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Maple and Brown-Sugar is a skin for Fuzzpilz’ amazing freeware synth Oatmeal. The original skin wasn’t all that bad but Grymmjack’s work is pure eye candy.
The layout of the skin also makes it a bit easier to program Oatmeal.
In addition to the regular Maple and Brown-Sugar skin, you can also get an excited version (which basically has an increased contrast).
Also, if brown is not your color, you can change the skins color to fit your personal taste. A Photoshop source file (.psd) with all the different skin parts and fonts used, is available as well as a source file with color variations. You can simply drag the layer set you want applied from the layer pallete directly onto the opened up PNGs one at a time, and it will apply the modification.
Then again, maybe one of the following color variations will suit you just fine: Renoise Owns, Blueberry, Lime and Slate
The files below are for Oatmeal 37-4.
28/01/2008 – Newer skins for Oatmeal v36-7 are available as well.
Downloads
- Maple and Brown Sugar skin
- Maple and Brown Sugar skin (excited version)
- Renoise Owns skin
- Blueberry skin
- Lime skin
- Slate skin
- Source file (Photoshop .psd format & font files)
- Color variations (Photoshop .psd format)
Some other people did skins based on “Maple and Brown-Sugar” as well. Check for links here.
Thanks to Grymmjack for making Oatmeal even better to work with!
I usually don’t spend more than a few hours on these contest entries, which means I rarely get the result I’m looking for.
The Boards of Hollandia track turned out way too clean sounding for that particular style… A scratchy record and more background sounds would’ve been a good idea indeed.
Thanks for listening!
Ronnie
I rather liked your Boards of Canada clone — it is actually a lot more musically textured than most of their stuff.
If you really wanted to completely ape that style, you could just record the run out groove of a scratchy record and mix it in with the drums and roll off the high end. And it isn’t until the end that you jump on their main trick — a slow LFO on pads so they drift about 10 cents every couple of seconds, like you’re playing a record with an off center spindle hole.
Oh, and record a schoolyard with children playing, and run it through agressive telephone EQ and loop it underneath with a slow LFO on the volume level.