#Sunday/Monday Instrumentation Challenge! (August 20/21)

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floral breach
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This was gonna be another weekend challenge, but I was out late last night and didn't post this 😶

Oh well, in collaboration with @deep pond, we've got another challenge for you all! <t:1692496800:R>, we will announce an instrument, and everyone has to produce something with that instrument somewhere. You could make it the center point of the song, or leave it in the background, whichever way you want to incorporate the instrument is fine as long as it's audible.

All are welcome to give it a go, whether you've never produced before or have clocked more hours in FL than every single game combined! (couldn't be me)

The instrument will be announced <t:1692496800:R>
Submissions will close <t:1692669600:R>
Voting will close and the winner will be announced <t:1692756000:R>

Pic unrelated, need <@&1084440934013476954> opinion on this one.

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shy skiff
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Smol Duck

charred ivy
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I will slay this

shy skiff
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No he baby

floral breach
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I will have to think on this, but we'll go with no for now

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Unless it's your own song, that should be okay

vast gate
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Lesss goooo

gleaming beacon
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! new challenge !

polar trench
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Cant wait

shy skiff
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⏲️

deep pond
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that duck is too cute ToT

flat lintel
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What was the instrument

nova solstice
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cool new challenge! 😄

void rose
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Ready 🫡

floral breach
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@here Alright, the instrument you must use for this challenge is a Marimba!
The marimba is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars that are struck by mallets. Below each bar is a resonator pipe that amplifies particular harmonics of its sound. Compared to the xylophone, the timbre of the marimba is warmer, deeper, more resonant, and more pure. It also tends to have a lower range than that of a xylophone. Attached are some sample marimba hits you may use, but feel free to use some others as well.

vast gate
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anyone got a good marimba sf2?

void rose
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I’m going to my high school tomorrow, I played in front ensemble for a while ☠️

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Live sampling some takes

gleaming beacon
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Knew it would be some form of obscure percussion

void rose
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I wouldn’t say it’s obscure. I’d say the daf or cajón would be though haha.

floral breach
blissful bolt
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Mine isn't as good as the one revoltyx made at one point, but here's a cheap Marimba sound, for Harmor or DirectWave.

Marimba.fst 📎 Harmor_marimba-ish.dwp
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(DirectWave Player will work here.)

deep pond
floral breach
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⚠️ You will be awarded 3 Cocomelon Points for every Cocomelon intro reference you can fit in your entry! ⚠️

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||i'm joking please for everyone's sake don't do this||

polar trench
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sorry, but im already working on my cocomelon points

gleaming beacon
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Might not participate in this one ):
Musical block hiting me hard.

polar trench
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same bro

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im staring at my screen just like my pfp

gleaming beacon
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I'll see if its easier to think of stuff tomorrow, but unless i can make it in one day i can't compete. Got a busy day monday.

shy skiff
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that is too late for my time!

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I18n six beeps

upbeat wren
floral breach
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Jokes aside, that's more or less why we go for 2 days instead of 1, it gives everyone at least a day to work on it

slate path
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Participating in a comp for the first time (i used a midi marimba + the mario 64 one in the song)

gleaming beacon
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@floral breach Does the marimba have to play a significant role in the song or can it be used a select few times as a chorus instrument?

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still audible and clearly there

floral breach
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That should be fine

gleaming beacon
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alright.

echo remnant
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I might join this as my first contest (someone gifted me fruity edition just the other day, haven't even gotten 10 hours into it) since irl I play marimba (and other melodic percussion (like glockenspiel, xylophone, vibraphone, crotales, steel pan and even some rare non official melodic percussion instruments))

echo remnant
deep pond
deep pond
gleaming beacon
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That one was a tough one. It was hard to fit a Marimba into my style of music. I think I did a decent job of it though:

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It feels a bit empty since I didn't have much time to work on it. I have to go in about an hour so I didn't have much time to fine tune it.

echo remnant
void rose
gleaming beacon
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I'm not usually a fan of this type of music, but I enjoyed this one.

deep pond
void rose
echo remnant
void rose
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R/woosh

gleaming beacon
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lmao

void rose
echo remnant
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but compared to a xylophone its a deeper sound s in that you hit it with softer mallets, which make it resonate differently, but also the pars are thicker which also creates a deeper sound. while not necessarily being deep as in bass, if you compare a xylophone and a marimba on the same octave, the marimba will always sound deeper

gleaming beacon
void rose
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Im not talking about the instruments when I say its "not that deep". Im saying that its not that serious.

echo remnant
# void rose R/woosh

first of it wold be r/woooosh, secondly, you didn't make a joke ,you were just sharing your opinioon

echo remnant
silent wharf
void rose
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Once again. Its not that serious,

gleaming beacon
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very

echo remnant
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rip myself

polar trench
deep pond
gleaming beacon
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got the marimba maestro here.

silent wharf
void rose
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Fr, I went to my old HS to record the marimba for my track. But this person sounds like they birthed the marimba themself.

gleaming beacon
echo remnant
void rose
echo remnant
void rose
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yeah fs

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I have really high expectations for your submission

echo remnant
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I'ma test the limits of the marimba, by limiting myself by only using th marimba, even though I have less than 10 hours of fl studio experience

void rose
silent wharf
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yeah

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give me

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NOW

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🍪

echo remnant
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no thanks, just need a marimba

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but I don't expect you to pay a couple thousands of dollars to buy one

void rose
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A good marimba isnt a couple thousand

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A good marimba is 8k+

echo remnant
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but I'll also have to find a good marimba, I don't even know if I should do a soundfont, midi, or what

void rose
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Record it yourself

echo remnant
void rose
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Couple is 2, few is 3+

gleaming beacon
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Nucleus orchestra has a marimba that sounds nice and full. its ~500 so not too expensive. Idk about real marimbas though.

echo remnant
deep pond
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kinda cool how ppl recording things irl

void rose
void rose
echo remnant
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but tbh a good marimba can go from 3k to 25k

echo remnant
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and the orchestra director loves me too, he is actually the one that teaches me, but he doesn't have a key and the one that does, we don;t get along very well

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also I only have fruity edition, so recording is a no go

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anyways, i'ma start tomorrow, since I won't start at 11.33 pm

graceful night
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im fairly new to fl studio so dont bully me to hard but i tried 😄

void rose
polar trench
echo remnant
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I've decided to remix/cover a song I made a while ago, even before I had fl studio, since I need more time to get as good with fl studio as I am in musescore and I've banged my head against a wall for 10 hours, but just haven't gotten far.

It's made by 5 marimba parts all with slightly different settings and nothing else. the original version I made years ago was made for piano, so you can hear that its originally a piano piece, but I've remixed, remastered and changed parts to fit the marimba and sound amazing (imo)

anyways, here is my masterpiece that took like 5 hours to remix and everything and multiple months to create the original piece

so while I didn't technically make this in the time frame, it's a remix/cover of my own song and I did the remixing in the time frame, so it's still valid

void rose
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I fw the use of the mallets in this.

void rose
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Marimba is a mallet instrument lol

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You’re good !

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Ofc 🫡🫡

echo remnant
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and it's a bit on the line between to much and not too much

void rose
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Sometimes less is more

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In my personal, professional opinion.

polar trench
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Anyone else planning on making a submission, just curious

deep pond
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me

tepid pine
deep pond
deep pond
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i spoke a little of a different laguage in this song

floral breach
floral breach
polar trench
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Ice is not in there

floral breach
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He's the cohost of this comp

polar trench
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👍

gleaming beacon
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Not too confident in my submission; a lot of peoples stood out much more than mine! Good job to everyone.

void rose
gleaming beacon
void rose
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Exactly!

plain pawn
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I had this old piece I was going to recreate with more marimba but just did not feel like it.

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(marimba at 0:14)

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the instruments sort of suck and the piece itself sort of sucks since its about 1 year and a couple months old.

echo remnant
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I'm curious of the results, but sadly I'll have to see the results later since the poll closes at 4 am for me

polar trench
void rose
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@floral breach when will there be a comp winner role? 👀 Bragging rights feels superior to any gift. Then there could be more specific roles like “Comp Winner 2x, 3x” etc for multiple times.

polar trench
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4 hours till we find out who is part of the next 3 way tie

void rose
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Lmaoooo

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Josh

polar trench
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The role thing would be cool though

void rose
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So fire honestly

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Just clocked out

void rose
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@brave nexus

floral breach
void rose
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ahhhh what an L

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@tepid pine @tepid pine

gleaming beacon
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50 mins

polar trench
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20 mins till @void rose is announced as the winner

void rose
gleaming beacon
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5

polar trench
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4

gleaming beacon
void rose
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lesgoo

gleaming beacon
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👀

polar trench
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Lets get it

void rose
floral breach
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Oooooooookay @here, results are in! Our winner for this week's competition is.........

||@void rose||!

Congrats, and great job from all of you who participated!

void rose
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errrmahhhhgerrrrd

polar trench
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Congrats

void rose
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Everyone was solid

gleaming beacon
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lets go

floral breach
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The voting distribution was a lot more decisive this time around

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gleaming beacon
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oh my

polar trench
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damn

gleaming beacon
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who was 18%

floral breach
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🤫

void rose
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more votes than last time? I had some people check the channel out and hope they get involved

polar trench
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We just want to know the 18 percent not all of them

floral breach
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issa secret

void rose
floral breach
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Though here's this, not that it matters but quite entertaining nonetheless

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gleaming beacon
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pond

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Shoelace gang

void rose
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woky slush is fire

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Not that i'd know lmfao

echo remnant
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I think the 18% is either me or av beats, but thats judt my opinion

deep pond
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CONGRATS

nova solstice
upbeat wren
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Bravo @void rose !