One Synth Challenge #184: ToneZ 2 by Retornz (TheNeverScene Wins!)

[TheNeverScene]

Here's mine...(updated: made a bunch of fixes)

https://soundcloud.com/the-never-scene/ ... al_sharing


Reaper, 29 ToneZ, ReaEQ, BaxterEQ, Density, GClip, Transpire, Tal Reverb 4, Leveling Tool, Wider, Unlimited

[Neptune]

My attempt this month.

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

I just changed my machine to a micro pc with a 5560U CPU and had some performance issues as well, especially when sounds had a long reverb

But overall i really like the synth.
As the synth is loaded with all kind of effects i tried to avoid using external effects.

There is too much ongoing in the lows of my track, as the bass´ and 2nd kicks freq are quite close to each other, but i dont have the time anymore to fix this fully. Sorry, may sound better on headphones.

DAW: Cubase 13 pro
- 15x ToneZ 2 Synth by Retornz
- 1x Couture on the Closed Hats
- 1x PanCake on a pluck
- 1x LoudMax64 on the master
Stock DAW Plugins: Multiband Compressor, Magneto II, Frequency, Maximizer, Brickwall Limiter, Stereo Enhancer

[MadMcMan]

Here's my One Synth Challenge track for Tonez2, KVR OSC challenge June 2024.

All sounds made with 40 Tonez2 instances in Bitwig.
using the following Effects:

VST (CLAP):
AirWindows Air2
AirWindows InfraSonic
AirWindows PurestGain
AirWindows ToTape5
Limiter No6
Pancz
SuperCharger
TDR Kotelnikov
TDR Nova
TDR Vos SlickEQ
Valhalla Supermassive

BitWig:
Compressor+
Convolution
Delay-2
EQ-2
EQ-5
Humanize
Mid/Side Split
Peak Limiter
Sculpt
Tool

https://soundcloud.com/madmcman/tonez-in-the-glen

[purchasingly]

In the Night:

https://soundcloud.com/g-jardine/purcha ... -the-night

DAW: Reaper (preview version)
12 instances of Tone Z 2 by Retornz

1 instance each of:
Oril River Reverb
Rea Comp compression
Airwindows Cliponly2

Comments? (That would be pure generosity, of course.)

[] Peter:H []

Here's mine.
https://soundcloud.com/the-never-scene/ ... al_sharing

(I'll enable downloads when the time comes, just in case I tweak it again)

Reaper, 27 ToneZ, ReaEQ, BaxterEQ, Tal Reverb 4, Leveling Tool, Wider, Unlimited

Headbanging ... a synth metal opera.
One tiny little thing: Compared to VCA-089s track your drums are a little bit more in the background. Would it be possible to push them a little more to the foreground? May be the limiter in the master bites to aggressive?

[doctorbob]

I would agree Peter, that the TNS drums might be even better more in your face (as we have come to hear and like in days gone by!). That said, there is some awesome percussion going on especially in the last section (pure TNS genius!).

dB

[hennessey]

Entry:
https://soundcloud.com/hennesseyb/henne ... empire-184

15 instances in Live 12 with DAW effects: Compressors, Delays, Reverb, EQ8, Auto Pan/Filter, and Saturator.
3rd Party: Limiter 6, SuperMassive

[zipidowski]

My entry https://soundcloud.com/zipidowski/devine

19 instances of ToneZ 2, DAW: Bitwig Studio 5.1.9

FX:
TDR Nova, TDR Kotelnikov
LoudMax64
Raum
A1 TriggerGate
STFU
Cramit
kHs Transien Shaper, kHs Reverb, kHs Delay
Tal Reverb 2
Peakeater
Bitwig Tool and Dynamics

[eraze the borders]

[EDIT: Had to update my track because of a very annoying loud percussion sound. Thanks to Doctor Bob for pointing it out ]

Here's my entry for this month. I tried some new things (eg the Lens plugin as suggested by Peter:H)

I really hope that some of you might enjoy this tune

Cheers!

https://soundcloud.com/eraze-the-border ... ja-osc-185

All sounds made from scratch.

DAW: Reaper 7.17

25 x ToneZ

BootEQmkIV / epicPLATEmkII / NastyDLAmkIII (Variety Of Sound)
Cramit / Deelay (Sixth Sample)
FreeClip (Venn Audio)
GSatPlus / ISOL8 (TBProAudio)
IVGI2 (Klanghelm)
kHs Filter / kHs Ladder Filter / kHs Trance Gate / kHs Transient Shaper (Kilohearts)
Lens (Auburn Sounds)
MEqualizer (MeldaProduction)
MSED / SPAN (Voxengo)
Oculus Spatializer (Oculus)
Pancz (Spectral Plugins)
ReaComp / ReaEQ / ReaGate / ReaXcomp (Cockos)
Ripple Delay Free / Spiral Delay (Davisynth)
Solaris (Adam Szabo)
SumChannel S2 (Tukan)
TAL-Filter-2 (TAL-Togu Audio Line)
TDR Kotelnikov / TDR Nova (Tokyo Dawn Labs)
Unlimited (Sonic Anomaly)
Youlean Loudness Meter 2 (Youlean)
ZL Equalizer (ZL)

[Juergen]

Hello, this is my contribution for this month.
https://soundcloud.com/user-221952934-5 ... al_sharing

DAW: Studio One 6.6.1
Synth: 21x ToneZ 2

Studio One FX: 4x Beat Delay, 3x Room Reverb, 4x Ampire, 2x Compressor, Splitter, BitCrusher, 2x RedlightDist, 2x ProEQ, AutoFilter

3rd Party FX: 2x BussColors464(AirWindows), 2x AutoPan64(AirWindows), BiquadTrible64(AirWindows), 2x Mix Space, XBandpass64(AirWindows), 2x ButterComp64(AirWindows), BassDrive64(AirWindows)

Since the plugin works very badly in my system, I didn't really want to participate this time.
After 2 weeks of constant crashes and sporadic loss of sound in various tracks, I had lost my nerve.
Yesterday I decided to give it another try.
Unfortunately, there wasn't enough time and the track still needed some work.
But in the end I decided to post the track anyway.

I wish everyone good luck.

[violator_alba]

This month's effort is my second attempt. First effort was really going nowhere so I tried a different approach: actually playing on a keyboard! Anyway, this is the result of less than a week's work. I'm going to pretend that the vinyl crackle effect was carefully programmed and not just an artefact of an overloaded CPU... At least it mostly didn't drop out during export.

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

So, 11 instances of ToneZ 2 in Bitwig 5.1.9. All sounds created from init. Most of the effects on this use ToneZ' own built in effects so few external plugins were use. These consisted of the following:

- dpMeter5, Blue Cat's Gain 3 and KClip Zero for clip to zero
- Bitwig EQ+
- Bitwig Arpeggiator
- Bitwig Compressor
- Bitwig Delay+
- kHs Stereo
- TDR Kotelnikov
- TDR Nova
- SPAN
- Youlean Loudness Meter

I also used Scaler 2 to generate the midi for the various parts from the initial live playing. Beat Scholar was used to generate the midi for the percussion. Both were disabled for final rendering.

[TheNeverScene]

Here's mine.
https://soundcloud.com/the-never-scene/ ... al_sharing

(I'll enable downloads when the time comes, just in case I tweak it again)

Reaper, 27 ToneZ, ReaEQ, BaxterEQ, Tal Reverb 4, Leveling Tool, Wider, Unlimited

Headbanging ... a synth metal opera.
One tiny little thing: Compared to VCA-089s track your drums are a little bit more in the background. Would it be possible to push them a little more to the foreground? May be the limiter in the master bites to aggressive?

Yeah man, thanks and I agree! And yes, VCA's track is on point.

Spent most of the day fixing things to clean it up and added some things. I can't seem to figure out the logic behind the ToneZ compressor and the built-in reverb can really muddy things up quick.

Updated my track....it's as good as I'm gonna get it and hopefully I didn't make it worse! :/

[J.Ruegg]

Hi everyone!

Here is my experiment of the month:
https://soundcloud.com/jruegg/jruegg-flare

30 instances of ToneZ 2 in Bitwig 5.0.11
No external effects... this time not even a limiter on the master.

But I used automation and some bitwig modulators to add some spice here and there. (all within the rules of course)

Enjoy!

[RichardSemper]

Voting is up!

viewtopic.php?t=610788

Some tracks are still not downloadable yet.

[AuderMarr]

I voted the tracks now available on the voting site