One Synth Challenge #81: Oxe FM (z.prime wins!)

[doctorbob]

Tricky one this - I find I always do an intro (aka the beginning) and try to "set the scene" with it - so this time round my thoughts were with the people of Paris and so it was a "French influence" for the first 15 seconds and then into the main theme. The next parts have a pretty normal progression of parts, including some key changes (boy bands, all stand up!), some take downs, and then finally a playout (aka the outro!).

Sometimes I end with a "fade to black", sometimes I end with something more "traditional".

I generally look to 3.5 - 4 minutes, although I have done one very short track (The TAL Bassline), which was a stunningly short 1.33 minutes of hectic Bluegrass inspired stuff - bending the classic dance bassline machine to areas never ever envisaged - hehe!

I simply have fun and enjoy presenting my different takes/inspirations to this audience.

dB

[wagtunes]

When I first started composing back in the 70s, my mother, who was a concert pianist and opera singer and listened to tons of symphonies, piano concertos and opera scores, said to me, "Steven, when are you going to get off the merry-go-round?"

My songs were endless ramblings in sound, much like many of the OSCs. It was what I liked to do. But I soon came to realize that people didn't want to listen to this stuff. Finally, in the early 80s, I started composing more traditional intro-verse-chorus-outro 3 to 4 minute tracks.

With the short attention span of today's generation (that is not meant as a dig but just an observation of the world we now live in) I would think that things are even worse today. Most pop song intros are now under 10 seconds. Listen to Taylor Swift's Blank Space and time the intro. That's about as long as you can get away with today.

[Yeager]

Uploaded mine, it's called :

"Off Day Off".

Made In FLStudio.

I used : 16 x Oxe.

Track FX :
2 x LOSER Saturation (ReaJS)
2 x ReaComp
1 x Transient
1 x IVGI
1 x Tremolo
4 x Fruity Reverb 2
2 x Fruity Delay
3 x Fruity Parametric EQ 2.

Automation : No.

Master FX :
1 x TDR Nova
1 x TDR VOS SlickEQ
1 x Fruity Limiter.

Official DR value: DR9

Enjoy.

https://soundcloud.com/petervos/yeager-off-day-off

[pylon]

"If you can't say it in 3 minutes, it’s not worth saying" – or at least according to Elvis Costello (possibly)
About enough time for some people's multi-minute epics to develop their percussion and bass.

I guess we should be accept a degree of indulgence, as your average OSC synth based instrumental is a totally different kettle of VSTi fish to a top 40 pop song. That said though, straying into 6+ minute territory (and certainly double figures) is beginning to stretch a listeners tolerance, not to mention concentration.

[rghvdberg]

man I'm running out of time ...

WWOD (what would the oxe do)?

Work hard ...

[zehab]

hi, im new to the group and to the contest. hopefully i've done this right.

Uploaded track, called :

"Cassava Root".

Made In Ableton Live 9

I used : 17 x Oxe.

Track FX Stock :
17 x Eq
7 x Reverb
4 x Compressor
4 x Delay.

Master FX :
Stock Side Chain
1 x Compressor
1 x Eq
1 x Limiter
Official DR value: DR10

Enjoy.

https://soundcloud.com/zehab-wolf/cassava-root

[a-type]

Here's my submission this month! Not the greatest piece of music I've ever written, but it was good fun nonetheless. Despite a shaky start with OXE, in the end I really came to like it! Fairly decent sound, but just a good solid set of FM functionality. It was nice also having everything accessible from the one screen – something which seems to be a bit rare amongst traditional FM synths of this kind.

This was done in Renoise with 19 instances of OXE, and using just native Renoise EQs, compressors, delay and a touch of reverb.

https://soundcloud.com/atype808/a-type- ... -81-oxe-fm

[photonic]

deleted!

[LhaastDaiz]

https://soundcloud.com/lhaastdaiz/lhaas ... hree-seeds

Renoise 3.1

21 x OXE
21 x Filter
21 x Compressor
01 x EQ

[JKF Flashico]

Hello for everyone! Here is my One Osc 81 challenge track. Hope you enjoy my track

Synth is Oxe FM
In my track there is 24 instances.

Cubase 8 Pro 64 bit

Cubase Effects: PingPongDelay, BrickWall Limiter, Curve EQ, standard EQ, Compressor, Revelation reverb, Maximizer

Freeware effects: SanfordDelay, Limiter6

https://soundcloud.com/jkflashico/jkflashico-tight-time

[Meakaale]

Here's mine!

All sounds are made from home made empty preset.

Track specs:

~25 Instances of OXE FM synth
DAW: FL Studio
DAW FX: Maximus, Fruity Reverb 2, Fruity Compressor, Fruity Parametric EQ1, Fruity Parametric EQ2, EQUO, Fruity Filter, Fruity Stereo enhancher, Fruity Delay 2, Fruity Peak controller.

https://soundcloud.com/meakaale/meakaal ... rassypants

[Mike777]

Elegy for Quintet No1
MICHAEL JOHN (aka Mike777)

SONAR professional
5 instances of OXE FM Synth with sounds of harp/piano, organ, clarinet, bass clarinet, bells
Sonitus Reverb
image:Kelly Walker

https://soundcloud.com/mike_jf/mike777- ... uintet-no1

[photonic]

Hi all,

Pffhhuu ...that was close! I think I never worked till the last day on a track. But finally I made it.
FM is still a miracle to me. I made a lot of sound from scratch, but it was more or less try and error. But at the end I realy could realize some sounds the way I wanted.

https://soundcloud.com/photonic-1/photonic-oxymoron

28 instances of OXE in Reaper v5.0

Dynamics: TDRFeedBackCompressor, GClip, ReaComp, FerricTDS, FluxBitterSweet II
Filter: ReaEQ, MQ57, TDS VOS Slick
Delays: Ixox Delay, NastyDLA
Reverb: Sanford Reverb
Satturation: FerricTDS, Boogex, QX24
Stereo: MAutopan
Analyzer: Span, TT Dynamic Range Meter

Dynamik Range according TT Dynamic Range Meter: DR=13

[photonic]

Elegy for Quintet No1
MICHAEL JOHN (aka Mike777)...

Glad to see you back! You haven't been here for a while

[z.prime]

...that was close! I think I never worked till the last day on a track. But finally I made it.

Dewd! Welcome to the club!