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

[robelanator]

https://soundcloud.com/robelanator/robe ... off-osc186

My first time entering an OSC! It's also my first completed track in 20 years. It's more of a jam than a fully realized song, but I'm shaking the dust off, hence the title.

Made in Bigwig with 1 instance of Geonkick-- synthesized drums only, no samples used-- and 3 instances of SurgeXT. No effects used outside of the synth's built-in effects. For what little mixing there was, I just used the free Kilohearts Essentials Gain and EQ plugins, and Bitwig's Compressor+.

Finally, I want to credit the authors of the SurgeXT presets I lightly modified: John Valentine (Sweet Bass Guitar), Roger Linn (Pedal Steel), and Sola (Hammond's Hall).

[AuderMarr]

I reuploaded a new version with slight changes to automated parametres for the effects here and there.

Instances remains the same:
https://soundcloud.com/user-810475948/sc-f-958-am

[Frank Geppert]

Hi friends,

after a little break I made a song again:

created in Reaper with 27 instances of mainly SurgeXT tracks and a couple Vital tracks. I used only Reaper fx for reverb, eq, limiter and compressor plus Span for making frequencies visible.

Best regards and have fun listening to it!

https://soundcloud.com/frank-geppert-19 ... strumental

[neverbeeninariot]

:: Submission ::

In a disturbing turn of events, Spaceman D. Bassman flirts dangerously with major scales, gets sassy with a saxophonist, plays Arkanoid on his Grandpa's Amiga, does some cleaning round the house, and brings it all to a climax while totally amped up to the max on Tequila, Pimms and Irn Bru.

https://soundcloud.com/neverbeeninariot/skull-nugget

Reaper 7
Vital (17)
TAL NoizeMak3r (2)

Track FX : DAW Native
ReaComp (8)
ReaMIDIControl (1)
ReaEQ (12)
ReaDelay (1)
ReaVerb (2)

Track FX : 3rd Party
ChowTapeModel (2)
Distorque Rangebastard (1)
MAutopan (2)
TAL Reverb 4 (1)
Toneboosters Reverb 3 (1)
TDR Kotelnikov (1)
TDR Nova (1)
Sixth Sense Deelay (2)

2 BUS FX
TDR Kotelnikov (1)
TDR Nova (2)
TB Barricade 3 (1)
Cockos Loudness Meter (1)

[BlitBit]

It's been quite a while since I last joined an OSC. Here's my entry:

https://soundcloud.com/blitbit/warped-through-time

DAW: Bitwig 5.2.1

Plugins
Charlatan3: 17 instances
SurgeXT: 2 instances

Effects (all Bitwig)
Compressor: 4
Compressor+: 4
Dynamics: 5
EQ+: 5
EQ-2: 11
Peak Limiter: 1
Saturator: 1
Spectrum: 3
Tool: 4

[jasinski]

https://soundcloud.com/jasinski/pumpkin ... al_sharing

For OSC 186 NA2S- Using 50+ instances of Vital and Socal Labs Wavetable synthesizers to produce all sounds in Ableton Live. Processed with Limiter 6, Valhalla Super Massive, Saturation, Cabinet, Amp, Pedal, Autofilter, Hybrid Reverb, Compressor, EQ8, Channel EQ, and Delay.

[silverpants]

My entry: "You were built to withstand so much worse... now go."
Featuring 'Elvis The Drone Master'

https://soundcloud.com/slugnest/you-wer ... al_sharing

4 instances Synful Orchestra (didn't use it much in the end)
29 instances SurgeXT (mostly wavetables)
All sounds designed from scratch

Dead Duck: Compressor, Delay
ValhallaSupermassive
ReaEQ, ReaXComp
Limiter No6
SPAN, YouLean Loudness Meter
OrilRiver Reverb
JS Channel Time Delay
kHs Gain

[spridgeon]

https://soundcloud.com/user-20530220/sp ... al_sharing

Here's my entry for this month. It's my first attempt at a gospel tune. Hey, gospel's just blues with a dog collar on - how hard can it be?

Yet another entry using Surge XT! I also used Charlatan3, as I had previously made a nice gospelly Hammond patch on it.

Cubase 13
Charlatan3 X4
Surge XT X21

Native plugins:
Frequency X12
Compressor X4
Reverence X2
Revelation X1
Roomworks X1

kHs compressor X1
kHs transient shaper X1

[audio_dsp]

This round was all about trying something new for me. Never done anything in DnB. Most sounds are free Vital presets adjusted to my needs. Hope you will have fun listening and I am all open for hard and critical comments.

https://soundcloud.com/audio-dsp/adrene ... al_sharing

Used Synthesizer and effects: (More a one synth challenge for me)

2 SurgeXT (for the HH)
16 Vital

Effects:

OrilRiver
Solaris
TDR Molotok

Cubase:EQ, Compressor, Limiter

And I learned the new word 'Adrenergic' just by luck. I tried to translate Adrenalin (German) and the translator had this much better word for me as a title.

The picture is made with Dall-E 3

[RichardSemper]

Here's my entry for OSC 186 Any 2 Synths -

https://soundcloud.com/richard-semper/w ... al_sharing

I used Nakst Apricot - 15 Instances and Odin 2 - 1 Instance
DAW Mulab 9.5
DAW Fx: limiters, High and low pass filters, parametric eq, stereo splitter.
Third Party Fx: analyser - Voxengo Span, Voxengo Marvel GEQ.

Basically I was unable to take part in the Apricot round, so this was my chance. It's based around a 5 beat arpeggio I created with this synth. I thought I might use more of Odin 2, but ended up using it just for the snare.
This track is dedicated to my lovely Jenny who in spite of many current ailments managed to walk several miles of difficult coastal path to get the photo of a waterfall for my cover pic.

[doctorbob]

Very nice picture Richard, pass congrats to Jenny! Hope she feels better soon.

dB

[ELEX]

My entry for OSC 186:

https://soundcloud.com/elex101/elex-finders-keepers

DAW: Reaper
Synths: the very fine U-he Tyrell N6 (24) & Zebralette 2 (2). Seventeen ( voice-split ) patches, from scratch as always , including six percs and four FX. Assisted by TDR Nova ( general nip-and-tuck channelstrip duties ) , ReaDelay, HY-Delay , Bittersweet ( softening a delay ) , Kazrog KClip ( drumbus ) , HOFA SYS Gain, and BlueArp

Reverb buses: MuVerb, Oril River, and Protoverb. Pre-emphasised, de-emphasised, shaped, compressed, softened and panned by TDR Nova, Flux Bittersweet, A1 Stereo Control, and HOFA SYS Pan.

Shaped, sharpened, spatialized and louderized ( to -12 LUFS ) at the master level by TDR Nova, Flux Bittersweet, Protoverb, A1 Stereo Control, HOFA TiltEQ and Limiter No6

[RichardSemper]

Very nice picture Richard, pass congrats to Jenny! Hope she feels better soon.

dB

Thanks dB, much appreciated. We both have great sympathy for you with the challenges you are regularly facing too

[violator_alba]

This month's track has nothing to do with Viking mythology or sandwiches of any sort but it does use the Odin 2 and Triple Cheese synths. This one started life as a baseline played on an actual keyboard. Still, I did use Scaler to tell me what key my effort was in so I could get the rest mostly in tune. Anyway, this track was produced in Bitwig Studio with 7 instances of Odin 2 and 6 Triple Cheese. All patches from init.

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

The following plugins were also used:
- dpMeter5, Blue Cat Gain 3 and kClip Zero on clip to zero duty
- kHs Stereo
- Bitwig EQ+
- Bitwig Compressor+
- xfer OTT
- NI Raum
- Valhalla Supermassive
- TDR Kotelnikov
- TDR Nova
- Youlean

[Peanut_]

An entry for One Synth Challenge 186 at KVR Audio

https://soundcloud.com/peanut-707253545 ... 86-lets-go

DAW: Ableton
Synth: Vital X 22 instances
Plugins: Ableton stock plugins, Ozone Imager 2, SPAN

Open to any feedback. Keen to improve and get a better understanding. Especially when it comes to arrangement, mixing and mastering.

Cheers