One Synth Challenge #171: Apricot by nakst (silverpants Wins!)

[bjporter]

Submissions:
https://soundcloud.com/kvrosc/sets/one- ... llenge-171



Results:
Here




Welcome to the the One Synth Challenge:
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!





This Month's Synth:
"Apricot is a free compact hybrid synthesizer with a massive sound." Note that this is the first time we've done a non-VST synthesizer using the CLAP plugin format, so make sure to read more here







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 $100 (Normally $50, but the last winner passed it on!). (note: this prize may be carried forward to selected OSC challenges until it is won)



Touch The Universe : **New Prize!!!*** Winner has option to receive 50 banks, totaling $1000 USD!!!


Red Rock Sound : **New Prize** Choose 1 Copy of any plugin


NUSofting : **New Prize** Choose 1 Copy of either Sinmad or Echobis


nakst : **New Prize** 1 copy of Integrate (A FL Studio / CLAP format synth only. *Not VST / Standalone*)


discoDSP : 1 copy of Discovery (Up to 2 winners may choose this)


KV331 Audio : Bundle of Synthmaster One + Synthmaster 2.x!


Dmitry Sches : Diversion


ChordPak.com : 1x Pro Pack (Up to 3 winners may choose this)


United Audio Artists : Scratch Master Pro (2 may be chosen per month)


Yuli Yolo Sound Design : (Top 3 Winners get this) Soundsets for Vital: Diversity, Bass Music Wavetables, Noises & Exciters


Luftrum : Two Choices: 1x NFR license of either Bioscape or the new Lunaris 2 (or two soundsets of choice)


Audio Thing : Outer Space (vintage tape echo plugin)


Guda Audio : Euterpe XL


JRR Sounds: Any 1 soundset (This is a secondary prize, you may pick it as well as your main prize)


SoundGym : *NEW* 12 Month Subscription. (SoundGym is a
"technological, personalized and gamified audio learning environment")


JRR Shop : UVI: Digital Synsations (vintage 90's synth sample library and player)


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


Abstract Cats Music : AbiTron Bank for Synthmaster


satYatunes : One of any commercial product


Xenos Soundworks : Choice of any 1 product


Ghostwave Audio : Any two soundsets of Choice


Twolegs Toneworks : Any one soundset


Newloops.com : any 3 sound packs of choice (excluding bundles)


The Unfinished : Any two soundsets of Choice


Aiyn Zahev Sounds: Any 2 Soundsets of choice from the website (Uplifting Trance Presets)


Mulperi : 1 Soundbank of Choice


Bjulin : Inspire soundset for Zebra²


LeapIntoTheVoid : Enchantment Of Absynth Trilogy


Solidtrax : 1 Soundset of choice (except for the Future Chill and Space Trips expansions)


Dream Audio Tools : 1 Indie Fingers bundle (Indie Fingers volumes One and Two)


Any other offers of prizes will be greatly appreciated.


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.

[IV!]

First! Yeah!

[] Peter:H []

Second ...

Are we allowed to use the Samples coming with the SMP module?
1.) Only those in the noise category?
2.) Or all of them?

[RichardSemper]

Second ...

Are we allowed to use the Samples coming with the SMP module?
1.) Only those in the noise category?
2.) Or all of them?

All Samples included in the synth are allowed. Imported samples are prohibited.

[liqih]

Second ...

Are we allowed to use the Samples coming with the SMP module?
1.) Only those in the noise category?
2.) Or all of them?

All Samples included in the synth are allowed. Imported samples are prohibited.

Should we make a fruity track? <kidding>

[hennessey]

So... uhh.... Reaper it is!

[ElVincente]

Oh... I'm definitely in for that one!
I'm looking forward using clap format ability for the first time with bitwig. Great choice !

[violator_alba]

Hmm, graphical weirdness in Tracktion Waveform (Tracktion's menus won't display), weirdness in Cakewalk (ever expanding window) or 8 tracks only in Bitwig...

[BrainBeatMusic]

While I don't think it is a terrible idea to explore using new standards I feel it is a poor time to choose this as an option until it is more widely adopted as an industry standard. As it would seem only to be supported natively by Bitwig Studio and Reaper this gives those who even own a licence to either of them and use them an unfair advantage and I am sure it will put many of us off even trying this month and maybe many will never return which will be a shame.
I do actually own an 8-channel version of Bitwig I have never actually seriously tried it and would make things a bit tricky to make something very interesting but will see what is possible and if I can learn a new DAW in 1 month. I just think we should not be experimenting until a few of the other DAW options support this plugin type natively at least as this competition has as far as I have experienced so far is all about creating as level playing field as possible by many of the restrictions.

[empphryio]

The free Reaper trial has no restrictions. People will be happy to help in the discord or maybe even at KVR.

[liqih]

While I don't think it is a terrible idea to explore using new standards I feel it is a poor time to choose this as an option until it is more widely adopted as an industry standard. As it would seem only to be supported natively by Bitwig Studio and Reaper this gives those who even own a licence to either of them and use them an unfair advantage and I am sure it will put many of us off even trying this month and maybe many will never return which will be a shame.
I do actually own an 8-channel version of Bitwig I have never actually seriously tried it and would make things a bit tricky to make something very interesting but will see what is possible and if I can learn a new DAW in 1 month. I just think we should not be experimenting until a few of the other DAW options support this plugin type natively at least as this competition has as far as I have experienced so far is all about creating as level playing field as possible by many of the restrictions.

I'm using it in Ableton Live via the Ildaeil-win64-v1.2 bridge, works but I can't automate the parameters <sigh>, so yes those already on a CLAP host have some advantage.
https://github.com/DISTRHO/Ildaeil/releases/tag/v1.2

[BrainBeatMusic]

While I don't think it is a terrible idea to explore using new standards I feel it is a poor time to choose this as an option until it is more widely adopted as an industry standard. As it would seem only to be supported natively by Bitwig Studio and Reaper this gives those who even own a licence to either of them and use them an unfair advantage and I am sure it will put many of us off even trying this month and maybe many will never return which will be a shame.
I do actually own an 8-channel version of Bitwig I have never actually seriously tried it and would make things a bit tricky to make something very interesting but will see what is possible and if I can learn a new DAW in 1 month. I just think we should not be experimenting until a few of the other DAW options support this plugin type natively at least as this competition has as far as I have experienced so far is all about creating as level playing field as possible by many of the restrictions.

I'm using it in Ableton Live via the Ildaeil-win64-v1.2 bridge, works but I can't automate the parameters <sigh>, so yes those already on a CLAP host have some advantage.
https://github.com/DISTRHO/Ildaeil/releases/tag/v1.2

Thanks, I have just downloaded it but if you can't Automate anything then I am not sure what the point is. It just to me seems like a good idea in theory but probably from people who natively use one of the supported DAWs and don't use Ableton etc. I tried out using it on my 8-Track Bitwig and it turns out you can only use 2 of them with I think a plugin synth which makes that basically useless. I guess we are going to have to learn to use Reaper now. I do actually have access to a computer with a licenced copy but sadly it is not my home PC.

[NeuKatalYst]

There are also VST and FL-native versions: are we allowed to use the VST or FL versions of the synth? I've already had the FL version installed (it's super fun).

[RichardSemper]

There are also VST and FL-native versions: are we allowed to use the VST or FL versions of the synth? I've already had the FL version installed (it's super fun).

Of course, yes. The FLStudio version may be used. I am not aware of a VST version?

[NeuKatalYst]

There are also VST and FL-native versions: are we allowed to use the VST or FL versions of the synth? I've already had the FL version installed (it's super fun).

Of course, yes. The FLStudio version may be used. I am not aware of a VST version?

You're right, I was confusing it with other available plugins. But I suppose it would help other FL users to say the FL version is ok!