Since I have studied linguistics, I have always been interested in our articulatory organs and the way phonetic sounds are formed.
The Pink Trombone (http://dood.al/pinktrombone) is actually a synthesizer that simulates our articulatory organs and gives you organic tools to manipulate the sound - according to the possibilities we have in our mouth to change phonetic sounds. These include the tongue, the lips, nasal cavity, the palate and the throat with the vocal chords. This provides the possibility to form any vowel or consonant you wish (I can even make it say OP-1 xD).
All (melodic/tonal) sounds have to be created using this “linguistic” tool - The Pink Trombone - http://dood.al/pinktrombone
All drum sounds have to be created using only your mouth or/and voice.
You have to play a solo using Pink Trombone in one part of your track.
Make a picture for your track using the sketch sequencer (still love that idea)
Use this site to transcribe your track title in the international phonetic alphabet (IPA): http://lingorado.com/ipa/
Using external gear like reverb-pedals etc. is OK. However, all sampling, mixing and mastering has to be done on the OP-1 - no DAWs!
Btw the Pink Trombone is awesome, but do use it with a multi-touch device. It’s great to play on an iPad, and the audio latency ain’t half bad, at least with Chrome!
I have been messing around according to the rules and I have to say that it’s really really difficult to come up with something nice. Especially because there is always a slight pitch wobble with the Pink Trombone. I try tuning the sounds with shift+metronome but it’s pretty hard to get satisfying results. What about you?
I haven’t tried it with OP-1 yet, but resampling is allowed, right? Except for the solo I suppose? But yeah, I noticed also that getting constant pitch is tricky. I suppose we’ll get really crazy-ass solos. =)
At first I thought we had to play live the solo on the pink trombone. So if i understand well : we can sample different sound from pink trombone in the drum sampler. Then use the drum sampler to play a solo with the keyboard. Am I right ?
I have been messing around according to the rules and I have to say that it's really really difficult to come up with something nice. Especially because there is always a slight pitch wobble with the Pink Trombone. I try tuning the sounds with shift+metronome but it's pretty hard to get satisfying results. What about you?
I had some problems first as well. Try using shift when setting loop point in the synth sample to get better matching. A really cool battle this one, just hope i get to finish this one. Started on a number of battles but never get the time to finish them:(
Here is my entry for this battle. Since I’m the host, you cannot vote for it! I’m looking forward to your entries… Don’t forget: deadline is the 30th of june - hopefully there will be enough entries, hehe. xD
Here’s one tip if you are having a hard time with the rules: you can shorten a PT-sample so much, that it sounds like a standard sine or square wave. Tune them by pressing shift+metronome and enjoy an easier to cope with-tune.
Here’s one tip if you are having a hard time with the rules: you can shorten a PT-sample so much, that it sounds like a standard sine or square wave. Tune them by pressing shift+metronome and enjoy an easier to cope with-tune.
That’s true. My concern is that it works by all existing or upcoming samples in the world. Relying on this trick mostly can make meaningless to restrict battles on such strange, interesting sound sources like that pink trombone. Otherwise nobody can prevent us to use the trick
