RagTag
By Ipaghost on July 12, 2020 11:53 pm
This is probably the wrong way to synthesize a piano!
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Might be the wrong way to synthesize a piano, but it's got some good melodies! Nice work.
There's a few chords in there that got me all nostalgic for Undertale all of a sudden. Great work.
Yea, it just might be. But there's an old adage going on: "close enough".
Nice little rag too.
Mission Crossing wrote:
Might be the wrong way to synthesize a piano, but it's got some good melodies! Nice work.
I essentially used dozens of oscillators to recreate every individual overtone in 3 piano samples. So in a way, it is additive synthesis using Sytrus! It worked surprisingly well, yet the nuances are very difficult to get right, I wanted a softer more mellow piano, but it sounded more honky-tonk, so I went with it!
Reilly Farrell wrote:
Pretty unique twist on ragtime style.
Love it!
I probably should have done more ragtime research before writing this, but the synthesis took up all my time!
Wisefire wrote:
Fun times! ye olden tymes! hapi tymes!!!
7506 wrote:
Seems like this calls for one of the classics....
hent03 wrote:
There's a few chords in there that got me all nostalgic for Undertale all of a sudden. Great work.
Sodabelly wrote:
I'm enjoying the hell out of this!
Chrisfoo wrote:
The key change!
When you're short on time, just transpose your melody! It's a cheap way to keep things interesting without writing anything new!
Devieus wrote:
Yea, it just might be. But there's an old adage going on: "close enough".
Nice little rag too.
Sytrus let's you create operators with 128 harmonics, which can perfectly recreate any wave cycle from a sample. But I wanted to recreate the entire sample using dozens of oscillators, essentially additive synthesis. Surprisingly it works ok for a single note, but there is a lot of differences in the amount of harmonics between the high and low end of the piano keyboard. The low end is heavy with overtones, the high end is a lot simpler. I tried to counter this by making 3 zones, C3, C5, and C7. But it seems like I would have to recreate way more zones to be halfway decent.
Yea, close enough would be good to go for then, otherwise you'd have to make a zone for every single note.
Devieus wrote:
Yea, close enough would be good to go for then, otherwise you'd have to make a zone for every single note.
I think even just 1 or 2 zones per octave would be nice, but I doubt I'll try this method again, it's a pain to create an envelope for every single overtone!
hieme wrote:
This is so cooool, I absolutely love it.
This is hilarious. Nice work. The drums are actually my favorite part - that snare's got potential 
This really sounds like a cover song of a rock song, I could really hear that lead piano as a slower tempo sung vocal line.
I would like more rag tag please
orangedrink wrote:
This really sounds like a cover song of a rock song, I could really hear that lead piano as a slower tempo sung vocal line.
I would like more rag tag please
Yeah, I totally hear that, and thought the same thing immediately after writing it, and I have no idea why that is. My guess is that I didn't spend any time studying Ragtime music before writing it, since this was a last minute idea after wasting all my time making the piano patch! I originally wanted to make a nice warm/round realistic piano patch, but it turned out bright, tinny, and tacky, so I decided that Honky-Tonk Ragtime would probably sound better on a tack piano, instead of something smooth and jazzy as I originally planed. So, instead of a well informed Ragtime song, it came out a bit too modern! Feel free to cover it as a rock song, I can pretty much hear your version already and it sounds great!
