nice !
there is only the sample sound for all ?
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Yes. Much to my dismay for the weedy sounding drums etc. Lots of processing and effects, but no other sound sources. All sampling techniques. I can explain most all of the sounds in detail if you like.
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very good work ! me I’m struggling
mostly for have melodies 
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It isnt easy, bee sounds are basically white noise. Lean into your EQ, and dont be afraid to resample multiple times. Dont forget to tune your samples, and that you can grab small segments and loop for a sorta osc replacement (single cycle waveform like). I recommend not just filling it up with just those single cycles though, part of the fun of this is flavoring this with the original sample. To get that bee sounding transition i used an lfo on pitch of the sample with a high attack. i really shoulda used panning to make the “bee” bounce between your ears now that i think about it. Oh well, i kinda just threw this together tonight lol.
If you want, i can show some of my processes. Not tonight though man, work had me up late last night, and this is past my bedtime. If you are interested though, just lemme know what you want to know and I will cover it.
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I’ll postpone listening until I have mine done, but looking forward to hearing it!
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I don’t think I’d be able to take part in this without including some old Chris Farley samples on top of it.
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What did you use to make the video-part of your entry? I was thinking of uploading my track to youtube, but have no video available to accompany it. Can I generate a video from a picture somehow? My experience with video is limited.
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This thread has inspired me to invest in the paid version of my DAW and learn how to use it. Another thing I tried was to pipe the sample from Audacity into the external audio input of the Crave and use the theremin to control the VCF cutoff (resonance was set to zero, of course). I also independently tried messing with the sample rate setting (x8 and 1/8) in Audacity. Audacity is extremely limited in its musical features but it’s great for quick and dirty tests like that.
There’s more I can do if I have the time and energy, and this is a great opportunity to learn how to use the DAW. For instance I learned how to use my Scarlett 2i2 with the DAW, which has no bearing this challenge at all but I do have this lovely condenser microphone I wanted to try out.
The results of the VCF test, alas, were not good. I’m going to have to import the sample into my DAW’s sample player and control the pitch and dynamics through the theremin. The intention is to make as much use of the bee-like quality of the sample as I can by gliding up and down the scale. There’s a certain Rimsky-Korsakov piece that may work very well for that. Some here may know it as the Green Hornet theme.
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If you don’t have any video software (for example, Macs come with iMovie stock) and you’re interested in making youTube videos, I’d recommend DaVinci Resolve because:
- It’s free
- It’s powerful
- It’s free
- There are tons of support videos on youTube
- it’s free
That said, once you download it, all you have to do is drag both the image you want to use and the song you want to lay over it into the timeline, drag the image time out so it’s as long as the song, then export it! You can also add titles, dissolves, and if you really get into it, powerful effects. The free version is full-featured (unless you want to enable certain sharing features for using in big studios, etc.) The model is that they hope you’ll get so used to using it that you’ll buy BlackMagic cameras and eGPUs.
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Fl Studio actually comes with a visualizer plugin (ZGameEditor Visualizer) that gives you a lot of options that can be output as video. Im just using a program called lightworks for the light video editing after.
Try paulstretch on the sample (factor = 10) in audacity. Then duplicate your track (copy track, create new one, and paste), pan one to the left and the original to the right. Add a delay to one of them. Then play both at the same time.
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I know I can really thrash the sample with Audacity, but my aim here is to produce a musical effect. It’s not how I started out, but experience of synthesis has given me an appreciation of music and its relationship to sound.
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Hmm, but the suggestion I made gives a musical effect ! 
You’ll hear this in my track … which I think I’ll post tomorrow (midnight here, again).
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I think I see. This evening I mucked around with the Theremini until I was able to record MIDI data into the DAW (I’m using Presonus Studio One but any decent DAW should do this.) My basic concept is crude: sample: bandpass filter: tune: control. My theremin skills are not good enough to play the fast staccato piece I’m aiming at, but I’ll try to record the controller track in half or quarter speed then speed it up in the playback.
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i work on mine, maybe post it tomorow (it’s half past midnight in France = go to sleep soon … 
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lookin forward to the jams yall. 
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This is my first try at doing something with the sample. I sort of got going and then inspiration left me. Nevertheless it shows that when flung through a suitable filter one can make something that sounds completely different than the original. I think the title speaks for itself:
ToBeeOrNotToBeeAMunk
I have another more serious entry, that I’ll publish later.
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And this is the more serious entry. I’m scrolling through the ableton session a bit so that you may be able to see what is going on. If there are any questions …
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really cool ! …
here’s my version, but level sound quality (mix / mastering) nothing to do with what I heard, with my old acid pro and my 10 pluggins 20 years old … but a good exercise I had never done that before !
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