One Synth Challenge #185: Cherry Audio Synthesizer Expansion Module (jasinski Wins!)

[bjporter]

Submissions:
https://soundcloud.com/kvrosc/sets/one- ... 185-cherry





Results post:
Here






Welcome to the 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:
"This mono-synth is a precise recreation of the classic Oberheim® self‑contained synthesizer module from 1974, which was used to create some of the first polyphonic synthesizers. It features Ultra-accurate dual oscillator, multi-mode filter, unison mode, phasor and echo fx, full midi control and automation."



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sirQFoQMlqg





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Special Note:
We are offering a secondary prize (on top of the normal prize):

• FXB Project - one choice from the collection
• JRR Shop (Uncle E) - one choice from JRR Sounds

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!!!


Red Rock Sound : **New Prize** Choose 1 Copy of any plugin


NUSofting : **New Prize** Choose 1 Copy of either Sinmad or Echobis


nakst : **New Prize** 1 copy of Altitude (A FL Studio / CLAP format synth only. *Not VST / Standalone*)


KV331 Audio : Bundle of Synthmaster One + Synthmaster 2.x!


Dmitry Sches : Diversion


ChordPak.com : 1x Pro Pack (Up to 3 winners may choose this)


United Audio Artists : Scratch Master Pro (2 may be chosen per month)


Yuli Yolo Sound Design : (Top 3 Winners get this) Soundsets for Vital: Diversity, Bass Music Wavetables, Noises & Exciters


Luftrum : Two Choices: 1x NFR license of either Bioscape or the new Lunaris 2 (or two soundsets of choice)


Audio Thing : Outer Space (vintage tape echo plugin)


Guda Audio : Euterpe XL


JRR Sounds: Any 1 soundset (This is a secondary prize, you may pick it as well as your main prize)


SoundGym : *NEW* 12 Month Subscription. (SoundGym is a
"technological, personalized and gamified audio learning environment")


JRR Shop : UVI: Digital Synsations (vintage 90's synth sample library and player)


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


Abstract Cats Music : AbiTron Bank for Synthmaster


satYatunes : One of any commercial product


Xenos Soundworks : Choice of any 1 product


Twolegs Toneworks : Any one soundset


Newloops.com : any 3 sound packs of choice (excluding bundles)


The Unfinished : Any two soundsets of Choice


Aiyn Zahev Sounds: Any 2 Soundsets of choice from the website (Uplifting Trance Presets)


Mulperi : 1 Soundbank of Choice


Bjulin : Inspire soundset for Zebra²


LeapIntoTheVoid : Falcon Iterata X subscription or any two soundsets of your choice (Updated Prize!)


Solidtrax : 1 Soundset of choice (except for the Future Chill and Space Trips expansions)


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


Any other offers of prizes will be greatly appreciated.


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• Cymatics Contests (Cymatics does sample packs / musicware)
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• Skio Music Contests - Lots of remixes you can join (Mostly EDM) - big prizes.
• Splice contests listed on Splice

[Taron]

Yes, this one works!
Wow, this could get an interesting challenge again!

[] Peter:H []

I've already pulled of a first sketch ...
https://soundcloud.com/p-e-t-e-r-h/osc- ... 4db9b0a8e8

This synth is actually a real challenge. I enjoy fiddling around trying to find usefull sounds ...
Still no chance for me to get anywhere near a bdr or snare without the help of the presets as a starting point. And on top of the tweaked preset for the BDR I have used EQ, two Compressors in series, and even rather agressive parallel Compression to get it punchy.

[MalToné]

Yes, this one works!
Wow, this could get an interesting challenge again!

I hope to hear a track from you this month!

[Taron]

Yes, this one works!
Wow, this could get an interesting challenge again!

I hope to hear a track from you this month!

Thanks, MalToné! Yeah, chances are enormously high.

[] Peter:H []

+++ Submission +++

The Knights That Say Ah!
https://soundcloud.com/p-e-t-e-r-h/the- ... hat-say-ah

Update: The previews mix included the Immersive Headphone correction ... silly me

Enjoy the punchy sound of the knights galopping thru the country with their coconuts ... on their quest to find the holy grale of techno music.

It was quite a hazzle to come up with good sounds as I've mentioned already. I stole the BDR, snare and hihats from the presets, tweaked them and threw a good deal of EQ and Compressors/Dynamics plugins on them. I think the mix is pretty good, as all the details shine through even when listening at moderate volume level.

Details will follow:
No big suprise anyways, all my usual stuff...New in the Arsenal is "Mix Space" (see my post on #184 thread) which was very helpful and i put a pinch of Compressor+ on top as icing on the master channel
25 Instances of the Synth
Bitwig 5.2: Tool, Delay, PeakLimiter, Mid-Side-Split
3rdParts Plugins: Tal Reverb, Valhalla SuperMassive, MEqualizer, MCompressor, MTremolo, Lens, LoudMax, Mix Space, A1StereoComtrol, Portoplug with a Chord Splitter/Arp Lua Script of my own.
Meters and Listening: Youlean, PsyScope, Immerse Virtual Studio, TBAudio mVMeter

Hilarious that I made it to page one!

[] Peter:H []

Talking about the Plugin "Mix-Space": I was curious whether there's already an update been released. I looked a little into the github Repo and it seems this thingy has been built with Cycling '74s RNBO framework ... but that's just me guessing from the name of this source file here: https://github.com/mannixsquared/mix-sp ... es/[b]RNBO[/b].cpp
If this is RNBO than that's not bad ... I cannot read RNBO config files, so guessing again ... the magic seems to be a 3 or 4 band dynamic eq. But nevertheless impressive as there is basically no custom code

[doctorbob]

OK. Number 2 in today. Hope you enjoy this track from me. Hopefully will complement Peter's track! Still on page 1!!!!!!!!

DAW: Reaper
Track Details: 56 * Cherry SEM, 47 * ReaEQ, 16* OTT, 21 * kHz Transient Shaper ,2 * Oril River, 5 * LFX-1310
Master: SlickEQ, MSED, Limiter No. 6
Meter: SPAN, YouLean Loudness Meter
Stats: LUFS -14.2 dB, DR 8

https://soundcloud.com/doctorbob/the-ri ... cherry-sem

[empphryio]

I really like the sound of this synth. Not a big range but has this.... gritty, very "real" sound. If that makes any sense. Feels like what I imagine old (good) hardware would sound like, not that I've ever had any.

[Taron]

I'm tempted to listen already, but I'm still trying to keep my explorations with this one as virgin as possible, hehe.
Yeah, it's really a beautiful little piece, this synth. I've done some wild things with it already and have only started to discover its potential. It's all in the finer choices on this one, I think. Maybe I'll post some of my experiments along the line, too. Got 3 already, hehehe.

[empphryio]

Maybe I'll post some of my experiments along the line, too. Got 3 already, hehehe.

That would be nice to hear.

[bzz]

Hey guys. Here's my entry for this round. I couldn't make a reasonably sounding crash cymbal, so hopefully the drums are acceptable without it Overall I liked the retro sound of the synth. Too bad it's monophonic, so arranging chords was a bit of a hassle.

Made in Cakewalk. 13 instances of SEM. epicVerb, OTT and W1 Limiter as the external FX.

https://soundcloud.com/petr-n-mec/bzz-f ... tor-no-185

[gethiox]

Here is my submission.

https://soundcloud.com/gethiox/semi-conductor

DAW: Bitwig

Number of SEM instances: countless due to many polyphonic Bitwig devices. (instrument selector)
(I'll try to count them programmatically, otherwise I'll count manually and put a number here as an edit later)

Plugins:
FreeClip, kHs Filter, kHs Nonlinear Filter, kHs Trance Gate, ValhallaSupermassive, stock plugins

Tiny insight about solo lines in my track.
I recorded them by playing on my keyboard, but If you think I am good at playing in realtime you're so damn wrong.
I already experimented with pentatonic scale before (with additional jazzy semitone transition between 3rd and 4th note on that scale), even in OSC, it's a simple way to get solo line done, playing it mindlessly can be fun but also can be considered a childish play.
I think I've managed to make it sound more professional by recording it at half of the original tempo, section by section, not everything at once.
By playing in such a low tempo I have a space to play it more precise, without the need of quantization. Tiny mistakes were still manually adjusted in my DAW.
Even in such a low tempo I was unable to make a vibrato and pitchbend effects in a go, so I left a space for them when I was playing, only then I edited pitchbend and vibrato manually.
Also kinda by my mistakes during recordings I found a very fast, tiny notes that "tweets" in a pleasant way, so I've decided to leave them as is, also I added some manually just because I liked how it sounds.

[empphryio]

We're still on page one?

I wrote this thing which is very unlikely to be my submission but I do like it. It could be improved I guess. I have another project I'll probably submit.
https://soundcloud.com/anotherjaysherma ... al_sharing

[silverpants]

We're still on page one?

I wrote this thing which is very unlikely to be my submission but I do like it. It could be improved I guess. I have another project I'll probably submit.
https://soundcloud.com/anotherjaysherma ... al_sharing

Amazing 'screaming' sounds in the distance.