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In the meantime, I have added 3 more sounds:
https://freesound.org/people/AlienXXX/sounds/792783/
https://freesound.org/people/AlienXXX/sounds/792786/
https://freesound.org/people/AlienXXX/sounds/792787/

@gis_sweden - You might find this interesting too

All these sounds are also (proof of concept) exploring transformation of a sound via digital clipping. This time I have tried to recreate a multi-fold wave-folding effect.

This marks the end of my experiments with clipping for this dare...
I am now onto exploring other concepts.... More sounds to come shortly...

Surely you realize: by changing the "volume" of every sample, you can transform a starting sound into any sound you want -- with a couple of caveats. If "volume" is defined such that it does not allow changing the sign, then the transformed sample for each input sample will have to have the same sign; and any original sample of 0 will always be 0 no matter how much you try to change its volume.

zimbot wrote:
Surely you realize: by changing the "volume" of every sample, you can transform a starting sound into any sound you want -- with a couple of caveats. If "volume" is defined such that it does not allow changing the sign, then the transformed sample for each input sample will have to have the same sign; and any original sample of 0 will always be 0 no matter how much you try to change its volume.

Hello Zimbot

In theory, you could manipulate the volume of each individual point sample and change the waveform to whatever you wanted. Except zero poits, as you mentioned.
However, since the rules also allow mixing, even those points could be changed by involving more complicated, but allowed, manipulations.

When I posted the dare I expected people to make more use of the allowed copy / cut / paste / mix options, but most of the focus has been entirely on volume. Which, of course, is OK. Not knowing how each dare will develop is part of the fun

AlienXXX wrote:

zimbot wrote:
Surely you realize: by changing the "volume" of every sample, you can transform a starting sound into any sound you want -- with a couple of caveats. If "volume" is defined such that it does not allow changing the sign, then the transformed sample for each input sample will have to have the same sign; and any original sample of 0 will always be 0 no matter how much you try to change its volume.

Hello Zimbot

In theory, you could manipulate the volume of each individual point sample and change the waveform to whatever you wanted. Except zero poits, as you mentioned.
However, since the rules also allow mixing, even those points could be changed by involving more complicated, but allowed, manipulations.

When I posted the dare I expected people to make more use of the allowed copy / cut / paste / mix options, but most of the focus has been entirely on volume. Which, of course, is OK. Not knowing how each dare will develop is part of the fun

https://freesound.org/people/gis_sweden/sounds/794231/
This rule "You can cut / copy / paste..." Also, with cut, copy, and paste, you can transform any sample into anything?? Is it within the rules to copy small samples from a sound and paste them in a row? In this sound (above), I copy small parts of a sound and paste them together, like cutting a tape into small parts and rearranging them.
I start with parts with the size 1500 samples long, then 750, 300, 100, 25, 10.
The original sound, the sound I copy small paarts from is
https://freesound.org/people/blakengouda/sounds/573954/

EDIT::
- 1500 samples... What?
- Well it's almost as long as a hi-hat sound.

https://freesound.org/people/copyc4t/sounds/794355/
As the description says, it's a loopable pulsing buzz obtained mixing two of my previous sounds, https://freesound.org/people/copyc4t/sounds/235640/ and https://freesound.org/people/copyc4t/sounds/235654/
They both got repeated and cut to a common length, each sound went through Audacity's Nyquist tremolo but with prime frequencies, 5 and 7 Hz, and then downmixed.

Made this Industrial Mermaid Sound, combining two sounds this time
More info in description.
https://freesound.org/people/Sadiquecat/sounds/794545/

gis_sweden wrote:
This rule "You can cut / copy / paste..." Also, with cut, copy, and paste, you can transform any sample into anything?? Is it within the rules to copy small samples from a sound and paste them in a row? In this sound (above), I copy small parts of a sound and paste them together, like cutting a tape into small parts and rearranging them.
I start with parts with the size 1500 samples long, then 750, 300, 100, 25, 10.
The original sound, the sound I copy small paarts from is
https://freesound.org/people/blakengouda/sounds/573954/

EDIT::
- 1500 samples... What?
- Well it's almost as long as a hi-hat sound.

Welcome to the world of grains and micro-samples….
This could be a dare in itself… Maybe at some point in the not too distant future…

copyc4t wrote:
https://freesound.org/people/copyc4t/sounds/794355/
As the description says, it's a loopable pulsing buzz obtained mixing two of my previous sounds, https://freesound.org/people/copyc4t/sounds/235640/ and https://freesound.org/people/copyc4t/sounds/235654/
They both got repeated and cut to a common length, each sound went through Audacity's Nyquist tremolo but with prime frequencies, 5 and 7 Hz, and then downmixed.

UFO meets mutant cicada….

Sadiquecat wrote:
Made this Industrial Mermaid Sound, combining two sounds this time
More info in description.
https://freesound.org/people/Sadiquecat/sounds/794545/

This is a very interesting sound.
I suspect choosing a sound with less high frequency contents would blend better with the voice sound - that could create a really incredible sound!

Try transformer humm or a flute pitched down 1 or 2 octaves. Alternatively, the sound you used but put it through a low pass filter first.
These are just suggestions for a sound that I think would be very interesting, but would be outside the scope of this dare, as in some cases what suggest would involve processing the source sounds in ways not allowed in this dare.

So here are my final contributions to this dare. These are simple volume-fade transitions between two sounds and the kind of sounds I was mostly expecting this dare to produce.
Turns out it went in a very different direction - that is also part of the fun.

https://freesound.org/people/AlienXXX/sounds/795847/
https://freesound.org/people/AlienXXX/sounds/795846/

DARE CLOSED - no more submissions, please!

Feel free to continue to post on this thread with relevant discussions, but no more submissions.

Now, I a travelling from early tomorrow so I am closing the dare now.
That is a shame, of course. - but hey! The benefit is that you get a brand new dare!