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Breath Ember's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity/Originality | #2 | 4.600 | 4.600 |
| Execution | #3 | 4.200 | 4.200 |
| Overall | #3 | 3.880 | 3.880 |
| Listenability | #7 | 4.067 | 4.067 |
| Composition | #13 | 3.667 | 3.667 |
| Descriptiveness of Theme | #23 | 2.867 | 2.867 |
Ranked from 15 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Link to Streaming Service
https://foxhyode.bandcamp.com/track/breath-ember
Description
!Warning! this is more of a Vocal experimentation so it might sounds a bit less musical from what I normally do.
I wanted to limit and challenge my self a bit so everything is made out of my voice being either played, processed, modified, sampled into something else. Results of what a vocoder would do more than using organic vocals.
Not the craziest track i've made in a short amount of time but still holds some interesting stuff and variation.
Theme:
At first I wanted to do vocals only because of the lady wandering in the picture but sine I am not a woman it was kinda difficult to get a proper singing voice alone so instead I tried to evoke something related to breath control and more "airy" as the flowers are starting to grow.
DAW used : Repaer (wanted to challenge myself using something else than Nuendo)
Plugins:
Melodyne
Phaseplant
Vocal Synth 2
Lessons Learned
I still need to learn how my plugins work and how to manipulate vocal porperly, I don't have the best vocal range and pitch so it was harder to correct everything to make it sound at least decent. Still learned some cool techniques on how melodyne works which I barely know how it works so it made me watch some tutorial to get a better understanding on how powerful the tool is.
Also learned that playing in Repaer is really cool but context switching from Nuendo I need to setup some shortcuts to match both DAWs.
Where did you source your cover art?
I always use stock images from google search that I have rights to use, I blend them together mostly a background that I put some very basic effects and a Fox somwhere, its the law.
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Comments
The high pitch Ooh vocals sound great, I'm guessing those are pitched up a bit with melodyne? actually sounds like a female vocalist at parts.
For a so called "experimentation" this is really great, I enjoyed it a lot.
Coming from Cubase to Reaper, I found Julian Sader's multi tool script a godsend for the midi editing, as that gives some of the same functionality for editing CC values (scaling, cresc, decresc etc.) that Cubase has + it also works outside of the piano roll in the automation lanes too! Might be a good thing to try out?
https://forums.cockos.com/showthread.php?p=2211574/1000
Also, adding some actions like enabling/disabling multi track editing etc to the key editor toolbar helped me a a lot with making working in the key editor more smoother like in Cubase.
Fox, this is defiantly different from your usual songs. But it was good! Really interesting how you used the vocals. It had a great feel! It is always fun to try something new and I think you did a great job with this one! Great work!
This is a really nice track! Its also really satisfying, like listening to it :) Great job man!
This is super unique and well done. The fact that it's just your vocals is very impressive and really show cases the skills you have with sampling, processing, mixing, etc.
I really enjoyed this one. If you're looking for constructive criticism, I can only say that I just wanted more, be it a longer track or a tiny bit of variation. Not a necessity though. Very nice job on putting this together, and that "vocoder" approach was well done
Oh, that sound spacing and panning work is incredible! Also it sounds really experimental and atmospheric, I like it! Tha only thing that I'd suggest to make this track even better is to add a bit of action, a slowly introduced beatbox that grow stronger through the track and drop into a full beatbox beat would be really cool for my ear. But even without it, the track is really interesting!
Really interesting experiment, not gonna lie. The bah's sound very full and close to the listener while the big choir chords create a nice contrast in scale. I don't really see any clear connection to the theme, but you made something pretty fun and cool and that works for me, honestly lol
Extremely beautiful production, I love all the space you're giving. It would be really easy to put layer upon layer upon layer, but your restraint, letting the reverb "breath", and letting the individual voices shine, is excellent.
The percussive beatboxing in the beginning and the choral drop at 1:05 create a really nice contrast. The choral drop feels very "holy" and slightly otherwordly, it made me feel tingly. I would say this is a very successful experiment.