Okta 2: Back to the Skies

[JM Charcot]

My track is done, how should I name it? (it will be under my real name, not JM Charcot..), and is there a common folder?

I had some good time with your tracks, so much were really inspiring !

[Paul_C]

I get most of my titles from a science fiction writer's blog

I read through and pick out words or phrases that appeal to me.

[Dowi]

Just got time to download some tracks stealing my workplace internect connection! yesssss

Plus i put down a couple of ideas for the artwork, they're quite different from each other, not sure if i really like them but i'm gonna put those here just to see what y'all think, just checking if the direction is good or not.
Be honest, If you don't like those, please say it!

[coldbrightsunlight]

I love the first one. The 2nd is fun too but I like the first a lot.

[jonne]

love the first one as well.

it would be interesting to see what it would look like with a hazy font and album title in the background instead of the foreground.

Or maybe something where the album title is not as conspicuous, like you have to search for it

[manymanyhaha]

Just wanted to let you all know: Bought Okta 1 last Friday and have really enjoyed listening to it and am really looking forward to hearing Okta 2 and participating in Okta 3, if I can.

[coldbrightsunlight]

aw thanks! I am also looking forward to hearing everyone's pieces this time round

[Heraclitus Akimbo]

I also dig the first cover concept.

Y'all who have finished tracks, I'd say it's fine to put them in your "name" folder, and have them conspicuously named. I will 100% DM everyone + confirm track name/how you want to be be credited before anything goes up online!

[Heraclitus Akimbo]

Meanwhile, after my computer died the Plan B backup computer that I was working on ALSO died, so I have been not-present-here and not manipulating sounds. Waiting for a last couple things to fall in place before I order me a new computer. Meanwhile, I have after-bedtime access to my roommate's computer so I'll be night-owlin' it for the next while, but I am feeling the urge to do some sonic massaging.

Been getting a lot more reading done, though!

[spacelordmother]

Yeah ummm so still haven’t even listened to anyone’s samples.

[Heraclitus Akimbo]

Just wanted to let you all know: Bought Okta 1 last Friday and have really enjoyed listening to it and am really looking forward to hearing Okta 2 and participating in Okta 3, if I can.

This will make its way to the ILF hosting fund in a bit... I'll wait 'til Okta 2 comes out and we hopefully make a few sales to send it.

Yeah ummm so still haven’t even listened to anyone’s samples.

The good part is this is not an intense, judge-y sort of project/process... I'm certainly in no position to throw stones at anyone.

I do have some source-bits open in Audacity at the moment, though... making a list of ones I want to copy so I can run them through my effects.

[Heraclitus Akimbo]

Last night I went though everyone's sounds and picked out a bunch that I thought might be cool to run through my pedals. And tonight I started doing some treatments!



Stretching y'all's sounds out like toffee.

[Paul_C]

How much do you like the Cooper FX Moment Machine ?

[Heraclitus Akimbo]

How much do you like the Cooper FX Moment Machine ?

Ha ha! I saw in the other thread that you jumped in regardless, but...

I do like it a bunch, though I probably still under-use it. It is very much the sort of thing that you have to sit down and make your presets before you can do much. And you can make them to have some on-the-fly tweakability — the momentary knob is customizable, and you can use one of the knobs to add randomness — but you can't get super goofy without getting into the menus. (At one level, for a lot of the stuff I do, the old AARP with the mini-knobs to adjust the pitch at each step would be better suited for me.)

I have a few presets that are useful, but I will confess that 80% of the time I keep it on a "glitch patch" — 16 steps, randomly walking back + forth through them for random amounts of time, and only one of the steps does anything, which is a random pitch shift. It's a nice kind of secret sauce for almost any sound — because the steps are randomly moving back and forth, it might flip on and off that one pitch shift step two or three times in a row, then not get back to it for a while. Plus, even with randomness fully engaged, it does a nice job of still giving non-discordant sounds (I like using random 5ths + octaves a lot).

Plus you can do some nutty stuff with arpeggiation if you're inclined. I borrowed a copy of Slonimsky's Thesaurus from the library and used that to make a really pretty 16 step pattern... it's cool that you can send a drone into it and get something like that out the other end.

(edit: I still have a test of that one posted here: https://clyp.it/user/3ijgk5ww)

[Dowi]

I hereby demand officially an extension of the deadline, couple weeks should be enough, say september 18th?
if it's a problem i'll try to do my best, but i'm really late this time..
I downloaded the samples and went through all of them in the last week while on vacation (some gooood stuff here - excellent job as always fam), but i still have to start the assembling/mangling phase, and think that i won't be able to turn on my pc again at least until next week.

Also last week i took some pictures that might be suitable for an Okta artwork, so i want to jump on that too and come up with another option.