The earliest versions of the OSC were generally a bit more like the OP wants. There were very few participants. I see using a single synth to compose an entire song as an interesting production and sound design challenge. If you want to run off the majority of the people who enter, just rule out presets. Then limit things to synths with no onboard FX. For almost every dumb limitation one can think of to put on this there's a simple, boring ass workaround. People who know how to make sounds and produce music will come up with something, but why bother doing things the way people were forced to do them in the dark ages of musical technology. Eliminating presets is the one thing that truly forces participants to dig in and learn a synth rather than piggybacking on folks that make synth presets for a living. I feel that most of the limitations on mixing techniques and processing that are already in place for the OSC are a waste of time. If someone wants to down vote a participant for using processing that should be on them. The processing of instruments to me, is a huge part of electronic music production. Many of the coolest synth sounds anybody has heard on their favorite records, wouldn't be possible with just the output of a synthesizer with no further processing. This is extra true of the analog era of the 70s/ 80s.
This is all just my opinion of course, but I don't want to listen to a whole collection of songs made up of sounds that don't make me think "How did they do that?" Again, just my 2 cents. I'm happy to see that so many people take part in the OSCs now.
This is all just my opinion of course, but I don't want to listen to a whole collection of songs made up of sounds that don't make me think "How did they do that?" Again, just my 2 cents. I'm happy to see that so many people take part in the OSCs now.
Statistics: Posted by Ah_Dziz — Sat Dec 21, 2024 1:20 am