few seconds paulstretch in the end seeds, reversed seeds and cutting and pasting in geometric proportions of 5,3,2 seeds.

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#46

Very glad you could join in.

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#47

Cheers! Only just got Iris after seeing it on special. It answered a long-pondered question for me about when Izotope were going to upgrade Phatmatik!

My MIDI guitar is a Yamaha Pacifica with a Roland GR-70, which is a technology I’m surprised to learn is nearly 30 years old.

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#48

I thought that the sounds that I made for this week’s challenge needed to breath more, so here’s an extended & remixed version of Fog Over Water…

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#49

From one slow composer to another, welcome!

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#50

Better late than never

When I went to freesound to get the sample I found out that the fog horn is recorded from a ferryboat that leaves the German city Kiel every day on a journey to Norway. My grandparents lived close to Kiel and I must have seen and heard this ship (or its predecessors) numerous times during my childhood. So this is kind of personal to me. The music is just an improvisation piece, made in short time using ableton, my piano and my electric guitar. My 7 year old son was hitting the notes on the piano accidentally at some point while recording, so there is now a weird direct connection through this piece from my childhood memories to my son today.

Actually there was a deadline for the project, and I missed to upload this piece in time. Well, who cares …

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