you better. lol
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I just have a thing for awkward time signatures. This alone makes this brief very tempting!
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Hey you!
This is my first everything.
First entire song made on OpOne.
First post on soundcloud.
First project delivered on time.(in my life)
First Battle!!!
I jumped rules about getting external things and used just op-1. ( except for some voice samples from opz and a kick’nSnare from some pack that I can’t remember now.)
Cluster - check
Pulse - check
Hidden effect - check
Dbox - check and surprisingly best part.
Odd time - Got it!
72 - hummm…maybe nothing but I’ve been listening the greats from my country, Brazil, and chords came after.
Mutantes, Gilberto Gil, Alceu Valença, Milton Nascimento, etc…they’re not there but inside me during the thing.
That’s it.
From Brazil, sorry for my Portuguese’s English.
Enjoy.
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I will need at least a week more to end my track, it’s just not there yet and I haven’t got much time for myself lately… May I ask for a deadline extension already? I do want/need to come up with something.
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Hi all,
Hope everybody found some holiday joy…
So far with only one entry, a request for extension, and retrospection that the end of the year may have been an audacious deadline with the busyness of the holiday season, I am extending the deadline until a week from this coming Sunday (that is, Jan 10th) - sound good?
Cheers,
psound74
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Sounds good.
Hadn’t seen my friends and family for months, now meet some every day: totally impossible to take some time off and build this track I have had in the head for weeks!
Thx friend 
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Hi all & Happy New Year!
Finally (and both “earlier” and “later” than i would have liked) - here is my entry…
- Lots of original hidden Filter! (LP IV)
- 6/8 & 5/4
- Pulse and Cluster…a little Iter (it’s obvious)
- dBox is in there, listen close on the left channel after the break for erratic percussion 10/8…also the thumpy bass drum
- Sampled my Pianet sound from Battle 71 as the basic arpeggio…
- The reversed tape at the beginning was the happiest of accidents…even if i flubbed it a little near the end, i still got a great beginning and a hold-shift-turn-blue-knob-while-playing-lead-line fade out!
Not a “rule” but i was proud of the lead parts; iter chimes alternating with a single Cluster sound with either manually played vibrato (trilling between notes with Legato mode & decent amount of portamento) or a fast auto LFO for the loud part…slowing down for the slower bit (octaves!)
Let’s have some more folks join in! Deadline is this Sunday 23:59 EST…just in time for my birthday on the 11th…
Best,
psound74
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Wow, awesome track!
I am paralyzed with my OP-1, can’t seem to bring my track where I want it to be.
So much to explore, so few moments…
I can feel time passing by like sand through my fingers.
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Make your email into lyrics for your tune? (Sounded poetic)
It’s only Wednesday, you can do it!
psound74
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Bro, go go go. Last rule should be first 
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Rsrs…I got to try it!
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Hello!
Just got myself an OP-1, and someone pointed me here. So I thought I’d get involved with a battle as my first attempt at making something. I’m still figuring out the workflow, but this was fun. Thanks for pointing me to the hidden filter + synth!
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This is great! Very inspiring.
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Here’s my little bastard:
Drum-Sounds entirely done with DBOX (with heavy usage of the RANDOM LFO). The bass sound and the weird pling sound is made with ITER + FILTER. The slow string sound was made with PULSE and played by hand two times, one for each stereo channel.
And I totally forgot about CLUSTER, sorry about that.
All sequences had odd timings like 10/16 or 6/8, and I used ENDLESS in 1/8T timing on the randomized drum part.
I captured the whole session in timelapse and made a little video:
Thanks @psound74 for the inspiring rule set and for the deadline extension. 
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Awesome, nice one! The synth engine “rule” was limiting yourself to Pulse, Cluster, and Iter, but that didn’t mean you had to use all of them!
Keep ‘em coming! Definitely wanting to hear what @LyingDalai comes up with…
Best,
psound74
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Thanks! The participation in this year’s Jamuary helped me a lot, and rule #6 encouraged me to just start and try to get something awful or silly out of DBOX (because DBOX does sound silly by default).
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Amazing harmony!
OK, I’m not crazy about this one because I loved the ideas but had trouble to turn them into the real thing I had in mind.
But I bloody made it ffs!
C’est pas fou, mais c’est fait.
Synths: OP-1 (Pulse, Cluster)
Beats: Elektron Analog Rytm mk2
Weird sound FX and secondary beats: dBox (so fun to play with this, thx @psound74)
Recorded/mastered on OP-1
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Jacques Gourmelen took this photo on April 6, 1972 in Saint-Brieuc (France), the worker, Guy Burmieux, and the riot policeman, Jean-Yvon Antignac, had grown up together.
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Hey don’t forget to tag your track with the tag #op1battle72, it’s easier to gather them then 
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Thanks to all who entered!
Battle is now officially closed, i’ll put up the voting post - voting deadline Sunday Jan 17 23:59:59
Best,
psound74
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