One Synth Challenge #187: ExtraBold by Nakst (Jasinski Wins!)

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Submissions:
https://soundcloud.com/kvrosc/sets/one- ... llenge-187





Results Post:
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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:
"ExtraBold uses traditional subtractive synthesis, with 3 powerful oscillators and a multi-mode filter. Its simple design and clear, one-page layout makes exploring its sonic landscape a breeze."
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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): 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!!!
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Red Rock Sound : **New Prize** Choose 1 Copy of any plugin
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NUSofting : **New Prize** Choose 1 Copy of either Sinmad or Echobis
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nakst : **New Prize** 1 copy of Altitude (A FL Studio / CLAP format synth only. *Not VST / Standalone*)
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KV331 Audio : Bundle of Synthmaster One + Synthmaster 2.x!
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Dmitry Sches : Diversion
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United Audio Artists : Scratch Master Pro (2 may be chosen per month)
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Yuli Yolo Sound Design : (Top 3 Winners get this) Soundsets for Vital: Diversity, Bass Music Wavetables, Noises & Exciters
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Luftrum : Two Choices: 1x NFR license of either Bioscape or the new Lunaris 2 (or two soundsets of choice)
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Audio Thing : Outer Space (vintage tape echo plugin)
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Guda Audio : Euterpe XL
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JRR Sounds: Any 1 soundset (This is a secondary prize, you may pick it as well as your main prize)
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SoundGym : *NEW* 12 Month Subscription. (SoundGym is a
"technological, personalized and gamified audio learning environment")
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JRR Shop : UVI: Digital Synsations (vintage 90's synth sample library and player)
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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
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Abstract Cats Music : AbiTron Bank for Synthmaster
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satYatunes : One of any commercial product
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Xenos Soundworks : Choice of any 1 product
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Newloops.com : any 3 sound packs of choice (excluding bundles)
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The Unfinished : Any two soundsets of Choice
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Aiyn Zahev Sounds: Any 2 Soundsets of choice from the website (Uplifting Trance Presets)
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Mulperi : 1 Soundbank of Choice
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Bjulin : Inspire soundset for Zebra²
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LeapIntoTheVoid : Falcon Iterata X subscription or any two soundsets of your choice (Updated Prize!)
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Solidtrax : 1 Soundset of choice (except for the Future Chill and Space Trips expansions)
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Any other offers of prizes will be greatly appreciated. :hail: :hail: :hail:


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
Last edited by bjporter on Sat Nov 16, 2024 2:50 pm, edited 3 times in total.

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big step up from julys synth

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Too bad it's a CLAP plugin that Cakewalk doesn't support, so I can't participate this month. Fortunately, Ryan Leach has just announced a new round of his contest, so I have another goal and motivation for this month :-)

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https://soundcloud.com/l3gendary/italic ... al_sharing

yes i already cooked up an entry
this month was super fun and had a good plugin
other than the kick drum, that sucked to make

7 Instances of ExtraBold

FL Studio 2024 Project: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1S…GWl0?usp=sharing

FX Plugins:
Fruity Blood Overdrive
Fruity Parametric EQ
Fruity Parametric EQ 2
Maximus

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Oh wow, this is always a pleasant surprise! I hope that ExtraBold doesn't give people too much trouble -- but then, it's called a challenge for a reason :wink:

I'm going to upload a new version of ExtraBold later today with some new factory patches I've been saving up. If you only want to use your patches, you can safely ignore the update.

Let me know of any bugs and crashes. The quickest place to reach me is on the Discord for my plugins, but I'll check this thread occasionally as well.

Good luck all!

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Played with your synth yesterday. Loving it!
I'll try to come back to OSC this month. Your synth feel always so easy to use and interesting to explore. Stacking voices and modulating stuff with bitwig feels almost like cheating^^.

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I haven't used the CLAP format before. From what I can see Ableton doesn't support it. Is this right?

Would there be any workaround using the standalone Windows app and bringing it into Ableton like that?

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Peanut_ wrote: Tue Sep 03, 2024 1:39 am I haven't used the CLAP format before. From what I can see Ableton doesn't support it. Is this right?

Would there be any workaround using the standalone Windows app and bringing it into Ableton like that?
There is Ildaeil, you download it as a VST2/VST3 plugin, and then inside it download a synthesizer. Ildaeil acts as a wrapper, although you lose the ability to modulate the parameters of the synthesizer, but the synthesizer itself works fine. Many of us, including me, use CLAP this way.

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@Peanut_
Download here depending of your machine. Took me 15 mins to find the link in that pile of folders. :dog: :D
Not exactly beginner friendly, common folks need a >>>DOWNLOAD HERE<<< button^^

https://github.com/DISTRHO/Ildaeil/releases/tag/v1.3

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Great thanks, will check it out

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Sup all...what an amazing sounding synth. IMO these presets already cover so many amazing sounds!

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yay, my OSC synth recommendation!
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Really cool, simple synth. The factory presets are amazing. Having already a little fun with this synth.

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I really like this synth too. Have a track I'm pretty happy with already. I've noticed though that the presets rarely use the wavetables/FM. I'd guess only 10% do and the ring modulation seems to be used even less than that. I think that's where a lot of the best sounds are, IMHO.

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