One Synth Challenge #186: Any Two Synths Challenge (Viroo Wins!)

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Submissions:
https://soundcloud.com/kvrosc/sets/one- ... ge-186-any





Results:
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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:
As the name implies, use any two synths and go to town!


(Midjourney prompt: A studio wall full of thousands of synthesizers, darkly lit, lots of emissive lights --s 1000 --w 250 --c 25 --v 6.1)





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 - one choice from the collection
• JRR Shop (Uncle E) - one choice from JRR Sounds

Additional Bonus Prize!

• For the highest Single Instance entry in the top 5 a cash bonus of $50. (note: this prize may be carried forward to selected OSC challenges until it is won)
• Yuli Yolo Sound Design - Top 3 winners may claim a soundsets for Vital: Diversity, Bass Music Wavetables, Noises & Exciters.
• discoDSP - Top 5 winners may claim a 50% discount coupon for discoDSP software. (Limited time only) (*New*)

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 Altitude (A FL Studio / CLAP format synth only. *Not VST / Standalone*)


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


Dmitry Sches : Diversion


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


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 : Falcon Iterata X subscription or any two soundsets of your choice (Updated Prize!)


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



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?

• Cymatics Contests (Cymatics does sample packs / musicware)
• Itch.io Game Jams: Find game developers looking for musicians. Create music for games, and help win the jam!
• 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!
• RemixExs - A list of contests / music challenge (Seems to be having issues as 2024)
• Skio Music Contests - Lots of remixes you can join (Mostly EDM) - big prizes.
• Splice contests listed on Splice

[RichardSemper]

Here is where you can find some chat about this contest:
https://discord.gg/tu9j8MFk

(updated)

[Korg Supporter]

I'm definitely going to use Charlatan for the first synth, but I'm not sure about a second one. Maybe one from Fullbucket.

[Cyber Samurai]

this challenge is going to see some crazy results.... like what synth would be the best option (Vital, Surge, Wavetable Synth) too many options... and some of these synth have unbelievable capabilities beyond imagination. As for VST coupling, i would know what would be a good choice. most of these synth have distortion, reverb, chorus, phaser, flange, comprehension, echo, and more already built-in. So what VST would be a real game changer?

Yeah I am totally lost. Probably going to use Vital as i work from presets and then change them until they sound totally crap and repeat the process (Sometimes getting lucky)...

[Vospi]

I have a question. If I pick Surge XT, am I allowed Surge rack modules, like it was in the recent contest?

[3lu5iv3]

yay! i love any synth challenges!

[RichardSemper]

I have a question. If I pick Surge XT, am I allowed Surge rack modules, like it was in the recent contest?

There have been some discussions of this on the Discord. I will try to clarify here too.

Many synths have built-in Fx and some have their own built-in fx rack:
When using these e.g. Surge/Cardinal etc. as the chosen synth, any fx used within the synth are considered as part of the synth and can be used to the full.
When using the fx version of these synths as the 'full 11 fx plugin' you can stack the fx in your instance in the way intended by the devs, according to how many slots the plugin gives you.
Using the audio-in capability of a synth will result in that instance being considered an 'fx plugin' for the purposes of this contest.

Also: Air windows consolidated is a wrapper for a whole bunch of fx plugins, and should not be taken as a single plugin for the purposes of OSC. Any of the fx within may be used subject to normal OSC restrictions, but only one may be used to the max for the current challenge.
The airwindows consolidated plugin does not allow for stacking the fx, therefore each module could only be used on its own for your 'full 11' plugin. If you want to combine them the SurgeFx plugin gives you the ability to do that as that capability is built-in to Surge.

We want to encourage use of an fx plugin for awesome sound design purposes in addition to your usual synth magic. So it's a chance to put that amazing fx plugin you've been dying to try out through its paces and show off what it can do. Whether it is granular, glitch, endless shimmering reverb, waveshaper or whatever inspires you. There's a lot of excellent free plugins out there

[Peanut_]

Any recommendations of best synths to start out with for making realistic drums/percs? Definitely found this the most challenging part for the cherry synth.

[MATCHER]

Two questions. Are paid synths allowed? And... can we use only one synth?

[RichardSemper]

Two questions. Are paid synths allowed? And... can we use only one synth?

Option 1. Choose two freeware virtual synth plugins to make your track
Option 2. Choose one freeware virtual synth and one freeware fx plugin which may be used to the max (full 11)
In both cases additional free fx plugins may be used within normal OSC restrictions.

Paid synths and fx are not allowed for this round, and yes you can just use one synth if you like.

[MATCHER]

Two questions. Are paid synths allowed? And... can we use only one synth?

Option 1. Choose two freeware virtual synth plugins to make your track
Option 2. Choose one freeware virtual synth and one freeware fx plugin which may be used to the max (full 11)
In both cases additional free fx plugins may be used within normal OSC restrictions.

Paid synths and fx are not allowed for this round, and yes you can just use one synth if you like.

OK. Thanks!

[Negoba]

To a previous question:

Over on the discord, folks are saying that using Vital presets is likely the easiest way to get good drums sounds. There are MANY free third party presets available.

So I am going to try to learn Odin 2 this month and use Vital for drums. At least that's the plan.

[MATCHER]

To a previous question:

Over on the discord, folks are saying that using Vital presets is likely the easiest way to get good drums sounds. There are MANY free third party presets available.

So I am going to try to learn Odin 2 this month and use Vital for drums. At least that's the plan.

Never thought of Odin 2, even though I really like that synth. Thanks for the reminder.
Now I'm probably gonna use it for this challenge.

[Peanut_]

To a previous question:

Over on the discord, folks are saying that using Vital presets is likely the easiest way to get good drums sounds. There are MANY free third party presets available.

So I am going to try to learn Odin 2 this month and use Vital for drums. At least that's the plan.

Awesome. thanks. Will start with Vital

[] Peter:H []

@Richard
Just for paranoias sake: If I choose to use Vital, am I allowed to use ...
a.) the Factory Samples coming with the Synth, for instance a sample called "River"
b.) the text-2-speech capability?

Thanks!