One Synth Challenge #161: Synth1 by Ichiro Toda (Vospi Wins!)

[doctorbob]

@JO - seems perfectly reasonable to me. I have no problem with that.

dB

[silverpants]

Sounds fair enough to me. I agree with the Doctor.

[zipidowski]

My entry

https://soundcloud.com/zipidowski/two-floors

Everything went really well until today. I don´t know what happened but I can´t edit any tracks in my project anymore or else DAW crashes. Happy to get mixdown out of DAW. Track details later...

EDIT:

13 instances of Synth 1

DAW:
Studio One 5 Pro

FX:
Sonalksis FreeG
Raum
OTT
dearVR Micro
TR5 Space Delay
Neold Big Al
Parallel Aggressor
Maag EQ2
TDR Nova
Korvpressor
Loudmax64

Managed to edit my song a bit more but it took time as DAW crashed all the time. This is my final version. Thanks for listening and good luck to you all!

[RichardSemper]

Audio is not supposed to leave the machine it was produced on, if I remember the rules ... ie you can't compose on one machine and mix/master on another ... I think ...

Not sure why this rules exists ...

dB

i know and i wouldn't have done it this way if there would have been a way for me to install this plugin onto my actual system. i even asked here for help but it didn't succeed/there was no answer. to take part in this month's challenge, i decided to reactivate my old setup which gave me a hard time due to the old dual core processor and the limited power (can be heard). without reading back the book of rules i think i can remember that bouncing is allowed if the system is to weak to perform properly. the mixing and mastering on my actual machine didn't alter the original sound to the unrecognisable extend mentioned in the rules.

i leave it to the admins of this month's challenge wether or not i will be dq'ed this time and accept whatever happens, and i hope everybody else is fine with it as well.

cheerz

J O

The rules are clear on this point:
"Audio must not be touched at all once it leaves the DAW (i.e. after bouncing a track or a stem). For example: One cannot master the audio in another software or service."

How will the track sound without any of the effects used in the second DAW?

[treeheated]

Here is my submission. Brutal feedback please!

https://soundcloud.com/treeheated/heist-planning

I tried to make a bit of glitchy percussion. It's not quite as cool as some of the stuff I have heard that made me want to try it, but I feel like I did OK, considering that normally you would use some kind of buffering plugin, but I had to do it all with a combination of the sound design and spamming notes.

The CPU efficiency of Synth1 is seriously impressive. 36 instances and my CPU usage rarely got above 3% - cf. Kontour (a Reaktor synth, which I used in the any synth round) which used almost 3% per instance.

Work time: 28h.

Plugin counts:
- VST3: OrilRiver (Denis Tihanov) x1
- VST3: TDR Nova (Tokyo Dawn Labs) x1
- VST: ReaComp (Cockos) x2
- VST: ReaEQ (Cockos) x2
- VST: ReaLimit (Cockos) x3
- VSTi: Synth1 VSTi (Daichi) x36

[phankiejankie303]

Ok I had so much fun revisiting and designing sounds with this gem of a synth that I almost forgot you also have to make a tune out of it...

So here is my entry for this month.

All sounds made from scratch with Synth1 vst instrument.

x19 instances of Synth1

FX List

MAXBAX
FerrickTDS mkii
LoudMax

GClip
x3 Freeclip
dBComp
KSHMR Essentials Kick
Initial Clipper
x3 FirComp
x2 ReaEQ
TAL Filter 2
SequencAIR
PreBOX
Panstation
x2 Wider
epicPLATE
HY Delay 4 Free

https://soundcloud.com/user-38230094/na ... al_sharing

[VCA-089]

Here is my submission:
https://soundcloud.com/vca-089/dystopiatoday

Working with Synth1 is like meeting an old friend. You know exactly what to expect from it, yet still it can surprise you with something new. I stated my whole music making hobby five years ago with this instrument. I even found my old presets, created in 2017, which I used in this track. Some of those sounds still couldn't be matched by commercial instruments. There is some magic behind the code of Synth1, especially in the effects section. I definitely could make a whole album with it.

And it also can make one of the most realistic electric guitar sounds (among free software).

39 instances of Synth1 used. Some instruments were created by layering two or more instances. All sounds from "initial sound".

Some commercial FX were used.

Technical details:

Produced in FL Studio 20.9.2

Native Effects:

x10 Parametric EQ 2
x11 Delay 3
x1 Love Philter
x1 Stereo Enhacer
x3 PanOMatic
x1 Wave Candy
x1 dB Meter
x2 Layer

VST Effects:

x11 AdHd "Leveling Tool"
x11 Thomas Mundt "LoudMax"
x1 D16 "Frontier"
x1 TDR "Kotelnikov"
x2 TDR "Nova"
x19 TDR & VoS "Slick EQ GE"
x1 VoS "epicVerb"
x2 VoS "epicPLATE"
x1 Eventide "Blackhole"
x2 U-He "ColourCopy"

Master Chain:

TDR "Nova"
TDR "Limiter №6 GE"

Total:

x39 Generators
x82 Effects
x28 MIDI Patterns
x28 Mixer Tracks
No Audio Clips
x24 Automation Clips

[ELEX]

Audio is not supposed to leave the machine it was produced on, if I remember the rules ... ie you can't compose on one machine and mix/master on another ... I think ...

Not sure why this rules exists ...

dB

Going to hazard a guess on that question:
To prevent participants from using multiple DAWs solely for the FX that come with those DAWs ?
Would make sense to me.

[Boy Wonder]

I dragged my foot with Synth1 because, to be honest, the UI didn't exactly inspire creativity in me. I'd known about the synth for years but I guess the hypocrite in me likes nice, shiny, sexy beasts like Serum and Sylenth1, especially with the various skins I use. Still, I d/l it today after all these years and gave it a whirl. Indeed, it sounds good and is a walk in the park to program. Alas, I was rushing to make the deadline, thought the song I came up with was meh, and chucked it. I'll see next month what the new OSC is.

[Leonard Bowman]

I joined OSC one round too late to join the previous Synth1 round, so here I am now, with 4 years more experience to make me aware of how rough this mix is. Really I'm just happy to have time to make music right now, and what happens from it doesn't matter to much.

https://soundcloud.com/anotherbenjamin/arkady

28 instances of Synth1 in REAPER 6, plus:

3 instances of Valhalla Supermassive
5 Instances of GClip
--and the rest is all reaper native stuff, I just moved to a new computer and haven't moved my VST collection over yet--
7 instances ReaComp
8 instances ReaEQ
ReaGate
Digital Drum Compressor
Event Horizon Limiter/Clipper
Soft Clipper/Limiter
Express Bus Compressor
and of course ReaLimit at the very end

[The Chase]

Is OSC hype waning? The last Synth 1 thread had twice as many pages by the 30th and much more submissions.

I might start promoting OSC off-site for some revamped attention.

[empphryio]

Just had the most ever entries (69) a couple months ago. OSC 158.

[loris16148]

https://soundcloud.com/user-87727874/ritual

Created in Reaper

Of all the free synths loved by the crowds, I hate this one the most.
Tried to create something unique and off genre.

Used 45 instances of Synth 1.

ReaEQ
REaFIR
ReaComp
TransientController
ReaLimit
DDDelay
DDUtility
DDFilter
Raum
OrilRiver

[The Chase]

Just had the most ever entries (69) a couple months ago. OSC 158.

That's good to know, thank you.

[photonic]

Hi all,

When I saw that Synth1 is the snyth for this month, I knew I have to make a track. Synth1 feels like an old friend of mine, capable of making amazing sound in great variety.
The second great thing in the last weeks was the first light of the James Webb Telescope. As an astrophotograper I couldn`t wait to see them. And I was not disappointed. So I combined those two things by making a track to celebrate those first images, reflecting their beauty and magnificence.

https://soundcloud.com/photonic-1/photonic-first-light

20 instances of Synth1 in Reaper v5.99

Dynamics: Presswerk, Transpire
Filter: ReaEQ, MQ57
Delays: NastyDLA
Reverb: TALRevIII, Deelay, Verberate 2
Satturation: Thrillseeker XTC, Green Eugen2
Stereo: MidSideMangler
Analyzer: SPAN, Youlen Loudnessmeter 2