One Synth Challenge #159: Surge XT (j5v Wins!)

[Rahodees]

accidental double post

[Boy Wonder]

I voted.

[rockingricky]

Voted again

[markheath]

added vote

[treeheated]

Re-voted

[Yadrichik_Chaya]

Re-voted. It was a very simple movement of placing just one track in the 5 pts
column, obviously nothing advanced like solving the Abstract Egguation regarding an Axis Tilt One of my favorites!

Wow! Many many thanks for all the comments both here in the thread and on Soundcloud!
Deeply appreciated!

Goes to show what kind of great people OSCers are beyond everything music related:
Coolest crew on the internet!

BTW I bought Fluid Chords by Pitch Innovation last month but only downloaded the installer, haven't tried it yet, but next to the installer there is a link to Surge XT.

Fluid Chords won the 2022 MIDI Innovation awards in the Commercial Software category a few days ago. I will use it with my Roland FC-300 while playing midi guitar - one pedal for pitch up, the other pedal for pitch down…

Please check it out if you have the time, I'm sure most of you would like to experiment with pitch bending from one chord to another


@liqih thank you very much for the soundcloud message!
I'm buying NUsofting's Echobis this month (on sale now for only €9)
Since my fretless guitar is hexaphonic I can together with the Boss SY-1000 process each string individually in a DAW. So I can use 6 different instances of Echobis : Polyrhythmic Creative Delay… each instance doing a different polyrhythmic thing to each string hahaha…and I'm not restricted to only guitar sounds(!)
I'll upload some insane demos of doing this a few months from now!

Take care everybody!

[L-EctroBit]

Re-voted!

[Abstract Egg]

Voted again. I do wonder how an entry could have been missed and not been picked up until after the competition voting time had ended? Did (I forget the name of the person) not realise their track was not in the list? How did the organisers not pick it up earlier too? seems odd to me but for sure if the entry was valid it should be counted for sure.

Hello, my entry got missed probably because I'm new with the whole workflow here. I had noticed it was missing, but had contacted the wrong person. By the time I got a reply, the deadline was passed, and I had friends staying over and a concert to prepare and play yesterday (I'm also a double bass player), so I kind of let it slide. I did vote all the other entries though. Not helping is that I changed my artist name 2 years ago from Abstract Egg to Scaradise, but I haven't quite figured out a way yet to change my username on KVR accordingly. I guess someone must have picked up on this fact, because to my own surprise I'm reading all these comments on my track after I had another peak online last evening. I want to thank everyone who reads this for bearing with me, for understanding my little cock-up and for the massively positive feedback I'm getting! It's really heartwarming, I never had this much reactions to a track. You've made my day, y'all!!

[The Sound Of Merlin]

Welcome on board Scaradise!

[ELEX]

Welcome, indeed !

as for:

...I changed my artist name 2 years ago from Abstract Egg to Scaradise, but I haven't quite figured out a way yet to change my username on KVR accordingly...

see: viewtopic.php?t=405846

[Abstract Egg]

Welcome on board Scaradise!

Thank you! This seems like a nice community to me

[Abstract Egg]

Voted again. I do wonder how an entry could have been missed and not been picked up until after the competition voting time had ended? Did (I forget the name of the person) not realise their track was not in the list? How did the organisers not pick it up earlier too? seems odd to me but for sure if the entry was valid it should be counted for sure.

It was in a reply - see below - so it must have looked like it was a response to a previous entry when R&B were compiling the list. Looks like Abstract Egg is new to the competition so may not have understood how voting works. I don't know if they've voted though (they don't seem to have any 'latest comments' on Soundcloud) and it would be a shame if they were disqualified for not voting!

My entry for KVR OSC #159:
https://soundcloud.com/scaradise/abstra ... lt-osc-159


Made in Ableton Live 11.1

19 instances of Surge XT, many started out as mods from an existing preset, some made from scratch. I will however always perform at least a few, often many, tweaks when using presets.
EQ Eight (EQ8), EQ Three (EQ3), Compressor, Utility, Glue Compressor, Limiter, Channel EQ, Gate, Dynamic Tube, Echo and Hybrid Reverb are all stock plugins.

Plucks & Keys Group:
• Cirrus Cloud - MEqualizer, Max Re-Enveloper, Rough Rider3
• Sin Ring Mod - Son EQ
• Big Church - EQ8
Leads & Arps Group:
• Dryosaurus - Gate, EQ3, TDR Nova
• K-Linn Wurly - EQ8, Max Track Stereo Pan, Klanghelm IVGI2, MCompressor, Elysia Niveau Filter
• FM Bass K1 - Glue Compressor, Utility
Drums Group: Klanghelm DC1A
• Folded Kick + Mort Kick Mod - Utility, Glue Compressor
• Bowman Snare + Snare Room 1 Mod - Dynamic Tube, TDR VOS Slick EQ, Klanghelm MJUCjr
• Hihat Buss - Compressor, EQ8, Utility
• Cymbals Buss: FM Crash - Utility + WT Cymbal - EQ8, Utility
• Max Bouncy Notes (MIDI effect) - Surge PPG Perc 3 - SonEQ, Compressor
FX Group: EQ8
• Space Cadet
• Noise Up - EQ8
• Drone Melancholy - EQ8
• Slow-mo Samurai - EQ8
Rotary Reverb (Surge as an Effect Processor) - Channel EQ goes to SEND A

SEND B: Hybrid Reverb, Channel EQ, Rough Rider3
SEND C: Hybrid Reverb, Channel EQ
SEND D: Protoverb, MBandPass, Utility
SEND E: Echo, Channel EQ, Max Color Limiter, Utility

MASTER: Utility, Glue Compressor, Limiter, Spectrum

Don't worry, I had listened and voted every track even before I falsely assumed I was going to be disqualified because I missed the deadline due to my own mistake. Some gems in there too, I might add! Although I'm a member since '18 I have only gone in depth with KVR since this competition, so still finding my way here. Very encouraging though, the way people deal with one another here is very respectful. So I guess I will participate more if the challenge appeals to me. Thank you to whoever took the effort to set this straight after noticing something had gone wrong and extending the vote, and thank you for all the nice comments on my track! Really grateful person here!

[Abstract Egg]

Welcome, indeed !

as for:

...I changed my artist name 2 years ago from Abstract Egg to Scaradise, but I haven't quite figured out a way yet to change my username on KVR accordingly...

see: viewtopic.php?t=405846

Cheers, I will get to that!

[Abstract Egg]

Although waiting longer for the final result is hard, I find it a sympathic approach to honestly name a tiny fault and give a fair chance to the lost entry! Respect! And I can imagine, that looking through 30+ forum pages for an entry is not the easiest job, but the two of you do that every month ... Thank you!
My only effort was openening the voting page once again an listen to one more track. Done!
And did I mention: Waiting longer is hard ....

I second that!

[Double Tap]

Don't worry, I had listened and voted every track even before I falsely assumed I was going to be disqualified because I missed the deadline due to my own mistake. Some gems in there too, I might add! Although I'm a member since '18 I have only gone in depth with KVR since this competition, so still finding my way here. Very encouraging though, the way people deal with one another here is very respectful. So I guess I will participate more if the challenge appeals to me. Thank you to whoever took the effort to set this straight after noticing something had gone wrong and extending the vote, and thank you for all the nice comments on my track! Really grateful person here!

I saw there was more activity after people starting voting on your track. It's quite an effort to vote on the volume of tracks you get with a popular synth so it would have been a huge shame if it hadn't counted.