One Synth Challenge #138: Surge (MrKarolus Wins!)

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Submissions:
https://soundcloud.com/kvrosc/sets/one- ... -138-surge




Welcome to the One Synth Challenge #138! 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!


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A subtractive synth with 7 oscillator algorithms. 3 Osc per voice. Patches have layers/scenes, which allows extremely complicated sounds, and way way more.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXBUxC1NmOQ


Prizes:
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Special Note:
We are offering a secondary prize (on top of the normal prize): FXB Project, or JRR Shop (Uncle E)

NEW Additional Bonus Prize!
For the first Single Instance entry to make the top 5 a small cash bonus of $30. (note: this prize may be carried forward to selected OSC challenges until it is won)

$100 USD (or about 85 Euro) : Anonymous cash prize to one lucky winner! Thank you anonymous person! (Will be sent via Paypal, zelle, or another way if simple.)


discoDSP : 1 copy of Discovery (Up to 2 winners may choose this)


KV331 Audio : Bundle of Synthmaster One + Synthmaster 2.x!


Dmitry Sches : Tantra Multi-Effect + 3 Expansions


Dmitry Sches : Diversion


SoundGym : 6 Month Subscription. (SoundGym is a
"technological, personalized and gamified audio learning environment")


JRR Sounds: Any 1 soundset (This is a secondary prize, you may pick it as well as your main prize)


Synthmorph: Any 1 soundset


Audio Thing : Outer Space (vintage tape echo plugin)


NUSofting : 1 Copy of Modelonia v2 Synthesizer


JRR Shop : UVI: Digital Synsations (vintage 90's synth sample library and player)


Touch The Universe Productions: LuSH-101 Cloud Layers soundset


The FXB Project by alvfaria : 1 commercial sound bank as an extra prize on top of the regular first prize. See the main site here


Guda Audio : Euterpe XL


Abstract Cats Music : AbiTron Bank for Synthmaster


satYatunes : One of any commercial product


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. Unfortunately his main site is down, but if you still want these, let us know!


Luftrum : One soundset free of choice.


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


Aiyn Zahev Sounds: Any 2 Soundsets of choice from the website (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 (except for the Future Chill and Space Trips expansions)


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 - Developers may be looking for artists to make music.
• Indaba - Has a mix of popular and indie artists with various contests like remixing and song writing.
• Mix Challenge - Join monthly recurring Songwriting Competitions (with a new theme/genre every month) and/or Mix(ing) Challenges (mixing multi-tracks from scratch). Win prizes!
• Open Source Music Nexus Challenge - From the people who brought you the FM Challenge last year!
• Skio Music Contests - Lots of remixes you can join (Mostly EDM) - big prizes.

[z.prime]

FIRST!

[RichardSemper]

FIRST!

"The first shall be last, and the last shall be first"

[] Peter:H []

Surge is really a good choice. I followed their development activities ... I think it's the same name as in #122 and yet a different synth. Look what the change.log has to say about all the additions, improvements and stuff. These are crazy productive guys: https://surge-synthesizer.github.io/changelog/
I wonder what happens once Vital, Matt Tytles new beast comes out and hopefully it is still donation ware. Do we really need commercial synths then anymore?

[Taron]

Do we know somebody, who has compiled the vst2 version, yet? If so, I'd be thrilled, but if not then I will try to do it... errrrrr, but it doesn't come with a MSVS solution ....well, we shall see.

[Eauson]

Do we know somebody, who has compiled the vst2 version, yet? If so, I'd be thrilled, but if not then I will try to do it... errrrrr, but it doesn't come with a MSVS solution ....well, we shall see.

I think TJShredder was talking about this in the Surge post, not sure what’s happening.
VST3 doesn’t work for me, VST3i does!?

[schiing]

I was just thinking about Surge the other day - a fine opportunity to explore the latest developments!

[Taron]

Well, I do get it to run with KV_Element, but it's not too nice to work that way, of course. Anyway, I remember having enjoyed Surge a lot, too, so this could get interesting. Wished I had the time to figure out the vst2 compile, but chances are slim. Again, we shall see! Hopefully TJ will cause something good over there.

[L-EctroBit]

Well, I do get it to run with KV_Element, but it's not too nice to work that way, of course. Anyway, I remember having enjoyed Surge a lot, too, so this could get interesting. Wished I had the time to figure out the vst2 compile, but chances are slim.

Have you tried Cakewalk by BandLab? It is a great free DAW that let you work with VST3 instruments-FXs (64-bit and 32-bit) and it is constantly developing.

[Taron]

Is this the continuation of the "old" cakewalk? I think, it was one of the first DAWs I ever fell in love with back in the day...I think, I used it during my home studio days with all my old gear, way before vst was an option. I haven't even thought about it in 20+ years. Brings back very hazy memories of mine, also including Nuendo later on... tsss... anyway, I'm downloading it right now! Thanks for the tip!
I still love MuLab and know not, if I will stray from it just yet, but it may be good to shake things up every now and then.

[L-EctroBit]

I still love MuLab and know not, if I will stray from it just yet, but it may be good to shake things up every now and then.

Just take it as an option to Mulab. Cakewalk is my primary DAW right now and I'm amazed it's free. It is about to receive a major update in the next days. I hope this helps you.

[h.s.j.e.]

Oooh. I was just thinking of downloading the update, anyway. Surge is definitely one of the OSC synths that stuck with me, and this looks like a gigantic improvement on the version from OSC 122. Can’t wait to get rolling.

[H-man]

Do we really need commercial synths then anymore?

No. Although, they do make GAS more interesting

[ilmai]

I'm assuming the usual effects limitations apply to Surge Effects Bank?

[EvilDragon]

Do we know somebody, who has compiled the vst2 version, yet? If so, I'd be thrilled, but if not then I will try to do it... errrrrr, but it doesn't come with a MSVS solution ....well, we shall see.

It does come with Visual Studio solution... it's all created via cmake. Build information is on github page. You can use the free VS 2019 Community to build Surge locally. For VST2 you do need to be a licensed owner of VST2 SDK, though.

I suppose I can provide Windows VST2 DLL on my GDrive.

Here we go - 64-bit VST2: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SpuotH ... sp=sharing