One Synth Challenge #192: Six Sines by BaconPaul (johnkhf Wins!)

[bjporter]

Submissions:
https://soundcloud.com/kvrosc/sets/one- ... ge-192-six



Results Post:
Here






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!






Bug Reports & Beta Feedback:

• Six Sines Github Isues
• KVR Thread

This Month's Synth:
Try this insanely cool FM synthesizer out to find out why 6 is the right number of sines!








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
  
  
  Dawesome : **New Prize!!!*** One NFR for an arbitrary Dawesome plugin of choice!
  
  
  NUSofting : **New Prize** Choose any one NUSofting plug-in of your choice
  
  
  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
  
  
  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)
  
  
  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)
  
  
  
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  • 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

[NeuKatalYst]

Heyyy, Six Sines! And a Dawesome plugin is a prize! I may participate this month~

[baconpaul]

Well. Exciting! I was telling richard that the first OSC with surge, back at 1.6 beta 1 or something, helped me find and fix a nasty bug in the filter bank so look forward to some great music and interesting feedback here.

Few things

On bugs and contact: I'll monitor this thread and the other kvr thread linked in the month; but GitHub issues and the baconpaul-sidequests channel in surge discord are also good ways to get attention or report bugs

On versions: version 1.0.5 (edit: Was 1.0.4 on Feb1 - you should upgrade to 05)) is basically 1.0 with a couple of critical bug fixes. You should run at least 1.0.5. But the nightly is the 1.1 candidate and has a few big features. You may very well want to run the nightly, since several of the features allow much finer control over unison, has more correct (as well as original 'spiky') TX wavetables, and adds some big features like vst3 param smoothing and a 7-out synth plugin version which lets you have each operator as a separate DAW bus for post processing.

1.0.5 is here: <https://github.com/baconpaul/six-sines/ ... tag/v1.0.5>
Nightly is here: <https://github.com/baconpaul/six-sines/ ... ag/Nightly>

The version of the synth shows in the footer. If you run the nightly and have a bug letting me know that hash in the footer would help.

The big 1.0 bug which isn't fixed in the nightly yet is for people with very small screens. The synth is 850px or so high and doesn't support down-scaling so a 900px laptop can crop. I'll put this to the top of my list and try and get it fixed in the nightly this weekend. Doing so requires me to boot windows and test with windows HDPI, so I needed some other motivation. OSC is that!

On CPU: Some folks on windows on some architectures have reported outsized CPU usage. It's not amazingly well optimized but it's pretty good. If you are burning CPU, bring down unison, turn off operators you don't need etc... but if this is a persistent problem for the group here I can do two things, including adding some lower engine sample rates and also building a binary with block size 16 or 32 rather than 8, which will consume less cpu but also give somewhat less snappy modulation.

On using it: Well, it's mostly an FM synth. But a few hints for the challenge here which may help are (1) it's also a Ring Mod Synth. change an operator from PM to AM with the phi / A control on each knob. That's a relatively underexpolored option. Making noisy drum sounds like hats and snares is often hard, but the feedback can drive into noise easily. Feedback has a '10x' overdrive button for a feedback node which will help, and in the nightly, the matrix nodes also have this for PM.

And well that's about it. I'm really happy people like the synth - it was a result of a sort of 30 day personal challenge to myself to make something new, and it worked well. It also found loads of bugs in our libraries which would have taken much longer to find in short circuit or surge xt 2 or whatever. So the project has already been really fun and worthwhile, but I am super excited to hear what you all do with it!

[Andreya_Autumn]

This is gonna be good.

[RichardSemper]

I'm really happy people like the synth - it was a result of a sort of 30 day personal challenge to myself to make something new, and it worked well. It also found loads of bugs in our libraries which would have taken much longer to find in short circuit or surge xt 2 or whatever. So the project has already been really fun and worthwhile, but I am super excited to hear what you all do with it!

Congratulations on the result of your 30-day challenge!
Really excited to get into this and find out how it all works. FM is still something of a mystery to me. Downloading the nightly now

[H-man]

Okay last month I made it about to about 80% and then life got in the way, but I think I will keep trying.

Quick question (and I have had a look with no success so far), Six-sines currently doesn't seem to allow entry (from keyboard) of parameter values. I can see them which is cool but not edit them.

The reason this came up is because the Ratio dials sweep fast and jump large-ish steps at a time.

I have found (Windows) that Shift-ALT gives a finer tuning but not enough IMO.

Have I missed something?

EDIT: Latest Nightly and have tried in Live 12 and Studio One 5. Seems to be a keyboard capture thing?

[Negoba]

FWIW I got a virus warning from McAfee on Nightly but 1.0.4 came through fine.

[neverbeeninariot]

Okay last month I made it about to about 80% and then life got in the way, but I think I will keep trying.

Quick question (and I have had a look with no success so far), Six-sines currently doesn't seem to allow entry (from keyboard) of parameter values. I can see them which is cool but not edit them.

The reason this came up is because the Ratio dials sweep fast and jump large-ish steps at a time.

I have found (Windows) that Shift-ALT gives a finer tuning but not enough IMO.

Have I missed something?

right-click on a control and you can manually enter the values.

[neverbeeninariot]

I'm really happy people like the synth - it was a result of a sort of 30 day personal challenge to myself to make something new, and it worked well. It also found loads of bugs in our libraries which would have taken much longer to find in short circuit or surge xt 2 or whatever. So the project has already been really fun and worthwhile, but I am super excited to hear what you all do with it!

Congratulations on the result of your 30-day challenge!
Really excited to get into this and find out how it all works. FM is still something of a mystery to me. Downloading the nightly now

This might be the maddest thing I've seen. It's the Six Sines git log animated; Like a development speed-run.

[H-man]

right-click on a control and you can manually enter the values.

Yeah but I can't. Ignores any keyboard entry. Working for you?

[neverbeeninariot]

right-click on a control and you can manually enter the values.

Yeah but I can't. Ignores any keyboard entry. Working for you?

It is working for me.
Window 10, Reaper 7.32, SixSines 1.04 .clap

[H-man]

right-click on a control and you can manually enter the values.

Yeah but I can't. Ignores any keyboard entry. Working for you?

It is working for me.
Window 10, Reaper 7.32, SixSines 1.04 .clap

Okay works in Stand-alone but not for the VST for whatever reason (latest nightly and 1.04)

I'll have a look on github

[baconpaul]

right-click on a control and you can manually enter the values.

Yeah but I can't. Ignores any keyboard entry. Working for you?

It is working for me.
Window 10, Reaper 7.32, SixSines 1.04 .clap

Okay works in Stand-alone but not for the VST for whatever reason (latest nightly and 1.04)

I'll have a look on github

What’s your daw and os?

[baconpaul]

FWIW I got a virus warning from McAfee on Nightly but 1.0.4 came through fine.

Yeah the nightly changes like 14 times a day so the virus scanners don’t keep up. It uses the same mechanism as the stable release and there’s not much I can do. I understand not wanting to bypass it but I can assure you it is a false positive. All our builds are no human intervention from source in a new machine each time provided by Microsoft

[seafire]

Excuse my ignorance, and delete if this is inappropriate/wrong, but..

Is this a final released synth or still in beta?

I always get a bit confused with this open source/discord/stuff

No offence meant, just trying to keep up.