I wish I knew how to play this piano (2023 Summer Games)

jujuu
31 Oct 15, 23 Experimental
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Entry for Audiotool Summer Games 2023, week 9: https://www.audiotool.com/contest/weekly_challenge_9 Didn't really follow the rules and did the piano and pulsar thing together. Idea behind making the piano sound: - Start with a single Pulv as a base, it's simple to configure and can get pretty close to a nice sounding rhodes piano sound. - Use a waveshaper to extract more frequencies and add some sharpness - Use a compressor with a slow attack to emphasise the percussive transient of hitting a piano key - Use a gate to filter out unwanted trailing sounds In practice: - Don't really know what I'm doing and fiddled with many knobs and devices until I got close enough. Limitations: - Works best on the two octaves I tested with on my tiny midi keyboard. Lower octaves sound too smooth, higher octaves sound distorted. - Not much dynamic range and can't really hold notes or it starts to sound distorted Otherwise pretty happy with it. I can't play the piano so did a simple melody and then messed around with a couple pulsars to create some wacky sounds.

         
jujuu
Oct 15, 23

Damn it's too long for submission, ah well 🤷