One Synth Challenge #204: Nakst Integrate (J.Ruegg Wins!)

[MadMcMan]

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[Viroo]

Voted and commented on everything. Another great episode! Lots of great stuff!

[liqih]

Voting done.

[violator_alba]

I've tweaked my voting as much as I can. Done now!

[jasinski]

voted.

[SynthDX7]

Voted!

[MilksterX]

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[løkken]

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[silverpants]

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[Impedance Music]

Voted!

[RichardSemper]

Final Results: J.Ruegg - Derivate is the Winner!!!!

1. J.Ruegg - Derivate - 161
2. Negoba - This Beautiful and Terrible Journey - with Andy Richmond - 159
3. Vospi - You Push My Tiny Buttons (#inktober2025, day 22) - 155
4. løkken - Not Belonging - 151
5. Viroo - N E X U S - 149

6. The Sound Of Merlin - Beyond the Silver Horizon - 146pts
7. johnkhf - Seven - 145pts
8. jasinski - Power Grid - 144pts
9. TobiasMiller - Coalesce - 143pts
10. MilksterX - Expanded - 142pts
11. ELEX - The Dry Country - 140pts
12. toadhjo - Never Lose Hope - 139pts
dq. ] Peter:H [ - PHU - 139pts
13. silverpants - Thrumweaving The Krellnoth - 138pts
14. Impedance Music - Solve the second-order non-homogeneous differ - 138pts
dq. loris16148 - Disintegrate - 138pts
15. RichardSemper - Re-Emergence - 137pts
16. ontrackp - Blizzard26 - 137pts
17. hennessey - Drown - 136pts
18. doctorbob - Spooky Howler - 135pts
19. tilr8 - Humanoid Frogs - 134pts
20. liqih - Baila Tekko - 133pts
21. Aluto - BASIC FORM - 133pts
22. VCA-089 - Psychic Powers - 133pts
23. seap - Counter-Clockwise Memories - 132pts
24. freecham - Behind the door - 131pts
25. SIL3NC3_SWX - Bodyless - 129pts
26. abot81 - Awakening - 129pts
27. MadMcMan - Hollow Circuit - 127pts
dq. marks-a-whybikky - integrate unfinished - 122pts
28. Starsickle - Dance Your Might - 122pts
29. Darksynth FX - Drawing the Line - 120pts
30. SynthDX7 - Dreams of a Disintegrated Digital Dimension - 115pts
31. violator_alba - Re-Integrate - 113pts
32. embix - Integrated Oscillators - 109pts
33. Nd6829 - OSC-204 - 108pts
34. digitalvandweller - 海岸 - 107pts
35. Fbr - ... - 107pts
36. 3lu5iv3 - Dreamscape - 102pts

Apologies for the lateness of the results - had a few problems today

Prizes:
First place winner, please announce your chosen prize in a reply here on this thread. Next place winners, follow up, one after the other. You may choose to skip. To receive the prize, it may take some time (even a week-month+), but be patient. NOTE: prizes are not passed down below top 5

Another Awesome round, well done everyone

Scoresheet
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing

[Vospi]

Fellow producers and composers, I have an unusual proposition: an extra prize, if you will.

My full-time occupation is a 1-on-1 music production teacher/consultant. I always thought about donating some of my time to OSC in one way or another, but had a hard time figuring out how to go about it exactly. This month is as good as any to try.

Here's my idea:
I’m offering a free 1-on-1 consultation session to three OSC #204 participants who are the first to express their interest in this thread. Not limited to the podium, top-10 or anything else. So, simply any OSC 204 participant.

The idea is simple: I have a full-time schedule as a teacher, but my practice working with English-speaking clients isn’t very built up yet, as I'm not a native speaker. My benefit is that I'd like to have more practice, I might meet a potential future client, and I'm, honestly, simply very curious about what will come from this. On the other side, I believe in my teaching skills very much, work on them all the time, hope I can be of use, and also have not only extensive production experience for media, but also OSC experience, which might interest this group of people I get good ratings, I believe, and won my first OSC. Overall, I see this as a win-win, and want to test it out.

Before posting, plz make sure that you're comfortable speaking English, understanding spoken English (a mildly non-native one ), and can use Discord, so every participant could be accommodated to the best of my ability.

Just some extra details about the session itself:
The session is 1.5 hours, 1-on-1, free of charge (normally $85 worth). We can discuss any specific question you have about your finished track or WIP, general/specific technique, I'm happy to give critique of any material and explain what led to what problems. Music theory, sound design, mixing, synthesis; anything related to improving or completing a track. References and your other works (to orient me quickly, cause one session is still pretty limiting) are very welcome. I usually take people on for months and even years, with weekly sessions, but I'm confident we can do something productive during the first one, too. It can be about OSC or completely separate, whatever is your music/sound goal.
You can listen to my production (in different genres, every track was done in one day) here. But I hope to be more useful to you as someone who explains, tracks issues, and offers perspectives.

I hope this initiative is welcome, I was on the fence for a long time and decided to try it this month.
And congratulations on the very strong OSC month, indeed! Great work.

[J.Ruegg]

Oh wow, this is a nice surprise.
I almost didn't submitted my entry as I wasn't feeling the direction it was having, but Z.Prime & fbr inspired me to polish it a bit more, I'm glad I did.

As for the prize I pick Kontrast by Dawesome, maybe I'll some day also finish my Kontrast piece (which I didn't submitted to the contest back in January).

Strong round, and I'm happy to finally finished something with a Nakst plugin.

[Negoba]

Great round everyone! Some really interesting pieces that pushed the envelope. J.Ruegg's piece was fantastic!

For our prize, please hook up my collaborator andyrichmond with the Synthmaster Bundle.

If the Yuli Yolo Vital Pack prize is still around as a secondary, I'd love that.

Thanks to bjporter and RichardSemper for hosting!

[Vospi]

For my 3rd place, lemme request Red Rock Sound Ivoks, out of curiousity