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Cymbal Slice Composer Quest LIVE! · 52 Cues - A Production Music and Sync Podcast

• 0:35
  Speaker 1: What is happening.
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: Everybody, this is Dave Kroff, and welcome back to another episode of the 52Q's podcast, your weekly insight into all things production and library music weather.
• 0:45
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• 0:53
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• 0:56
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• 1:12
  Speaker 1: I talk about production and library music every single week and we would love to have you.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, this entire channel and community would not be possible without the amazing support of our family, friends and neighbor members, subscribers of 52Q's, who, in addition to being amazing members of the community, they also receive extra perks and bonuses like live streams, workshops, zoom feedback sessions, q breakdowns, hundreds of hours of archives and the opportunity to submit to real music libraries.
• 1:46
  Speaker 1: So maybe you are feeling stuck on your own production music journey or maybe you just want to find that next level.
• 1:53
  Speaker 1: Then why don't you head over to 52Q'scom and join us?
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: It's free to join and memberships start at around four bucks a month, and it is a very special, very special live episode of the 52Q's podcast.
• 2:08
  Speaker 1: We are coming to you live from Symbol Slice 2024, which is our latest, our latest composer quest, and we've got so many amazing Q's to go over today, and we put composer quests together once a quarter, so once every three months, and today we've got tons of folks hanging out with us in the chat room and you yes, you get to vote on the winners.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see who do we have in the chat, what is happening Dex, nathan Reed and well, jeff, we've got Yuka.
• 2:50
  Speaker 1: We've got Adele hanging out, we've got Matt about nothing.
• 2:53
  Speaker 1: We've got Rolf.
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  Speaker 1: We've got creative tools.
• 2:56
  Speaker 1: It is so good to be with all of you today.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to go for about an hour.
• 3:01
  Speaker 1: Hold your V.
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  Speaker 1: What is happening is really good to see you.
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  Speaker 1: And so this is the live voting for our composer quest, and the composer quest was to write a Q using some Symbol samples, some Symbol samples that I recorded and put together and I am pulling I'm pulling up the brief now and so they were to use Symbol samples that I presented and they're going to be evaluated on three different criteria Creativity searching for submissions that demonstrate unique and invented uses of the Symbol sample.
• 3:48
  Speaker 1: How effectively can you transform the provided material into something unexpected?
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  Speaker 1: So the creativity aspect.
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  Speaker 1: Next, the sound design aspect.
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  Speaker 1: The technical skill and artistry and how you manipulate the sample.
• 4:01
  Speaker 1: And then, finally, presentation, the final presentation of your composition, how well the manipulated samples are integrated into your piece.
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  Speaker 1: That is also going to be considered.
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  Speaker 1: So the sample itself.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to play it for you so that, so that you can hear it, and you can hear the samples.
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  Speaker 1: There were a total of five and they were all put together in in one in one one fail swoop here and they sound like this.
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  Speaker 1: And those were the samples that everybody was was given and the winner of the voting today, actually, well, everybody that participated got access to those samples.
• 5:35
  Speaker 1: So they're yours, enjoy.
• 5:37
  Speaker 1: But the winner gets the Symbol sample library.
• 5:43
  Speaker 1: And I am so excited to announce the big drum roll that we have partnered with the amazing and incomparable Stevie B, steven Bedall, over at the Production Music Academy and Production Music Tools, and there is a brand new Symbol Effects library, bode Symbols.
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  Speaker 1: It's available for 19 bucks, but if you wait until the end of today's session, I'm going to give you a little discount code.
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  Speaker 1: You can head over to ProductionMusicToolscom and you can download 68 Symbol Samples, and the winner of today gets that Symbol Sample library for free.
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  Speaker 1: That is what they win, and we also Shannon, I think, has some giveaway codes right, and so we're going to give one away to folks who are hanging out in the chat a little bit later today during the live stream, and we are going to also do a giveaway over on the Insta.
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  Speaker 1: So if you haven't followed us on Instagram at 52Qs but I think did I see Stevie B?
• 6:55
  Speaker 1: I think Stevie B is hanging out with us today.
• 6:58
  Speaker 1: Man, steve is awesome, one of my favorite people, one of the nicest people I've ever met, keeping up.
• 7:05
  Speaker 1: The Canadians are nice, they're keeping that going.
• 7:13
  Speaker 1: But you can head over to ProductionMusicTools right now and download Symbol Effects, bode and we have more.
• 7:21
  Speaker 1: We have more planned, including friction symbol effects.
• 7:25
  Speaker 1: We have scrapes, including metal scrapes, plastic scrapes, fiberglass scrapes, so lots more planned, and I could not be happier to be partnering with ProductionMusicTools.
• 7:39
  Speaker 1: Like I said, you can head over to ProductionMusicToolscom and I'm going to actually pull up the window here so you can see it ProductionMusicTools, and there we are.
• 7:48
  Speaker 1: There we are, and Steven Bedall did an amazing, amazing job shooting a trailer for us and you can check that out.
• 7:57
  Speaker 1: But yeah, stevie B, thank you so much, man, thank you so much.
• 8:03
  Speaker 1: And yeah, Van Kraken says, say, special symbol sample selection five times fast, Right on.
• 8:12
  Speaker 1: So the Symbol Pack is finally here for all of you.
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  Speaker 1: Long time, 52qs folks, you didn't think it would ever come, you didn't ever think it would get here, and yet here it is, all right.
• 8:23
  Speaker 1: So, with all that out of the way and again, hang on to the end of the into the live stream, because I'm going to give you a code that you can get 15% off.
• 8:32
  Speaker 1: 15% off this already cheap it's $19, right, it's $19.
• 8:38
  Speaker 1: And so you can check that out, all right.
• 8:41
  Speaker 1: So let's get to some listening.
• 8:44
  Speaker 1: Let's get to some listening.
• 8:46
  Speaker 1: But first, if you want to vote and I would love to have you vote then why don't you head over to 52Qscom slash vote?
• 8:59
  Speaker 1: You can also scan this QR code.
• 9:02
  Speaker 1: I would love to have you join us over there and the voting at 52Qscom slash vote.
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  Speaker 1: Just click on, click here to vote, and that takes you up to a voting page.
• 9:16
  Speaker 1: Now, the way that we do it this isn't like this was my favorite.
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  Speaker 1: That's not what we're doing here.
• 9:20
  Speaker 1: That's not how the voting works.
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  Speaker 1: Now the voting works is what do you think about this?
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  Speaker 1: Would you rate this one a one star for?
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  Speaker 1: Not my favorite to five star with?
• 9:30
  Speaker 1: That was amazing.
• 9:31
  Speaker 1: We're not here to tell you what the metrics are.
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  Speaker 1: We're just here to give you some, some, some stars and and punch them in, and the winner is the person who who gets the most highest number of stars.
• 9:47
  Speaker 1: That's how that is.
• 9:50
  Speaker 1: And, by the way, that that that discount code is 15%.
• 9:52
  Speaker 1: Did I say 50?
• 9:53
  Speaker 1: I didn't mean to say that.
• 9:57
  Speaker 1: And Shannon, when?
• 9:58
  Speaker 1: When is voting going to be announced?
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: Are we, are we able to announce this live or are we going to announce it on the community a little bit later?
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: Well, we're not going to do it live, I don't think, because we're going to give folks time to vote, probably over the weekend.
• 10:13
  Speaker 1: Shannon is is the boss of all this stuff.
• 10:16
  Speaker 1: So all these pictures, this is all Shannon.
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: This is.
• 10:23
  Speaker 1: This is all Shannon.
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  Speaker 1: Amazing graphic and everything.
• 10:26
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 10:27
  Speaker 1: So head over to 52 cuescom slash vote.
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  Speaker 1: Click on.
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  Speaker 1: Click here to vote to cast your votes.
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: But in the meantime, let's get to listening.
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: Let's get to listening and I've got a logic session pulled up and so we're going to.
• 10:42
  Speaker 1: First of all, I've really enjoyed the.
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: I really enjoyed all the symbol puns.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so Shannon says we are going to announce on the community on Monday, so you have all weekend to vote and this is going to be going out into the podcast feed starting tomorrow, tomorrow morning.
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 1: So first, ralph, symbolic symbolism, ralph shield.
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: This description says every sound has been made using the symbol sample only, even the drum kit and the base, a base.
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: I used SPL transient designer heavily and resampled everything in some stages.
• 11:19
  Speaker 1: Then I loaded the drum sounds into groove agent.
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: Five, base was made with serum using a sample as a wave table.
• 11:26
  Speaker 1: I use some instances of pigments five, hally and seven Q base sample track and isotope iris two.
• 11:33
  Speaker 1: Which iris is really good?
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: I wish, I wish isotope would support that more.
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: All right, so here is symbolic symbolism from Ralph shield.
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: All right, that was symbolic symbolism from Mr Mr Ralph shield.
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  Speaker 1: Ralph, thank you so much for sending that along.
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: I'm going to.
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: I'm going to tweak my.
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: I'm going to tweak my, my things here, just so I can have the, the live stream there, give me one second everybody.
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: That'll work All right.
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: Just so we can see, we can have the, we can have the chat on screen at the same time.
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: This is, this is good TV right here.
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: It's good.
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  Speaker 2: TV.
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: This is good podcasting, don't need that.
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: There we go.
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: All right, there we go.
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: There we go.
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: Now everybody can see the chip.
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: Next up we have Trace Callahan.
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: Trace says after listening to the samples I decided to have a little sound design fun.
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: I took one of the shorter samples pitch, shifted it a lot, chopped it into a stutter, then took those pieces to make a bass pulse, another even lower pulse and a reverse pulse.
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: The original sample was a B, so I centered the cue around B.
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: The same sample, with different creative mangling, became a low moan.
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: I felt like the pulse plus the unusual cymbal sounds lent themselves towards mystery and with a brief melody, some basic sense and a bit of flute decoration, I wound up with a sense in symbolism, a mysterious tension cue.
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: So this is Trace Callahan with sense in symbolism.
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: Ah yeah, that was since in symbolism.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: I gotta tell you I'm enjoying two things.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: First of all, the great title puns.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: But just how different folks approach these things you know, as somebody who has recorded all of these, to hear somebody take them and turn them into something completely new just really really impresses me and makes me happy.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: Makes me happy.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: So thank you so much.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: Really really appreciate that trace as a reminder.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: Head over to 52Qscom slash vote.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: Click on the click here to vote.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: And remember you're not voting on who wins, you're just voting on what you think about that Q.
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  Speaker 1: Five stars being yep, loved it, loved it, loved it.
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  Speaker 1: One star being maybe not my favorite 52Qscom slash vote and click on click here to vote.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: Next up we have Dell.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: What is happening, dell?
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: I know Dell is hanging out with us.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: This is Brink of Battle, hybrid heroic symbolism.
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  Speaker 1: This is my first crack at attempting the kind of bigger epic Q that I love in the mini soundtracks that I listen to on a nearly daily basis.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: It aims to capture the energy of two powerful opposing forces facing off across the field in the final moments before conflict.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: As once said by the legendary military strategist Sun Tzu, when standing on the precipice of battle, the true warrior must prepare to symbol slice their victory, their foes to capture victory.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: So, in this vein, the symbol samples provided.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: The symbol samples provided enhance the mood of this Q perfectly as key transitions that help build energy and connect thematic elements.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: They would have been sliced up, played both forward and in reverse.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: They have been, I'm sorry, sliced up, played both forward and in reverse, and transformed by melding them with the complimentary waveforms from one of my favorite free virtual instruments, the saw by SonaScore.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: All right, so let's head over, let's make sure that everything is muted appropriately, and we're going to take a listen to tell you what I'm going to.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: I'm going to do this.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: I think this will help.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: That way.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not accidentally playing things.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: All right, so this is Brink of Battle by Del Peterson.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: All right, the wind, the wind, the wind.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: The wind, the wind, the wind, the wind.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: All right, that was Brink of Battle from Del Del.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for sending this along, man.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: It reminds me of the Fright Night where it's I don't know how you're going to make a choice, which is why I'm so glad that we have the voting system that we have set up, and that was, shannon, a fantastic idea.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: You know you're not voting who wins, you're voting what you think of each queue.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: So, thank you, del.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Really appreciate you sending that along.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Next up, ralph Oleski sent along the abyss and Ralph says in an abyss, you don't really know where you are.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Like this queue, a touch of uncertainty, along with a solid rhythmic pattern.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Symbol slices make up the constant pulse throughout, as well as a few luscious scrapes thrown in.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: So here is Ralph Oleski with the Abyss.
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  Speaker 1: That was the Abyss from Ralph Ralph, thank you so much for sending that along.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: I was like, ok, ralph's going to do some tension.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: No, ralph's going to be Ralph.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Ralph is a really good guitarist in the community, but yeah, manuel says it gave him a sound garden vibes and Ralph going rogue.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Appreciate that, ralph.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for sending that along.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Next up, we have signs and symbols from Leslie Reichart or Richard, if I mispronouncing that in my apologies.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: Leslie says I started by putting each sample on a separate track, then duplicating and reversing each sample.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Each sample I used is modified in some way and I used all five samples somewhere in my project.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: Modifications include variations of the following Chop, chop, paste different samples together, reverse, transpose, pitch shift, automation, chop and loop, put them in a vocal, guitar and amp tracks to experiment with those presets.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: I started with the sample to get the vibe I wanted, then added drums and percussion, then synths.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: That's the opposite of what I usually do, so this was super fun.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Thanks for giving us the opportunity to mess about with your simple sounds and for setting up the quest.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: I love quests.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm so glad, leslie, thank you so much because more quests are coming in.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: So, as a reminder, head over to 52Qscom slash vote.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: And we are at signs and symbols.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Right, sorry, it's a pun for you audio folks.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: It's a good pun.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: That was signs and symbols from Leslie.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Leslie, thank you so much for sending this along.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, folks in the chat are like you are so creative.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: I love all these different genres.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we just didn't.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: We just like do a rock cue and this was so creative, really, really.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: Leslie, thank you so much for sending that along as a reminder.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Head over to 52Qscom slash vote, and if you're listening to this in the podcast over the weekend it's not too late.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Voting does close Sunday.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: I'm assuming, Mrs 52Qs, sunday at 1159 Eastern, although yes, we'll say midnight Eastern.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: All right, next up we have Jean-Luc Beruchot with Hackers Heart Attack.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: Jean-luc says this cue has kind of a cyber crime tension feel to it, except the arpeggiated base which is finally quite dry.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Everything in this cue was made from the symbol samples.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: You can hear the sample on itself throughout the cue, but the kick snare filtered noise following the kick and base and all the textures were made from the symbol samples.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: To do that the process was both outside and inside the box.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: I've used my Electron Octatrack to quickly and easily play with the sample and get new interesting texture, change the rate, change the pitch, attack, decay release, add some LFOs and chop the sample.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: Inside the box I've used the Ableton stock sampler, then again some tweaks on pitch filter et cetera, and then resample this often multiple times using some plugins like portal, thermal and fragments For the kick.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: I've also used the BX subsynth plugin to add some low subs.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: So we're going to take a listen to Hacker's Heart Attack.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: That was Hacker's Heart Attack from Jean-Luc Beruchot.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for sending this along.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: I'm not voting, mrs.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: 52 cues.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: We're not voting and I'm kind of glad I don't have to because I'm not sure I could pick all of these out.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: But thank you so much, jean-luc, for sending that along.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: Oh, and it should go without saying, I imagine many of these cues are unsigned.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: I'll say so if, maybe, if you're watching this and you're a publisher or a library and some of these cues are interesting to you and maybe you'd want them in your catalogs, then you could reach out to us over at 52 cues.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: You can either do contact at 52 cuescom or, if you wanna join over in the network, we'd love to have you.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: But, yeah, yeah, I am sure somebody would love to have these get signed.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: So, please, please, by all means, feel free to reach out.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: And I don't have any skin in this game, right?
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: I'm not getting any writer's share for any of these cues or whatever.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: So, please, we'd love to connect our members with libraries, for sure.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Next up we have Enrico.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: Enrico man, I hope that you are sleeping.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: Well, I know he's over in Italy and turned me on to Lovazca coffee.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: He is a frequent visitor over in the morning live stream, which is tomorrow morning for the family, friends and neighbor subscribers.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: We're gonna be doing a live stream, but I'm sure he is asleep right now.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: This is called morph symbolism, enrico says.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: Writing.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: This has given me a great reason to delve deeper into the features of some of my synths and samplers that I hadn't fully explored before.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: Everything except the kick drum in the bass comes from the symbol samples Mimic slice sampler and granular stretching for the scratching, scenic granular sampling for the keys, grain spectral format sampling for some of the percussion, plus general time stretching, pitch bending and further audio abuse for the other elements.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: And as a reminder, head over to 52Qscom slash vote.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: We would love to have you vote over there, but let's take a listen to morphed symbolism from Enrico Capparelli.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: Give me a big thumbs up.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: That was morphed symbolism.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: I almost jumped in, but I saw that there was a little button there, enrico, thank you so much.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for ascending that along.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: Man, that was some funky bass man and I got to know I'm assuming you played that bass.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: If you didn't play that bass.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: I need to know what plug-in that was.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: I need to know what plug-in that was.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: Next up, nathan Toft, with Tachycardic vibrations, had to practice that one.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: Tachycardia is an increased heart rate for any reason, he goes on to say.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: I originally posted this for week eight of Expedition 52, which Expedition 52 is our year-long composer quest happening right now over at 52Qs.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: It's too late to join.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: We closed down membership for that in January but we might be talked into a mid-year expedition going up.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: But anyway, I digress.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: I originally posted this for the week eight of Expedition 52 and made several changes thanks to suggestions from my fellow climbers.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: My library has a call for pulsating tension cues.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: They're looking for multiple stops risers, ticks, clicks, pings, brahms with a pulsing heartbeat, bass.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: They also want three main acts soft, medium and hard, each being able to stand on their own.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: My cue has four acts more value for their money.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: Right, I used Pigments 5 in effects I've collected over the years.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Dave's symbols are used to mark the transitions between acts.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: That wailing siren noise you hear is me on trombone, processed with far too many guitar plugins.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: Good fun, I was hoping your trombone chops would make an appearance.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: The title comes from a word I learned from watching too many medical dramas, so here is Tachycardic Vibrations from Nathan Toft.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: Tachycardic Vibrations from Nathan Toft.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: Tachycardic Vibrations from Nathan Toft.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: Tachycardic Vibrations from Nathan Toft.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: Tachycardic Vibrations from Nathan Toft.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: That was Nathan Toft with Tachycardic Vibrations.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: Nathan, thank you so much for sending that along.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: That was intense, my man, that was intense.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: And the trombone sirens chef's kiss.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: Really, really, really nice work.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: Next up we have Dex Dex.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: I know Dex is hanging out.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: What is happening?
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: Dex says I can feel it coming.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: I had no idea what this was going to be.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: I started by taking the five samples and putting them into the Logic Sampler.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: I messed around with different effects and reverses and looping you can do in there and tuning and then added audio effects like distortion, phasing and EQ.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: My aim was to get some individual instruments like bass, synth, kick and hi-hat which I could make a track from.
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: Just as I was halfway through structuring things, I came up with the airy synth sound and this song just popped into my head as I was using similar chords already.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: Everything you hear on the track came from those five samples.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: So here is I Can Feel it Coming from Dex Williams.
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: I Can Feel it Coming from Dex Williams.
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: I Can Feel it Coming from Dex Williams.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: I Can Feel it Coming from Dex Williams.
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: I Can Feel it Coming from Dex Williams.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: That was Dex Williams with.
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: I Can Feel it Coming.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: I was like this sounds just like Phil Collins.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because it's a cover, dex, if you make this video get demonetized, it's inconsequential.
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: I'm totally okay with that.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: I'm totally okay with that.
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much, dex.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: That was stellar.
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: It's like I almost had like a Casio keyboard vibe, that lo-fi, yeah, 100%.
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for sending that along.
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: As a reminder, everybody, you can vote Head over to 52Qscom slash vote, and voting is going to be open all weekend.
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: And for anybody that's joining this a little bit late or maybe you haven't looked at it yet, this isn't a vote for your favorite.
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: It's a vote from one star to five stars each at a time, and then the winner is going to be announced on Monday.
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: Also, be sure to stick around, because not only are we giving away a free code to the brand new symbol Bode Symbol Effects Library from Production Music Tools, but we're also going to be giving away a 15% discount code for everybody, for everybody.
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: So, yeah, that's 16 cents, right?
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: I think I make about maybe 30 bucks a month with YouTube.
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: That's fine, that's fine.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: See you guys at the next die-one.
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: I'm ashamed to admit how much money we spent at Taco Bell last night, so I'm just going to take a sip of coffee.
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: Let's just say we cracked 30 bucks at Taco Bell.
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's all right, that's all right.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: Daddy needed his nachos and cheese.
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: Next up, we have Hold your V with Symphobia I love this name because I'm a big fan of Project Sam and Symphobia and Hold your Says.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: This is my first cue that I've ever submitted in this community.
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: I'm at the very beginning of a production music composer's journey, having found out about production music through the 52 Cues podcast somewhere in January of this year.
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: I'm still catching up on all the podcast episodes.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: Currently, I'm in February of 2023.
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: Oh, excellent, if you've been watching it, you can watch my beard grow.
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: If you do it really fast, forward it.
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: It's crazy, and I've started to read the recommended books.
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: There was so much to learn.
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: Nevertheless, I started off with the idea of creating a cue just using the five provided wave files, which, in retrospect, might have been a little over ambitious.
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: At times, I felt like I was taking part in Dave's buzzword bingo, crossing off the buzzwords in my mind Resistance check, imposter syndrome check, messing with the time, signature check.
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: My first sketch was in 15, eight in the absolute classic.
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: Read the bleep and brief check.
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: Oh, there was a time limit, right.
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: Since I made it my mission to use exclusively the five cymbal scrapes as a sound source, I spent a lot of time throwing these samples on tools like isotopes, iris two and UVIs Falcon, running the results through filters, reverbs, delays and other effects.
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: Finally, I did manage to assemble something like a tension cue.
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: I guess I'm still struggling with genres and moods.
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: It starts and ends in the key of A minor Thou shalt have no other key signature but one and has an ABA structure.
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: I tried to set proper edit points into and out of the B section.
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: Thank you for putting up this composer quest.
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: Just finishing this single cue was a heck of a learning experience for me.
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: Also, thank you so much for hosting this community and all the effort and love that you put into it.
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: Well, just know that it is my absolute pleasure it's both Shannon and my absolute pleasure to be on this journey with you.
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: And welcome, welcome, welcome.
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: We are so happy, so happy to have you and I'm so glad you found us, you know.
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: However, however, you found us and I'm so glad you've been enjoying the podcast.
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: So let's take a listen to Symphobia from Holger Vossen.
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, man, to be like a first attempt.
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: Freakin' bravo my man, really, really well done.
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for sending that along and if that's any indication, man, I think you're gonna fit in perfectly here at 52Q.
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for sending that along.
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: And just the chat and the love, the fusive chat, and that was a good write-up.
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much, so happy that you are with us.
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: Next up, john Dupont.
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: What is happening, john?
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: I know John is hanging out in the chat.
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: John, with Red Alert, says this piece ended up as a retro.
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: Another gun meets Bernard Herman Q.
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: I used most of the five cymbal slices.
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: Dave sent some forward, some reversed.
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: Only two outside tracks used low strings and a kick sample.
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: All of the drum elements and effects were cymbal based and lots of pitch bending.
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: So we're gonna take a listen to Red Alert from John Dupont.
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: Honestly, I should run out of time in this.
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: That was Red Alert from John Dupont.
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, I like the sirens and they're sounding like some like vocal screaming or something.
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: And if that is a, if that is part of the symbol symbol library, congratulations.
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: I'm now sufficiently creeped out like I was during Fright Night.
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much, john, for sending that along.
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: Next up Reed guest to lend with echoing caverns, reed says.
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: I took the symbol slices and started to change the pitch using flex mode and logic.
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: I then stretched a few of them out and pulled them into loop cloud, forcing them to be set to 100 BPM in F minor.
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: During the actual composition process, I used a plugin named Dawson Love to modify the resulting sounds to make them sound more ethereal or to provide them with more bass.
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: Finally, the 808 bass line sound came from sublab XL, where I dragged one of the symbol slices into it as the bass sound.
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: I then chose a sustained preset from sublab XL to give me the sound that is used in the composition.
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: The other two sounds that aren't based on the symbol slices are the creepy piano, morphed piano melody and the darks accord, which was also modified by Dawson Love to provide the underlying ethereal pads.
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: Alright, so here is Echoing Caverns by Reed and Guestland.
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: Alright, so here is Echoing Caverns by Reed and Guestland.
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: Alright, so here is Echoing Caverns by Reed and Guestland.
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: That was Echoing Caverns by Reed and Guestland.
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for sending that along.
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: I tell you what guys these are really good and you notice that they're not all tension cues and we've got some ambient stuff.
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: We've got some kind of horror stuff.
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: We've got some rock stuff.
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: This is really good.
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: I am astounded at the creativity in this community.
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: I am really really impressed by how you guys have taken these samples.
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: As a reminder, you can head over to 52Qscom slash vote.
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: Click on vote.
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: Click here to vote and then give each one of these one to five stars.
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: Reminder that voting ends on Monday.
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: Next up we have Michael and Yuka Reschke.
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: Oh, the Reschke's.
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: I hope you are all doing well.
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: This is To Beat or Not To Beat Recipe colon.
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: This is an epic percussion cue using some of Dave's seasoned sample slices.
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: We used slices like risers drones and created a cool alarm effect to taste.
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: Chef Reschke's proudly prepared this dish for all of you to enjoy.
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: Yep, well, with Shannon's Sushi, sushi's simple sample sushi guy.
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: Say that five times real fast.
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: Next up, we have To Beat or Not To Beat the.
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: That was To Beat or Not To Beat from Michael and Yucca Resky, a great songwriting couple up in Florida.
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: Hope that you are doing well.
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for sending that along.
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: Next up we have.
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: We're going to round out the afternoon by having the dueling Manuel's, who I think are like in totally different countries.
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: This is Manuel Haasfeld.
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: This is just scraping by more great cymbal puns.
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: I tried to use the bowed cymbal samples in both obvious ie traditional and not so obvious ways.
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: For the latter, I used Life by Excellent Audio to generate the ticking percussiony thing that starts the cue from a part of the simple samples as well as other desert cities.
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: A very creative delay slash multi-effect plug-in at 100% wet.
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: Stylistically it's probably a mixture between a tension cue and a trailer cue.
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: I hope it's not too experimental.
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: So we're going to take a listen to Just Scraping Bye GUYS Music.
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: Music, music, music, music, music, music, music Music.
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: That was just scraping by from Manuel Haasfeld.
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: Somebody said in the chat a Manu, a Manu.
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for sending that along.
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: I thought that was really well done, thank you.
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much.
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: And finally, last but certainly not least, we have Manuel Pereira.
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: This track was created and this is symbiosis.
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: Chef's Kiss these puns make my heart happy.
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: The track was created exclusively using the provided samples.
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: I primarily used the Logic Q sampler to manipulate the sounds and try to create an harmonious symbiosis with them.
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: Additionally, I've inchered into a 3-4 time signature.
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: So here is symbiosis from Manuel Pereira.
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: Music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music Music.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: Music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: That was symbiosis from Manuel Pereira.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: Manuel, thank you so much for sending this along.
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: That ring out, that ring out.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for sending this along.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: Really, really do appreciate it.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: As a reminder, head over to 52Qscom slash vote.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: Click here to vote Now.
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: If you are watching this in the future, it's not up there yet because we didn't want to post the sound files.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: If you go to 52Qscom slash vote, you can see a playlist.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: It's going to be embedded right there and you can vote and you can hear all of these again.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: But just to put these back into your ears, put these back into the ears, we're going to pop in and just briefly touch on each of these, starting first with Ralph with symbolic symbolism.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: Music Trace with sense and symbolism.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: Music Dell with hybrid heroic symbolism.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 2: Music.
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: Ralph the Abyss Music.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: We have signs and symbolism from Leslie Music Hackers.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: Heart attack from Jean-Luc Music.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: Enrico with morphed symbolism.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: Music Nathan with tachycardic vibrations.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: Music Dex with I Can Feel it Coming.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: Music Holger with Sympobia Music.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: We have Jean-Luc with red alert Music.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: We have Reed with echoing caverns Music.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: Michael and Yuccareschi with two beat or not two beat Music.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: Manuel Haasfeld with just scraping by Music and then finally, manuel Pereira with symbiosis Music.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: Absolutely stunning, absolutely stunning.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: So head over to 52Qscom and get to voting.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: Remember, you're not voting for who you think wins.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: You're going to go one by one and rate each one from one to four, one to five stars.
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: The winner will be announced on Monday.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: And now what I'd love to do for anybody who is attending live, I want to give you something.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: Partnering up with our good friend Stevie B, steven Bedall, we want to give you 15% off, and until March 11th, if you use the code 52Qs that's five, two capital C and then UES at checkout you can get 15% off, and already pretty darn inexpensive it's like 19 bucks, right.
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: So if you want 15% that code expires on March 11th Get your hands on symbol samples that I recorded myself right here using a vintage pair of Neumann KM184s.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: These were $10,000 microphones that a German friend of mine let me borrow and really enjoyed recording those, and we recorded.
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: Also, in addition to bowed textures coming up a little bit later we're going to release friction mallet textures and scrapes texture, so lots more coming.
• 1:06:04
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• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: Now I want to give away some of this for free.
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: I want to give somebody the.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: I want to give it right now.
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: And so I'm not looking at the.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: I'm not looking at the at the screen, because here's how I want to do it.
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: It's kind of like how taxi does it.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: Right, a taxi will will say enter a number into the chat, and so the number I want you to enter into the chat is enter the number 52 into the chat.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: And I'm going to randomly look up and the first name that I see they're going to win this symbol pack.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: I'm not looking.
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  Speaker 1: So you're going to enter the number 52 in the chat right now.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: I'm not looking, not looking, I'm not looking.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: Actually, yeah, I'm not looking.
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  Speaker 1: I'm waiting for 52 to show up in the chat.
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: They do this at that taxi TV all the time, of course, I hope, I hope we have, I hope we have folks.
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: All right, if you want the symbol slice, the symbol pack, symbol effects, live, all right, not looking, I'm not looking, I'm just going to randomly in three, two, one Rolf, rolf, rolf is going to, is going to win that.
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: Really, really appreciate you, rolf, really appreciate you.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: That was literally the first number I saw there, and so appreciate you.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much, everybody, thank you, thank you so much, but that is going to do it for us today.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: Really, really thanks for joining us for this very special live episode of the 52 cues podcast.
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: Remember, none of this will be possible without the the support of our family, friends and neighbor subscribers of 52 cues.
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: I mean, they really pay their actual, real life money to keep all of this going.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: This would not be possible without you.
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: Yes, I, I, we, we plugged the heck out of the symbol library, but that's that's not.
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: Nobody came and said sponsor the show.
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: Nope, we are able to do this because of of listeners and viewers and community members, just like you, though.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: So thank you, thank you so much, but you do want to tune in next week where we are going to be talking here on the podcast about your production music bottlenecks.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: Where, where are you getting stuck?
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: What are the things that are keeping you like?
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: What are the things that are slowing you down?
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: Are you not able to to push through?
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: Is it procrastination, is it resistance?
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: We're going to be talking about that.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: That next week on the podcast.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: It's going to be coming out on Thursday.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: Once again, a huge word of thanks to to Stevie B at production music tools and the production music Academy.
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: I cannot tell you how excited I am to be partnering with production music tools.
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: We got so many things planned and thank you.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: Thank you, steve, for helping us out, and a huge shout out to Mrs 52 cues who made all of this possible.
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: But that is going to do it for me today.
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: I hope you have an amazing week and remember that the universe has amazing plans just for you.
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: Until next time, peace.