One Synth Challenge #93: OBXD by DiscoDSP & 2DaT (mmGhost Wins!)

[opoint]

Glad you stuck with it Mjr5house, I really liked your track. I love long steady progressions, you should continue with this tune and keep it going. Aim for half an hour:) Brings me back to my shoegaze days.

[Mjr5house]

Thanks ssj71 and opoint,

That means a lot!

I love long steady progressions, you should continue with this tune and keep it going. Aim for half an hour:) Brings me back to my shoe gaze days.

Ah yes I loved the Shoe gaze, makes me want to get out my guitar stand in front of $6000 worth of pedals and play one chord that will make men cry.

[doctorbob]

Glad you stuck with it Mjr5house, I really liked your track.

Me too! Takes me back to days of letting rather unstable things like my Synthi-A and let it slowly filter a chord, dialed into the oscs (by ear of course!). Even more fun, setup feedback loops by patching the output into the input, and adjusting things so they were "just on the edge" and then let it de-stabilise. All good fun - was it music? - well, I though so back in the late 60's! Sadly no recordings unless I can find some of my old R2R tapes in the attic and see what's on them!

Re the plugins - I didn't use audio vibrato but used audio tremolo - very different I know, but it can still evoke the same feeling when dialed into a note which is changing pitch just a little on the decay, also stuck it after the reverb for even more effect!

Good luck, it was worth it I'm sure.

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[Guenon]

Ok, I will give it one more go because rules are rules and I understand that and I need to not have a bad day lol.

excellent!

[mmGhost]

Automation works fine, it's just recording/sending automation messages by turning the synth knobs doesn't, at least not for me.

this.

[jmqjmq]

Here is my submission, decided to make a long over due switch to Reaper this month. Learning a new DAW and a new synth at the same time is SLOW going, but liking Reaper so far.

https://soundcloud.com/jmquarles/beach-house0sc93

made in Reaper 5 with:

14 x Ob-x
6 x reaEq
5 x reaComp
2 x OTT
4 x TAL dub3
2 x TAL rev3
2 x TAL rev2
2 x TAL filter2
2 x JS distortion
2 x IVGI
3 x TDR nova
1 x TDR kotelnikov
2 x Limit6

[ssj71]

Loads of great tracks here. Really well done, everyone. They make me feel pretty wanting in my skills. But here goes, I was kind of going for minimal plugin use, and as usual focused more on song structure than the mix or sound design. All the sounds were tweaked from the default patch.

https://soundcloud.com/ssj71/ssj71-osc9 ... ma-machine

(and copied from the SC description):
The Pajama Machine comes when it's bed time, and you STILL don't have your pajamas on!? First you hear the typical after-dinner continuation of some twin kindergarten-age boys' playday, meandering between messy activities, but then bedtime approaches, and the Pajama Machine warns of its coming. Still, the playtime resumes, and even escalates. When the Machine returns, chaos ensues as it consumes any who oppose and promises even they will sing the Pajama theme. The story ends as the Machine processes the boys (puts their pajamas on) despite their desperate struggle. Not that they'll go to sleep anyway but at least now he can read them a book, close their door and go start cleaning up their mess in the living room.

This track was made for the KVR OSC and all sounds were programmed from the default patch of the excellent softsynth OBXd. The sequencing and mixing was performed in ardour on linux (as usual) using (almost) exclusively the built-in a-* plugins to attempt a fully-cross platform project. You can see the full project files at github.com/ssj71/OSC93.

Plugins used:
11x Obxd
8x A-comp
1x A-EQ
1x A-delay
1x A-reverb
1x x42 Midi velocity randomizer

p.s. if I forgot something important please let me know, this is my first time doing this myself.
Many thanks to all involved!

[Orboscope]

Aaah. It always feels like a katharsys at the end of the month to write this down after the track is finally finished. Here it is:
https://soundcloud.com/halcion-1/orbosc ... ire-shades

Daw used
FL Studio 12

42 instances of OBXD

Fruity parametric Eq2 x 56
Fruity Waveshaper x 2
Fruity Squeeze x 2
Fruity Limiter x 11
Fruity Lovephilter x 8
Fruity PanOmatic x 3
Fruity Bloodoverdrive x 1
Fruity Convolver x 21
Fruity delaybank x 15
Fruity delay2 x 5
Fruity reeverb2 x 2
Fruity Stereoenhancer x 2
Maximus x 4

Thrillseeker XTC x 2
CMT Bitcrusher2 x 1
Transient x 2
DelaystudioKVR12 x 2

[jasinski]

What's allowed and what's not seems a bit of a minefield. Lot's of grey areas it appears... well at least to someone like me who is not very experienced in OSCs
For instance -

VST effects:
Valhalla Vintage Verb
Camel Crusher

Valhalla Vintage Verb is payware isn't it?...well I certainly paid for it
...and I'm confused by the earlier posts about whether Camel Crusher is okay or not

Yeah Vintage Verb is payware! Doh! I thought it was free for some reason. TOO many plug ins.

Not sure the issue with Crusher? Is it because Camel is defunct?

[psmacmur]

Re Crusher, I remember when I was an OSC n00b I was shocked that bit crushers were allowed, as they can have devastating effects on the sound, basically sounding like a bitcrusher not a synth, and avoided them for months. However, I saw people using them to add brightness, as well as for vowel effects, and gave in. (Then lost interest in bitcrushers because I want all the bits intact, thank you very much.) Now, I believe a bitcrusher is just a perverse filter, filters are allowed, and I'd hate if filters (e.g. EQ) were banned, so go nuts, crush those bits, I say. Or it's a digital distortion, distortion is allowed, and I'd hate if distortion (e.g. saturation) was banned, same conclusion. (actually i guess of the 2 typical knobs, one distorts, the other filters? I should probably build a bit crusher in Reaktor just to understand...)

[CymaticCreation]

A bit disappointing, but this is my entry. Since Zynewave Podium wouldn't load the synth, had to work in FL, and this is in fact my first FL track. Most of the time obsessed over cleaning the arrangement (...patterns everywhere...) and learn the workflow as I go.

So:

https://soundcloud.com/dreamforgedstar/ob-association

DAW: FL Studio 12

OBXd - x56

Effects:

Native:

-Parametric EQ2 (a ton)
-Limiter
-Reverb
-Delay Bank
-Love Filter
-Squeeze
-Stereo Shaper
-PanOMatic

Others:

-Freeverb3 ProG
-Orilriver
-Tal DubIII
-Saturation Knob
-IVGI
-GGain
-HY MBDrive
-ADT
-MCompressor
-TAL Filter 2
-HY Reso
-Voxengo Tube Amp
-Luftikus
-Loudmax
-SPAN

[chem57]

I wanted to make something epic for this month's challenge. I hope you like it.

https://soundcloud.com/aarni/aarni-new-world

15x OB-Xd

Native FL Studio effects:
PEQ 2
Maximus

VST effects:
MEqualizer
MLimiter
Limiter No6
TAL Reverb 2
Sanford Reverb
Sanford Delay

[zarf]

Hi everyone. My entry for the month. I hope you enjoy

https://soundcloud.com/zarf/13a

19 Instances of OBXD
Ableton eqs, compressors, reverb, delay
OTT and Loudmax

OBXD is one fine synth!

Good luck all!

[chilledpanda]

You know that moment your track suddenly escapes into reality...
Well last weekend I started a track and had a happy accident of some birds sound ..

Then this happened.. https://www.instagram.com/p/BNRr19yA4De ... illedpanda


My entry good luck to everyone.

https://soundcloud.com/chilled-panda/ch ... -the-birds

KVR One Synth Challenge #93: OBXD by DiscoDSP & 2DaT

Track Name: The Birds

Daw: Ableton Live 9.7 suite
OBXD Instances x20

Daw FX
live audio effect racks
Utility
EQ8
Compressor
Glue Compressor
Glue Limiter
Limiter
Arpeggiator
Simple Delay

freeware
A1 Stereo control
Blue Arp
TAL-Reverb 4

[SoundGoddess]

No, it doesn't seem to send automation messages when knobs are pressed, confirmed on OSX + Bitwig.

Hm I was able to automate stuff in Bitwig/windows using 1.3.14. What I wasn't able to do was save FXP presets, only Bitwig presets.

Automation works fine, it's just recording/sending automation messages by turning the synth knobs doesn't, at least not for me.

Hmm well I generally just see what knob in the bitwig device turns what knob in the VST gui and just automate that, seems to work fine.

See mouse in image below: