One Synth Challenge #193 - Thorn by DS Audio (exponent1 Wins!)

[bjporter]

Submissions:
https://soundcloud.com/kvrosc/sets/one- ... -193-thorn






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!







Special Rule This Month Only:

• Commercial FX are ALLOWED
• All other rules apply as usual
• This Thorn trial works up until June 1st!

Bug Reports & Feedback:

• Support Form

This Month's Synth:
Last encountered in OSC105 this synth is available from Plugin Alliance for Windows and Mac. For this Challenge, by a special arrangement with Dmitry and Plugin Alliance, a time limited version has been made available for download without restrictions, other than that it will cease working after 1st June 2025.


https://soundcloud.com/dmitry-sches/thorn-audio-demo



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)

Note:
We are offering a secondary prize (on top of the normal prize):

• 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

**Special OSC 193 Prizes**
(courtesy of Plugin Alliance and Dmitry Sches / DS Audio Software) for the first 3 winners:)

• 1st place: DS Thorn + DS Tantra 2 + Karanyi Sounds Wavesurfer
• 2nd place: DS Thorn + DS Tantra 2
• 3rd place: DS Thorn

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)


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


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• Skio Music Contests - Lots of remixes you can join (Mostly EDM) - big prizes.
• Splice contests listed on Splice

[MadMcMan]

Thorn is a lot of fun,
i used it for my OSC 155 https://soundcloud.com/madmcman/coral-r ... any#t=0:00

[ElVincente]

Nice! Finally a synth I bought I could justify the price I paid for by making with it !
Wait is it available for everyone ?

[MalToné]

Nice! Finally a synth I bought I could justify the price I paid for by making with it !
Wait is it available for everyone ?

Yes, the download will be operable until the end of May.

[Aiynzahev]

this is awesome, nice work!

[The Sound Of Merlin]

https://soundcloud.com/thesoundofmerlin/anemoia

Here's my submission for this month.

For this track I used 11 instances of Thorn. All modulations of the parameters have been done live by making use of aftertouch and/or the modulation wheel. So no automations other than some volume changes here and there. In a studio setting, I think this makes the music nice and organic. Of course, a DJ on stage always does this.

The title “Anemoia” is referring to the phenomenon of feeling nostalgic to a time or place that one has not experienced before...

DAW: Reaper 7.34

Mixing: Plexi Tape, Space Station, Echoes T7E and Grain Space by Audiority. Sonsig Rev-A by Relab. Body & Soul by TSOM, Graphic EQ by Viator and UADx 1176 FET Compressor by Universal Audio.

Mastering: Smart EQ4 and Smart Limit by Sonible.

[silverpants]

Thorn is a lot of fun,
i used it for my OSC 155 https://soundcloud.com/madmcman/coral-r ... any#t=0:00

I'm very fond of this one. It often comes up in my big personal OSC playlist. It's my favourite of yours - I think. Along with Future Ceilidh

[empphryio]

The discussion is here: https://discord.gg/vcmvEhYH

[Andreya_Autumn]

I noticed that the OSC build of Thorn doesn't seem to work with MTS-ESP, even though various sources claim that the synth does. Has anyone actually used an older Thorn build with MTS-ESP and can confirm that it should work? And better yet, any chance for an updated build which does have the capability?

[gethiox]

My submission for this month, may be changed until the end of the month

https://soundcloud.com/gethiox/sad-mad-closer-not

58x Thorn

Third party plugins:
Lese - Codec, ColourCopy (Delay), FreeClip, kHs Filter, Rev INTENSITY (Reverb), Saturn 2, Spaced Out (Reverb), Cenozoix Compressor, ValhallaSupermassive, ValhallaVintageVerb

I really like this synth and built-in presets, almost all of these has velocity sensitive and modwheel modulations, so it's really easy and quick to make expressive sounds with a little bit of automation.

My first lengthy track on KVR OSC (10 min!), it contains four distinguishable parts.
Usually I limit myself to 3-4 minutes per track but this month we have Thorn and I found it as quality stuff, so I played with it more than I initially expected.
Hopefully you'll find my track worth its time!

[doctorbob]

Here's my track for this month. Using 6 instances of Thorn and a few vst's.

DAW: Reaper
Track Details: 6 * Thorn, 1 * VEQ4 Mono (Waves), 5 * VEQ4 Stereo (Waves), 3 * TDR NOVA GE, 1 * Oril River
Master : Voxengo MSED, TDR NOVA GE, TDR Limiter No 6 GE
Meter: SPAN, YouLean Loudness Meter
Stats: LUFS: -17.6, DR: 12

Please enjoy this quiet moment in time. dB
https://soundcloud.com/doctorbob/the-ho ... ng-notes-1

[SIL3NC3_SWX]

One Synth Challenge #193: Thorn by Dmitry Sches

https://sites.google.com/site/kvrosc/2025/osc-193-thorn
http://dmitrysches.com/products/thorn

SiL3NC3_SWX - Spaced Calming
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Here is my drop for this month's challenge.

https://soundcloud.com/soulwerx/sil3nc3 ... ed-calming

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DAW: Bitwig 5.3
17 instances (tracks) of Thorn

FX:
- EQ-2, EQ-5, Peak Limiter, Convolution, Delay-2, Reverb
- Valhalla Supermassive
- OrilRiver
- EpicVerb
- Wider

Mastering:
- Multiband-FX3
- TDR Kotelnikov
- Peak Limiter (Bitwig)

Analysis:
- MAnalyzer
- YouLean Loudness Meter2

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Enjoy.

[] Peter:H []

I think I have reported about my little multi-In / daw-synced scope project I have started a while ago. It's done in Protoplug/Lua with a few additions I collected over the time, like luasocket, cbor, base64 ... Since my first post it grew a little over time, even with some parts in C SIMD Code now

MyLuaScope.png

Actually using it for the Thorn round now ... trying to minimize phase cancelation between bdr and bass. The picture shows two waveforms, red bdr and green bass.
Orange is a very short term rms value. I use it to make sure the bdr does really punch.
The purple line is some first experiment to get a "cancelation" sensor, which should report areas where green cancels out red ... not yet good enough ... the function is still a little awkward. But actually you can as of today see that there's some cancelation a little to the left f the first wihte grid line ...

[empphryio]

Listen to Filthyboy Ichabod OSC193 Thorn by Mauvecastle on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/1HeB5ty6441V5hxP6

Turned comments off as I'm just really not feeling music lately.

OSC193 Thorn
Reaper 7.33 60ish instances inefficiently used.
A1TriggerGate, kHs Trancegate, ReEQ, ReaLimit, Loudmax, OTT, Supermassive Valhalla and Vintage Verb, A1StereoControl, Trailbender delay, Raum, Replika, TDR Kotelnikov

[Lopyt Music]

It is my first time entering this challenge, is there anything I should know? I made sure to read the rules and FAQ