One Synth Challenge #167: Any One DAW Synth (Taron Wins!)

[Impedance Music]

Hey everyone,

so i finally finished an OSC track.... For some time now... I guess XD
In the last months I always started a new track, but was never really satisfied with it.... But to the looks of it this month it finally worked out
I decided to go with Sytrus, since I started using it recently and thought it sounds pretty decent. And I only used stuff that is included in FL Studio. So here's my usual 1980's retro synthwave thingy. I tried to go a bit more in the Italo disco direction. Hope you like it

https://soundcloud.com/impedancemusic/i ... 167-sytrus

Details:
DAW: FL-Studio 21
BPM: 125
Instances of Sytrus: 26

Effects:
Fruity Parametric EQ2 [18x]
Fruity Stereo Enhancer: [4x]
Fruity Reeverb 2: [4x]
Soundgoodizer: [3x]
Fruity Multibandcompressor: [2x]
Fruity Limiter: [1x]
Fruity PanOMatic: [1x]
Fruity Delay 3: [1x]
Maximus: [1x]

[Juergen]

My submission for this month
Sleepless in Germany Part 4
https://soundcloud.com/user-221952934-5 ... al_sharing

DAW: Studio One 5
Synth: 40x Mai Tai

Native FX:
Limiter
Binaural Pan
Fat Chanel
CTC-1
Splitter
MultiBand Dynamics

Extern FX:
Smart EQ 3
SplitEQ
Balancer
Peel
FabFiler Pro C2
Raum
Objeq Delay 2

[emikaela]

expectation:
finally, i'm going to use this month to properly learn the grid! what a great opportunity!

reality:
https://soundcloud.com/mikaela-groendah ... l-cowbells


9 instances of e-cowbell in bitwig 4.4.6.

additionally,

bitwig:
micro-pitch
delay-2
delay+
convolution

other:
a1stereomodel
chowtapemodel
loudmax
valhalla supermassive

[zicolafaille]

My participation.
https://soundcloud.com/zicolafaillesoun ... al_sharing
In Reason Studio
Synth : Malstrom x13
Fx : Delay (1) + reverb 8

I hope you enjoy it.

[ElVincente]

Nice to see so many tracks this month !

Here's mine too :

https://soundcloud.com/user-637213504/s ... al_sharing

Made in Bitwig using poly grid.
14 sounds made from scratch, with a total of 24 instances.
More details to follow !

Edit :
So I used this Challenge to explore the Grid, man I love this thing, you can go so much in details to adjust every parameter to adjust to your playing, what a pleasure !
Everything has been pretty much played live on my linnstrument then edited (the Arp part I recorded much slowly lol...)
In the Grid I tried to first reproduce a flamenco guitar note I recorded myself. I have to say Guitar synth patch are really challenging. Not that I wished a lot to used that sound really, but as an exercice, and to see what I can get from there. A few changes and I got that Harp and others I did not used in the end, good learning experience.
From that I got this strange almost acoustic music I really enjoyed making. Hope you enjoy listening to it as much ! Looking to listen to yours guys

so here are now more details on the plugins I used
Apqualizer 2
Fircomp
Kclip3
kHz transient Shaper
MSpectralDynamics
MTurboReverb
ValhallaVintageVerb
Panagement 2
Poly grid is used a lot for FXs too

On my master Chain there's
Apunmask
Tdl limiter 6 GE
MSpectralDynamics

And to mix with Headphones I used
Bluecat Re-Head
MFreeFormEqualizer
Bitwig's Convolution

[violator_alba]

Leaving it to the last minute as usual...

This month's effort is using Subtractive in Tracktion Waveform Pro 12. This is a 4 oscillator polysynth with drive, two filters in serial and a number of effects. It has fixed modulation routing but does offer four envelopes and four LFOs. All sounds are created from init. As the synth has a bunch of useable effects built in, not may external effects were used. Aside from ten Subtractive instances, the following plugins were also used:

dpMeter5
Gain3
KClip3
Span
Blackhole
TR5 Opto Comp
TR5 Master EQ-432
TR5 Tascam 388
TR5 Stealth Limiter
TR5 Metering
Scaler

https://soundcloud.com/violator-alba-99 ... al_sharing

[zarf]

My entry... with Ableton Operator
https://soundcloud.com/zarf/zarf-new-beaches
Ableton Live 11
31 Operators
32 Eq 8s
About 10 compressors
2 multiband compressors
2 saturators (clipping only)
3 reverb
1 delay
Voxengo Elephant limiter

[Mike777]

"Lost Sanctuary"
MICHAEL JOHN (aka Mike777)

PSYN came with Cakewalk X3 and Sonar back in 2009 and is described as a 'Vitural Analog' synth that "models a full-featured subtractive synthesizer". It's a 32-bit DXi synth and does run in Cakewalk by Bandlab on my Win 7 64 bit PC, but does not run on a Win10 PC.



My Entry:
Cakewalk by Bandlab on Win7
PSYN II (12 instances)
Cakewalk BREVERB
BT Compressor CP25-3
BT Equalizer BQ25-3
Every instrument is PSYN II including the drums. And the delay.

https://soundcloud.com/mike_jf/mike777- ... al_sharing

[ELEX]

https://soundcloud.com/elex101/osc167-e ... -of-a-loop

Entry for One Synth Challenge 167, made in Waveform 10 Pro, using

Tracktion Collective (19), TDR Nova (15), HOFA System Gain (6), Tal-Dub Delay II (4), A1 Stereo Control (2), Lexicon PCM Concert Hall (1), Lexicon PCM Chamber (2), Lexicon PCM Room (2), U-he Protoverb (1), Limiter No6 (1)

[The Sound Of Merlin]

https://soundcloud.com/thesoundofmerlin ... hin-osc167



For this track I used 17 instances of Subtractor which was the first and only synthesizer in Reason 1.0 back in 2001.

For reverb and delay I used Reason's DDL-1 and RV7000. For creamy long reverbs I used a free plugin by Airwindows named Galactic 64. On the masterbus I used Channev by Analog Obsession which is a free mastering plugin.

[RichardSemper]

Here's my track:
https://soundcloud.com/richard-semper/g ... nth-guitar

Made For KVR OSC 167 - Using Mulab 9
Uses five instances of my new Mux synth Guitar patch, along with my new Synthdrums for kick and snare, my new PolySequence patch for hats and a modified factory sawstrings patch.

Total Instances: approximately 8 (Its modular, so what can you do )
All Fx are mulab.

The Mulab patches can be found here:
https://www.kvraudio.com/product/mulab- ... /downloads

I will make the project file available for anyone who is interested.

[kylebenjamin]

My submission for OSC 167:
https://soundcloud.com/kylebenjamin/kyl ... al_sharing

-Synth-
ReaSynth (one instance. yes, one instance)

-Effects-
ReaEq
ReaComp
ReaXcomp
ReaDelay
ReaVerb
ReaVerberate
ReaPitch (formant filter only)
ReaFir
ReaLimit

This was an experiment to see if ReaSynth was at all useable. While it is rather basic synth, it turns out to not be totally worthless. I'll let my fellow OSCers decide if I made any decent use of it.

Notes to follow...

[kylebenjamin]

My submission for OSC 167:
https://soundcloud.com/kylebenjamin/kyl ... al_sharing

-Synth-
ReaSynth (one instance. yes, one instance)

-Effects-
ReaEq
ReaComp
ReaXcomp
ReaDelay
ReaVerb
ReaVerberate
ReaPitch (formant filter only)
ReaFir
ReaLimit

This was an experiment to see if ReaSynth was at all useable. While it is a rather basic synth, it turns out to not be totally worthless. I'll let my fellow OSCers decide if I made any decent use of it.

Notes to follow...

Additional notes:

I took advantage of the fact that ReaSynth has a separate sine wave generator, so that did double duty as bass and percussion (if I'm allowed to call it that). The rest was mostly a square wave with a modulated pulse width and then colored using the formant filter in ReaPitch, some more filtering with ReaVerb, a fair amount of EQ, and a boatload of automation (26 separate envelopes, if I'm counting correctly). There were the usual sends (reverb, delay) and about half a dozen others (a couple formant filters to create some panning, a homemade formant filter using ReaEQ, and a track with EQ/compression to beef up the bass).

In the end, I have no idea if this experiment worked. I can't tell if it's somewhat listenable or just a grating mess. Regardless, it was a learning experience.

[silverpants]

My submission for OSC 167:

I'm impressed you got that submitted with 1 minute to spare!

[kylebenjamin]

My submission for OSC 167:

I'm impressed you got that submitted with 1 minute to spare!

Thanks! One of these days I'll learn how to not wait til the last minute. Maybe.