Loopop’s Mega Contest

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Yeah, good old Powerpoint style and shooting your own screen with a phone: this is lofi!
I was very close to do it like this ^^

Here are a few tips:

  • you can use Quicktime Player > File > New Screen record to actually record a video of what’s happening on the screen (possibly a part of it).
  • use Cmd+Ctrl+Shit+4 to copy a part of the screen as a picture. Open Preview and hit Ctrl+N to get your image, save as JPG
  • use Da Vinci Resolve to (freely) create videos like you would for a track in a DAW. It takes a while to get used to it, and I am still definitely on the lofi side, but it gets better with each use.
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Mine is #36 in Loopop’s playlist, but I’ll post it here too. Should I feel guilty for posting on Elektronauts, not having used my Model:Samples for my track? :roll_eyes:

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Thanks for the tips! I’ll have to see if I have the energy to redo parts of the video. Then again, lofi is my middle name!

I’m using DaVinci Resolve, btw.

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It’s a bit awkward at times, but it works pretty well, especially for the price !
^^

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Updated the video. Took a totally different approach. I think it’s ready now - and it’s only 9 pm, woohoo!

By the way, can someone be so kind as to check if the link to the Google Drive in the video description works alright?

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It works :slight_smile:

Nice vid!!

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Tadaaaa

I had to finish today so mixing is nowhere to be seen but it was fun to try to make a waltz-ish track :smiley: I want to play more with 3/4, 6/8 time signatures and 3:2 polyrhythms (I messed it up in the track).

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Thanks! Except that I just realized the video doesn’t have the subtitles I made in DaVinci Resolve. :see_no_evil:

Will have to investigate tomorrow, I’ve got no idea what went wrong there…

Edit: Seems it was user error, as usual. Hadn’t exported the subtitles (didn’t know I had to do that separately).

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This took a minute to put together. I don’t know how youtube people do it.

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@Doug Love that! and you’re the only hip hop entry I’ve heard! great vocals too!
and thanks for the explanations!

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Wow, killa!
Nice job man.

Have you dropped your video link on loopop’s?

What do you mean?

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I’m glad y’all liked it!

I apparently temporarily lose the ability to speak extemporaneously when the camera is on. So I had to put together a bunch of notes and even then I was stumbling all over myself. I think it just took longer to do than I thought it would even though I went into it knowing that I would be bad at it.

I also went into this knowing that I don’t really have a good set up for recording from my mic and recording my Digitakt at the same time. So it was never going to sound good. And I can’t imagine adding that dimension to it.

It was just more than I thought it would be. Recording a quick beat here and there is a lot easier.

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It’s been really cool to see all these Elektronauts entries!
I just posted mine. I did it all on my Digitakt. Adding the walkthrough annotations made this take a lot longer than it normally takes me to edit my videos.

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I gave this a try too…although I didn’t use any of my elektrons this time around. I thought of dropping a link here anyway!

(The track is at the beginning, just 3:47 minutes long, everything else is just an attempt at a walkthru)

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I’m totally with you on this!
For French Synthfest 2019 I had agreed to do a 20 mn video to explain Elektron workflow in French… It took me several days!

Shooting a video is a bunch of techniques I had no clue I totally ignored. Without talking about the light, voice capture… And the camera(s), that matters quite a lot in fact.

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Really like this one! Well done!

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Thanks so much! I was just listening to yours right now, cool stuff!

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joined the fun as well and i see, i suck at proper sounding bass on laptop speakers. no walkthrough from me as i’m at an hospital and only have limited ‘out’ time. but i uploaded the project file, hope thats fine.

good luck everyone! :slight_smile: good tunes you got there!

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Tried only using the Koala app to kill some SP404 Mk II GAS. :grinning:

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So, here’s my entry. I uploaded it last sunday. Though I’m right happy with the track, I’m not very glad with the walktrouh…but it is what it is. :slight_smile:

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