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aciddose · Post by **aciddose** » Tue Mar 29, 2016 10:16 am

I've done this, it does not cause a crash.

Timfonie · Post by **Timfonie** » Tue Mar 29, 2016 11:37 am

7angram wrote:Finished my entry for this month, and really blown away with how good this synth sounds....

And I have been blown away by your entry in this OSC. It's my favorite choice in this challenge by far. Well done!

garryknight · Post by **garryknight** » Tue Mar 29, 2016 3:40 pm

My entry, "New Man," is a tribute to one of the great synth artists of the 80s and onwards, Gary Numan.

Made in Studio One 3.2, It consists of just 16 tracks: 5 percussion, 3 bass, 3 pads, 1 pluck, 2 leads, 2 SFX; all tracks are MIDI using xhip. There are three effects sends: one reverb and two delay; the reverb track is EQ'd and compressed. All effects are native to Studio One and the track insert effects include Pro EQ and Mixtool (for gain automation) on every track, and Compressors on the drums and bass buses. The master track inserts are: Tricomp (multiband compressor), Pro EQ, Mixtool, and a post-fader Limiter. All patches are either presets altered to suit, or hand-programmed sounds created by me.

[Edit: Forgot to make CC and downloadable. Now fixed.]

https://soundcloud.com/garryknight/new-man-osc-85-mix

7angram · Post by **7angram** » Tue Mar 29, 2016 9:54 pm

Timfonie wrote:
7angram wrote:Finished my entry for this month, and really blown away with how good this synth sounds....
And I have been blown away by your entry in this OSC. It's my favorite choice in this challenge by far. Well done!

Thanks, that is very nice of you to say

After not listening to it since I uploaded it at the start of the month, I remixed and changed a few parts yesterday. The new mix is currently on Soundcloud.

Comrade · Post by **Comrade** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 6:42 am

I present to you my submission for OSC 85: Xhip
31 instances of Xhip
All patches from init
Daw: FL Studio 12
The various effects used are: Maximus, Patcher, Stereo Shaper, Parametric EQ 2, Ferric TDS, Classic EQ, Fruity Limiter, Wave Candy, Voxengo Span, TesslaPro mk2, Fruity Free Filter, Fruity Reeverb 2, Classic Delay,
Rescue mk2, Density mk3, Control Surface, Gross Beat (gating duties), Fruity Waveshaper (just for a quick light boost), Protoverb, Classic Compressor, Fruity Convolver (no whack impulse used as per the general OSC discussion), Ambience and Thrillseeker XTC Blue.

https://soundcloud.com/comrade-68241369 ... c-sonatina

aciddose · Post by **aciddose** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 10:13 am

No inspiration for me lately

https://soundcloud.com/aciddose-1/osc

I tried to force myself to do something before time is up, although I'm not interested in entering so I suppose it doesn't matter.

I considered doing a gabber/hhc or oldschool techno style track although I figured I would have spent way too much time (too late now) trying to duplicate 909 sounds. Cymbals and hats ala 909 are not so simple without samples.

Uses six Xhip instances,
Bass + Chord -> Xhip mDelay -> Xhip Compressor (for pumping effect),
Lead -> mDelay -> Xhip Tremolo (not really with rules, although only used for light auto-pan),
Perc -> Xhip Multiplier (for low frequency width) -> Xhip Reverb (light room, brings out the clave),
Master -> Compressor + Xhip Limiter to destroy any pesky dynamics.

Alternative swing version:
https://soundcloud.com/aciddose-1/osc-swing-version

MirkoVanHauten · Post by **MirkoVanHauten** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 12:18 pm

urlwolf wrote:I bought bitwig this week. And to my surprise, it crashes consistently using the 'released' version of xhip. The only way I can get some kind of stability is by running it inside chainer, a vst wrapper. Argh.

UPDATE: 'released' version crashes, even inside the vst host 'chainer'. The alpha doesn't work inside the chainer, but it seems not to crash bitwig (yet) and it accept changing fxp files. But of course it cannot save presets as fxp, this being bitwig (reason I was using the chainer wrapper). This is really an uphill battle. My only option is to:
- use the alpha
- save presets in the native format, knowing full well it won't be future proof
- hope for the best (not crashing bitwig)

I also reported a bug inside this thread with Xhip inside Bitwig Studio. Since it is the only plugin that causes Bitwig to crash, it seems to be a bug with Xhip. It happens the same way you described later, while loading/switching presets.

aciddose · Post by **aciddose** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 12:24 pm

Bitwig may not handle the long parameter names that Xhip uses. This is not a "bug" per se as if plug-ins were to follow the VST specification (very few do) parameter names would be severely length limited.

I've looked into this further and no matter what I do I'm unable to make Bitwig crash while running Xhip.

Both 64-bit and 32-bit versions of the plug-in, both version 7 and the current alpha.

Bitwig is filled with numerous bugs... it appears unable to redraw correctly under Windows 7 with Windows Aero disabled.

Moving any parameter control from Bitwig results in a NAN (invalid parameter value) and it must be adjusted from within the Xhip GUI in order to work correctly. This works in the alpha version for some reason although I'm unsure of why. (For comparison both versions work fine in numerous other hosts' default editor.)

Bitwig does not support mouse-wheel either via the vendorSpecific() work-around or via Windows messages.

I'm unable to find how to load/save .fxb or .fxp format files. It seems the "presets" in Bitwig are using "state" chunk data although they result in a full reload of the plug-in.

It seems the author of Bitwig still have a lot of remaining work to do as many features are missing and compatibility (Windows 7) is limited. I'm unable to get it to fail, although the best I can recommend is that if you find that loading a Bitwig "preset" can lead to a failure you should avoid doing that.

Due to the number of other issues I personally would find Bitwig intolerable for my own use and I can't recommend it should be used with Xhip 7. That said, it does work if you can accept all the missing features and issues and once again I've been unable to reproduce a crash.

JKF Flashico · Post by **JKF Flashico** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 3:27 pm

Hi here is my OSC85 challenge track. Hope you enjoy it

22 instances from init + 2FX channel

Cubase Daw fx: 15 * standard EQ, 4 * Revelation reverb, 2 * GEQ-30, 1 * Stereo Enchancer, Reverb
Daw : 2 * FX channel

3rd parties free FX: 3 * Sanford Delay, 1 * Sanford Reverb, 2 * Limiter6

https://soundcloud.com/jkflashico/jkfla ... f-the-past

Yeager · Post by **Yeager** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 7:37 pm

Uploaded mine, it's called :

"Nobody's Home".

Made In FLStudio.

I used : 17 x xhip.

Track FX :
2 x BlueARP
2 x Fruity Reeverb2
4 x Fruity Delay2
2 x Fruity Limiter
1 x Tal Filter
1 x ReaComp.

Automation : Volume.

Master FX :
1 x Fruity Convolver
1 x Limiter.

Official DR value: DR7.

Enjoy.

https://soundcloud.com/petervos/yeager-nobodys-home

mutron3k · Post by **mutron3k** » Thu Mar 31, 2016 2:41 am

Got it done - https://soundcloud.com/mutron3000/mutro ... y-tek-funk

Lots of quirky old skool sonic references here - they just kept popping up!

Reaper: 14 Xhip's
ReaEq, MagikPan, JS PingPong pan, Voxengo Tempo delay, C3 multiband comp, Kjaerhus Classic Delay, SSS CatDelay, TAL DubDelay, W1 Limiter

vitalker · Post by **vitalker** » Thu Mar 31, 2016 5:05 pm

Guys, how to create white noise on the synth? And if you could, please give me a preset.

ere2learn · Post by **ere2learn** » Thu Mar 31, 2016 5:12 pm

Mutant · Post by **Mutant** » Thu Mar 31, 2016 5:21 pm

vitalker wrote:Guys, how to create white noise on the synth? And if you could, please give me a preset.

Look in the mixer section.

vitalker · Post by **vitalker** » Thu Mar 31, 2016 5:30 pm

ere2learn wrote:

Mutant wrote:Look in the mixer section.

Thank you. I'm a bit inattentive

One Synth Challenge #85: Xhip (J.Ruegg wins!)