LZX Patch Challenge II: The Revenge (Haunted House theme)

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#1 — Genlok · 2020-10-16

We enjoyed the last patch challenge so much that as soon as it was finished @Z0NK0UT and I started planning another one right away. With Halloween just two weeks away, we thought it fun to summon some spooky vibes! Using LZX modules, your challenge is to conjure up an animated HAUNTED HOUSE experience that will send chills down everyone’s optical nerves.

LZX is very generously offering up a Pendulum Dual Animator module to the winner this time! Check out the rules below to see how you can win:

THE RULES (seriously, read these)

1. You must fill out the Google form below to submit your video!
2. Direct hardware video synthesis with LZX modules only. An exception is made for non-video eurorack modules (LFOs, envelopes, logic, etc).
3. No camera or image inputs, no outboard gear except final capture device/camera.
4. Video entries can be up to 60 seconds, one entry per person.
5. Both video captures and rescans are acceptable as entries, 480p preferred when possible. Please do not submit anything above 1080p.
6. Entries will be accepted starting now, October 16th, and will end at 5pm CST on Thursday, October 22nd.
7. Winners will be chosen via poll on the weekend of October 23rd with the results formally announced the following Monday. You need to be registered on the LZX forum to vote!
8. Creator of the video with the most votes will win an LZX Pendulum.
9. All LZX users worldwide may participate and are eligible to win the grand prize. Module will be shipped to the winner by LZX Industries.
10. As a reminder, the theme of this challenge is HAUNTED HOUSE. I expect folks to take creative liberties with this idea, make sure it is recognizable as fitting in the topic

While we won’t be judging entries based on recording quality, direct captures or high quality rescans are favorable for judging your patch!

I’ve created a Google form for entries, where you will need to enter your information (so I can contact you if you win) and upload your video. You can optionally post your entry to Instagram or YouTube and share it below in the comments, but you must submit it via the form to be a part of the challenge.

ENTER HERE

accounts.google.com

https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?service=wise&passive=1209600&continue=https:%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fforms%2Fd%2Fe%2F1FAIpQLSf1kund-4cBsBp662EkcMCYFzFEi7ljOjDGEOfGsg7EBVTLmQ%2Fviewform?usp%3Dsend_form&followup=https:%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fforms%2Fd%2Fe%2F1FAIpQLSf1kund-4cBsBp662EkcMCYFzFEi7ljOjDGEOfGsg7EBVTLmQ%2Fviewform?usp%3Dsend_form&ltmpl=formsLink: Google Forms - create and analyze surveys, for free.

Any troubles uploading or completing the form, just PM me. You should receive an email copy of your entry by default. Google sign in required.

Happy patching, can’t wait to see what kind of eerie apparitions you exorcise from your system!

#2 — Genlok · 2020-10-16

Adding for emphasis: ENTRIES CLOSE AT 5PM ON THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22

#3 — Z0NK0UT · 2020-10-16

This is gonna be a good one!

#4 — wednesdayayay · 2020-10-16

now is the time to get down to business and discuss the Video synthesis Krell patch

haha

looking forward to this one

#5 — mauiey · 2020-10-17

Awesome! @Genlok will sound be removed from the compilation like laste time?

#6 — Genlok · 2020-10-17

Yes, for the judging sound will be removed. We could probably add it back in for the YouTube compilation after the judging is finished, if you wish to be a part of that.

#7 — Genlok · 2020-10-17

No submissions yet! I trust that means everyone is working hard

#8 — Apfelmann · 2020-10-19

this is such a neat idea! also the dream machine patch

#9 — wednesdayayay · 2020-10-19

we can’t let the audio synthesists have all the fun

haha

#10 — Genlok · 2020-10-20

We’re up to 3 entries. The entry window closes in just over two days! Bang 'em out y’all!

#11 — Dewb · 2020-10-20

I have an patch concept I like, but it requires two Memory Palaces to execute and I only have one!

#12 — reverselandfill · 2020-10-21

I send in my abandoned building… @Genlok - can you conform you got it? the google form reloaded when I pressed ‘send’ and then gave an error

#13 — Genlok · 2020-10-21

Just over 24 hours to go folks!

#14 — Genlok · 2020-10-22

This is it y’all! SUBMISSIONS END AT 5PM CENTRAL TIME

#15 — wednesdayayay · 2020-10-22

working on ours now

just got the structure of the basic patch finalized

now just need to do some parsing and construction

#16 — wednesdayayay · 2020-10-22

@Genlok just submitted ours and just wanted to make sure it came through.

we recorded the process start to finish so I’ll upload a time lapse showing that too.

I submitted 480 but can easily send higher resolution.

I’ll also submit our reference material after the submissions are closed.

I can’t wait to see what others have done we are pretty excited about ours.

#17 — Genlok · 2020-10-22

Received! And the resolution is fine as is

#18 — wednesdayayay · 2020-10-22

how many submissions did we end up getting?

#19 — Robbertunist · 2020-10-22

I’m sending mine now

Ughh, way too last minute!

[Update: sent, hopefully it’ll be OK]

#20 — Genlok · 2020-10-22

Entries are closed! We got 15 total this time

#21 — joem · 2020-10-23

My apologies @Genlok if my video format’s not up to snuff. I sent a cropped version of my iphone video. Was cropped on my phone too. Hopefully it’s OK. (One of these days I’ll have a more proper way to capture video…)

#22 — wednesdayayay · 2020-10-23

Here is the documentation for our submission

[Album] LZX Halloween contest II documentation

^^ Album of pictures (imgur) concept, notes, reference, setup, final MP painting (no processing)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vlQfr6v4CM ^^ composite > microSD capture sped up 20X

we recorded the whole process start to finish then sped it up if you are into seeing that kind of thing.

We made a simple concept drawing then parsed out how to make that happen with easily obtainable shapes via our drawing patch (Rectangle, half triangle, half circle). We composited a document camera feed of a reference drawing & memory palace then started painting. We took notes of the order things got drawn as it seemed like it may take more than one try to get something that we were both happy with. After the painting was done we took out the reference picture and added in some processing using the processing patch

once we got to a place where we were happy we did a direct capture of the component output > extron 300a > BMD hyperdeck shuttle 2 (SSD)

*drawing patch

• Visual cortex H, V ramps > pulp logic comparators > BSO Quad mix/atten (Mix) > Doorway > MP R&A
• Escher sketch is was used extensively for positioning and then the X&Y sliders on MP were used for fine tuning from there

*processing patch

• MP RGB > PF > Passage > Channel B VC
• Mapper RGB > Matrix Mixer > Channel A VC
• doorway, PF POS&NEG, MP Luma all got multed and sent around to various places for modulation
• 3 AR envelopes were also used
• a composite output from MP was brought back in through an ambery composite > component box to the decoder on VC and was used to get the ghosty feedback

#23 — Genlok · 2020-10-23

Good work everyone that entered! It’s gonna take me until this afternoon to get the videos edited together for voting, stay tuned.

#24 — Z0NK0UT · 2020-10-23

Above and beyond! Way to take things to the next level.

#25 — Genlok · 2020-10-23

Thanks for being patient, y’all. Should have the video and voting form up really soon.

#26 — Genlok · 2020-10-23

Voting is up! Closes on Sunday night!

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#27 — reverselandfill · 2020-10-23

my clip was made only with DIY modules

I started with my Asymmetric Studies patch to get a creepy house-like shape, then added a lot of feedback routings with the Castle VCO (synced by that same complex shape), Flipflops en advanced color mixing, and added some pulsating animation with a LFO and touch sequencer (Rene) .

The grainy stuff comes from feedbacking the Hard Key with itself (through other modules)

#28 — rempesm · 2020-10-23

Great job, everyone! Really nice patches all around. It was fun figuring out how to get the shapes constructed and composited in mine.

The front wall and door were H/V ramps into hard keyers, then mixed, then keyed again. Easy way to get a centered square or rectangle instead of a diamond. The roof is H tri mixed with V ramp keyed through Doorway (modulated Threshold with another ramp to bend the peak down). The square windows were a SC/NV pair, mirrored on the X axis. The circular window is a SC/NV pair. The vertical lines for the double door edge are vertical bars keyed against a H triangle. Curtain does some softening.

All of that got composited across two Color Chords so I could get the edge transitions right. I split that into one channel of Marble Index (dry). It also gets split into Memory Palace in Warp mode which goes into the other channel (wet) of Marble Index for the feedback effect. I key that feedback inside the bounds of the house shape by multing one of the ‘dry’ outputs of the post-Color Chords composite into the Marble Index’s Opacity input.

Several scrolling oscillators and Diver are animating the CV inputs of the shape generators. A touch of all of those are mixed with WoTA which goes into the Aux input on Memory Palace for vertex displacement.

A Befaco Muxlicer clocked by a divided down frame rate out sequences the Zoom input on Memory Palace.

#29 — sean · 2020-10-23

Didn’t have the time to pull something together for this myself, but I’m once again impressed by the diversity of solutions!

#30 — Genlok · 2020-10-26

Challenge is officially over! Happy to announce that @rempesm crushed it with almost 30% of the votes!

Everyone did a fantastic job and it was a pleasure watching every entry as they came in. I hope even more folks are encouraged to join in on our next one!

Catch Matt’s entry at 6:17

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpQ2DV99pQkFYI: A version of this with SOUND will be available on the LZX YouTube channel very soon

#31 — Robbertunist · 2020-10-26

Congrats @rempesm & thanks for the detailed break down in your above comment. That was an extensive patch but in the end, the result was clearly worth the effort

#32 — Fabong · 2020-10-26

Well deserved @rempesm, enjoy your prize

#33 — wednesdayayay · 2020-10-30

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCAhgrXMkt4 post capture illegal activities on the spillaway house