One Synth Challenge #162: V-Station by Novation (Plan C Wins!)

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Submissions:
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Welcome to the One Synth Challenge #162! 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! :)




See Contest Page for latest track Submissions, Info, FAQ & More





Classic synth based off the K-Station hardware, with a liquidy filter sound!
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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)
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KV331 Audio : Bundle of Synthmaster One + Synthmaster 2.x!
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Dmitry Sches : Diversion
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NUSofting : 1 Copy of Modelonia v2 Synthesizer
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ChordPak.com : 1x Pro Pack (Up to 3 winners may choose this)
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United Audio Artists : Scratch Master Pro (2 may be chosen per month)
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Yuli Yolo Sound Design : (Top 3 Winners get this) Soundsets for Vital: Diversity, Bass Music Wavetables, Noises & Exciters
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Luftrum : Two Choices: Either 1x NFR software license of either Bioscape or Lunaris, or two soundsets of choice
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Audio Thing : Outer Space (vintage tape echo plugin)
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Guda Audio : Euterpe XL
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JRR Sounds: Any 1 soundset (This is a secondary prize, you may pick it as well as your main prize)
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SoundGym : *NEW* 12 Month Subscription. (SoundGym is a
"technological, personalized and gamified audio learning environment")
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JRR Shop : UVI: Digital Synsations (vintage 90's synth sample library and player)
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Touch The Universe Productions: LuSH-101 Cloud Layers soundset
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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
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Abstract Cats Music : AbiTron Bank for Synthmaster
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satYatunes : One of any commercial product
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Xenos Soundworks : Choice of any 1 product
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Ghostwave Audio : Any two soundsets of Choice
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Twolegs Toneworks : Any one soundset
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Newloops.com : any 3 sound packs of choice (excluding bundles)
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The Unfinished : Any two soundsets of Choice
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Aiyn Zahev Sounds: Any 2 Soundsets of choice from the website (Uplifting Trance Presets)
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Mulperi : 1 Soundbank of Choice
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Bjulin : Inspire soundset for Zebra²
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LeapIntoTheVoid : Enchantment Of Absynth Trilogy
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Solidtrax : 1 Soundset of choice (except for the Future Chill and Space Trips expansions)
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Dream Audio Tools : 1 Indie Fingers bundle (Indie Fingers volumes One and Two)
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Any other offers of prizes will be greatly appreciated. :hail: :hail: :hail:


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.
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I just downloaded it, when it was set free and wanted to pay with it anyway. But didn't get to it yet, due to lack of time....
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"Note that V-Station is no longer in development support and we are aware of issues relating to activation and GUI on Mac OS 10.15 and later that will not be resolved."

Can I just say that I love the concept of OSC, but the choice of these really old abandonware plugins is putting me off wanting to participate.
Pianist, composer. Check out my OSC (One Synth Challenge) entries,
and more  Logic Pro and ııı☰ Ableton Live sequences on SoundCloud.
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cdbaksu wrote: Mon Aug 01, 2022 9:18 pm "Note that V-Station is no longer in development support and we are aware of issues relating to activation and GUI on Mac OS 10.15 and later that will not be resolved."

Can I just say that I love the concept of OSC, but the choice of these really old abandonware plugins is putting me off wanting to participate.
Have you had issues activating the plugin?
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On my PC the interface appears in very small (it happens to me with old plugins not resizable because of the definition of my screen)
Impossible to change the size (except by changing the definition of the screen, but it also changes everything else..) or you have to use the windows magnifying glass, but it’s not practical.
V-Station next to Synth1 :

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cdbaksu wrote: Mon Aug 01, 2022 9:18 pm Can I just say that I love the concept of OSC, but the choice of these really old abandonware plugins is putting me off wanting to participate.
On the contrary, I love it, I love old plugins and see what we can get out of them, but often their interfaces have not aged well.
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Had a few issues installing and authorising this. Some tips for people using M1 Macs:

If you install VStation and it's not showing up in your DAW, try restarting your Mac.

If it crashes when you try to authorise it (after downloading the keyfile), then open your DAW in Rosetta. The plugin may not work properly, but you can probably make out where the 'authorise' button is. Press that and you should be able to install the keyfile. Don't worry about trying to decipher the plugin - reopen your DAW without Rosetta.

That worked for me with Live.
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Hm, no chance to get this running on Linux... oh well, more time to listen to #161 submissions.
Good luck everybody!
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My experience with this synth is that the VST3 version is broken on my PC (using REAPER) when attempting to recall settings, either through the DAW-saved presets, track templates or loading a project file. If you have issues I'd recommend sticking with the VST2 version to see if that fixes anything.
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MyLoFy wrote: Tue Aug 02, 2022 9:47 am Hm, no chance to get this running on Linux... oh well, more time to listen to #161 submissions.
Good luck everybody!
A few days ago I saw this:
glokraw wrote: Wed Jul 13, 2022 5:45 am Novation, maker of hardware and software musician tools, have released their V-station and Bass-Station synths as freeware. :hyper:

In windows-reaper via wine, when first run, there was an 'activation' button
on the V-station screen. Click that, and a web-browser window opens with a url to visit. Go there and a file with a .fnlf extension should be downloaded to your desktop. Back at the V-station prompt, browse to your desktop and select that file to complete the authorization.

I really like the V-Station synth-brass sounds when going through some of the 200 presets, and the basic arpeggiator has a random option to keep stirring the pot. It's always nice when a pro company shares the wealth, so I'll check out their hardware next time I have need and the buying power!
imrae wrote: Wed Jul 13, 2022 7:35 am Interesting. A few years ago I couldn't get V-Station to accept a legitimate .fnlf file on Linux (using REAPER with Wine). Was rather frustrating: the demo worked fine but the DRM didn't!

Maybe WINE has incidentally improved in a way that fixed it?
glokraw wrote: Sat Jul 16, 2022 5:16 am I use wine-staging, and it get's better with every release. Occasionally new issues appear, only to be fixed soon in a new version. SampleTank 4 used to always crash when loading a second layer, but one of the recent wine updates, likely aimed at gamer graphics issues, solved it 'accidentally' :wink:
I hope this helps!
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ChristopherWD wrote: Tue Aug 02, 2022 10:43 am My experience with this synth is that the VST3 version is broken on my PC (using REAPER) when attempting to recall settings, either through the DAW-saved presets, track templates or loading a project file. If you have issues I'd recommend sticking with the VST2 version to see if that fixes anything.
Same issue with VST3. Thank you for mentioning just using VST2. That seems to work fine.
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L-EctroBit wrote: Tue Aug 02, 2022 1:42 pm I hope this helps!
Thanks, it does! Tried again thanks to your post :tu:
Simply had to upgrade wine-staging to the latest version. I was sticking to 6.14 due to a bug that seems to be resolved now. VST3 produces no sound though, but VST2 works just fine.

Now let's see whether this thing sparks any creativity :phones:
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First spin improv with the V-station made today! :hail:

The very first dirty rough draft so obviously lacking proper drums/percussion and many many more things. :hihi:

Only 12 different effects and 38 instances….for now.. :wink:

Edit: Not entering this month :ud:
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Hello Yadrichik, hope everyone is healthy! Also, that's a pretty good sounding less-than-2-day track!
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z.prime wrote: Tue Aug 02, 2022 9:12 pm Hello Yadrichik, hope everyone is healthy! Also, that's a pretty good sounding less-than-2-day track!
Hey man! :hug:
All good, mother fully recovered! :love:
Thanks! Finally my little studio is set up properly so I just downloaded V-Station today and started messing around after inhaling some CBG buds! ;)
Had a real good time making it - 9/4 in 135 bpm, no quantize, grace notes here and there :lol:
Proper entry version will show up sooner or later this month :tu:
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