Battle 53 is officially closed for business! Fantastic sounds from everyone. We all have a hard decision to make. 10 tracks from 10 different producers, collected for your convenience in this handy-dandy playlist:
my vote goes to - Servando - TheGratefulNerd - Dsi
My vote goes to “running late” by Sebastian Crane. clean sound design & mix + I really like the “tomy” chords in the beginning.
Which is the best track?
That’s so hard!
Battles are such a good example how Op-1 limits of doing everything (oxymoron) makes for great (Op-1) music.
I love this shit.
But it’s like deciding who is the most beautiful human on Earth. Occasionally the answer is easier, but rare.
This battle is full of lovely music.
Can’t decided right now…
My vote goes to "running late" by Sebastian Crane. clean sound design & mix + I really like the "tomy" chords in the beginning.Thanks timebandit78 :)
Thanks man
I agree with Speric_El
Tough choice indeed.
The one that stands out to me most is Low Light Peach by Matehelev: really amazing melodic structure and harmonies. Great vibe overall, I’ve listened to it a couple of times now. So my vote goes to that song.
Kudos to Elvish Pretzely for fulling embracing the get crazy aspect of the challenge. I also really enjoyed the tracks by mathelev, dinraum, and Sebastian Crane.
I vote for Low Light Peach.
Listened through them all a few times, there are some really excellent tracks! My vote goes to mathelev - Low Light Peach.
My vote goes to The Grateful Nerd - Dsi, with an honorable mention to mathelev - Low Light Peach
BTW @Gambler I like your late entry with the excellent tips hack for monster mono synth via Dbox.
I loved how some of these songs managed to make very enjoyable sounds out of the Ds. The Grateful Nerd, very chill! mathelev, so melancholic! masamarysson, what a happy track!
Thank @gomeka and @Spheric_El !
To answer your question @Spheric_El yeah, it’s all 100% internal OP-1 from the D’s… a lot of resampling via drum and synth sampler to tape to album, etc… I had my master drive set to 99, with release at 8… Completely ignored the LEDs which were clipping almost the entire track, also boosted the samplers to max gain on individual samples, and clipped the tape input. Just clipped everything, haha! It was challenging trying to squeeze more punch out of the limited headroom… It gets to the point where it turns to mush, so I was surprised that I could get those big 808 sounding subs to be so punchy around the middle of the song, haha.
Tiny bit of spring on the master for a bit of auto stereo… One nice sound I found was simply value free lfo on blue filter effect. Think set to AP, but anything can work. Nice auto wah type thing.
A lot of this battle for me was trying somwthing, and then getting to the point where I thought it was dumb, and leaving it till later, and then forcing myself to continue with it… Kept resampling almost every successive but is based around resampling something I liked from the previous section …
Was fun… I was planning on paying more going over the whole thing with some melodic content, but then I realised it was finished already, and sort of based on an offensive distorted single note pulse, haha.
Thanks for your interest.
My choice: Low Light Peach. It’s like end credits song to something. Some recognizable OP-1 features in the track, but also a lot of fresh sounds. Low-fi, but at the same time clean. I like the mood of the piece.
Honorable mentions. ieayaioi hrmtrncmng. Nice sounds. Very clean, especially for DSynth. I know they can make clean sounds, but they’re hard to program, especially if you want multiple of them compose nicely together.
fifteetree. Wow, is this really 100% D-sounds? In that case - very nice synthesis.
Dsi. Nice texture.
ＷＨΛＴ ＩＳ ＴＨＩＳ ＰＬΛＣΞ or のびスワ. There are parts of the track that are absolutely awesome. (E.g. 1:46.) I would probably give it the first place if it was a bit more structured as a whole. Maybe make a full hard-techno track wit the sound from that section? That would be really cool.
Thankyou @gambler! I’m stoked that you enjoyed it so much. The free form structure was intentional, but I can totally see it detracting from the appeal for you 
I like that idea of a remix. Would it be hard-texhno? I’m not so savvy on these sub-genres, haha. I probably won’t get around it, but you’re more than welcome to re-work it if you like <3
Very hard to decide. I think I vote for @Elvish Pretzely „ＷＨΛＴ ＩＳ ＴＨＩＳ ＰＬΛＣΞ„ because it is so different and breaks out of the standards. But also most of the other tracks are interesting. Personally I first thought to drop my participation because I really disliked the D-Synthenginges before. But then decided to give them a try and it was really a discovery for me, that they are so powerful and just need a very tiny amount of adjusting to get some interesting and musically useful sounds with less amount of noisy parts.
Very hard to decide. I think I vote for @Elvish Pretzely „ＷＨΛＴ ＩＳ ＴＨＩＳ ＰＬΛＣΞ„ because it is so different and breaks out of the standards. But also most of the other tracks are interesting. Personally I first thought to drop my participation because I really disliked the D-Synthenginges before. But then decided to give them a try and it was really a discovery for me, that they are so powerful and just need a very tiny amount of adjusting to get some interesting and musically useful sounds with less amount of noisy parts.
Thankyou!
wow! This was fun to listen through! It’s saturday morning so to late to vote, but I don’t think I would have been able to choose easily. Maybe would have gone for @Elvish ＷＨΛＴ ＩＳ ＴＨＩＳ ＰＬΛＣΞ Nice distortions and really playful fitting the challenge!
Thank you all ! This was fun!
When does/did voting close? The post made on 27 Mar says voting ends Friday 7 Mar.