One Synth Challenge #170: Octasine by Joakim Frostegård (exponent1 Wins!)

[Impedance Music]

Hi All!

Here is my submission:
https://soundcloud.com/impedancemusic/f ... 0-octasine

The title of this track describes my struggle over the past few weeks. Sometimes life presents us with challenges that we have to overcome, especially when it's not fair in our own opinion 100% objectively by fact. Then it's up to us to hold our heads up, keep our heads up and movin' on. Why does Eurhythmics Sweet Dreams start playing in my head?

Octasine (v0.8.6 - VST3) worked pretty well on my Windows 10 in FL Studio 21.0. No crashes, had no bugs and performance was ok too. FL Studio became noticeably slower after 40 instances, but was far from unusable.

Some technical stuff:
DAW: FL Studio 21
Instances: 44
All sounds are made from scratch

DAW FX:
Fruity Compressor [1x]
Fruity Delay 2 [2x]
Fruity Limiter [5x]
Fruity Multiband Compressor [3x]
Fruity Parametric EQ2 [21x]
Fruity Reeverb 2 [11x]
Fruity Stereo Enhancer [7x]
Maximus [1x]
Soundgoodizer [2x]

Free FX:
Analog Obsession Lovend [1x]
Analog Obsession SweetDrums [2x]
kHs Delay [2x]
kHs Transient Shaper [2x]
LoudMax [1x]
NastyDLAmkII (No Saturation/Chorus) [1x]
TAL Reverb 2 [3x]
Valhalla Supermassive [1x]
Youlean Loudness Meter 2 [1x]

Hope you enjoy it!

[empphryio]

https://soundcloud.com/anotherjaysherma ... al_sharing
This is my OSC 170 submission. Not the earlier one. This one.

Reaper. 24 instances with SPAN, Bass Professor, ReaEQ, Kiloheartz distortion, and transient shaper, epicplate, supermassive, gclip, master_me, FRANK, OTT, A1 stereocontrol, STFU, A1 triggercontrol, dragonfly hall reverb, spaceship delay, panagement2, cocoa delay, luftikus, bluearp, TDR nova, ReaComp, LoudMax.

I would appreciate critical comments.

Edit to add: thanks again The Never Scene for the harmonica preset. I had a track in the style of Winston's Diary but I just wasn't happy with it. Couldn't finish it.
Edit 2: external pitch shifter for chorus effect removed.

[BrainBeatMusic]

Hi guys, I hope you enjoy my entry for this month called Canoist. I will post here with the final info shortly.

Sorry for posting this info possibly late.
Here is what I used to make my track I used 16 instances of Octasine in Ableton Live with the following plugins. Utility, Compressor, Limiter, KSHMR Essentials Kisck, Drum Buss, LoudMax, EQ Eight, Glue Compressor, Reverb, Saturator, Multiband Dynamics, Spectrum, Ozone Imager 2, Arpeggiator, Master_me, Youlean Loudness meter 2

https://soundcloud.com/user-783020495/c ... al_sharing

[MrFusionAus]

https://soundcloud.com/mrfusionaus/octa ... RKyVIXnfc8

Here's my house track I wrote for this challenge. I just recently switched over from Ableton Live to Bitwig and this is the first track I've finished in Bitwig. I wrote most of it with the first version of the Synth (no saw wave or pitch bend) and later on went back and tweaked it a bit. Sorry about the length!

DAW: Bitwig
Octasine x 31

Bitwig Devices:
Drum Machine
EQ+
Compressor
Dynamics
Harmonic Split
Delay+
Delay-1
Delay-2
Filter
Tool
Stereo Split
Time Shift
Vocoder
Peak Limiter
Distortion
Saturator
Reverb
Multiband FX-3
Arpeggiator
Note Repeats
Various Modulators - Classic LFO, ADSR

VST:
Voxengo Span
MAnalyzer
Limiter No6
*edit forgot about Spaceship Delay and Psyscope

Thanks!

[silverpants]

My submission "Poodle In The Ruliad"

https://soundcloud.com/slugnest/poodle- ... al_sharing

Elvis The Poodle woke up in a strange land where everything was patterns on a grid. He knew he shouldn't have eaten that dead frog he found behind the shed.

Then the Dog-Angel Wolfram came down from high and spake thus: "Energy is the flux of causal edges through space-like hyper-surfaces".

Elvis wondered how he would have a proper nap in a place like this.
"Where am I, Dog-Angel Wolfram"?

"All universes are just patterns on a hyper-graph. Each universe has it's own updating rule. You have now stepped outside, to the space of all possible rules - the RULIAD".

Elvis thought this was all very nice, but he decided to have a nap and wait for that frog to go through him.
He wasn't sure he wanted to be a Poodle In The Ruliad.

22 Instances of Octasine. All sounds designed from scratch.
DAW: Reaper.
FXs:
Dead Duck: Limiter, Filter, MonoDelay
ReaEQ, ReaXComp, OrilRiver Reverb, Valhalla Supermassive Delay, Limiter No6, SPAN, YouLean Loudness Meter.

[Neptune]

Hi, here is my submission.

https://soundcloud.com/user-570157220/o ... al_sharing

I really enjoyed using OctaSine.
V 0.8.6 worked quite well in Cubase.

22x Octasine FM Synthesizer
Daw: Cubase 11 Pro
Stock Cubase Effects: MB Compressor (1) Brickwall Limiter (1), Stereo Delay (11), RoomWorks Reverb (19), Frequency EQ (18)
3rd Party Plugins: BlueARP (1), Couture (2), Fire (1), RoughRider3 (1), PanCake2 (1)

[liqih]

This piece came by itself, while making sound with Octasine
and from echoes from my mind.
After that I felt it needed a Taiwanese title.
When trying various names I discovered Wang Ying,
Wang Ying is the name of a composer, but also the name of an Erhu player
and also of another female singer.
Exmple of music by composer Wang Ying:

orchestra and synthesizer.

"Wang Ying Dub" was composed in Ableton Live
using 9 Octasine VSTs.
Stock effects:Delays, EQ-Eight, Compressor, Reverb.
Usual limiter on master MAX 1 freeware.
[Note, basses goes down to 40 Hz]

The picture is from a painting by Suling Wang.
So to stay in Taiwanese zone again.

https://soundcloud.com/liqih/wang-ying-dub

[liqih]

Plugin author here! Lots of great ideas for improvements in this thread.

MIDI pitch bend support will land very soon, as well as the option of having LFOs start at random phases. Apart from that, I will try not to release new features for the remaining duration of the month

Hey, I really enjoyed the Octasine sound, my feature request is about having control on velocity sens per oscillator and also ability so set pitch tracking off, that's fixed tuning for any note on selected osc.Thanks.

[NeuKatalYst]

My submission for OSC 170: DnB with Octasine and free/stock effects~

From Function Loops:


https://soundcloud.com/neu-katalyst/neu ... sc-170-dnb

Octasine x17

(FL) Frequency Shifter x1 Removed in current version
(FL) MIDI Out x1
Burier x2
DC1A3 x2
Dynastia x1
FerricTDSmkII x1
Fresh Air x1
Fruity Balance x6
Fruity Blood Overdrive x3
Fruity Delay Bank x3
Fruity Love Philter x1
Fruity PanOMatic x1
Fruity Parametric EQ 2 x21
Fruity Peak Controller x2
Fruity Stereo Shaper x1
Fruity Surface x2
kHs Bitcrush x1
kHs Formant Filter x3
kHs Gain x2
kHs Haas x2
kHs Ladder Filter x1
kHs Nonlinear Filter x1
kHs Trance Gate x1
kHs Transient Shaper x3
LoudMax x1
Rift Feedback Lite x1
STFU x2
ValhallaSupermassive x11
Vapor x1
Wider x2

[exponent1]

My submission for OSC 170: DnB with Octasine and free/stock effects~

From Function Loops:


https://soundcloud.com/neu-katalyst/neu ... sc-170-dnb

Octasine x17

(FL) Frequency Shifter x1
(FL) MIDI Out x1
Burier x2
DC1A3 x2
Dynastia x1
FerricTDSmkII x1
Fresh Air x1
Fruity Balance x6
Fruity Blood Overdrive x3
Fruity Delay Bank x3
Fruity Love Philter x1
Fruity PanOMatic x1
Fruity Parametric EQ 2 x21
Fruity Peak Controller x2
Fruity Stereo Shaper x1
Fruity Surface x2
kHs Bitcrush x1
kHs Formant Filter x3
kHs Gain x2
kHs Haas x2
kHs Ladder Filter x1
kHs Nonlinear Filter x1
kHs Trance Gate x1
kHs Transient Shaper x3
LoudMax x1
Rift Feedback Lite x1
STFU x2
ValhallaSupermassive x11
Vapor x1
Wider x2

Hey nice track! To my knowledge, pitch shifters and frequency shifters are not allowed FX. Also external filters esp. the formant filter can be a bit of a grey area, since this synth doesn't have any filters inbuilt. It probably depends on how you're using the filters, whether for mixing or are modulating them for sound design.

I'm not sure what Vapor is, but if it's a chorus effect, that too is not allowed. Would be nice that you once check the rules on effects usage here: https://sites.google.com/site/kvrosc/rules, just to ensure that you're compliant. All the very best!

[zipidowski]

My entry

https://soundcloud.com/zipidowski/hero

8 instances of Octasine

DAW:
Studio One 5 pro

FX:
Sonalksis FreeG
kHs Transien shaper
kHs 3 band eq
kHs Trance gate
TDR Nova
Tal Recerb 2
A1 Trigger Gate
Cramit
Hy-Delay 4 free
Wider
PanCake2
LoudMax64

[NeuKatalYst]

My submission for OSC 170: DnB with Octasine and free/stock effects~

From Function Loops:


https://soundcloud.com/neu-katalyst/neu ... sc-170-dnb

Octasine x17

(FL) Frequency Shifter x1
(FL) MIDI Out x1
Burier x2
DC1A3 x2
Dynastia x1
FerricTDSmkII x1
Fresh Air x1
Fruity Balance x6
Fruity Blood Overdrive x3
Fruity Delay Bank x3
Fruity Love Philter x1
Fruity PanOMatic x1
Fruity Parametric EQ 2 x21
Fruity Peak Controller x2
Fruity Stereo Shaper x1
Fruity Surface x2
kHs Bitcrush x1
kHs Formant Filter x3
kHs Gain x2
kHs Haas x2
kHs Ladder Filter x1
kHs Nonlinear Filter x1
kHs Trance Gate x1
kHs Transient Shaper x3
LoudMax x1
Rift Feedback Lite x1
STFU x2
ValhallaSupermassive x11
Vapor x1
Wider x2

Hey nice track! To my knowledge, pitch shifters and frequency shifters are not allowed FX. Also external filters esp. the formant filter can be a bit of a grey area, since this synth doesn't have any filters inbuilt. It probably depends on how you're using the filters, whether for mixing or are modulating them for sound design.

I'm not sure what Vapor is, but if it's a chorus effect, that too is not allowed. Would be nice that you once check the rules on effects usage here: https://sites.google.com/site/kvrosc/rules, just to ensure that you're compliant. All the very best!

I participated last month and still have the rules bookmarked.

Vapor is Audio Damage's legacy diffuser - basically a very small/short reverb.

Aware of the rules on pitch-shifting, I actually used the frequency shifter on a mixed, small value. It is more for tone, not self-modulation (ie as a chorus, etc). EDIT: to be absolutely safe, the frequency shifter has been removed in its current version.

As for various filter types, the rules page isn't explicit on their usage, as far as I can tell - especially because the synth doesn't have any of its own.

If anybody in charge sees this in time and has problems, I'll make changes, but all plugins were chosen with the rules and limitations in mind (not using the shifter to "shift," etc).

[NeuKatalYst]

Update: my submission, as well as the original post with my submission and my reply to exponent1 expressing their concerns, have been edited to remove the frequency shifter that was addressed.

[exponent1]

I participated last month and still have the rules bookmarked.

Vapor is Audio Damage's legacy diffuser - basically a very small/short reverb.

Aware of the rules on pitch-shifting, I actually used the frequency shifter on a mixed, small value. It is more for tone, not self-modulation (ie as a chorus, etc). EDIT: to be absolutely safe, the frequency shifter has been removed in its current version.

As for various filter types, the rules page isn't explicit on their usage, as far as I can tell - especially because the synth doesn't have any of its own.

If anybody in charge sees this in time and has problems, I'll make changes, but all plugins were chosen with the rules and limitations in mind (not using the shifter to "shift," etc).

Update: my submission, as well as the original post with my submission and my reply to exponent1 expressing their concerns, have been edited to remove the frequency shifter that was addressed.

Hey mate, I have no concerns whatsoever! I personally do not really care what effects you choose to use and how.

It's simply that I saw some potentially problematic plugins and seeing that you're a newer participant, was just offering friendly suggestions with regards to the general FX rules to avoid any trouble later. I'm just speaking from experience, since I have done this challenge a few times in the past.

It's all good, you've made a nice tune and all the very best!

[NeuKatalYst]

Hey mate, I have no concerns whatsoever! I personally do not really care what effects you choose to use and how.

It's simply that I saw some potentially problematic plugins and seeing that you're a newer participant, was just offering friendly suggestions with regards to the general FX rules to avoid any trouble later. I'm just speaking from experience, since I have done this challenge a few times in the past.

It's all good, you've made a nice tune and all the very best!

I totally understand there wasn't meant to be any ignition from your reply, but it got me thinking about playing it safe this close to the deadline. This just means I actually appreciate you looking out for me as a newer participant!

So once again (to onlookers): the frequency shifter was removed, but Vapor and the filters remain.