One Synth Challenge #154: Triple Cheese by u-he (schiing wins!)

[L-EctroBit]

Modulating plugins can be used, but in "moderation" (you choose what this means!!!).

Is that a new adjustment to the rules? I just always assumed that modulation was verboten!

OSC Rules:

Effects - what is NOT allowed:

- Chorus, flanger, phaser, rotary, or related modular effects.

- Any type of modulation effect (e.g. chorus, phaser, flanger, rotary etc.). (Please note that effects like reverb or delays that perform modulation to achieve their sound are ALLOWED, but the modulation usage must be minimal.)

- Tapestops, Granular delays, pitching, or related sampling effects.

- Effects that pitch the sound (e.g. pitched / granular delays, tapestops etc.

- Turning up the effect too much where it transforms the nature of the synth (Heavy overdrive / distortion, etc)

- Any effect that transforms the sound to make them unrecognizable as being from the synth (Overdrive, heavy distortion, bit crushing, or related). Never go full 11

https://sites.google.com/site/kvrosc/rules

[schiing]

Ah, thanks for looking it up for us, L-EctroBit!

Pretty much as I remembered. I always stayed well clear of it, although I may in the past have used a reverb/delay or two that modulated the signal unbeknownst to me. I always use the TAL Reverb 4 now, it's reassuring that there's an actual knob that I can set to zero.

I always wondered about the Valhalla delay, though - I can't help but feel that there's got to be a ton of stuff going on there, even when you set the mod depth to zero! But that *is* just a feeling with no evidence to show for it - so don't mind me there.

[doctorbob]

I meant that things like chorus, flange, phaser etc are not allowed, except if they are native to the VSTi!

If you use e.g. distortion as a modulation, then use it sparingly ...

But the above rules are in force ...

dB

[MadMcMan]

https://soundcloud.com/madmcman/future-ceilidh

Here's my track, a nice wee short thing that started out as an experiment in DnB and ended up as something different. Someone suggested its "Future Ceilidh / Bothy Bass" so i've called it Future Ceilidh

59x TripleCheese
ReEQ
Console7
Event Horizon Limer/Clipper
Saike Tight Compressor
Valhalla Supermassive
Saike Spectral Analyzer
DestinymkIII
IronOxideClassic2
STFU
Baxandall
MIDI Transpose Notes
ReLife
Focus
NonlinearSpace
Dynamic poly/mono MIDI Router
ToTape6
TapeDust
Tape
DrumSlam
Saike Not OTT
CHOP
Wider
Reverb
Smooth Limiter
PhaseNudge
Mojo
Fresh Air
Dyno
ChromeOxide
Melt
ButterComp2
TDR Nova
Monitoring
ToTape5

[Double Tap]

Someone suggested its "Future Ceilidh / Bothy Bass" so i've called it Future Ceilidh

You'll get points from me for the name alone!

[IV!]

Someone suggested its "Future Ceilidh / Bothy Bass" so i've called it Future Ceilidh

You'll get points from me for the name alone!

So are you the one who "Someone suggested" this name?

[Double Tap]

Someone suggested its "Future Ceilidh / Bothy Bass" so i've called it Future Ceilidh

You'll get points from me for the name alone!

So are you the one who "Someone suggested" this name?

Haha, no not me.

[MadMcMan]

Someone suggested its "Future Ceilidh / Bothy Bass" so i've called it Future Ceilidh

You'll get points from me for the name alone!

So are you the one who "Someone suggested" this name?

Haha, no not me.

It was someone on FunkD'Void's twitch channel

[Yadrichik_Chaya]

និព្វាន*Vanquishing Devaputta Māra*និព្វាន

My first time ever using Triple Cheese and I fully understand all the praise for it in the thread! From now on I will use it all the time, love it!

https://soundcloud.com/user-414219875/v ... putta-mara

Wonderful track! Flowing subtly but steadily. It makes me visualize a busy ants trail

Wow, thank you very much! Really glad you like the track.

Unfortunately this entry make use of Impulse Responses to get that violin like sound and Impulse Responses are NOT Allowed according to the OSC Rules.

So this track is disqualified.

Since this is the case I will make a new updated version of it but this time with ”real” percussion (korg wavedrum), sampled and physical modeling violins/pianos etc. Fretless guitar and stuff like that - put in a little more effort.

As soon as I have made a new version I'll send you a PM so you can download it from Soundcloud. I really have no clue of when this new improved version will actually be finished and uploaded though…

When I tried to make the triple cheese violin fit the song without impulse responses I got really frustrated. Due to this I ended up doing a whole new track in the same Cubase project but this time at a lower tempo and no violin at all…

You can check out my new Triple Cheese entry below.

Personally I think this new song has a better vibe to it compared to និព្វាន*Vanquishing Devaputta Māra*និព្វាន but you and some other listeners who seem to like that track might disagree…

This new one is a more towards jazz/funk/soul.

Anyways hopefully you'll dig atleast some of the stuff or some part in the new entry, many thanks for listening to and liking the now disqualified entry!

[Yadrichik_Chaya]

As a simile it is like a metaphor…

Hello KVRians,

I'm very happy that using IRs are against the OSC rules, otherwise this new song with fresh ideas wouldn't even exist. I basically made a whole new track within the previous project. No violin this time and more of a steady GROOVE*


I apologize for doing a jam that is over 8 minutes, got carried away…

*plus a whole lot of other things!

Midi Controllers: Boss SY-1000 (Guitar to MIDI mode), Axis-49 &
Jamstik Studio Midi Guitar

DAW: Cubase Pro 11

Number of Triple Cheese instances: 130

Internal Cubase plugins made by Steinberg:
RoomWorks, REVelation, StereoDelay, MultiTap Delay, Autopan, Squasher, MonoToStereo, StereoEnhancer, SoftClipper, Compressor & Brickwall Limiter

FREE plugins:
Slate Fresh Air
TDR Kotelnikov
Valhalla Supermassive
Melda Mcharmverb
ChowDSP Chow Tape Model
Polyverse Wider
Analog Obsession: Relife, SweetDrums, BritPre & Britpressor, BritChannel



https://soundcloud.com/user-414219875/y ... a-metaphor

[davi-dj]

My entry for this month.
Finally the "limitations" of making certain percussion sounds drived me to create more and more rhythmic bases:

DAW: Renoise

Internal effects:
Compressor
Eq 5
Eq 10
Digital Filter
Analog filter
mpReverb
Stereo X

External effects:
ValhallaSupermassive
Jb_Broadcast

https://soundcloud.com/davi_dj/winter-solstice

[Darksynth FX]

My submission:

https://soundcloud.com/darksynth-fx/dar ... stant-mind

-12 LUFS Integrated, -1 True Peak Max

DAW: Ableton Live 11 Suite
6x Triple Cheese
9x Ableton EQ8
6x Ableton Utility
2x Tal Reverb 2
1x Voxengo Tube Amp
1x VladG Limiter N°6
1x Reverb (Send)
1x Ableton Simple Delay (Send)

[neverbeeninariot]

Evening all - Here's my submission for OSC#154. This was almost titled 'Brie Runner' but in the end I decided to borrow the name from an old John Cooper Clarke album partly because it fitted with the chosen synth, but mostly because he's a legend (IMO, YMMV).

NeverBeenInARiot - Où Est La Maison de Fromage

Reaper DAW
Triple Cheese (10)

Track FX
TDR Kotelnikov (3)
TDR Nova (3)
u-he Protoverb (1)
Valhala FreqEcho (5)

Master FX
TDR Nova
JS Mid/Side Decoder
JS Mid/Side Encoder
ReaEq (2)
TDR Kotelnikov
ReaLimit
Reaper Loudness Meter Peak/RMS/LUFS

Loudness Stats for Nerds
LUFS-I: -12.6
LUFS-S Max: -10.0
TP: -1.0
PLR: 11.6

I didn't have a lot of time to work on a tune this month, so it's not quite as fully fleshed out as I'd hoped, and possibly a little rough round the edges, but I like the simplicity of it so here we are. Great choice of synth this month, I really like the sound of TC, it doesn't need much in the way of FX's to make it sing (for my simple needs anyway...).

As always, enjoy or not...

[doctorbob]

Since this is the case I will make a new updated version of it but this time with ”real” percussion (korg wavedrum), sampled and physical modeling violins/pianos etc. Fretless guitar and stuff like that - put in a little more effort.

Hi,

Can I just say, first thanks for your soundcloud comment! I am humbled!

I still think you may fall foul of the Normal OSC rules. ALL sounds MUST be made with the synth of the month. No external sounds at all. This means you have to work up your percussion from INIT, or modify supplied presets. Certainly NO SAMPLES, even loading a wavetable synth and playing that sample (e.g. a nice kick, or crash) is simply against the rules. Also, be aware that if you have made a good kick, render it, and then copy/paste that over the track is also NOT allowed. You can only render and freeze a WHOLE track to save cpu.

Hope this helps, but getting your head around the rules sometimes can be a bit awkward.

Put simply. ALL sounds from the synth. NO samples. Take care with external modulating FX so as to not lose the sound of the synth. e.g Valhalla Shimmer would be out of the question.

All the best for the New Year ... let's hope it'll turn out better than the one we have just had.

dB

[SeBaer]

I still think you may fall foul of the Normal OSC rules.

I think you misread @Yadrichik_Chaya's post. As I read it, he's withdrawing that track completely and submitting a totally new track, playing by the rules. That former track he's going to rework not in context of OSC.