One Synth Challenge #195: Ragnarök 2 by Full Bucket Music (ZioMau Wins!)

[Starsickle]

Hello! I'm Starsickle. This is my first time submitting to this challenge. I am an independent game developer, composer, and writer. I love Full Bucket's plugins, so I decided to register up and submit an entry.

I initially wanted to do something long, slow, and cold, but I gravitated towards something to make me move, and it finished up quickly, so I think it's a good first entry.

https://soundcloud.com/user-299616995/s ... armoni-rok

6 tracks, all Ragnarok 2.0, created in FLStudio. The 3D Art is by me using Blender - my own rendition of what I think the synth would look like today.

[whassup]

Been a while...
Inspired by the tune of johnkhf I was tickled outta my comfort zone.
At first this synth didn't trigger me at all.
But John made so many unusual sounds with it that I thought that this is the way to go.
Do different.

https://soundcloud.com/thatotherthing/w ... k-ragnarok

The stats:
Reaper
37 Ragnarok
13 ToTape8
2 ADClip8
6 Deelay
Delay Machine2
Gain
JClones_AC1
3 JClones_CL1B
2 OTT
4 ReaComp
13 ReaEQ
SSQ
8 Supermassive
Pan

[ZioMau]

Hi everyone!
Always a great pleasure to be here and send a track.
This time was straigth to the point for me because i hadn't the need of learning weird knobs, sliders and buttons but a musical easy synth with whom i went soon in composition phase after an hour. Yes, this is what i like because my ideas fly away in a while if i'm not fast to record them (and maybe the reason why i'm not a sound designer). Furthermore it'a Full Bucket and i started my OSC journey with Whispair(OSC#152), wrote one of my preferred song with the two Buckets One and Pops(osc#173) and usually use an ana brass from Fury800 in my productions. Yes, i love synthesizers from this developer! Well, thanks to Bjorn (and CrimsonWarlock) for this, obviously!
The song is Just Another Stupid Funk (after that in OSC#183) and it don't have a story behind it. Just sounds and the grooves inspired by Ragnarok! Hope you like it.
Well, i always want to thank Richard and BJ for let us enjoy this place and all the guys in the community.
See you soon and Ciaoooooo!

Submission:

----- JASF2 (not so stupid) -----

https://soundcloud.com/zio-mau/ziomau-j ... al_sharing

i used Reaper 7 with

Instruments:
21x VST3i: Ragnarok2 (Full Bucket Music)

midi fx:
1x VSTi: D-ARP (x86) (Wolfgang Krumme)
3x VSTi: NoteMapper (CodeFN42)
1x VSTi: VeloScaler (CodeFN42)
1x VSTi: midiDelay (Insert Piz Here)
5x JS: MIDI Note Filter
1x VST: ReaControlMIDI (Cockos)

Effects:
1x VST3: BUSTERse (AnalogObsession)
1x VST3: Deelay (Sixth Sample)
8x VST3: Dualcut (Outobugi)
1x VST3: Dynastia (Outobugi)
1x VST3: Dynastor (Outobugi)
3x VST3: Spectral Compressor (Robbert van der Helm)
2x VST3: ValhallaSupermassive (Valhalla DSP, LLC)
1x VST: DD AutoPan (Dead Duck Software)
4x VST: DReverbLite (Stone Voices)
4x VST: FREE87 FR-COMP (eaReckon)
3x VST: FreeClip (Venn Audio)
1x VST: MAutopan (MeldaProduction)
6x VST: ReaComp (Cockos)
5x VST: ReaDelay (Cockos)
4x VST: ReaEQ (Cockos)
1x VST: Wider (Polyverse Music)

Monitoring plugins:
1x VST: Youlean Loudness Meter (Youlean) (6ch)
1x VST3: TDR Prism (Tokyo Dawn Labs)
1x VST: MStereoScope (MeldaProduction)
1x VST: ISOL8 (TBProAudio)
1x VST: SPAN (Voxengo) (8ch)

Master channel plugins:
1x VST3: QRange (lkjb)
1x VST3: Spectral Compressor (Robbert van der Helm)
1x VST3: BUSTERse (AnalogObsession)
1x VST3: LoudMax (Thomas Mundt)

[doctorbob]

@ZioMau "The song is Just Another Stupid Funk (after that in OSC#183) and it don't have a story behind it. Just sounds and the grooves inspired by Ragnarok! Hope you like it."

I don't like it ... I LOVE it, such great funk, sense of space, and some fab soloing along the way as well. Faultless, IMO.

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[misc007]

track updated page 9

[doctorbob]

@misc007 ... you list "Comp: FirComp2 : 5 _ Waves Vcomp :1 _ Fl Limiter : 1"

Waves VComp is not a free compressor - you cannot use a commercial (ie paid for) plugin in this round of the challenge. Please swap it out for a different and free compressor. The track will be disqualified otherwise ...

Just a friendly "nudge" ...

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[ZioMau]

I don't like it ... I LOVE it, such great funk, sense of space, and some fab soloing along the way as well. Faultless, IMO.

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Thank you DOC
Glad you like it !

[misc007]

@misc007 ... you list "Comp: FirComp2 : 5 _ Waves Vcomp :1 _ Fl Limiter : 1"

Waves VComp is not a free compressor - you cannot use a commercial (ie paid for) plugin in this round of the challenge. Please swap it out for a different and free compressor. The track will be disqualified otherwise ...

Just a friendly "nudge" ...

dB

Waves Vcomp is free ie (Waves Free Vst Pack) https://www.waves.com/bundles/free-plugin-pack

No worries I made a new track with out it

Link : https://on.soundcloud.com/KDoVUqtWcxdvMT7g5V
- Tittle : Don't Cry For Me

Daw_Studio One

VST List
4_Ragnarok2
2_Pro Eq
1_Sala
1_Deelay
1_Magic Dice
1_Heatwave

[doctorbob]

oops ... sorry I missed the free offer somehow ... not a lot of publicity ... shame though, as I have the plugins and paid good money many moons ago!

Sorry to worry you

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[GeneralQ]

Bug report:
Reaper 7.39, Win11, CLAP plugin:
When rendering Offline in reaper the pitch gets messed up causing the render to sound very atonal. This may be related to the ste. spr. or int. parameters (in the left corner under voices.).
Also when automating the cutoff frequency there is a zip at the start of the track when the automation value doesn't start at 0.
The plugin renders correctly if you do an online render.

[GeneralQ]

Here is my Submission:
https://soundcloud.com/generalq/ragnarok

- ragnarök 21
- mtremolo 7
- mequalizer 6
- ni raum 2
- mautopan 2
-khs transient shaper
- apple 2 pole lowpass filter (reaper js)
- rbj highpass/lowpass filter (reaper js)
- khs dual delay
- reaxcomp(bypassed)
- span
- realimit
- 4u+ project time

[Taron]

Sorry for the very late video and that it's a little too long, but I wanted to make one...

[Taron]

Also, here's my submission. I think I just leave it as it is after all...
https://soundcloud.com/taronium/taron-s ... al_sharing

DAW: MuLab
Instances: 40
FX: DearVR Pro 2, Deelay, Supermassive, FrankCS, OTT, LoudMax, Magic Carpet, KSHMER EssentialKick, TDR Nova, TENSjr, IVGI2, Plateau2

[crimsonwarlock]

Sorry for the very late video and that it's a little too long, but I wanted to make one...

Nice walk-through, Taron Fun to see someone else explain the synth I designed (and Bjorn, of course, coded to his high standards).

Just to clear up a few things mentioned in the video: Ragnarok-2 is an extended version of the first Ragnarok VST instrument, which is based on the actual Ragnarok hardware synthesizer that was built by me back in the eighties. Several 'quirks', like the waveforms/registers summing volume, result from emulating the exact architecture of that synth. The knob that mixes between the oscillators and noise is exactly how it worked on the hardware, and most analog synths around that time had this same implementation. Things like how the FX behave (distortion and chorus) are the result from them being 'bolt on' to the synthesizer just like the real one, that didn't have internal FX but was always complemented by FX stomp boxes. Incorporating those FX deeper into the synthesizer architecture would be pretty difficult because of how everything was setup inside it.

A lot of things in version 2 are again 'bolted on', based ion the original architecture stat is emulated in the first VST emulation.

However, I do think you found a bug: The noise mix knob should always mix to noise only, no matter which oscillator sources are selected. Maybe Bjorn can look into that.

[acid42]

Hello all, here's my very first post and also my entry to the Ragnarok 2 one synth challenge for May 2025:


Acid42 - The Storm Is Upon Us3

Soundcloud link: https://soundcloud.com/acid422/acid42-t ... -ragnarok2

DAW used: Reason 13
FX used: All onboard Reason 13 effects
Instances of Ragnarok 2: 12 instances
Kick
Snare
Hats (closed)
Hats (open)
Bass - Slender
Bass- Fat
FX - chirp
Key - organ arp
Piano pad
Key - funk wurly thing
Synth - synth stepper
Lead synth

Cheers!