One Synth Challenge #160: ADLplug / OPNplug by jpcima (ZioMau Wins!)

[doctorbob]

I'm using 2.

Are you using the original or the "dev" version? Have you tried re-scanning after opening Reaper? To see if that helps at all.
I really have had no problems except the re-scan thing.
dB

[empphryio]

I've tried both and TBH don't want to mess around too much more as Reaper wouldn't even see it the first week. Not asking for help at this point but thanks. Just commenting it's buggy in Reaper. I think I'll manage.

[ZioMau]

HI EVERYBODY,
...at first I didn't want to be in OSC 160 because I didn't have much time and the synthesizers seemed too poor to make a song out of them. Then i try to play a patch consisting of two classic FM pianos panned at opposite ends and..."not bad at all!!!". I dropped down some ideas on the workspace. They were interesting but unlinked. I decided anyway to keep them. So the final track has no real pattern or a real theme. I left things this way, new and experimental to me (OSC always theach me something), adding a fading solo at the end. The song is a ballad dedicated to my mother who recently had an injury. The title is because in some areas of Italy, public health works incredibly badly, and I had to go to a hospital not too close twice in one day (once for the covid swab and then for hospitalization), travelling four times forward and behind the same road (which is really the one shown in the cover of the song, taken from StreetView). Beautiful but strange Italy ...

----- Four Times -----

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


DAW

Cockos - Reaper 5.99
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INSTRUMENTS:

OPNplug x 15 (for 8 stereo patch + 1 drumkit)
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AUDIO FX:

Cockos - ReaEq x 7
Cockos - ReaComp x 5
Sonimus - Soneq x 6 (*my anti-muddiness swiss knife around 250-400hz)
Cockos - ReaDelay x 5
Togu Audio Line - TAL Reverb 4 x 6 (*never used before...great musicality on tuned instruments!)
Sinus - Freeverb Too x 2 (*on drums. A my very old and such long time forgotten friend)
Voxengo - MSED x 1
Cockos - ReaXComp x 1
Daniel Rothmann - Roth-Air x1
Xfer - OTT x 1 (everybody use this. I wanted to use one too...don't know if i needed)
Analog Obsession - dBComp x 1
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MIDI FX

Cockos - ReaControl Midi x 2
Midi note filter (js) x 1
Midi velocity control (js) x 2
TobyBear - Humanisator x 1
Arto Vaarala - Kirnu x 1
WOK - D-Arp x 1
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MASTER CH FX

TDR - Nova
Analog Obsession - BusterSE
Sonimus - SonEq
lkjb - Luftikus
Melda Prod. - MStereoExpander (*subtle widening over 600hz)
Thomas Mundt - LUveler64 (*new tool for play with the loudness)
Thomas Mundt - LoudMAX64
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METERING FX

Voxengo - Span
Youlean - Loudness Meter
Melda Prod. - MStereoScope

*:personal tips or recent discoveries

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project setup screenshot:

[z.prime]

ADLplug x 1 / OPNplug x 14

Quick note: the rules were using one or the other of these plugins, not both.

[ZioMau]

ADLplug x 1 / OPNplug x 14

Quick note: the rules were using one or the other of these plugins, not both.

...really? Are you sure? Wait for a confirmation, then i'll replace the instance (luckily it's just one synth and no about 50% of them all)
Thank you for the info

[z.prime]

See Richard's post

We can use either one or the other.

[Rahodees]

Alright, I plan to change some timbres but if I don't, here's my entry:

https://soundcloud.com/kris-rhodes-8525 ... al_sharing

19 instances ADLMIDI (every voice created from scratch except the baseline which is based on a preset)
1 instance Tal Reverb (on the master track)
1 instance MEqualizer
1 instance ReaLimit
Made in Reaper

[ZioMau]

See Richard's post

We can use either one or the other.

...instance replaced.
Thank you again for the info!

[silverpants]

A general tip to everyone (esp newcomers)... I don't know why but Soundcloud often trims the first fraction of a second from your track, so if you export from your DAW right from the start of bar 1 - the SoundCloud audio might not start exactly at the beginning for listeners and the initial rhythm of the song can be confusing.
So I recommend adding something like a 1/4 bar of silence to the start when you export.

I think this might have happened to Rahodees' (awesome) tune above.

[Rahodees]

It did indeed, thank you for the heads up!

[doctorbob]

So I recommend adding something like a 1/4 bar of silence to the start when you export.

I always have put 1 second of silence at the start and another 1 sec or 2 secs at the end. The extra at the end is to "help" the listening experience - just not nice when a track just STOPS, even when you have a nice reverb tail, it's good to let that tail dissolve to silence.

Just IMO, of course.

dB

[Julian Olsen]

Hi everyone. Here are my two cents regarding the PlugIn for this month's challenge. It was an awful time for me because I feel like this Synth has the capacity of an electronic doorbell. But nevertehless I managed to produce something, so it can't be that bad. And for sure the developers did a great piece of work to emulate the first ever on-board-synthchip. Well, I hope you had a less hard time doing stuff with this little soundbox. I am looking forward to the voting period.

Cheerz J O

https://soundcloud.com/julian-olsen-2/j ... al_sharing


27 Voices of ADL plug
Ableton Live11.1 Suite
All FX Stock, besides FreshAir (SlateDigital) and LM2 (Youlean)



Sidechaintrigger: none

Drum Group:
none

- 4TTFKikk: EQ eight, DrumBuss, EQ eight,
Kikk: EQ eight, DrumBuss, EQ eight, EQ three
8tel hat: Utility, EQ eight
Klick: Utility, EQ eight
Snare Claps: Saturator, Vocoder, DrumBuss
Claps: Saturator, EQ eight, Utility, Reverb
16 Hats: EQ eight
Pluk: none

Bass1:
Saturator, OTT (Stock), Compressor, EQ eight, EQ eight, LFO

Company Group:
Delay, EQ eight, EQ eight

Company left: none
Company right: none

Chords:
Saturator, Compressor, EQ eight, EQ eight, Utility

Smooth ARP:
Saturator, Compressor, EQ eight, EQ eight

Solotone:
EQ eight, EQ eight

Subbass:
OTT (Stock), EQ eight, Compressor

Echo Chords:
Delay, Saturator, EQ eight, EQ eight, Compressor

LEAD:
EQ eight, Saturator, EQ eight, Compressor

White Noise:
Distortion, Delay, Reverb, EQ eight


Returns:
A Big Room Rev: Reverb, Compressor
B Delay: Delay
C Drum Room: Reverb, Compressor

Master:
EQ eight, Spectrum, Fresh Air (Slate Digital), Utility, Compressor, Limiter, Youlean LM2

[rilderec]

Hello, here’s my track,
I was very afraid to do nothing this month, for a long time I was not inspired, then finally I saw that an artist I know used this plugin (garvalf) and it made me want to try to do a little in this genre (dungeon synth), I had trouble equalizing
By the way, it made me want to listen to Garvalf again, this sound is looping at home from: https://garvalf.bandcamp.com/track/alb- ... rsta-waltz

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Instances of ADLplug : 14 | DAW : FL Studio | Effects : (14 Fruity Parametric EQ 2) (3 Fruity Reeverb 2) (3 Valhalla Supermassive) (1 TAL-Dub-2)

https://soundcloud.com/user-503265632/l ... al_sharing

[zachy9]

my entry:
https://soundcloud.com/zachy9/kvr-osc-opn

The theme for an imaginary DOS game, written in 7/8 meter.

I used a single instance of the OPN plug in reaper with stock plugs reacomp, realimit & de-esser plus TAL reverb. Could only use them on the master since with one instance of the plug, you only get one audio out. Even with the multiple channels available within the plug, this creates a lot of mixing challenges since you can't automate volume on a per-channel basis so you have to rely on MIDI velocity to create dynamic variation.

[Rahodees]

my entry:
https://soundcloud.com/zachy9/kvr-osc-opn

The theme for an imaginary DOS game, written in 7/8 meter.

I used a single instance of the OPN plug in reaper with stock plugs reacomp, realimit & de-esser plus TAL reverb. Could only use them on the master since with one instance of the plug, you only get one audio out. Even with the multiple channels available within the plug, this creates a lot of mixing challenges since you can't automate volume on a per-channel basis so you have to rely on MIDI velocity to create dynamic variation.

Nice work! One instance!

I guess the "parts" feature is what lets you use all the different voices in one instance. I wasn't sure what that part of the UI was all about.

I searched in vain for an in-synth way to do pitch glides, what did you find that let you do that? EDIT: Oh yours is OPN, I was using ADL so never mind on this question.