One Synth Challenge #143: Any Hardware or Emulation (Taron Wins!)

[bjporter]

Submissions:
https://soundcloud.com/kvrosc/sets/one- ... ge-143-any



Welcome to the One Synth Challenge #143! 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!



Special Rules used this month:

• Synth: Choose a hardware synth, or software emulation (Examples of software: Diva, U-NO-LX, The Legend, OB-X, MonoFury, Ensoniq SQ80). As usual, choose ONE synthesizer this month, and only use that, multiple instances / bounced / frozen tracks are allowed.
• Romplers / Samplers are not allowed. If your synthesizer is built into a Workstation, you may use that part. Most common accepted types of synthesis include FM, Additive, Wavetable, Subtractive / 'Virtual Analog', Granular, Modular.

• Effects: You may use any hardware effects unit as long as it follows the usual effect rules. Commercial software effects may only be used if they emulate a hardware. Any free / built in DAW effect may be used freely as usual. All normal effects for rules still apply - aka with modulation/distortion.

• General: In your submission, please tell us the model, brand and year of the Hardware synth / effects used. If using a Hardware emulation synth / effects, tell us the name, and if possible, what it emulates.
• If you chose an emulation, it must be an actual hardware emulation of some kind, as specified by the developer, or product page. If it's not obvious, please show proof, or contact us to ask.

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Show us your awesome hardware gear, or amazing synth emulation skills








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


Special Note:
We are offering a secondary prize (on top of the normal prize): FXB Project, or JRR Shop (Uncle E)

NEW Additional Bonus Prize!
For the first Single Instance entry to make the top 5 a small cash bonus of $30. (note: this prize may be carried forward to selected OSC challenges until it is won)



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: Either 1x NFR software license of either Bioscape or Lunaris, or two soundsets of choice


discoDSP : 1 copy of Discovery (Up to 2 winners may choose this)


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


Dmitry Sches : Tantra Multi-Effect + 3 Expansions


Dmitry Sches : Diversion


NUSofting : 1 Copy of Modelonia v2 Synthesizer


Sonimus : (One Featured plugin each month), This month: Satson.


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


Synthmorph: Any 1 soundset


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


Touch The Universe Productions: LuSH-101 Cloud Layers soundset


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


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. Unfortunately his main site is down, but if you still want these, let us know!


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


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


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 (except for the Future Chill and Space Trips expansions)


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?

• DiHalt Demoscene competitions - Developers may be looking for artists to make music.
• Indaba - Has a mix of popular and indie artists with various contests like remixing and song writing.
• metapop - Has many competitions, with a soundcloud like interface where you can share, upload, get likes, comments, etc.
• Mix Challenge - Join monthly recurring Songwriting Competitions (with a new theme/genre every month) and/or Mix(ing) Challenges (mixing multi-tracks from scratch). Win prizes!
• Open Source Music Nexus Challenge - From the people who brought you the FM Challenge last year!
• Skio Music Contests - Lots of remixes you can join (Mostly EDM) - big prizes.

[briefcasemanx]

Love the theme this month. If I choose to participate i think I'll use the new Arturia Juno 6 emulation.

[reusenoise]

It's Reason's Subtractor allowed ?
I think it's a vintage piece of software itself

[bh9090]

A little clarification... for drums, can we bounce down individual hits and arrange them on the arrange view/time-line? This is essentially creating a drum kit from samples of the hardware. Can we bounce down multiple hits to layer for a single sound? So many questions. I love the hardware idea, it's the opposite of what we've been doing for years!

[TheNeverScene]

I'll probably get roasted for this, but what if the people going with software had to use only one instance and bounce tracks from that? It would be more like dealing with....well, hardware

[H-man]

What about Hardware and software together?



Nord Modular

[EscapeControl]

That a very unusual start of a new year, great twist on the rules
How would the rules apply to VCV rack? Only use modules based on real ones? Can we only use 1 kind of module?

[jasinski]

Quick Check:
I think I’m going to use Ableton’s Operator. It's enough of DX7 emulation that I believe it falls within the bounds of the rules.

[MilksterX]

That a very unusual start of a new year, great twist on the rules
How would the rules apply to VCV rack? Only use modules based on real ones? Can we only use 1 kind of module?

I was going to ask the same about voltage modular although I don't have a clue about which ones are based on real ones.

[Leonard Bowman]

I love the idea here!
I don't have much in the way of proper synth hardware but I do have a few physical noisemakers I could work with.

now for my rules question: am I allowed to choose and use a device that I have created for this challenge? I've rigged up an oscillator setup on one of my microcontrollers and I'm always looking for excuses to develop it into a full synth.
It would be 100% hardware, digital oscillation through analog filters recorded into my DAW.

[jasinski]

Brave man!
Will that give you enough sonic range to create a whole track?

I love the idea here!
I don't have much in the way of proper synth hardware but I do have a few physical noisemakers I could work with.

now for my rules question: am I allowed to choose and use a device that I have created for this challenge? I've rigged up an oscillator setup on one of my microcontrollers and I'm always looking for excuses to develop it into a full synth.
It would be 100% hardware, digital oscillation through analog filters recorded into my DAW.

[Leonard Bowman]

Brave man!
Will that give you enough sonic range to create a whole track?

now for my rules question: am I allowed to choose and use a device that I have created for this challenge? I've rigged up an oscillator setup on one of my microcontrollers and I'm always looking for excuses to develop it into a full synth.
It would be 100% hardware, digital oscillation through analog filters recorded into my DAW.

Yes, if I'm clever enough with my composition. People have done more with less.

[jasinski]

Yes, if I'm clever enough with my composition. People have done more with less.

[z.prime]

I'm a little confused: is Diva really a hardware emulation? I don't think it is and it would seem to open the door to almost any synth if it were allowed.

@jasinski I also don't believe Operator is a DX7 clone at all - it has a ton more functionality like waveforms beyond sinewaves, filters. And what about software that was based on hardware but then enhanced considerably?

This is a pretty great idea, but seems like it may be riddled with questions and challenges especially with the requirement to sample at least phrases...

[z.prime]

It's Reason's Subtractor allowed ?

It should not be, as it is not an emulation of an existing piece of hardware, if I understand the purpose of the challenge...