Libre Music Challenge #10: Air Music !

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Re: Libre Music Challenge #10: Air Music !

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Here is my submission.
https://soundcloud.com/sg75_2/cpu-efficiency

Chris got me with Galactic and Beam. I am still thrilled!

The idea was to use as much Airwindows as possible. Accordingly, not only Airwindows plugins are used but also Airwindows drum samples and Chris' vocal samples.

I have made this in Ardour with the following sound sources: I have used as many plugins as my system (Ryzen 7 1700) can handle. I ended up with DSP load >97% and jack_bufsize=2048 using the following AirWindows plugins:
CStrip (x7), BlockParty, PurestWarm, ToTape6, TapeDelay, ADT (x6), AutoPan, Galactic (x2), Logical4 (x2), Beam (x10), BitShiftGain, BrightAmibience (x2), ChorusEnsemble (x2), ButterComp2, Recurve, Reverb, DubCenter (x2), Fracture, Infrasonic, Lowpass (x2), StarChild, PurestGain (x2), GitchShifter (x7), MatrixVerb (x3), TripleSpread, Point, NonlinearSpace, MV, PhaseNudge, Melt, Hombre, Biquad

You can definitely make some pad sounds with Galactic, ChorusEnsemble and ADT :D 8)
Mixing was troublesome, because exporting/analyzing takes almost as long as playback.

Flac can be downloaded from soundcloud, ogg from here: https://sonnengesicht.de/sg75%20-%20CPU ... ciency.ogg

"Now go and knock yourself out!"

Cheers,
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Libre Music Challenge #10 Submission

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Here's my submission I made, titled "こんにちは、AirwindowsのChris です" (Japanese for "Hi, I am Chris from Airwindows")
https://soundcloud.com/1108redux/airwindowschris

This is my first submission for the Libre Music Challenge, so please let me know if I need to add anything or send project files or something.

I did a Vaporwave/Chillwave type track because I first discovered Airwindows plugins when I wanted to make a Vaporwave remix and I was looking for good free tape emulations and someone on Reddit recommended ToTape5.

I made this track by first making an dreamy 80s-esque beat. Then I exported it and slowed it down from 120 bpm to 90 bpm. Finally, I added Airwindows plugins until I ran out of DSP (my laptop is really old and sucks, so it was like, 15 plugins). I pretty much sampled my own beat :lol:

SOUND SOURCES:
  • Ultimate Synthesized Drum Pack by 迎春心情 licensed under GPL V3
  • Dexed by Digital Suburban
  • ACE Fluidsynth using the KOR Soundfont and Airfont 380 Soundfont respectively
  • Intro from the Airwindows Mackity Video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYWk80NvdpU). Also, I just realized that sg75 had the same idea as I did, but he actually incorporated Chris's voice into his song while I just used it for a quick intro :wink:
Audio can be downloaded from Soundcloud

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Re: Libre Music Challenge #10: Air Music !

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Here's my submission! 8)

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LAM - HGT

Made with:

Ardour (https://ardour.org/)

All sounds made with Andes - Sound synthesiser based on Perlin noise (https://artfwo.github.io/andes/)

Effects - Airwindows plugins (http://www.airwindows.com/):
  • Autopan
  • Compresaturator
  • Cstrip
  • Distortion
  • DubCenter
  • EQ
  • Galactic
  • GlitchShifter
  • Holt
  • MatrixVerb
  • Slew3
  • Srsly2
  • StarChild
  • TapeDelay
  • TripleSpread
  • ToTape6
  • Tremolo
  • Verbity

in mix, nobody can hear your screen

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Re: Libre Music Challenge #10 Submission

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1108redux wrote: Sun May 23, 2021 7:57 am Also, I just realized that sg75 had the same idea as I did ...
:D 8) "Hi, I am Chris from Airwindows and/this is ..." is just so iconic.
I found it hardly ignorable in the setting of such a challenge :wink:
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Re: Libre Music Challenge #10: Air Music !

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GMaq wrote: Fri May 14, 2021 5:31 am I posted a bug report here: https://github.com/airwindows/airwindows/issues/28
Thanks so much for reporting and debugging this issue!

I can confirm that for my Ryzen 7 1700

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-march=native -ffast-math
reduces DSP load by 20%.

Unfortunately, I cannot state on the -O3 compiler switch, because its getting overwritten by -O2 in the build process.
I am using the AUR airwindows-git airwindows-git package to build from sources on Arch Linux.

To use the compiler switches in the build process (yay -S airwindows-git), I edited

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/etc/makepkg.conf
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-march=native -ffast-math to CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS.
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Re: Libre Music Challenge #10: Air Music !

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I'm working on a dual submission for LMC and the Fedivision Song Contest. Just arranging some guest vocals. It's going to be a bit special!

I'm also running low on CPU resources, and having to bounce stuff. I have an i7 processor, not AMD, so not sure whether compiler flags will help.
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Re: Libre Music Challenge #10: Air Music !

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bsg75 wrote: Mon May 24, 2021 4:31 pm
To use the compiler switches in the build process (yay -S airwindows-git), I edited

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/etc/makepkg.conf
and added the
-march=native -ffast-math to CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS.
Thanks man, that reduced the DSP load on my system noticeably!
However, the Arch AUR failed to compile on my box, so I had to amend the PKGBUILD for it to compile:

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build() {
mkdir "${pkgname%-*}/plugins/LinuxVST/build" 
  cd "${pkgname%-*}/plugins/LinuxVST/build"
  cmake -DVSTSDK_ROOT=/usr/include/vst36 ..
  make || return 1
}
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Re: Libre Music Challenge #10: Air Music !

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Thanks man, that reduced the DSP load on my system noticeably!
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You're welcome :D , but kudos go to @GMaq, who debugged this issue.
Even @x42 helped and suggested some potential improvements: logf instead of pow and less syscalls to rand().
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Re: Libre Music Challenge #10: Air Music !

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bsg75 wrote: Tue May 25, 2021 8:26 am
Thanks man, that reduced the DSP load on my system noticeably!
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You're welcome :D , but kudos go to @GMaq, who debugged this issue.
Even @x42 helped and suggested some potential improvements: logf instead of pow and less syscalls to rand().
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Lol... no kudos required here, it was a team effort and TBH @robbert-vdh was immensely helpful with the prepared CMake commands.. I'm just the chimp that wrote it all down.. :wink:
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Re: Libre Music Challenge #10: Air Music !

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Hi!

Here's my submission for the LMC #10:

https://youtu.be/tt1Cwq6GmBM

Thanks to the organizers, the other entrants and of course a huge thanks to Chris Johnson!

Audio-only on Soundcloud here: https://soundcloud.com/bandshedrecords/ ... -adubs-mix

Screenshot of the session to show Plugins and order etc:
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Re: Libre Music Challenge #10: Air Music !

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Here's my submission:
https://soundcloud.com/5dyogi/may-edit
It's a dual submission for LMC and Trance Production Discord challenge.

Plugins used:
- EQ
- Loud
- TapeDelay
- Distortion
- Galactic
- Compresaturator
- Wider
- Highpass
- Reverb

Sound sources:
- Trance production discord May challenge pack
- TR 909 sample pack
- ZynddSubFX
- Calf Monosynth
- OBXD
- Geonkick
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Re: Libre Music Challenge #10: Air Music !

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Great subs guys !

It is so nice to see newcomers in our monthly party time !

Some groovy , some electronic, some trance !
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Re: Libre Music Challenge #10: Air Music !

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And now here is my monthly submission :

04:30am : https://soundcloud.com/user-301824472/0 ... ts/0430-am

Chris monster reverbs inspired me to go on an ambient track.

This track is a jam session made using Zrythm linking midi to a behringer CRAVE synth and receiving audio back + 2 HELM + an OBXD and Geonkick.
I then mix all this and play a MDAepiano live over the other recipes.
As recording with ardour while jamming on the PC did not allow me to get correct latency i sent then recorded the 8 tracks using Ardour on a remote laptop, the 2 lappies were linked via JACK and a 16 channels zitan2j bridge, worked like a charm once i figured it out :mrgreen:

All Fx are naturally from Airwindows :mrgreen:

So this is only a loop jammed as if it was a live session, no sequencing , a bad habit i had some years ago :twisted:
As an ambient music and a live played time quickly went too long :oops: and the project ended in a 9 minutes raw recording,
i then decided to cut it into 2 parts at a blank point.


I hope you will enjoy , if so don't hesitate to listen and give feedback on the B side of the EP too:

https://soundcloud.com/user-301824472/0 ... ts/0430-am
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Re: Libre Music Challenge #10: Air Music !

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Hey there fellow LMClers!
Here's my submission for LMC10:

https://soundcloud.com/mylofymusic/window-into-the-air

I tried to compose/record like I'd usually do, but that was a bit difficult, since I had to sacrifice my beloved guitarix/LSP chain... but at least for the bass there is the fantastic BassAmp, which sounds marvelous.
For guitars I reamped through my old Fender Ultra Chorus amp (which unfortunately is noisy as hell), recorded with an SM57. Got a DigiTech RP350 lying around here and used that for distorted guitars and lead.
For the drums I took my reliable carla template, deleted all non AW plugins and created an AW version. If you like my drum mix you can download the Carla Template here, which works with the Aasimonster Drumkit/DrumGizmo:
aasimonster_airwindows.zip
Carla Drum Template
(3.5 KiB) Downloaded 125 times
Just load it via Carla Patchbay LV2/VST to use inside any DAW.

As sound sources I used an Ovation 12-String, E-Guitars, E-Bass, MDA ePiano, VSCO Upright Piano Samples, Taijiguys Mellotron samples (both via sfizz), Raffo Synth, amsynth, setBFree, String Machine, Geonkick.

DAW: zrythm alpha 16.1.1-25
Had to do a stem mastering in Ardour 6.7, since my CPU couldn't handle the project anymore.

In mixing I aimed for an analogue sound using CStrip and Console7 on every channel. My DSP was not happy.
In addition:
-Cojones (Bass Synth)
-SoftGate, Pop, BassAmp (Bass)
-Pressure4 (12-String, Strat)
-Chorus (B3)
-Vibrato (String Machine)
-Beam, GlitchShifter, BrightAmbience2 (Fx)
-Density2, TripleSpread (Lead Guitar)

FX Busses:
-1x Verbity
-1x Reverb
-1x TapeDelay

Master Chain:
-Console7Buss
-ToTape5
-Hermepass
-EQ
-Air
-ADClip7

Good luck and have fun!
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Re: Libre Music Challenge #10: Air Music !

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Yo! Here's my entry for this month.

nyx eles - March of the Warriors

I had grand visions for this piece but I'm not quite sure my technical abilities are quite there yet :D
But overall I'm quite proud of this entry. Had lots of fun with the airwindows plugins. I was a bit sceptical at first but I ended up being absolutely in love with them! It must be something about their simplicity that makes them so endearing and easy to get attached to. One thing I particularly learned during the making of this track is that there's never too much automation :D

Track was made in Ardour (which I find quite frustrating to work with for these kind of midi production workflows).
Synths used were Helm, Noizemaker, Vitalium and Geonkick. For soundfonts I used the Maestro Concert Grand Piano and Christian Collins Taiko Drums, both run through sfizz. Some of my voice as well.
Airwindows plugins used, in no particular order: PurestGain, AutoPan, PurestAir, GlitchShifter, Verbity, Focus, MackEQ, BlockParty, Ensemble, MatrixVerb, Baxandall, CStrip, Surge, ToTape6, Swell, TapeDelay, ADClip7, TapeDither.
I took the liberty to use ACE EQ on one instance to get rid of a nasty frequency. Hopefully using a DAW's included plugin isn't too big of a breach of the rules :)

Hit me up if you want the Ardour project.
As usual here's the ogg file for easy repackaging: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16UTfXf ... sp=sharing

I'm very open to nasty criticism if you feel like telling me how bad this was :D
Looking forward to having a good listen to all the entries!
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