One Synth Challenge #178: Vaporizer2 by Vast Dynamics (Exponent1 Wins!)

[neverbeeninariot]

Congrats to exponent1, ZioMau, gethiox, NeuKatalYst, great tracks all - and also crispy88 (don't know why disqualified, but fantastic work on the track!).

It looks like Crispy did not vote - their name is missing from the data tab.

[exponent1]

Firstly thanks a lot to Richard and Brian for organizing the challenge.

Hearty Congratulations to ZioMau, gethiox, zarf, carl and NeuKatalYst. Also to crispy, but he got DQed unfortunately. Best wishes to everyone who participated this round and made a lot of diverse and nice music.

As my prize I would like the 12 months subscription to SoundGym please.

Thanks, and hopefully see you all next time.

[zarf]

As my prize I would like the 12 months subscription to SoundGym please.

Surely you don't need more skills?

[davi-dj]

Congrats to the winners. I have to admit that my position is much better than I expected so thank you.
And thanks to Richard and Brian for this great contest and to VAST Dynamics for their beast Vaporizer2.
See you next month.

[exponent1]

Surely you don't need more skills?

I sure do!

[Korg Supporter]

Congratulations to everyone who got high scores! I was delighted to find that my entry was the first to be ranked above the bottom 10!

Edit: I found out that my track for the Surge XT challenge, "Remnants of Spring", is in the 6th lowest position (50/55). So my entry for December's challenge was not the first to be above the bottom 5.

[MATCHER]

Congrats to the winners!

[Borbolactic]

Hi guys. Just some questions with a couple WRT the front page of the challenge:

1. It says ("...Vaporizer 2 is a free open-source software synthesizer for Mac and Windows. with 2 wavetable oscillators plus noise and sub...") that Vaporizer2 has 2 wavetable OSC, but does it actually have four?
2. Second, it says that 'Exponent1' won, but in the list, there is no 'Exponent1'. There is, however, 'The Exponent' with the 'Drop' tune.
3. For those who used it in the Challenge, what do you think of Vaporizer2 in and of itself and, say, compared with other wavetables, such as Serum, MassiveX, Vital or others?

I'll also go over the threads as well.

[exponent1]

Hi guys. Just some questions with a couple WRT the front page of the challenge:

1. It says ("...Vaporizer 2 is a free open-source software synthesizer for Mac and Windows. with 2 wavetable oscillators plus noise and sub...") that Vaporizer2 has 2 wavetable OSC, but does it actually have four?
2. Second, it says that 'Exponent1' won, but in the list, there is no 'Exponent1'. There is, however, 'The Exponent' with the 'Drop' tune.
3. For those who used it in the Challenge, what do you think of Vaporizer2 in and of itself and, say, compared with other wavetables, such as Serum, MassiveX, Vital or others?

I'll also go over the threads as well.

1. It's possibly a typo. But yea, Vaporizer2 actually has 4 Wavetable OSCs, 1 Noise OSC and 1 Sampler Module. So 6 in total. I think V1 had 2 OSCs

2. exponent1 is the KVR username, 'The Exponent' is the pseudonym I use everywhere else. I can't change the KVR nick so that's that.

3. In my opinion Serum and Vital are a lot faster to use and simpler. Vaporizer has a lot of potential and power, but the tab layout can be a bit fussy at times, when you have to quickly switch across the modulators. That said, it's quite efficient and I had lots of fun with it.

[NeuKatalYst]

Hi guys. Just some questions with a couple WRT the front page of the challenge:

1. It says ("...Vaporizer 2 is a free open-source software synthesizer for Mac and Windows. with 2 wavetable oscillators plus noise and sub...") that Vaporizer2 has 2 wavetable OSC, but does it actually have four?
2. Second, it says that 'Exponent1' won, but in the list, there is no 'Exponent1'. There is, however, 'The Exponent' with the 'Drop' tune.
3. For those who used it in the Challenge, what do you think of Vaporizer2 in and of itself and, say, compared with other wavetables, such as Serum, MassiveX, Vital or others?

I'll also go over the threads as well.

Compared to other wavetable synths, it has my favorite wavetable editor, with quick and easy abilities to apply changes to each cycle you draw or drag from single cycles, as well as the ability to use algorithms to make whole tables out of only one frame.

While we couldn't use it for the challenge per the rules, the granular portion of the Sampler is also very nice and good to layer with the other oscillators and/or noise, as encouraged.

Finally: most of the effects are nice - the Atomizer in particular stands out. All the others are pretty basic or unintuitive (the multiband compressor, for example), but with the ability to do three separate effect chains with low-mono capability, I'll forgive it that much.

For the future, I'll definitely continue using it to create wavetables, at least: as mentioned already, its wavetable editor is it's biggest standout, literally.

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While I'm here, I'm waiting on others to pick out their prizes, but I have to wait to go last

[ZioMau]

Hi,
Congrats to the winner and to all the other guys in this round . Thousand thanks for votes received, appreciation, comments and any other things. I'm sorry for Crispy dq(maybe he didn't give himself 1 point) with his ultra loud, ultra punchy and ultra bright tune that i liked and made me think to some new solutions to try.
This was my last song to close an OSC collection. Soon i proudly will show you the CD cover!!!
As always thanks to who make this possible: you made my life better!

See you soon around here!
Ciaoooo

(I skip my prize)

[phankiejankie303]

Congratulations to the winners!

Out of mere curiosity may I ask why I was dq

In scoresheet there is note "late entry" so I guess you posted your track too late.

Mmmm, I am pretty sure I had at least 10 mins left in the clock as in my timezone the deadline translates to the 1st - 12:00 (noon) but with all those timezones and stuff things maybe got a bit off. Anyhoo no biggie. Thanks for sharing this detail as I missed it from the score-sheet.

Haven't touched yet VITAL but so far Vaporizer 2 is by far (imho) the most complete wavetable synth I used in the freeware domain. You can go anywhere with this beauty and to be honest I don’t think I used all the 4 OSCs for any patch if I remember well. I mean one of my favorite patches is just one OSC in Unison an FX Chain plus subtle WT modulation here and there.

4 OSCs, independant FX chains, great Wavetable Editor, hugely automatable... Pretty awesome synth. It's sound is maybe a bit "sterile" but nowadays you can make anything sounding exactly as warm or cold as you want with the plethora of plugins out there.

So Marcus thanks a lot for giving this awesome synth for free and for your continuing support.

I hope with this OSC we all did our small thing to broaden the user base and show a bit the capabilities of Vaporizer 2.

[zarf]

Thanks so much everyone for votes that got us to where we can take a prize, plus all of your generous and helpful commenting on our track. Very much appreciated!

Carl is not currently suffering from GAS - so we have agreed that I'll take the prize I would love a copy of Bioscape please - that would be amazing! Thanks so much

(p.s. Richard, Brian - a gentle reminder in case this has dropped off radar - I've not heard anything about last month's prize yet. Sorry to bother if this is already in process - I'm waiting patiently and gratefully )

[gethiox]

Congrats to Exponent for the win and others.
Thank you everyone for the votes, I'm happy to be in top 5, I'm glad you like my track.

I skip my price.

[NeuKatalYst]

Ok, I'm up: I'll take the Synthmaster 1 and 2 bundle! I recently saw a Venus Theory video on it and remembered it was a prize, so now I'm excited~