One Synth Challenge #198: Any One Synth (The Sound of Merlin Wins!!)

[bjporter]

Submissions:
https://soundcloud.com/kvrosc/sets/one- ... ge-198-any






Results Post:
Here






Welcome to the the One Synth Challenge & Happy 200th OSC!!
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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 Rules (This month only):

• Pick any one synth, commercial or freeware, software or hardware.
• Commercial FX are ALLOWED.
• As usual, follow the normal rules - aka no sampling, etc.

This Month's Synth:
Pick one synth you want - any synth - as long is it follows the rules, and have fun!


Image above is inspired by an older OSC image of infinite vst synth spirals by Irion Da Ronin. Made in Midjourney with v7 prompt: 'a spiral of rack mount synthesizers going into infinity'



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

The Wavewarden : **New Prize!!!*** The Wavewarden - One NFR for either Spline Synth or Filter Force


Dawesome : 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


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


Want to try out your skills in other contests / competitions /challenges?

• 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

[z.prime]

In case you, like me, were confused why 198 == 200, it seems to be due to the 2 special contests that didn't have numbers!

https://sites.google.com/site/kvrosc/20 ... ial-na2sc1

https://sites.google.com/site/kvrosc/20 ... special-cm

[NeuKatalYst]

Any synth, with commercial effects allowed?

My [likely] participation depends on how I did last month, so no promises yet~

[Korg Supporter]

I'm thinking I'll be using Icarus for this one. Are unconventional delays like Cluster, Replika XT, and Droplet allowed?

[z.prime]

The main rules affecting delays are: pitching the sound and modulation. As long as they aren't violating other rules, should be fine

[Starsickle]

Alright. I'm in. I've wanted to use Trout for a single track. I'll take my time this month. Good luck to everyone.

[3lu5iv3]

In case you, like me, were confused why 198 == 200, it seems to be due to the 2 special contests that didn't have numbers!

https://sites.google.com/site/kvrosc/20 ... ial-na2sc1

https://sites.google.com/site/kvrosc/20 ... special-cm

Thank u so much for the explanation, i was so confused. Now i know!

[whassup]

Dang! That sounds like fun!
Thank you to all you cool people who organize this!

[] Peter:H []

@Richard

Just for paranoias sake I would like to ask you to clarify a few things ...

I can use all effects that are built into a synth, right? Even if the effect type (like distortion or phaser) is not allowed as additional fx under the normal OSC rules?
My assumption / example: Vitals built in Phaser is allowed, Bitwigs Phaser+ not. Right?

I can use fancy functionality of the synth like Vitals TTS if I choose Vital, which would not be allowed in "normal" osc rounds, right?

If I choose a Synths that can act as FX as well, like Surge or Parawave Rapid, using it as pure FX alongside the Synth would be allowed, right?

Thanks for the clarification!

[NeuKatalYst]

I'm not Richard, but universal rules allow any built-in FX, as long as it's part of the synth. For example: last month's Odin synth had a built in phaser, chorus, and flanger, which was all allowed.

Edit: iirc, any effect version of the synth can be used with it too - like Surge, Serum, InfernalSynth, etc

[z.prime]

My understanding of the rules is exactly as you've described, Peter: all FX within the synth are allowed, external effects like Bitwig Phaser are not. If there is an FX version of the synth and it's freely available with the synth, then it IS also allowed. And Vital TTS is allowed with Vital.

[RichardSemper]

@Richard

Just for paranoias sake I would like to ask you to clarify a few things ...

I can use all effects that are built into a synth, right? Even if the effect type (like distortion or phaser) is not allowed as additional fx under the normal OSC rules?
My assumption / example: Vitals built in Phaser is allowed, Bitwigs Phaser+ not. Right?

I can use fancy functionality of the synth like Vitals TTS if I choose Vital, which would not be allowed in "normal" osc rounds, right?

If I choose a Synths that can act as FX as well, like Surge or Parawave Rapid, using it as pure FX alongside the Synth would be allowed, right?

Thanks for the clarification!

Yes, yes and yes.

[67maxx]

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[audio_dsp]

@Richard

Just for paranoias sake I would like to ask you to clarify a few things ...

I can use all effects that are built into a synth, right? Even if the effect type (like distortion or phaser) is not allowed as additional fx under the normal OSC rules?
My assumption / example: Vitals built in Phaser is allowed, Bitwigs Phaser+ not. Right?

I can use fancy functionality of the synth like Vitals TTS if I choose Vital, which would not be allowed in "normal" osc rounds, right?

If I choose a Synths that can act as FX as well, like Surge or Parawave Rapid, using it as pure FX alongside the Synth would be allowed, right?

Thanks for the clarification!

Yes, yes and yes.

@Richard Just to clarify — are synths that use internal samples (like Omnisphere, Icarus, or Falcon) allowed in this month's OSC?
I'm referring only to factory/sample content already included in the synth — not importing external samples or using other samplers.

Just want to be sure before choosing something sample-heavy. Thanks!

@Richard
The extreme would be VPS Avenger with its internal drum samples.
Other synth like Pigments or MassiveX have lots of different noise sources (very sample like, but not used as samples per se). It would be great, if at least these sources are allowed.

[RichardSemper]

@Richard

Just for paranoias sake I would like to ask you to clarify a few things ...

I can use all effects that are built into a synth, right? Even if the effect type (like distortion or phaser) is not allowed as additional fx under the normal OSC rules?
My assumption / example: Vitals built in Phaser is allowed, Bitwigs Phaser+ not. Right?

I can use fancy functionality of the synth like Vitals TTS if I choose Vital, which would not be allowed in "normal" osc rounds, right?

If I choose a Synths that can act as FX as well, like Surge or Parawave Rapid, using it as pure FX alongside the Synth would be allowed, right?

Thanks for the clarification!

Yes, yes and yes.

Never mind... I was thinking of making something, but I’m giving up. It’s unfortunate that honest questions about samples are sometimes met with sarcasm (Discord). Not everyone reads the rules the same way, and respectful clarification should always be encouraged. When that doesn't happen, it’s no surprise that people choose to leave.

I don't know what your problem is, or why you are taking offence at something.
I am sorry, but cannot be on the forum 24 hours per day, and sometimes people need to be more patient for answers. Also I am not in a position at the moment to get involved in debating or assessing each and every synth's capabilities, so will try to clarify with the following:

With regard to samples, the same questions arise every time we use sample capable synths, and especially any-synth months.
We are clear that samples built into the synth e.g. noise etc. may be used. Even sample heavy synths are okay this time, provided the emphasis is on synthesis. As I said on the Discord: We don't want to hear "how good the samples are" we do want to hear what you can accomplish with the synthesiser.

Bear in mind that samplers and romplers are specifically not allowed per the rules.

I would also suggest for example that Myth could be used, with the same restrictions as applied when we did it last year. Even some hgfortune synths, which are sample based, could be used, again provided the emphasis is on synthesis, not just playback of some impressive samples.

It's an Any-Synth celebration of 200 challenges, quite a milestone! Just let's have fun, and show off what we can do with these synths and some imagination.