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bjporter · Post by **bjporter** » Mon Aug 01, 2016 8:52 pm

Welcome to the 90th One Synth Challenge! It's a friendly music competition where you can win cool prizes but most importantly, meet amazing musicians, and learn a lot about mixing, sound design, and more!

Submissions:
https://soundcloud.com/kvrosc/sets/osc-90-helm

Fresh OSC Community Resources to get you started:
* Have patches? Post them and we'll put the link here!

Want a chat room with other OSCers? Join our slack here

Another powerful open source synthesizer that has been in demand for a while. Cross platform support, and a decent amount of presets

Prizes:
(Would you like to be a donator? Contact me via PM or go ahead and post your intended donation here! Get a cool mention on our donator wall of honor)

Special Note:
Ridan is offering a secondary prize (on top of the normal prize): any 1 of his soundsets. Mention the soundset you want, along with your other prize.

NUSofting : 1 Copy of Modelonia v2

KV331 Audio : Synthmaster

Dmitry Sches : Diversion

Guda Audio : Euterpe XL

Wusik : 1 bundle of Wusik 8000, Wusik Station 8, and Wusik EVE v3

Abstract Cats Music : AbiTron Bank for Synthmaster

Squaredheads : Nora Arpeggiator plugin

JRR Shop : UVI: Mello

satYatunes : One of any commercial product

stardustmedia : Professional studio mix down and mastering on one track of your choosing (See Disclaimer)

Xenos Soundworks : Choice of any 1 product

Ghostwave Audio : Any two soundsets of Choice

Twolegs Toneworks : Any one soundset

The Unfinished : Any two soundsets of Choice

Rob Lee Music : A soundset for either: Sylenth1, Predator, Largo, Blofeld, PPGV3 or Dune

Luftrum : One soundset free of choice.

Ridan: Any one soundset as a secondary prize, on top of the regular prize.
haunting soundscapes, atmospheric chords, layered pads, anamorphic guitars,
brass and woodwind-esque, rhythmic/melodic sequences, and macabre sound effects.

Kreativ Sound: RAW Bundle
(RAW Bass, RAW Drums, RAW TranSID, RAW Textures)

Aiyn Zahev Sounds: 2 Soundsets of choice
(Uplifting Trance Presets)

Studio 13.37: Pro audio studio on a USB stick

Pooya Payvar (Stonail) : 1 custom made Max for [Ableton] Live: controller, midi or audio effect

Mulperi : 1 Soundbank of Choice

Dream Audio Tools : 1 Indie Fingers bundle (Indie Fingers volumes One and Two)

Bjulin : Inspire soundset for Zebra²

LeapIntoTheVoid : Enchantment Of Absynth Trilogy

Bluff Munkey - 2 soundsets of choice

Solidtrax : 1 Soundset of choice

Any other offers of prizes will be greatly appreciated.

Questions? Comments? Concerns? You want some love? Just post here in this thread

Want to try out your skills in other contests / competitions /challenges?

DiHalt Demoscene competitions
Indaba - Has a mix of popular and indie artists with various contests like remixing and song writing. Some people from OSC have had success here.
KVR Mix Challenge (see stickies) - Who can mix a song the best (Without adding extra recordings /musical additions)? Each person starts out with the same stems.
Music Cafe (KVR, see stickies) - A thematic monthly competition. Use recording, real instruments, synths and samples.
RemixComps - An aggregator for remix contests from a variety of artists and genres (mostly EDM) - indie and popular.
Soundevotion (SDCOMPO) Competition - Even longer running than the OSC, the SDCOMPO is even more niche in that you must use a tracker, and set of specific effects. Great community.

zerofox97 · Post by **zerofox97** » Mon Aug 01, 2016 9:11 pm

I tried this synth. On top of the sound being inconsistent, the unison is terrible in my opinion. The features it offers are amazing, but I can't even make a good kick.

Sitting this one out... Again.

ATN69 · Post by **ATN69** » Mon Aug 01, 2016 11:23 pm

So Helm was finally chosen. I think I will give it a try anyway and see where it goes

z.prime · Post by **z.prime** » Tue Aug 02, 2016 12:03 am

It's a great UI. And some great features... yet I can't seem to get great sounds from it yet... a lack of warmth somehow.

alvfaria · Post by **alvfaria** » Tue Aug 02, 2016 1:11 am

Edited.

Helm isn't the kind of synth that reveals all this strenghts at the first look. Sorry for being rude on my comment.

H-man · Post by **H-man** » Tue Aug 02, 2016 1:46 am

Great mod options on this thing

Formant feature seems completely bro-ken tho. turn it on and it seems more like a heavily distorted comb effect (bit-crush)??? Also getting some big reverb hits when turning FX on and off

If anyone can confirm I will post the bugs. I'm on Win7-64bit, Helm ver 0.85

WYG_E · Post by **WYG_E** » Tue Aug 02, 2016 7:36 am

Looks like I'm out of this one unless I figure out how to get Helm to show up in Ableton. The standalone version works, just not the VST. Sigh...

rghvdberg · Post by **rghvdberg** » Tue Aug 02, 2016 8:38 am

This is gonna be the geekiest OSC ever.

Me and ssj71 are gonna team up.

Thou shall call us : The Penguinators

Both on linux, using Ardour 5 RC, using github to sync our songs.
We have no idea if this is gonna actually work. So it should be fun.

Now building Ardour 5 RC from git

kraftraum · Post by **kraftraum** » Tue Aug 02, 2016 9:59 am

H-man wrote:Great mod options on this thing

Formant feature seems completely bro-ken tho. turn it on and it seems more like a heavily distorted comb effect (bit-crush)??? Also getting some big reverb hits when turning FX on and off

If anyone can confirm I will post the bugs. I'm on Win7-64bit, Helm ver 0.85

Hi H-Man,

i play a little bit in the night with the synth and get the same probelms: crazy formant sounds

.
But as i see in the morning: it's fixed with the new Version 0.8.6 -> https://github.com/mtytel/helm/commit/e ... abd01b6921

Thx Matt Tytel for the fast fix

Have a nice day

ATN69 · Post by **ATN69** » Tue Aug 02, 2016 10:06 am

WYG_E wrote:Looks like I'm out of this one unless I figure out how to get Helm to show up in Ableton. The standalone version works, just not the VST. Sigh...

I have the same issue in FL Studio 12. I found that I get an error message about some missing dll file. Standalone works. Previous version of Helm worked fine.

Meakaale · Post by **Meakaale** » Tue Aug 02, 2016 10:24 am

kraftraum wrote:
H-man wrote: But as i see in the morning: it's fixed with the new Version 0.8.6 -> https://github.com/mtytel/helm/commit/e ... abd01b6921

Awesome

, This synth looks very promising at a glance.

Found a bug: If I pull the noise slider up and down the noise does not go away and I'm left with crackling. I can move it up again, just a little and then down, to reduce the noise but it won't go away completely.
EDIT: All sliders seem to have this behaviour

Using FLstudio 12 32bit, 0.8.6 32bit

Feature request: Tension in envelope curves/graphs

ATN69 wrote:
WYG_E wrote:Looks like I'm out of this one unless I figure out how to get Helm to show up in Ableton. The standalone version works, just not the VST. Sigh...
I have the same issue in FL Studio 12. I found that I get an error message about some missing dll file. Standalone works. Previous version of Helm worked fine.

Works for me in FL Studio 12. I installed only the 32-bit version in C:\Program Files (x86)\VstPlugins\helm.dll

No Steinberg or helm-folders

rghvdberg · Post by **rghvdberg** » Tue Aug 02, 2016 12:42 pm

Thanks for the update. The formant filter was indeed quite useless.
Is the developer in this thread?

Oopfoo · Post by **Oopfoo** » Tue Aug 02, 2016 1:00 pm

Oddly, I'm not having ANY problems in Ableton Live on the Mac. It took a few moments to figure out the modulation assignment, though.

ATN69 · Post by **ATN69** » Tue Aug 02, 2016 2:23 pm

Updated FL Studio from 12.2 to 12.3. I am running 32-bit version of FLS. I installed the latest version of Helm. I have 5 crashes so far, all happening when I been scrolling thru presets.

..I guess I will pass on this OSC. My nerves are not strong enough

z.prime · Post by **z.prime** » Tue Aug 02, 2016 2:28 pm

ATN69 wrote:... I am running 32-bit version of FLS ...

Well, maybe this is the issue?

One Synth Challenge #90: Helm by Matt Tytel (Jasinski Wins!)