One Synth Challenge #146: Sinmad by NUSofting (Double Tap Wins!)

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Submissions:
https://soundcloud.com/kvrosc/sets/one- ... 146-sinmad


Welcome to the One Synth Challenge #146! 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!


Developer Support/Bug Report thread: see here



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"A virtual instrument with its own peculiar and organic voice. The selected features, from virtual analogue to physical modelling. make this synth a novel approach to sound creation: We designed the GUI to let you easily improvise subtle or extreme timbre variations."



Prizes:
(Would you like to be a sponsor / prize donor? Contact RichardSemper 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 cash bonus of $50. (note: this prize may be carried forward to selected OSC challenges until it is won)


SinMad : If you complete a song in OSC#146 (This current one) and agree that NuSofting may use your track on their website, then you get one copy of Sinmad for free.


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


ChordPak.com : 1x Pro Pack (Up to 3 winners may choose this)


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


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")


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


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


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.

[SeBaer]

A clever way to get beta tester and presets. Count me in...

[Double Tap]

Resonators and micro tuning. A poly delay matrix which looks interesting. Physical modelling. I'm looking forward to this one.

[Leonard Bowman]

I set a rule with myself that I probably won't participate if it's too much effort to microtune the synth. Always nice to see tuning right there on the front panel!

of course, this synth also looks like it will make some fascinating sounds. It's showtime, i suppose.

[IV!]

So, is this the next commercial synthesizer from NUSofting and we'll get a limited-time version? Just to understand...

[z.prime]

Just an FYI it looks like on macOS (Catalina or greater) the plugin bundles aren't signed and you might need to do:

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sudo xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST/Sinmad.vst

to get the VST to work, or:

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sudo xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components/Sinmad.component

to get the AU to work (haven't tested the latter, but the first one solved my problem for VST).

[MalToné]

Beautiful lush sounds so far! I think we will hear some great tracks from this.

Not clear on how to save presets, it wasn't clear from the manual, I was in the user presets but I get the message "failed to copy preset" when saving. I can close and reopen my project and all custom patch parameters are preserved, so all good with making a track...

BTW I'm using Ableton 10 on Win 10.

[fairplay]

So, is this the next commercial synthesizer from NUSofting and we'll get a limited-time version? Just to understand...

Yep
I asked for access and version will be expired May 5
So I'm out most probably

[IV!]

So, is this the next commercial synthesizer from NUSofting and we'll get a limited-time version? Just to understand...

Yep
I asked for access and version will be expired May 5
So I'm out most probably

Thanks! Probably I too. So many interesting synthesizers are waiting for deep study... I'm just not into commerce.

[bh9090]

DAWs are not recognizing the Sinmad_x64.dll plugin. I'm on WIndows 10 v20H2 and have tried Live, Cubase, and Reaper. Unblocked the file in Explorer. No Sinmad anywhere to be found.

[markheath]

I managed to load it in Reaper on Win 10 20H2

[zarf]

DAWs are not recognizing the Sinmad_x64.dll plugin. I'm on WIndows 10 v20H2 and have tried Live, Cubase, and Reaper. Unblocked the file in Explorer. No Sinmad anywhere to be found.

I'm in Live 11 on Windows 10 and it's finding it OK. I copied the whole Sinmad folder (which contains the Sinmad_x64.dll) into my 64bit plugs folder and worked first time. Did you try the whole folder (just in case!)

The synth sounds really interesting, lots of possibilities with this thing, cool ideas and sounds.

The reminder nag screen about the time limited demo has got pretty annoying after using it for an hour or so - it is constantly breaking my workflow to the extent I'm considering just giving up sadly

[z.prime]

The reminder nag screen about the time limited demo has got pretty annoying after using it for an hour or so - it is constantly breaking my workflow to the extent I'm considering just giving up sadly

Yes! If only you could just click the nag screen to go back to the main GUI. It's quite frustrating while you're in the middle of editing a sound and programming MIDI to have to go switch back to the instrument channel and find the tiny show GUI button again just to continue what you were doing! Certainly don't mind it being time limited, but this could be made so much more pleasant with one (presumably) minor tweak...

[L-EctroBit]

The reminder nag screen about the time limited demo has got pretty annoying after using it for an hour or so - it is constantly breaking my workflow to the extent I'm considering just giving up sadly

Thanks for warning about the nag screen. I was considering participating this month, but just thinking about a message appearing repeatedly on my screen I prefer to wait to see what OSC brings us in the coming months.

[doctorbob]

Loads in Reaper on Windows just fine.

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