One Synth Challenge #68: Synth1 by Ichiro Toda
- KVRian
- 628 posts since 5 Mar, 2011 from Austria
Hi all,
This time I want to dedicate the song to the creator of this amazing synth: Ichiro Toda
He did a great job. The synth is so capable to create a variety of sounds and uses so less CPU. A real pleasure to work with.
And I used for the first time Reaper as my DAW. It may displace Cubase for a while. Let's see.
https://soundcloud.com/photonic-1/photo ... iros-theme
24 instances of Synth in Reaper
Filter: ReaEQ, BootEQmkII, MQ57
Dynamics: TDRFeedBackCompressor, GClip, FluxBitterSweet-II, ReaComp
Delays: IxoxDelay
Reverb: EpicVerb, FreeverbToo
Analyzer: Span, TT Dynamic Range Meter
Stereo: GStereo
Dynamik Range according TT Dynamic Range Meter: DR=12
This time I want to dedicate the song to the creator of this amazing synth: Ichiro Toda
He did a great job. The synth is so capable to create a variety of sounds and uses so less CPU. A real pleasure to work with.
And I used for the first time Reaper as my DAW. It may displace Cubase for a while. Let's see.
https://soundcloud.com/photonic-1/photo ... iros-theme
24 instances of Synth in Reaper
Filter: ReaEQ, BootEQmkII, MQ57
Dynamics: TDRFeedBackCompressor, GClip, FluxBitterSweet-II, ReaComp
Delays: IxoxDelay
Reverb: EpicVerb, FreeverbToo
Analyzer: Span, TT Dynamic Range Meter
Stereo: GStereo
Dynamik Range according TT Dynamic Range Meter: DR=12
soundcloud.com/photonic-1
- KVRAF
- 2143 posts since 29 Sep, 2011
Quick note: I used Cubase SX3 as my only DAW for a long time. When I switched to Reaper, all the plugins used 1/2 the CPU. I could literally get twice the plugin count doing exactly the same stuff. So, yes, Synth 1 is nice and CPU efficient; also some of what you see may just be that Reaper is better than Cubase.photonic wrote:... and uses so less CPU ... I used for the first time Reaper as my DAW. It may displace Cubase for a while.
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- KVRian
- 702 posts since 19 Mar, 2014 from Denver, CO
Lots of good entries again this month. Took a quick listen today to see what I'll be up against. Great stuff from some talented musicians and a great synth.
Looking forward to hearing everything and posting my results once I've tested my mix on my friend's 8-track.
Looking forward to hearing everything and posting my results once I've tested my mix on my friend's 8-track.
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- KVRAF
- 2191 posts since 7 Mar, 2014
Hehe! Note to self ... re-record the track onto my crossfield autoreverse AKAI 2 track for that lovely real tape saturationImNotDedYet wrote: ...once I've tested my mix on my friend's 8-track.
I agree, some stonking tracks already ... what's to come? Yikes!
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- KVRian
- 702 posts since 19 Mar, 2014 from Denver, CO
I'm not interested in the sound so much from the 8-track as I am ensuring it translates to all possible scenarios.doctorbob wrote:Hehe! Note to self ... re-record the track onto my crossfield autoreverse AKAI 2 track for that lovely real tape saturationImNotDedYet wrote: ...once I've tested my mix on my friend's 8-track.
I agree, some stonking tracks already ... what's to come? Yikes!
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- KVRist
- 323 posts since 15 Jan, 2013 from Victoria BC, Canada
Hi people... this is my first entry to the One Synth Challenge... Amazing synth!!
https://soundcloud.com/mostlyjustj/thank-you-ichiro
Here is the description of how it all went down:
The entire tune is made up of 35 instances of the Ichiro Toda's Synth1 (12 of which are muted... too lazy to clean them up - for a total of 22 live tracks) inside of a Reaper project. I love this synth!! I downloaded a BOATLOAD of nicely organized freely available soundbanks from here: http://veryrandomstreams.blogspot.ca/20 ... -free.html (special thanks to the author of the LiKwid DaTaBaSsEs bank - killer!!) and from there explored and tweaked to arrive at this entry. The bigger synth sounds make good use of Reapers' routing capabilities - combining several instances of Synth 1 playing the same MIDI pattern all funneling into a bus. The only effects not "In the Synth" that were used, was Reaper's EQ in order to gradually bring in the opening, and Reapers' Delay on a single saw-ish synth that comes in at the end because I was in a hurry and was finding that using Synth1's internal delay was fussy when dealing with longer feedback delays. There is also alot of automated Volume per track. That's about it! Hope y'all like it!
https://soundcloud.com/mostlyjustj/thank-you-ichiro
Here is the description of how it all went down:
The entire tune is made up of 35 instances of the Ichiro Toda's Synth1 (12 of which are muted... too lazy to clean them up - for a total of 22 live tracks) inside of a Reaper project. I love this synth!! I downloaded a BOATLOAD of nicely organized freely available soundbanks from here: http://veryrandomstreams.blogspot.ca/20 ... -free.html (special thanks to the author of the LiKwid DaTaBaSsEs bank - killer!!) and from there explored and tweaked to arrive at this entry. The bigger synth sounds make good use of Reapers' routing capabilities - combining several instances of Synth 1 playing the same MIDI pattern all funneling into a bus. The only effects not "In the Synth" that were used, was Reaper's EQ in order to gradually bring in the opening, and Reapers' Delay on a single saw-ish synth that comes in at the end because I was in a hurry and was finding that using Synth1's internal delay was fussy when dealing with longer feedback delays. There is also alot of automated Volume per track. That's about it! Hope y'all like it!
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- KVRist
- 57 posts since 5 Mar, 2007
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 2690 posts since 19 Dec, 2010 from North America
Awesome!sagamusix wrote:Whee, an OSC compo using my favourite toy (not quite true, that would be the D-50, so let's say software toy...). My track still has loose ends everywhere, but hopefully I will manage to finish something by friday. Using 100% self-made patches.
One Synth Challenge: https://sites.google.com/site/kvrosc/about
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- KVRist
- 70 posts since 1 Nov, 2011 from US
My entry is HalloW
DAW Reaper 64bit ver 4.732
instances of synth1 14
external effects 0
https://soundcloud.com/key88/key88-hallow
More fun!
DAW Reaper 64bit ver 4.732
instances of synth1 14
external effects 0
https://soundcloud.com/key88/key88-hallow
More fun!
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- KVRer
- 21 posts since 24 Feb, 2013
I have a track nearly ready, but I wanted to clarify something in the rules regarding external effects. I have my DAW's stock reverb plug-in, iZotope's Vinyl (freeware), and EZMix as my effects. Does EZMix need to be removed since it's not freeware, and are the other two effects ok to use?
- KVRAF
- 2143 posts since 29 Sep, 2011
This one is perfectly fine!hwangman wrote:DAW's stock reverb plug-in
If it generates sound, it is not allowed. I believe this may actually generate the sound crackles rather than just adding 'distortion'. What does it do on an empty audio track?hwangman wrote:iZotope's Vinyl (freeware)
Correct, this is not allowed. I'd love to use my FabFilter Pro-MB!!!! Looks like it's a multi-effect. If you are using certain modules from it, perhaps we could suggest free alternatives. For example, Limiter 6 is very good mastering limiter. Easy-Q is a very good freeware EQ.hwangman wrote:EZMix ... not freeware
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- KVRer
- 21 posts since 24 Feb, 2013
Thanks, everyone.
iZotope Vinyl does nothing on an empty track, as it just processes whatever signal is incoming. It does add some crackling and saturation, so I guess I should remove it?
I was using EZMix for some filtered sounds, so I'll mess with Ableton's stock filters/EQs instead.
iZotope Vinyl does nothing on an empty track, as it just processes whatever signal is incoming. It does add some crackling and saturation, so I guess I should remove it?
I was using EZMix for some filtered sounds, so I'll mess with Ableton's stock filters/EQs instead.
- KVRAF
- 2143 posts since 29 Sep, 2011
Yeah, Ableton's EQ is pretty much the best EQ of any DAW, in my opinion; certainly allowed.hwangman wrote:... I'll mess with Ableton's stock filters/EQs instead.
Also, some good submissions, you all. Awesome, exciting month so far; can't wait to hear the last minute stuff people submit!