One Synth Challenge #156: Synister by QUL at the University of Berlin / Open Source (Voting Started!)

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https://soundcloud.com/kvrosc/sets/one- ... llenge-156


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Welcome to the One Synth Challenge #156! 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!


A student project from the University of Berlin's Quality & Usability Lab! This synth advertises as "Modulation made easy".






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)



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


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


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 : *NEW* 12 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


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


Newloops.com : any 3 sound packs of choice (excluding bundles)


The Unfinished : Any two soundsets of Choice


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


Mulperi : 1 Soundbank of Choice


Bjulin : Inspire soundset for Zebra²


LeapIntoTheVoid : Enchantment Of Absynth Trilogy


Solidtrax : 1 Soundset of choice (except for the Future Chill and Space Trips expansions)


Dream Audio Tools : 1 Indie Fingers bundle (Indie Fingers volumes One and Two)


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]

Ah crap, that's one synth I deinstalled because I really disliked it...

[ELEX]

Oh no ! Now you're missing out on all the wonderful modulation distortion and aliasing it has to offer It has nice and flexible EGs, though. I like those.

[IV!]

It has a convenient structure similar to the old NoiseMaker interface, but its sounds... I do not know, have to try to do something myself. So far it sounds like a super modulatable lo-fi synth)

[SeBaer]

Coming from a "usability lab" it seems to me like a study which mistakes to avoid. I think I can find a better occupation this month. Like eating glass shards.

[ELEX]

...but its sounds... I do not know...

It sounds as if there's no oscillator interpolation whatsoever. Just raw waveforms.
And watch out for the master volume slider. It starts at maximum, rapidly causing distortion.

[z.prime]

eating glass shards.

[Taron]

Yup, that one might need oversampling, but then it seems rather CPU hungry as it is already?!
Definitely don't use SAW without a bit of triangle up!
Then, why not have a click anywhere on those massive bars to expand/collapse? Weird.
Other than that, it seems like a very usable little synth at first goof. We've definitely had worse!

[SeBaer]

We've definitely had worse!

I'm inclined to disagree. I mean Kuma 508 was bad, but at least a little quirky. This one is the Wurst.

[Taron]

Clearly you don't remember Mantra Evo ...but there were others I dislike so much, I can't even remember their names (denial). But give it a few days. Maybe I'll end up agreeing with you?!

[FrogsInPants]

A few months ago, I settled on the title The Gross Dozen for this OSC numbering one gross and dozen. My one hope has been for a synth I can tease some kind of gross sounds out of. I only had a dozen or so minutes to play with it last night, but so far I'm finding the results surprisingly encouraging. (And no, I'm not just making a joke about it sounding bad.)

[davi-dj]

Well, let's get down to work and let's see what this synthesizer is capable of giving us

[O Caiçara]

This one is gonna be my first OSC, let's see what we can do w/ this

[Taron]

THIS IS YOUR FIRST? I'm sooooooooo sorry, hahahaha. I've been playing with this synth now for about an hour and.... I sort of stand corrected: It's really pretty bad. And this is me in a good mood!

Yeah, I honestly don't think, who ever writes this knows anything about DSP processing and sort of wings it somehow. I remember my first time playing around with sound (119 years ago, give or take) and I went at it naively only to realize that sound is fickle and you have to overcome the flaw of raw digital signals with wise routines not only to avoid aliasing, but also to create proper tones and thereby proper saturation of frequencies among other things. This synth is like a first time sample playing exploration with first time filter experimenting, trying to think up resonance (or imagining what might be meant by that) and plucking some modulation options into it. I would give it a friendly "Great Job", now have a look at how one writes proper audio routines or consider exploring a bit more how this might work! Good start, though, really, great start. One day you may actually release one to the public and they'll love it! ...ahm, sorry, I got a little carried away there.

I don't mind the GUI, really, if the rest was decent it would possibly be great, actually! Different, but nice and workable! Sound, however, nope!

[silverpants]

Well, we're all in the same boat at least! Will be interesting to see how people tame the beast
I've never heard of the synth. But I agree with FrogsInPants - I'm excited about some possible 'gross' sounds. That's just a matter of taste though.
This will be my second ever submission!