One Synth Challenge #177: Synful Orchestra & VSCO2 Percussion (silverpants Wins!)

[Impedance Music]

Hey all,

well, this didn't go as planned. I was sure that I was absolutely not going to use Synful and VSCO2 the way it was intended and therefore - also to step out of my comfort zone - I would make a genre that I don't even listen to: hardstyle. And not only did I fail this mission magnificently, my track was barely listenable. So I've spent the last few days before release like today's game developers: by doing damage limitation. Mostly by hiding my failure behind a joke about a robot-conductor going crazy during a concert. So I hope you can at least enjoy this disaster a little and I'm 69.531% sure it still sounds kinda 80s XD

My submission:
https://soundcloud.com/impedancemusic/s ... percussion

Technical Details:
DAW: FL Studio Producer Edition 21.2
Instances VSCO2 Percussion: 06
Instances Synful Orchestra: 21
Total Instances: 27

DAW Effects:
Channel EQ [10]
Fruity Envelope Controller [1]
Fruity Limiter [3]
Fruity Multiband Compressor [1]
Fruity Parametric EQ 2 [6]
Fruity Reeverb 2 [10]
Fruity Stereo Enhancer [4]
Maximus/Soundgoodizer [9]

3rd Party Effects:
Arturia Comp VCA-65 [1]
Arturia EQ Sitral-295 [1]
AXP SoftAmp 300 [1]
AXP SoftAmp GT [1]
kHs Comb Filter [2]
kHs Distortion [2]
kHs Flanger [1]
kHs Formant Filter [2]
kHs Frequency Shifter [2]
kHs Phase Distortion [3]
NI Replika [2]
Ozone 9 Elements [1]
Smartelectronix Supaphaser [1]
TAL BitCrusher [1]
TAL Filter 2 [4]
TAL Tube [1]
xFer OTT [1]
Youlean Loudness Meter 2 [1]

[puma17]

What is the deadline timezone?
Well, it appears first line in the rules - UTC-8

[liqih]

https://soundcloud.com/liqih/her-drawling-pace

8 x Synful Orchestra
2 x VSCO2
Daw: Ableton Live + Delay, EQ-Eight, Reverb, Compressor, Overdrive, Flanger

[Juergen]

Hello, that's my entry for this month

DAW: Studio One 6.5
Instances Synful Orchestra: 12x
Instances VSC02 Percussion: 2x
DAW FX: X-Trem, Beat Delay, Channel Strip, Pro EQ, Limiter
Free 3rd Party Effects: MCompressor2, MComb, MTremolo, Rechoir, Vallhalla Supermassive
Paid 3rd Party Effects: iZotope Neoverb, Scaler EQ, zplane PEEL, Sonible trueBalance

https://soundcloud.com/user-221952934-5 ... al_sharing

Good luck everybody

[MilksterX]

Howdy OSCaroonies!

Here's my submission for this month.
DAW: Bitwig 5.0

Synful x 8

4 drum machines with VCO samples
12 other individual tracks of VCO samples layered for drums and bass sounds

Multiband FX-3
TDR Molotov - Hats / Drum buss / Drum prallel processing
Spectre - Drum track Mid / side saturation
Decapitator - kick and hats
OTT - drum bus
Chowphaser - Drum Bus
The Drop - HP and LP on the drum bus
Decimort 2 - SP1200 preset - all drum tracks
MackEQ - providing drive for various drum sounds
STFU
Wider
SSL console 4000G on all buss
D16 Frontier on Bass Bus
Zaps - Mobilom, Ohmboyz
Zaps - Dubstation 2, Panagement 2

Send FX - Soundtoys SuperPlate - Orchestra

Send FX - Convolution - Orchestra

Send FX - Valhalla Vintage Verb - snares

Mastering
SSL 4000 G, UAD Pultec EQ1A
, P42 Climax Mod x 2 Mid / Side processing,
Pro-Q3, Peakeater, Loudmax x 2

Enjoy!

https://www.soundcloud.com/milksterx/zero-f**ks

EDIT: haha turns out links with swear words in don't work

https://on.soundcloud.com/kLi75

[hennessey]

Entry:
https://soundcloud.com/hennessey/bh9090-exit-183a

7 instances of SynfullOrch in Live 11 with DAW effects: Compressors, Delays, EQ, Saturator, Auto Pan, Auto Filter, Reverbs
3rd Party:Valhalla SuperMassive and Flutter64.

Ambient chill.

[zipidowski]

My entry https://soundcloud.com/zipidowski/all-invited


8 tracks of Synful orchestra and one Bitwig drum machine track of VSCO2 Percussion.

DAW:
Bitwig Studio 5.0.11

FX:
kHs Transient shaper
TDR Nova GE
Initial Clipper
Loudmax
Shaperbox 3
Raum
Wider
Cramit
A1 Trigger gate
Radiance
Gatelab
HY-Delay 4
Blackhole
Supercharger
Replika XT
TDR Limiter 6 GE

[MadMcMan]

Here's my OSC for the month using Synful and the orchestral percussion.
https://soundcloud.com/madmcman/hoedown-hysteria

It's made with the drum samples from the discord and 39 instances of synful.

With the following VSTs and Bitwig tools.
Free:
Airwindows BigAmp (distortion)
Airwindows GlitchShifter (used at 4:34 to mess up that zap)
Airwindows IronClassic2 (mild saturation tape emulation)
Airwindows KplateA
Airwindows LilAmp (distortion)
Airwindows MackEQ (distortion on drums)
Airwindows PurestGain
Airwindows Weight (add some weight to various bass)
BusterSe
Fracture ( for some delays)
Khs 3 band EQ
Khs Bitcrusher (bitcrushing a few things)
Khs CombFilter
Khs Distortion
Khs Filter
Khs Flanger (on some of the pads)
Khs Formant Filter
Khs Non Linear Filter
Khs Phaser (on some of the pads)
Raum
STFU
TDR Nova
Valhalla Supermassive
Wider

Paid:
ADPTR Sculpt
BC MasterDesk
Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor
Silk Vocal Stereo
SmartComp2
TDR Kotelnikov GE
TDR Limiter 6 GE
TDR Molot GE
TDR Nova GE
TDR SlickEQ GE
TDR SlickEQ M

Bitwig:
Arpeggiator
Chain
Compressor
Delay-1
Delay-2
Drum Machine
EQ-2
Gate
Note FX Selector
Note Grid
Note Repeats
Note Transpose
Instrument Layer
Sampler (to load the drum samples provided)
Strum
Tool

[emikaela]

inspired by the design philosophy of graceful degradation, which is about keeping core functionality intact for as long as possible while the thing is breaking down. this got me thinking about disintegrating tape loops and how to compose in a way that retains the most important musical information for as long as possible. which is arguably not what i then ended up doing but that's how it got started. i created a tape eating machine/disintegrating looper in cardinal and fed the "live" instruments into various instances of that, continuously adding more clean recordings to the tape while the old fall apart.

https://soundcloud.com/mikaela-groendah ... egradation

things i used:
bitwig 5.1
12 instances of synful orchestra
6 instances of cardinal (a stereo pair for each section of the orchestra, as pictured, let me know if you want the exact modules used)
kclip zero
cramit
bitwig multibandfx-2
bitwig tool
neoverb
chowtapemodel
klevgrand luxe
ozone 10 elements
tdr nova
tdr kotelnikov ge
khs tape stop
bitwig peak limiter

it's quite long, i know, but i felt like it had to be for the idea to make sense at all. sort of wanted it to keep going for a few more minutes but drew a line at 10.

[BrainBeatMusic]

Hi guys here is my track for the month.

instance 18 Ableton live 11 windows 10
gate,drum buss, msaturator, limiter, utility,kshmr essential kick,Re-enveloper, EQ Eight, Saturator, Glue compressor, Reverb, Auto Filter, Multiband dynamics, compressor, MAGC, Delay, Arpeggiator, note lenght,

https://soundcloud.com/user-783020495/b ... ay-osc-mix

[zarf]

Hi all
My track
https://soundcloud.com/zarf/zarf-wonekut

In Ableton.
FX:
About 17 instances of VSCO and 15 Synful.
Standard Ableton Eqs, compressors, reverbs, utilities on most tracks.
Airwindows toTape and Limiter6.
Aubern Sounds Graillion and Inner Pitch used extensively to re-pitch stuff, including on the master track from time to time.
Tal filter with some modulation of filter on some percs.
Full Bucket delay with modulation for glitchy delay fx.
Full Bucket phasor on some busses, some of the time.
Ohmicide for some distortion on quite a few tracks
STFU somewhere, used for rhythmic fx rather than 'sidechaining'
GClip around the place here and there
I loaded up a few more freebies but I think they were all disabled in the final version.

Enjoy. Going to 'full 11' was a nice change.

[maxym.srpl]

It was a really interesting challenge. It is 4 am, a few hours before the deadline. I'm aware of some imperfections/issues. But have to go to sleep finally I'm worried more about having no more time to make all the ideas into the final song.

On the other hand, I'm shocked listening to other productions. Again, infinite creativity and unexpected sounds from a single source. Impressive.

https://soundcloud.com/michal-maxym-koz ... ll-of-sins

Here is the report from the Reaper7 project generated by my lua script.

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**Instruments:**
|Plugin Name                             |Quantity  |
|----------------------------------------|----------|
|VST3i: SynfulOrchestra (Synful)         |25        |
|VSTi: VSCO2 Percussion (bigcat) (32 out)|1         |

**Effects:**
|Plugin Name                            |Quantity  |
|---------------------------------------|----------|
|JS: ReEQ - Parametric Graphic Equalizer|5         |
|VST3: TB_Reverb_v4 (ToneBoosters)      |2         |
|VST: ReaLimit (Cockos)                 |1         |

**Monitoring plugins:**
|Plugin Name                                    |Quantity  |
|-----------------------------------------------|----------|
|JS: Goniometer                                 |1         |
|JS: Oscilloscope Meter (Cockos)                |1         |
|JS: ReSpectrum                                 |1         |
|VST3: Youlean Loudness Meter 2 (Youlean) (10ch)|1         |
|VST: SPAN (Voxengo) (8ch)                      |1         |

**Offline/inactive plugins:**
|Plugin Name                            |Quantity  |
|---------------------------------------|----------|
|JS: ReEQ - Parametric Graphic Equalizer|1         |
|JS: Volume Adjustment                  |1         |
|VST3: TB_Reverb_v4 (ToneBoosters)      |1         |

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[ELEX]

Time to put this thing to bed. Not to mention myself. So this will have to be it. My entry for OSC 177:

https://soundcloud.com/elex101/elex-in- ... n-crannies

Made in REAPER 7, using:

Synful Orchestra (22); VSCO2 Percussion (7)

ReaEQ (8) ; JS M/S encoder/decoder ; JS Mixer (10) ; TDR Nova (11) ; Protoverb (2) ; HOFA Sytem Pan (4) ; A1 Stereo Control (3) ; PSP Step Delay (4) ; Oril River ; Solaris (2) ; Supermassive ; GClip (2) ; Flux Bittersweet

Ohmforce Mobilohm ; Ummet Ozcan Xpander 3 ; TAL Chorus LX (3) ; Full Bucket Frequence Shifter (2) ; Audio Damage Phase Two (2)

TDR Nova GE (3) ; PSP MasterQ2 ; PSP Xenon (2) ; PSP X-Dither ; TDR Limiter 6 GE ; SSL X-Gate (3) ; Flux Bittersweet Pro (4) ; D16 Tekturon ; Blue Cat Late Replies (5) ; U-he Uhbik-A (4)

[Pretentious K]

Hello dear NightOwls,

This is my contribution to this month's challenge.
Thanks for the feedbacks on Discord that enabled me to tweak a few things here and there.

https://soundcloud.com/kevin-le-grand/h ... al_sharing

Ableton Live 11

Khs Bitcrusher
Khs Distortion
Khs Dual Delay
Khs Filter
Khs Flanger (on some of the pads)
Khs Formant Filter (some)
Khs Ring Mode (some)
Khs Non Linear Filter
Khs Trance Gate
Khs Phaser (on some of the pads)
Khs Pitch Shifter
TDR Nova (all channels or nearly)
OrilRiver (all channels or nearly)
Voxengo SPAN
Wave Magma BB Tubes Stereo
Wider (a few)

Ableton stock Chord generator (Einfach Schoen chords)
Ableton stock Compressor
Ableton stock Compressor => Mix Gel mode
Ableton Delay
Ableton Limiter
Ableton Sampler (to load the drum samples provided)

See you next time around.

Pretentious yours,

PK

[spridgeon]

https://soundcloud.com/user-20530220/sp ... al_sharing
Whenever I try a new synth, my first question is, how do I make it sound like the 70s? That might have been a problem this month, except for the relaxed rules!

24 X Synful Orchestra
1 X VSC02
20 X FabFilter Pro Q 3 for all EQing and some aggressive sound sculpting
7 X Burier
4 X TSAR-1 reverb for, well, reverb
1 X Argotlunar granular reverb for an airy pad
1 X Neutron 4 Transient Shaper because many orchestral instruments have no attack
1 X Neutron 4 Compressor
2 X Valhalla SuperMassive
1 X Stardust 201 Tape Echo
4 X Softube Harmonics
1 X RCompressor
1 X Renaissance Axe
1 X L1 Limiter
Cubase native plugins: EnvelopeShaper, DualFilter, Limiter, Rotary