One Synth Challenge #181: Surge (Voting Started!)

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Submissions:
https://soundcloud.com/kvrosc/sets/one- ... -181-surge





Results Post:
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Happy 15th OSC anniversary!!!
Everyone who's made this community great, thank you very much: musicians, developers, donators, community organizers, and KVR for letting us use this forum :clap: :clap: :clap:





Welcome to the One Synth Challenge:
It's a friendly music competition where you can win cool prizes but most importantly, meet amazing musicians, and learn a lot about mixing, sound design, and more! :)







This Month's Synth:
Surge, is a an open source synth, and a friendly, open community, as it describes itself, which is awesome. It features "many synthesis techniques, a great selection of filters, a flexible modulation engine, a smorgasbord of effects, and modern features like MPE and microtuning." If there's a successor to Synth1, it's probably surge. Simple to use, robust, beautiful, yet powerful.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wdwrr4Nrk8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeamVu1qY-g




Prizes:
(Would you like to be a sponsor / prize donor? Contact RichardSemper via PM or go ahead and post your intended donation here! Get a cool mention on our donator wall of honor)


Special Note:
We are offering a secondary prize (on top of the normal prize): Additional Bonus Prize!
  • For the highest Single Instance entry in the top 5 a cash bonus of $50. (note: this prize may be carried forward to selected OSC challenges until it is won)
  • Yuli Yolo Sound Design - Top 3 winners may claim a soundsets for Vital: Diversity, Bass Music Wavetables, Noises & Exciters.
  • discoDSP - Top 5 winners may claim a 50% discount coupon for discoDSP software. (Limited time only) (*New*)



Touch The Universe : **New Prize!!!*** Winner has option to receive 50 banks, totaling $1000 USD!!!
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Red Rock Sound : **New Prize** Choose 1 Copy of any plugin
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NUSofting : **New Prize** Choose 1 Copy of either Sinmad or Echobis
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nakst : **New Prize** 1 copy of Integrate (A FL Studio / CLAP format synth only. *Not VST / Standalone*)
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KV331 Audio : Bundle of Synthmaster One + Synthmaster 2.x!
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Dmitry Sches : Diversion
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ChordPak.com : 1x Pro Pack (Up to 3 winners may choose this)
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United Audio Artists : Scratch Master Pro (2 may be chosen per month)
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Yuli Yolo Sound Design : (Top 3 Winners get this) Soundsets for Vital: Diversity, Bass Music Wavetables, Noises & Exciters
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Luftrum : Two Choices: 1x NFR license of either Bioscape or the new Lunaris 2 (or two soundsets of choice)
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Audio Thing : Outer Space (vintage tape echo plugin)
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Guda Audio : Euterpe XL
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JRR Sounds: Any 1 soundset (This is a secondary prize, you may pick it as well as your main prize)
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SoundGym : *NEW* 12 Month Subscription. (SoundGym is a
"technological, personalized and gamified audio learning environment")
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JRR Shop : UVI: Digital Synsations (vintage 90's synth sample library and player)
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The FXB Project by alvfaria : 1 commercial sound bank as an extra prize on top of the regular first prize. See the main site here
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Abstract Cats Music : AbiTron Bank for Synthmaster
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satYatunes : One of any commercial product
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Xenos Soundworks : Choice of any 1 product
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Twolegs Toneworks : Any one soundset
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Newloops.com : any 3 sound packs of choice (excluding bundles)
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The Unfinished : Any two soundsets of Choice
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Aiyn Zahev Sounds: Any 2 Soundsets of choice from the website (Uplifting Trance Presets)
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Mulperi : 1 Soundbank of Choice
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Bjulin : Inspire soundset for Zebra²
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LeapIntoTheVoid : Falcon Iterata X subscription or any two soundsets of your choice (Updated Prize!)
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Solidtrax : 1 Soundset of choice (except for the Future Chill and Space Trips expansions)
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Dream Audio Tools : 1 Indie Fingers bundle (Indie Fingers volumes One and Two)
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Any other offers of prizes will be greatly appreciated. :hail: :hail: :hail:


Questions? Comments? Concerns? You want some love? Just post here in this thread :)


Want to try out your skills in other contests / competitions /challenges?
  • DiHalt Demoscene competitions - Developers may be looking for artists to make music.
  • Indaba - Has a mix of popular and indie artists with various contests like remixing and song writing.
  • metapop - Has many competitions, with a soundcloud like interface where you can share, upload, get likes, comments, etc.
  • Mix Challenge - Join monthly recurring Songwriting Competitions (with a new theme/genre every month) and/or Mix(ing) Challenges (mixing multi-tracks from scratch). Win prizes!
  • Open Source Music Nexus Challenge - From the people who brought you the FM Challenge last year!
  • Skio Music Contests - Lots of remixes you can join (Mostly EDM) - big prizes.
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Congrats and thanks to you, Rich and BJ for this magic environment! How could we live without this?
...and 5 points to DoctorBob for his 10 years of OSC in a row. 120 entries...yeah...120 songs!
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Alright, with all the advice I got I might stand a chance in winning this time. Where can I get the best surge presets? :D
★★★ One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet. ★★★
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LunarKitten wrote: Fri Mar 01, 2024 4:34 pm Alright, with all the advice I got I might stand a chance in winning this time. Where can I get the best surge presets? :D
lol. it comes with hundreds of presets, it should keep you busy for a while :D

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neverbeeninariot wrote: Fri Mar 01, 2024 4:41 pm lol. it comes with hundreds of presets, it should keep you busy for a while :D
Are they the best though? :D

For anyone who is going for 1# this time, you might want to sit this one out.
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★★★ One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet. ★★★
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Congrats to 15 years!
Congrats to 10 years submission anniversary DrB! Looking forward to listening to the next 120 entries!

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A real solid synth choice !
And mpe compatible once again. I'll be in for sure!

Happy anniversary to OSC !
And huge congrats to DoctorBob Achievement !!! :tu:
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] Peter:H [ wrote: Fri Mar 01, 2024 5:14 pm ... Congrats to 10 years submission anniversary DrB! Looking forward to listening to the next 120 entries!
Thanks. :tu: Quite an unbroken run :) And yes, I am going for the next 10 years! Even though i'll be 84 then :D

Looking forward to working with this synth again,

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I'm excited! I dabbled in this synth very briefly and know it's a classic. Looking forward to learning it better this month.

Congrats to Doctor Bob and thanks to KVR for the venue to explore and learn.

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LunarKitten wrote: Fri Mar 01, 2024 5:05 pm
neverbeeninariot wrote: Fri Mar 01, 2024 4:41 pm lol. it comes with hundreds of presets, it should keep you busy for a while :D
Are they the best though? :D
Logically, at least one preset will be the best, illogically, maybe two, yeah at least two... :P

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Are free preset packs fair game? None of the OSC synths I’ve worked with so far are big name where such are available.

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Negoba wrote: Fri Mar 01, 2024 6:50 pm Are free preset packs fair game? None of the OSC synths I’ve worked with so far are big name where such are available.
Yes, only commercial presets are forbidden to use as per the rules.
By the way, here on kvr it's possible to find some presets uploaded by other users:
https://www.kvraudio.com/product/surge- ... /downloads

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Thank you, good sir!

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neverbeeninariot wrote: Fri Mar 01, 2024 5:50 pm Logically, at least one preset will be the best, illogically, maybe two, yeah at least two... :P
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Anyway, good luck to you all! :tu:
★★★ One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet. ★★★
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Hopefully I'll be able to participate in time. I haven't used Surge XT much, but I really missed these challenges and the community.

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