One Synth Challenge #138: Surge (MrKarolus Wins!)

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Hello fellow Surgeants,

I was playing around with the experimental LV2 version of Surge and found it quite stable, so I decided to throw this into the OSC #138.
Here is my submission:
https://soundcloud.com/user-660097946/m ... ess-search

Made on ArchLinux, DAW: Ardour 6.2, 26 instances of Surge V1.7.1 LV2

Further processing (all FOSS):
-x42 Parametric stereo EQ
-Ardour a-compressor
-Calf limiter
-LSP Slapback Delay
-Dragonfly Reverb

Master Bus chain:
-LSP Parametric EQ
-LSP Multiband compressor
-Chow Tape Model
-LSP Limiter
-Calf Limiter

For the friends of dynamics around here:
-14.5 LUFS
-DR 11

Cheers!

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So, I was absurdly busy this month, and wasn't planning to enter anything. But then I remembered that back in the first week of August, when I was young and full of hope, I threw this first draft together.

And then I forgot that I still had a day, and I hasty-mixed it and threw it out into the world. Kinda disappointed that I didn't have more to offer Surge, and that I forgot until five minutes ago that I still had twenty-four more hours to mess with it. Anyway, here it is:

EDIT: Thanks to the people who already commented. I took 45 minutes this evening and polished it a tiny bit. Here it is, now. Still pretty rough.

https://soundcloud.com/h_s_j_e/hsje-osc ... ne-revised
Surge is outrageous. Absolute top-class freeware. You could do eight months of OSC with this beast and never get close to the bottom.

Anyway, I used 20 instances of Surge in Reaper 6.13.

Other FX used:
Dragonfly Hall x 1
Dragonfly Room x 2
Valhalla Supermassive x 1
ReaEQ x 2
Limiter No. 6 x 2
Transpire x 1
Youlean Loudness Meter x 1
Span x 1
TDR Nova x 1
Last edited by h.s.j.e. on Tue Sep 01, 2020 3:13 am, edited 1 time in total.

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Hi all,

What a great synth! Like Odin2, this one is good enough for many challenges.
I got lost in sound design. It is so much possible with this beast. I allmost forgot to create some music, so I had to force myself for more discipline. I ended up with a quite catchy and groovy tune. For me it is a real "feel good" track.

https://soundcloud.com/photonic-1/photo ... till-lunch

Done in Reaper v5.99

21 instances of Surge used.

Dynamic: ReaComp, TDR Kotelnikov, Transpire, BassPRofessor II, Maxwell Smart
Filter: ReaEQ, MQ 57
Satturation: Thrillseeker VBL, Thrillseeker XTC, Boogex, Green Eugen
Delay: NastyDLA
Reverb: Dragonfly, FreeverbToo
Analyser: SPAN
soundcloud.com/photonic-1

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That was real nice. Real nice!


The nocturne is also amazing. Really stellar stuff, people!

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My submission:

https://soundcloud.com/darksynth-fx/dar ... lling-home

DAW: Ableton Live Suite 10
13x Surge
16x Ableton EQ8
24x Ableton Utility
1x Ableton Compressor
2x Xfer OTT
2x Flux:: BitterSweet
1x Voxengo Stereo Touch
2x Tal-Reverb-2
1x Ableton Glue Compressor
1x Voxengo Tube Amp
1x VladG Limiter N°6
1x Ableton Reverb (Send)
1x Ableton Simple Delay (Send)

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My entry for this month:

https://soundcloud.com/user-806749657/lucid-cage

Used 73 instances of Surge in Reaper.

DAW builtin plugins:
ReaControlMIDI
ReaEQ
JS 4 Band Spliter
JS 8x Stereo to 1x Stereo
JS Phase Rotator
JS Transient Controller
JS Exciter

Third party plugins:
bx_cleansweep V2 by Brainworx
Voxengo MSED
TDR Nova
Limiter No6
MCompressor
MSaturator
MEqualizer
MAutopan
DCAMFreeComp
OTT
Youlean Loudness Meter 2
Voxengo SPAN
Voxengo Correlometer
PSYSCOPE by PSYLAB

Good luck guys ... and gals :)

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Hi all,

didn´t participate for a long time, due to a lack of creativity (and time), but here it is: a prequel to my OSC 127 track "End of an Adventure" which was kinda an Epilog in a Chiptunish / 8-bit style. So here comes the prequel to that: The Boss fight. (My storytelling is terrible, i somehow start with the end and end with the beginning - that won´t be confusing :lol: )

https://soundcloud.com/impedancemusic/i ... -138-surge

Made in FL Studio 12.

16 instances of surge.

All Sounds made from scratch. Attached are my terrible presets. Those are not only the presets i used for this OSC, but also some other ones, feel free to use them. Surge is an incredibly powerful VST.

Stuff i also used:
Fruity parametric EQ2 (23),
Maximus (1),
Fruity Limiter (1),
Xfer OTT (3),
Valhalla Supermassive (2),
Fruity Stereo Enhancer (5),
TAL Filter 2 (1 - Panning),
Fruity Delay 2 (1),
Fruity Delay 3 (2)
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"We should not kill the earth, we wouldn´t know where to bury it!" - Michel Granger

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@ Impedance Music , Star Wars did the stories in a reverse order and they did pretty well...
"I can't listen to the Ninth anymore at all."

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https://soundcloud.com/hennessey/bh9090-time-forgotten

20 instances in Live with EQ8, delays, compressors, saturator, overdrive, reverb, auto pan, auto filter.

3rd party: Valhalla Supermassive.

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I had my doubts, but finally I did have fun improvising this entry:
https://soundcloud.com/ondes-memorielle ... ry-osc-138
1 Instance, two sounds (A/B) only the internal fx of that instance had been used...
DAW Bitwig, played live with my LinnStrument...
Only the positive comments last time could encourage me to do this. Thanks for that...

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Hi!
Here's my entry
https://soundcloud.com/user-637213504/e ... e-silly-me

I tried to do something fun this time, hope you enjoy it!
Constructive comments are very welcome, please help me get better :)
Here is what I used :
Reaper 6
Loudmax
Reaeq x 20
Reacomp x 5
JSFX :
Saike tanh saturation
saike squashman
loser saturation
loser stereofield manipulation
38 x surge
Last edited by ElVincente on Tue Sep 01, 2020 7:34 am, edited 1 time in total.

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My entry as I play it as video:

I used a tuning based on prime numbers. If you think its out of tune, it isn't...

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This month I was very busy, therfore I didn't have lot of time to compose something :(
For this reason, I decided to make my test track "Sleepless in Germany", which I've posted some days ago, to my entry for this month.
I made some changes, but It maybe needs a little bit more work :)

https://soundcloud.com/user-221952934-5 ... vr-osc-138

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Hey there I need to change my submission

https://soundcloud.com/maze-6000/the-ca ... -the-storm

this is it now, I merged both parts together, since submitting only the second part felt a bit cheap and almost rude and i want at least to submit what I have...

all patches from scratch with internal FX
first part - one instance with 2 scenes
second part - five instances

FL Studio 20
Fruity Parametric EQ2
Rough Rider 3 (on the drums)
Maximus, airwindows Tape and D16 Frontier on the master bus

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I've seen comment spammers on Soundcloud of course, but the new twist now seems to to be the "wanna see my plugin folder?" type.

As a protocol droid once said, "How rude!"
"I can't listen to the Ninth anymore at all."

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