KVR Audio

bjporter · Post by **bjporter** » Fri Jan 01, 2016 8:25 am

Welcome to the 83rd 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!

MPowerSynth is a monstrously feature rich synthesizer, with a fresh interface, and mind blowingly low CPU usage

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)

MeldaProduction: (First come first serve) 1x Licenses of MPowerSynth (3 total to give out so far)

MuTools : (First come first serve) MuLab 6 + MUX Modular 6 bundle (3 more to give out so far)

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 (Soon to be released!)

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)

MaxSynths : Free choice of either Crisalys, Cryologic, Teutonic Tension or aPiano

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

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, including Irion Da Ronin.
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. OSC participant OrganicIO has been a regular there.

H-man · Post by **H-man** » Fri Jan 01, 2016 8:56 am

Syntilla · Post by **Syntilla** » Fri Jan 01, 2016 9:25 am

Is this a 30-day demo? (Most of their stuff is 15-day, I seem to remember.)
Either way, should be an interesting month.
You're getting good at this, BJ!

Touch The Universe · Post by **Touch The Universe** » Fri Jan 01, 2016 10:08 am

Wow! This is going to be so fun, and good!!

Dee.P.Tree · Post by **Dee.P.Tree** » Fri Jan 01, 2016 11:49 am

What a start of new year...!

Dee.P.Tree · Post by **Dee.P.Tree** » Fri Jan 01, 2016 11:51 am

And thanks bj.. for listing other competitions.

wagtunes · Post by **wagtunes** » Fri Jan 01, 2016 12:11 pm

Holy mother of God.

Sadly, even though I own the synth and already did a 300 patch library for it, I just don't have the time this month as business is overwhelming me with work.

To the rest of you, you will absolutely love this one.

I envy you all.

Hanz Meyzer · Post by **Hanz Meyzer** » Fri Jan 01, 2016 1:14 pm

Wow, this is l33333337 !!! Count me in!

Reefius · Post by **Reefius** » Fri Jan 01, 2016 3:25 pm

Since when is the OSC using commercial synths? All I've got is an already expired demo so it's totally useless.

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Fri Jan 01, 2016 3:41 pm

Reefius wrote:Since when is the OSC using commercial synths? .

definitely at least since you complained about it being Synthmaster, earlier on in the year. but, specifically, since OSC31, I believe.

Reefius · Post by **Reefius** » Fri Jan 01, 2016 3:52 pm

Well, to me it looks like this is no longer 'a friendly music competition'. How much did MeldaProduction pay KVR to promote their synth?

photonic · Post by **photonic** » Fri Jan 01, 2016 4:04 pm

WOW, MPowerSynth!

I am not sure if I am happy with this choice. I fear after this month I have only scratched the surface of this synth. The parameters are countless. And the layout of all Melda plugins are not very clear. So much pages and sub-menues. For sure due to the amount of functions. My brain allways gets lost in such labyrinth

But it is too attractive to not give it a try.

photonic · Post by **photonic** » Fri Jan 01, 2016 4:09 pm

Reefius wrote:Well, to me it looks like this is no longer 'a friendly music competition'. How much did MeldaProduction pay KVR to promote their synth?

That is nothing unsusal. We had beta or demo versions of Diva, Bazille, Hive, Synthmaster, Retlogoue and more allready in the contest.

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Fri Jan 01, 2016 4:30 pm

Reefius wrote:Well, to me it looks like this is no longer 'a friendly music competition'. How much did MeldaProduction pay KVR to promote their synth?

How much are you being paid to complain about it?

bjporter · Post by **bjporter** » Fri Jan 01, 2016 4:48 pm

Reefius wrote:Well, to me it looks like this is no longer 'a friendly music competition'. How much did MeldaProduction pay KVR to promote their synth?

The story:
z.prime recommended the synth (I was looking for something interesting/new to make a bang for the new year) wee over a week ago, and so I looked into it. I downloaded the full Melda install, thinking this would be a nightmare. Ended up being quick, with optional install of products. I thought the synth would be terrible, ended up having good patches, and great CPU, mac and windows support.

Then I emailed MeldaProductions (I have the emails and signatures to prove they were sent with replies) with 2 questions: 1) Confirm the trial is 1 full month, and 2) Would you like to donate licenses? They responded back with a few lines of answers, agreeing to the later and confirming 1 month full trial.

That's all the contact I had with Melda. I can give you the raw email with rsa signatures with and copies to prove.

We occasionally have commercial synths, as well as rare gems.

One Synth Challenge #83: MPowerSynth by MeldaProduction (Z.Prime Wins!)