One Synth Challenge #86: Sinnah by NUSofting (Penguinfromdeep wins!)

[bjporter]

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Welcome to the 86th 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!


Fresh OSC Community Resources to get you started:
* Have patches? Post them and we'll put the link here!

• Sinergy for Sinnah (50 presets) by Julian Ray
• Liqih's drums pack and MP3 Preview: http://nusofting.liqihsynth.com/sinnah_ ... _drums.mp3

Unbelievable. Extraordinary. Divine. Those are words I would describe this peculiar aural, barely laden beast. Yet strange, but simple. It is some kind of waveshape / delay matrix synth. Hopefully will be an interesting challenge.



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


KV331 Audio : Synthmaster


Dmitry Sches : Diversion


Guda Audio : Euterpe XL


Wusik : 1 bundle of Wusik 8000, Wusik Station 8, and Wusik EVE v3


Abstract Cats Music : AbiTron Bank for Synthmaster


Squaredheads : Nora Arpeggiator plugin


JRR Shop : UVI: Mello


satYatunes : One of any commercial product


stardustmedia : Professional studio mix down and mastering on one track of your choosing (See Disclaimer)


Xenos Soundworks : Choice of any 1 product


Ghostwave Audio : Any two soundsets of Choice


Twolegs Toneworks : Any one soundset


The Unfinished : Any two soundsets of Choice


Rob Lee Music : A soundset for either: Sylenth1, Predator, Largo, Blofeld, PPGV3 or Dune


Luftrum : One soundset free of choice.


Ridan: FM8 soundbank "Niteshade"
haunting soundscapes, atmospheric chords, layered pads, anamorphic guitars,
brass and woodwind-esque, rhythmic/melodic sequences, and macabre sound effects.


Kreativ Sound: RAW Bundle
(RAW Bass, RAW Drums, RAW TranSID, RAW Textures)


Aiyn Zahev Sounds: 2 Soundsets of choice
(Uplifting Trance Presets)


Studio 13.37: Pro audio studio on a USB stick


Pooya Payvar (Stonail) : 1 custom made Max for [Ableton] Live: controller, midi or audio effect


Mulperi : 1 Soundbank of Choice


Dream Audio Tools : 1 Indie Fingers bundle (Indie Fingers volumes One and Two)


Bjulin : Inspire soundset for Zebra²


LeapIntoTheVoid : Enchantment Of Absynth Trilogy


Bluff Munkey - 2 soundsets of choice


Solidtrax : 1 Soundset of choice


Any other offers of prizes will be greatly appreciated.


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


Want to try out your skills in other contests / competitions /challenges?

• Indaba - Has a mix of popular and indie artists with various contests like remixing and song writing. Some people from OSC have had success here.
• KVR Mix Challenge (see stickies) - Who can mix a song the best (Without adding extra recordings /musical additions)? Each person starts out with the same stems.
• Music Cafe (KVR, see stickies) - A thematic monthly competition. Use recording, real instruments, synths and samples.
• RemixComps - An aggregator for remix contests from a variety of artists and genres (mostly EDM) - indie and popular.
• Soundevotion (SDCOMPO) Competition - Even longer running than the OSC, the SDCOMPO is even more niche in that you must use a tracker, and set of specific effects. Great community.
• DiHalt Demoscene competitions

[J.Ruegg]

Yep, this will be an interesting month.

[Laxplanet]

Might give this a go, not done one before.

[Dragonsongz]

I'm a little scared of this one to be quite honest XD Should be pretty fun though.

[Dragonsongz]

Hey, quick question: Under what circumstances would one be able to use Glitchmachine's Fracture and/or Hysteresis? One's a buffer effect, the other a "glitch delay", but both can destroy a sound pretty badly if you fiddle enough, and I think that's a no-no if I understood the rules right. So can I just flat out not use them, or could I use it if in moderation? Thanks to whomever decides to answer.

[bjporter]

Hey, quick question: Under what circumstances would one be able to use Glitchmachine's Fracture and/or Hysteresis? One's a buffer effect, the other a "glitch delay", but both can destroy a sound pretty badly if you fiddle enough, and I think that's a no-no if I understood the rules right. So can I just flat out not use them, or could I use it if in moderation? Thanks to whomever decides to answer.

Don't use them.

[Ridan]

Yep, this will be an interesting month.

For sure. Should yield some unusual results. Look forward to listening.

:Subscribed:

[Dragonsongz]

Hey, quick question: Under what circumstances would one be able to use Glitchmachine's Fracture and/or Hysteresis? One's a buffer effect, the other a "glitch delay", but both can destroy a sound pretty badly if you fiddle enough, and I think that's a no-no if I understood the rules right. So can I just flat out not use them, or could I use it if in moderation? Thanks to whomever decides to answer.

Don't use them.

Aw darn. Well, ok. Thanks again for the answer!

[JJBiener]

I can't believe how long it has been since I've done one of these. I've started a couple, but didn't finish. This one though is so tempting, I am going to give it a real shot. Wish me luck.

[J.Ruegg]

Yep, this will be an interesting month.

For sure. Should yield some unusual results. Look forward to listening.

:Subscribed:

Yes, I'm looking forward to the entries too, I'm curious of what kind of drums the OSCers can make with Sinnah , so far I have just some kind of tabla percussion and a kick. I don't come close to a nice snare sound. Anyway I wasn't planning to enter this month, maybe that's the reason why I don't try harder and explore more the synth.

I can't believe how long it has been since I've done one of these. I've started a couple, but didn't finish. This one though is so tempting, I am going to give it a real shot. Wish me luck.

Good luck!

[rghvdberg]

For any penguins here : got it running (32 bit) under Linux.
OS Linux Mint 17.3 with KX Studio repos (http://kxstudio.linuxaudio.org/Repositories)

Short version:

winetricks to install gdiplus.dll
Airwave Vst bridge (https://github.com/phantom-code/airwave ... /tag/1.3.2)
note : I have a 64bit wine install but 32 bit plugins are automagicly bridged

Long version:

At first the gui was all black with only elements lighting up on mouse over.
Then I remembered something about gdiplus.dll, did some googling and found this
https://www.reddit.com/r/Reaper/comment ... _in_linux/

On that page this did the trick:

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winetricks -q vcrun2010 mfc42 gdiplus

So fired up Reaper which is most of the time the best bet to run windows plugins on linux, alas the 64 bit plugin didn't load, but the 32 version did.
Started carla (http://kxstudio.linuxaudio.org/Applications:Carla), neither 64 or 32 bit would load ...
Started carla-single from the commandline (this is linux):

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carla-single win64 vst Sinnah_x64.dll

and noticed this

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err:module:import_dll Library gdiplus.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\VstPlugins\\Sinnah\\Sinnah_x64.dll") not found

Tried

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carla-single win32 vst Sinna.dll

and the 32 bit version worked ..

Ok, started Ardour4.7,create midi track, load carla-rack as plugin. From carla-rack load Sinnah 32bit. Freeze , crash and burn

But there's another option to run windows plugin in linux called Airwave.https://github.com/phantom-code/airwave ... /tag/1.3.2
For a long time this wouldn't work with Ardour but recently this got fixed, and so I gave it a try and it works ..

Why linux ? JFK explained this best

We choose to go to the moon RUN LINUX in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.

[rghvdberg]

Only way I could get some sorta kick was with pitchbend.
https://soundcloud.com/rghvdberg/trying ... ith-sinnah

-OSC86 - Ardour_021.png

Sinnah.png

[bjporter]

For any penguins here : got it running (32 bit) under Linux.
OS Linux Mint 17.3 with KX Studio repos (http://kxstudio.linuxaudio.org/Repositories)

WOW

Thanks

[Taron]

Yeah, this one is a weird one!
I'm so sad I missed the last one, because Xhip is actually quite fun.

This one, hmmm...sustain pedal? Nope...unless there's something I'm missing. That means: right off the bet, this one is spooky.
(Loophole is to use midi CC mapping of Release time to Sustain pedal with proper min and max values!)

I see virtually no midi modulation option besides some hardcoded pitchbend. I mean, could be a cool synth for some instruments, but to make a whole track arrangement with it will get challenging for sure!

[Ridan]

I mean, could be a cool synth for some instruments, but to make a whole track arrangement with it will get challenging for sure!

You can do it.