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

[PleaseAdvise]

Is there already a playlist of all the songs/is the voting system opened?

[Eauson]

Is there already a playlist of all the songs/is the voting system opened?

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Normally your track will be in the playlist, so check your soundcloud track for the link

[PleaseAdvise]

Is there already a playlist of all the songs/is the voting system opened?

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Normally your track will be in the playlist, so check your soundcloud track for the link

Oh I missed it. Thanks!

[Martkorg]

Hey everyone,
eventhough I had (still have) a pretty stressful month due to the end of the semester, i somehow finished my entry.

It´s the third abomination in my reverse-telled-fictious-videogame-ost-series (trademark).
I used the Roland D-50 Synthesizer (Built October 1987, purchased 2016/17?) for this.
Working with hardware without DAW implementation was pretty interesting - I wasn´t able to use my usual wrong workflow for OSC-s XD
I always wanted to make own Soundbanks for the D-50 - it´s really capable of doing some really unique sounds, but on my Notebook the D50 Librarian always crashed, so I used to program on the device itself - It´s horrible. I tried the D50 Librarian on my Desktop PC and it just worked without a single crash - So here is my terrible approach on making music XD

https://soundcloud.com/impedancemusic/i ... oland-d-51

I recorded 35 tracks of the D-50. 33 of it are different sounds, the other two are multiple tracks / layering (I recorded Gurgel Strings twice - one time the unchanged preset, the second time I removed the "Gurgel" Effect just recording the strings and the second is used for layering the Snare Drum). 24 of the sounds are self created Sounds the other 9 are Presets - These are the Presets I used:

Fantasia [Roland PN-D50-00 No.11]
Horn Section [Roland PN-D50-00 No.15]
DigitalNativeDance [Roland PN-D50-00 No.21]
Synthetic Electric [Roland PN-D50-00 No.28]
Orchestra Hit [Roland PN-D50-02 No.83]
Rele Dynamic Brass [PA-Decoder Card Vol.1 Side B No.26]
Oberheim Brass 02 [PA-Decoder Card Vol.3 Side B No.12]
--Kokubostrings-- [Michael Hotop´s Soundset 8 No.71]
GurgelStrings [if someone knows from which card this preset comes from - pls tell me ]

The track is made in FL Studio 20, recorded through a Behringer QX1002USB.
FX Used: OTT, Fruity ParametricEQ2, Maximus (on master), Fruity Limiter (Gating out noise from silent parts), JB OmniVerb, Fruity Stereo Enhancer, Analog Obsession Lovend and Sweet Drums, Fruity Delay 2 and 3, Fruity Reeverb2, TAL Reverb 2 and Filter 2 (Panning FX) and finally Fruity MultibandCompressor.

Also every track was recorded in one piece - No copy and paste.

I don't know which card the " gurgle strings" patch is from,but is it the patch at 2mins 10 ?
It sounds like a patch from a Jean Michel Jarre album,he had patches specially written for the D-50 when recording Revolutions.

[Darksynth FX]

Voted.

[gorgorgathgorgorgor]

there is an absurd number of entries. this will take me a while.

[doctorbob]

52 entries is going to be hard. Still not sorted out in my mind how to apportion any votes for hardware vs software synths, if at all.

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[RuediRena]

Still not sorted out in my mind how to apportion any votes for hardware vs software synths, if at all.

Right, Doc. For instance compare the sounds and above all the frequency spectrum of MyLoFy's track (VL-1 emulator by linuxmao.org) with my track (VL-Tone VL-1 hardware). Put aside my hideous and rather uninspired plinkering on those oh so small "keys" (:roll:) I did my very best to squeeze all the juice out of this small toy box. Including wah effects by hand over the tiny speaker recorded by microphone and starving the voltage to get a kind of pitch bend.
But you can't get those huge bass frequencies out of the hardware without doing circuit bending or changing components on its board. Totally different animal (no offence, MyLoFy).

[Local Man]

Still not sorted out in my mind how to apportion any votes for hardware vs software synths, if at all.

Right, Doc. For instance compare the sounds and above all the frequency spectrum of MyLoFy's track (VL-1 emulator by linuxmao.org) with my track (VL-Tone VL-1 hardware). Put aside my hideous and rather uninspired plinkering on those oh so small "keys" (:roll:) I did my very best to squeeze all the juice out of this small toy box. Including wah effects by hand over the tiny speaker recorded by microphone and starving the voltage to get a kind of pitch bend.
But you can't get those huge bass frequencies out of the hardware without doing circuit bending or changing components on its board. Totally different animal (no offence, MyLoFy).

I’m not against people scoring hardware and software differently (or scoring things however they like to be honest) but my thought is that those extra little techniques you mention should hopefully contribute to making the track so much better that it gets a higher score by virtue of the actual music being better and not just due to the fact that it is actual hardware being used (I haven’t heard your track yet but the mechanical wah effect seems really fun and cool )

Though I certainly commend anyone that used actual hardware, I think there are pluses and minuses to each approach and at the end of the day I’m always looking at whether or not the person made what they had shine and ultimately made good music.

[RuediRena]

I’m not against people scoring hardware and software differently (or scoring things however they like to be honest) but my thought is that those extra little techniques you mention should hopefully contribute to making the track so much better that it gets a higher score by virtue of the actual music being better and not just due to the fact that it is actual hardware being used (I haven’t heard your track yet but the mechanical wah effect seems really fun and cool )

I had some fun, true, but the track is likely to end way at the bottom of the list to be honest. And rightly so. But I had some fun.

[Eauson]

I’m not against people scoring hardware and software differently (or scoring things however they like to be honest) but my thought is that those extra little techniques you mention should hopefully contribute to making the track so much better that it gets a higher score by virtue of the actual music being better and not just due to the fact that it is actual hardware being used (I haven’t heard your track yet but the mechanical wah effect seems really fun and cool )

I had some fun, true, but the track is likely to end way at the bottom of the list to be honest. And rightly so. But I had some fun.

It’s all about fun isn’t it, & we shouldn’t penalise people because they don’t have HW.
In the end, just do whatever you like and remember to be a good Osc’er

[Martkorg]

My entry this month: "DexoLectro". I had a long time without making music on Linux and wanted to try the latest Ardour updates, so I took the opportunity to make this little track.

https://soundcloud.com/l-ectrobit/l-ect ... tro-osc143

DAW: Ardour 6.5.0

Synth: Dexed x 15

FX Plugins:
LoudMax
Calf Saturator
Calf Filter
Calf Equalizer
Calf Limiter
Calf Vintage Delay
Tal-Filter-2
Tal-Reverb-III
Airwindows Drive
Luftikus
Dragonfly Plate Reverb
EQ6Q Stereo

Excellent,wouldn't have guessed that was Dexed .

[doctorbob]

What I have done is this ... put one group in 4 and the rest in 3. Now I will go through the 4 group and see if any need to be promoted to 5 or dropped to 2. Then I take the 3 group, promote to 4 or drop to 2 - repeat until baked result is found! Hopefully the best tracks across various criteria will bubble to the top. Gonna take some time ...

@RuiediRena: Yours is a fun track. I was going to try a track with my Casio PT-10, but didn't have the patience sadly. That said, it did take a lot of time planning and executing all the various "phases" needed to make my track using all ancient hardware which had not been switched on or seen the light of day in years. One of my major FX units stopped producing output, whilst everything else seemed OK, which forced me down a different route to get the effect I needed - compression (mild stuff from the AW16G!). The DX-11 was in the attic along with things like a Yamaha DJX and other keyboards not in use. My Kawai X430 organ is wrapped in polythene in the garage with silicon gel bags inside!

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[Local Man]

What I have done is this ... put one group in 4 and the rest in 3. Now I will go through the 4 group and see if any need to be promoted to 5 or dropped to 2. Then I take the 3 group, promote to 4 or drop to 2 - repeat until baked result is found! Hopefully the best tracks across various criteria will bubble to the top. Gonna take some time ...

That sounds like a great method in general, but with nearly 4 hours of music to begin with in this round, that kind of exhaustive method sounds...well...exhausting!

[Spring Goose]

What I have done is this ... put one group in 4 and the rest in 3. Now I will go through the 4 group and see if any need to be promoted to 5 or dropped to 2. Then I take the 3 group, promote to 4 or drop to 2 - repeat until baked result is found! Hopefully the best tracks across various criteria will bubble to the top. Gonna take some time ...

good method, doc.