As the Scoring to picture challenge was still ongoing, I thought i would wait for it to end before the next Open Battle, so here’s the brief for this one:
- for this battle any instrument can be used; no software though, only hardware
- number of steps per pattern must be 5 or multiple of 5
- sequencing can be done using any piece of hardware or software if the machine used doesn’t have an inbuilt sequencer
- an external MIDI keyboard can be used too
- samplers can be used but sample playback has to be within the allowed number of steps per pattern
- only FX tails can be longer than the maximum number of steps
- a video should accompany the track but it is not mandatory
for those who want to add video, free clips can be found on this website and similar websites, search engines can help in this case - the track/video should be around 3 minutes long
Deadline: May 21st 2021. Have fun!
Quoting (with some changes) from the previous OB (should we maybe keep this part for all the other OBs as well? don’t know if this is how it works on the OP-forum @LyingDalai):
Upload your track in SoundCloud with hashtag #NautBattle02
and submit it here or else upload the whole video and soundtrack editing in YT and drop the link here.
We then vote for one submission, the composer of which gets to establish the brief for next battle
Recording can be done in a DAW, a 4-track cassette recorder, a sampler, or any other recording support.
Technical achievement is not the point: the aim of open battles is to explore your instruments further, discover new sound design techniques, get a track done, and most of all have fun!