@Majken. You really have a beautiful, unique synth here but it's a tad unstable. Are you planning to update it and are you making any paid-for synths? I guess you'd use something other than Synthedit? Congrats on possibly the most unique synth in the world. A solid paid for version would rock the house. It'd be my goto for haunting natural sounds.

MajorBloodnok and V'ger; as far as covers in the OSC, those match my recollections as well; 1 by Steplton in the Synth1 contest, and another one (or two?) by Dwsel along the way.

Be that as it may, my Chimera entry is:

Drusilla by mrblitz000
Renoise Host, 2 instances of Chimera
Buzmaxi3 Limter

Yup... I covered during OSC 15: StringZ2 this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJB4RSkC6Zo which is actually cover of this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDdaHckMIbU

You may laugh at me but 2 bars of OSC 12 Yeager's - All Too Familiar (starting from 1:46) remind me of 'La Vie En Rose' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IJzYAda1wA in version played and sang by Louis Armstrong

You are spot on, only it's more the Grace Jones version (I laughed out loud when I played that solo part), there is also the Pachelbel Canon in D and a bit of Owl City Fireflies in there.
But I hoped the title somehow gave that away

This vst make me crazy... but I made some nice presets for percussive sounds... so if yo u want some hints contact me and I'll try to revisit what I've done (or even send you the presets... if you have fl studio they should work I think... I'm not sure of how to ave banks...)

here you can see how I made some sort of bongo http://plixi.com/photo_map/home/49608868

The link leads to a sign-in page in my browser. You might wanna try Box.net for sharing files like presets etc, very easy and hassle-free site.

ok I'll try it as soon as I can (it was a link to a pic of chimera where you could see the "knobs")

Tell us how much to twiddle them and we can copy the position. I need to learn about all this knob-twiddling. I'm such an amateur knob-twiddler.

I'm finding very nice presets, but this vst is... strange. Does anybody like me doesn't listen to some sounds when you export your work in mp3 (I use fl studio). I made a nice lead, but in the mp3 it doesn't exist... I tryed to redo it, but... nothing. sometime I have to replace an instance becausesimple doesn't play any more???

For the bongo:
1 bypass warp and clip to max - HADSRT to 0
1 bypass warp to max - H0 A0 D5 S0 R5 T10
filter: lowpass q=100 cutoff=6

The rest is all to 0 (no delay)

Ah... Distort on and the two relative knobs to 100

Yeah, I had to freeze some sounds before they'd show up in the WAV (Using Live) and then some sounds - such as wind came out "gated" on one channel. Like it has a digi-clipper in it or something? If you freeze, don't forget to give the reverb a bit of time, so fade tracks down softly otherwise they clip a bit.

So what's the general opinion when it comes to automation?

The rules say

In a way automation could be considered an effect, so I just want a clarification of what is ok - direct modulation? only modulation via midi? anything as long as it doesn't make it "unrecognisable" (like using million lfo's and curves in a fancy way)?

Sorry objectman, what do you mean with freeze?

PS: are you using the last version?