One Synth Challenge #98: Any One Synth (Photonic Wins!)

[EnGee]

Damn, I so dread looking at the contestant list when this is all over.

Who's gonna have the time to judge all these songs?

Every serious contestant should find the time to do it...
If you listen 5 songs a day you should be done voting until the 15th so not such a big deal.

LMAO. You think all we have are 75 entries?

Who writes your material? LMAO

We sill have 8 hours left in this day and you know late entries are going to be allowed.

75 entries, LMAO

OK make it 100 it's still something achievable you listen 7-8 songs a day

anyway made a summary counting and I don't think there are even 75 yet

I thought it is very difficult to vote for so many song, but that before I actually voted! The actual voting is very easy and maybe the best voting system I have seen

Anyway, it's about 30 minutes each day listening. Half of the songs I already listened to, so in short I'm ready for voting even if they become 200 songs

[Saukar30]

My entry

Synth=Z3ta+ 1.5 (24 instances)

DR = 12
DAW= Orion

FX=
Stripbus (On Bass)
Tal Reverb 4 (On Claps)
CA-2A Leveling Amp (On Snare)
T-Racks (Brickwall Limiter, 670 Compressor) (On Master)
PSP Stompdelay
2016 Stereo Room
Bifilter (On Drum Bus)
TDR VOS Slick EQ GE (Master)
Basic FX used from Orion for the rest
ENJOY!!!

https://soundcloud.com/saukar/im-falling-deep-4-u

[zarf]

Hi, my track...
https://soundcloud.com/zarf/zarf-soundt ... alien-base

FXpansion Tremor
(I picked this up years ago and never spent much time with it so this was a nice opportunity to do something different while learning a bit about it)

15 Tremors in Ableton
Ableton eqs, compressors, reverbs, delays, autopan
Commercial FX: Sausage Fattener
3rd party: OTT, LoudMax

Good luck in the votes everyone!

[rockingricky]

Hi folks,
this month was very short, cause I made a journey to sicilia and when I came back, I was offline
It's a little medieval-like track made with an older synth: Model-E from Steinberg. All sounds are made by scratch.

https://soundcloud.com/rockingricky/roc ... el-e-dance

DAW: Cubase Elements 9
17 instances of Model-E
FX:
Cubase intern:
Reverb,
Limiter,
EQ,
Maximizer,
Stereo Enhancer,

extern:
OTT,
PanCake2,
Lagrange,
TDR Nova,

Good luck to everybody ...

[Orboscope]

Allright here it goes. Unhappy with the mix. It hasn't enough highend. Somewhat distorted though. Altough i fiddeled with the mastering to an almost masochistic level. So this feels partely like a failure. I like the song though. Its somewhat wierd with the trancelike intro and then the dubstep stuff. I could have easily made two songs out of this one. But I liked the trancepart and I needed an intro anway. Not my first song that turns out like this

https://soundcloud.com/halcion-1/asc-34-intro-29

Made with Sytrus. I just counted a whopping 84 instances of it! Some of them only make a single sound here and there.

Fl studio 12

Fruity parametric EQ 2, many of them
Maximus a couple of it.
Soundgoodizer
Fruity limiter
Fruity Convolver
Frutiy delay bank
Grossbeat
Tal Reverb 4
Fruity panomatic
Fruity Stereoenhancer
Msw 1

Mastered with izotope Ozone 7

[keith303]

https://soundcloud.com/keith303/maybe-next-life

originally made for osc#70, where i released the other song i made in dec'14.

host: renoise
synth: 12x ragnarök vsti
DSPs: some renoise native DSPs, Epicverb, FabFilter Pro-Q², Arguru Stardust, Waves H-Delay, Waves TrueVerb, HOFA IQ-Limiter

[toggleaudio]

Nice that Mac users are allowed again this month!

https://soundcloud.com/toggleaudio/toggleaudio-miami

19 instances of TAL Noisemaker
8 x Stereo Delay
6 x Channel EQ
1 x Space Designer
1 x Gain
1 x Compressor
1 x Exciter
1 x Multipressor
1 x Limiter

[Pweg]

11 NI Spark
Cubase Elements 9
Doubler, Toraverb
PechengTremolo, GMulti, MSED, MEqualizer
Cubase Stereo Enhancer, DaTube, Stereo Touch, Limiter, Compressor, PingPong Delay

https://soundcloud.com/user-930611338/c ... r-osc-98-1

Inspiring and expresive synth for me

[VELLISLAV]

The composition and sounds are mine but d idea come from Bob so this will participate as collaboration.
1.Synth - Synthmaster
2.Instruments - 16
3.Mix fx - no
4.Mastering - eq tdr nova,meldafreecom,deegain,loudmax
5.Daw - Cubase 5 le
Vote for us
https://soundcloud.com/vellislav/vellis ... zo-one-day

[_A_O_]

Not only does Halloween fall on OSC deadline day, but also Walpurgis Night!
Going with that theme for this entry.

https://soundcloud.com/user-56625057/ao-traditional

There's 39 instances of Zebra HZ in the project. Some might not be doing anything.

Also used:
ReaControlMIDI
midiForcetoKey
midiForcetoRange
ReaEQ
ReaComp
W1 Limiter
JS Stereo Width
Valhalla Room

woops. in REAPER, obviously. 5.40

[mmGhost]

nice to see all the submissions coming in, unfortunately couldn't get my track done in time... best of luck you lot

[be]

Here is my unpolished track, sorry, I didn´t manage to finalize it in time. Mixed on headphones really badly, but maybe someone will enjoy it anyway...

be - Through/Out The Swamp


https://soundcloud.com/b_e/throughout-the-swamp


I used:
Softube´s Modular 10 x
Modular FX 7 x
Devil Loc Deluxe 9 x
SideWidener 3 x
MSED 2 x
MJUC 1 x
Omega 458A 6 x
FILTEQ 5 x
MDynamicEQ 3 x
SDRR 3 x
Valhalla VV 1 x
Verbtone 2 x
Slick HDR 6 x
CS White 2A 2 x
Stereo Field Manipulator (JS) 1 x
RBJ 1073 EQ (JS) 1 x
Panagement CM 1 x
VHL-3C 2 x
Thrillseeker VBL 3 x
NI Passive EQ 1 x
Elephant 3 1 x
Lampthruster 1 x

[replicants]

Hi! We've been lurking here, decided to submit something with commercial synths and fx. We hope you likes it.

https://soundcloud.com/replicantsmusic/android-love

Synth is Serum. Used Live9.

Live FX, Pro-Q2, Ozone 7, OTT, that's about it.

[replicants]

Well, I think the time is done. How do I vote?

[574X]

100 instances of Synthmaster One processed with Waves complete, Fabfilter complete, Izotope complete, UAD complete, IK Multimedia complete, Melda complete, Hofa complete, A.O.M. complete, DMG complete bundles, am I missing anything.

Stacks of Sausage Fatteners.

Here's my submission.
https://soundcloud.com/574x/574x-trance ... nniversary

I'm kidding, of course. Also, this is half of the track.
The other half is actually uplifting.
10 votes for me to include the other half. I'm joking, I only indirectly create embarrassing polls here. You can vote for fun if you want and I'll do it.

Each half of this part here is ~a dozen TranceDrive synths. Each half often sits at > 90% cpu and ram on this '08 laptop... The mixing is very low cpu; in total, ~a dozen melda equalizers (it's better to have one on each track, at least for analysis), half a dozen reacomps (for sidechaining, bus glue, and the snare in the second half), there's an occasional all-purpose crackling reagate, and reaXcomp parallel slam on a bus.

No "fx." Trancedrive has all I need, baby.

Vol & pan had to be automated where outside of the OSC (or with a new computer) high quality mixing would involve duplicating tracks / bouncing samples.

The mastering unfortunately ended up being more than a ReaComp, Melda eq and Limiter No6 because it got slammed with a bunch of stuff literally last minute so it would sound decent to my fatigued ears... An untimely demise for a month's work via Panagement, JS: Exciter, OTT, ReaXComp, HY MB Drive as an exciter with a very tight range, like ~200 Hz around ~1.5k, Overtone GEQ, TLs Maximizer, JS: Event Horizon Clipper yeah... free stuff. Like a regular OSC.

One of Trancedrive's strengths is definitely the gate effect which is used in conjunction with the pitch lfos and pitchbending to get a lot of the leads here. IMO it's great at drum synthesis, distorted basses, and heavy fx. I'll eventually post a review of it on its kvr page for people also interested in its substantial drawbacks.

Well here's looking forward to hearing what kind of inspiration people get out of this track. It definitely led to some personal sound design breakthroughs to do the OSC this month, so no matter the struggle or outcome, it's great to participate at the OSC.