for OSC 147, made in Reaper 6 with 28 instances of Modulair 
(and minimal external effects for DC filtering, reverb, sidechain ducking, peak trimming, and mastering)

in some ways a companion to smaller than a breadbox

tuned in 53edo using MTS-ESP.

Leonard Bowman - Larger Than The Oceans

A 1 bit per channel piece, for OSC 149. Made and recorded entirely in VCV Rack.
respect, apologies, regards, and thanks to Tristan Perich.

You can find the patch here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KXrlNKCr8_L97bW26ioyGbcQYMAlOiOu/view?usp=sharing

(volume reduced from -1.2 LUFS to -13.2, by popular demand)

Leonard Bowman - Pasigraphic

for OSC#150. Made with 51 instances of TAL-Noisemaker.

Leonard Bowman - Windward

A celebration of time, made for OSC 154.
Time flows, we grow; I know a lot more than I did in October 2018 but I wanted to revisit some of what I was doing back then. Frequent listeners may recognize motifs from several of my older songs.

Leonard Bowman - Full Circle

my little dance fantasy.

made for OSC 155, using Humonica for all sounds: https://geraintluff.github.io/jsfx/#Humonica

Leonard Bowman - Level

strange glitchy dance landscape
all sounds except cymbals, snare, toms, and vocals made with the Kia Instrument and additional processing.

Movement Under Water

Made for OSC 159, using 0 instances of Surge XT, and 100 instances of Surge XT Effects. nothing else.

Leonard Bowman - no no no no no no no satellite

For OSC 161, made entirely with Synth1
28 instances + a few free FX in REAPER 6

I opened Synth1 a couple times when I was first learning that VSTs exist, but never really gave it any attention back then. It was really refreshing to explore it this month, having 4+ more years of experience with synths and production now.

OSC 161

Arkady

Leonard Bowman - Arkady

returning to some of the things that i loved about some of the first electronic music i made, with four years more experience to smooth out the listening experience a little.

For OSC 166; all sounds made with 14 instances of Wave Manuel, in Reaper.

Leonard Bowman - Scenario

for OSC 167.
All sounds recorded and arranged in NitroTracker, a homebrew tracker for Nintendo DSi.
Output recorded with my Zoom H4n.
Photo taken and edited on my DSi, too.

NitroTracker isn't exactly a synth; it's a tracker. When you record audio through the mic, cut it down to single cycles, and loop it, the playback becomes like a wavetable synth. That's how I used NitroTracker here.

more info and .xm source file at KVR: https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=8606795#p8606795

p.s. the funny capitalization of the title is because "NTR" (Nitro) is the development codename for the DS. The DSi has the codename "TWL" (Twilight) which is harder to use in clever titles.

Leonard Bowman - act NaTuRal

Made for OSC 168, using one instance of Voltage Modular with only free modules.
it also has a video! https://youtu.be/wcbm7xsoSlw

One Synth Challenge 168

Speaker Season

Leonard Bowman - Speaker Season (One Square Challenge)

Made for OSC 171, using 24 instances of the synth Apricot by nakst for all sounds.

Tuning is cons_5.scl from the scala archive, plus some octaves. It's a 5 limit JI scale that repeats at 9/5.

Leonard Bowman - Ice Outline

For OSC 182, made with Charlatan3 for all sounds.
Tuned in 15edo.

Leonard Bowman - 15 Days Without Knowing

For OSC 120, made entirely with SE Polymod KX and some effects.

Sidewalk

Leonard Bowman - Sidewalk

A wonky fake-vocoder resynthesis of an Alleluia using the Surge synthesizer.
More details here: https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=7386372#p7386372

Fractured Alleluia

Leonard Bowman - Fractured Alleluia

The Moments of New Life

Leonard Bowman - These Moments Of New Life

For OSC 128, made with 28 instances of OB-Xd and no reverb.

Leonard Bowman - Asking for a Friend

A droning piece of music written for the One Synth Challenge 129. Made using only 6 instances of the software synthesizer Lith and a small amount of EQ.
More technical details here: https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=7584004#p7584004

This piece uses 6 chords in just intonation. Each has 6 notes, which are all voiced on (nearly) identical patches using Lith. The 8 Control parameters are varied across the span of the piece to provide changes in timbre. Listen for the rhythmic pulsing that happens inside of each chord, and take note of how that changes when the chord begins to change.

The chords, for anyone curious
31:46:55:70:82:102
1/1:3/2:7/4:11/5:21/8:10/3
21:30:35:47:55:73
9:13:16:19:23:31
11:16:19:24:29:40
(7:9:11:15:16:24)
4 otonalities, 1 11-limit JI chord, and 1 utonality.

If you want to learn more about any of this, please ask!

Leonard Bowman - Small Cities

Composed for OSC 130, using only Phase Plant and Kilohearts FX.
Produced in Reaper 6.01
32 instances of Phase Plant
2 Kilohearts Compressors (one for sidchaining, one for mastering)
2 Kilohearts Limiters (for mastering)
1 Kilohearts Distortion (for master clipping)
1 Kilohearts Delay (reverb pre-delay)
1 Kilohearts Reverb (reverb bus)
1 Kilohearts Slice EQ (reverb filtering)

This song definitely didn't turn out as I wanted it to. I envisioned a sweeping, dramatic, storytelling piece of music that journeyed through vast regions of musical genre and style. I produced this soup instead. Hopefully this reaches its own potential, even though it is not what I originally aimed for.

Leonard Bowman - Moments:Minutes:Millennia

For OSC 131
using 24 instances of Syncla-X with light effects.

Leonard Bowman - five shades of blue but not gloomy

Made for SWC031.

Incorporates a fragment of "To the moon" by Giacomo Leopardi, as read by three Librivox volunteers. These recordings are in the public domain and can be found here: https://librivox.org/to-the-moon-by-giacomo-leopardi/

The photo was taken by Lauren Coleman. It is licensed under a CC0 license, and you can find it here: https://unsplash.com/photos/Aswzhrbq6rU

Any low quality or unusual elements of the song are intentional.

Moonlight

for disquiet0434

Made with drum samples from users @jmmy-kpple and bells from @Ausgesuchtestenohren

More on this 434th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Disquiet Junto Project 0434: Beat Kit — The Assignment: Create music with beats crafted by fellow Junto participants — at:

https://disquiet.com/0434/ 1

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0434-beat-kit/

Beneath this (disquiet0434)

For OSC 134. Made with Surge and some effects in Reaper.

Leonard Bowman - Lightweight Spaceship

A keyboard solo. Written and recorded for OSC 135.
Performed using one instance of Full Bucket's Tricent MkIII synthesizer, with no external effects or automation beyond the keyboard and sustain pedal.

Score, project files, remix info: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1makpWbBg6HiYtV4sjtamYqSbUDaGvB8Q?usp=sharing

Leonard Bowman - Elm

made in one evening with @j-t-davis-859745930
using Odin 2, a powerful new free synth by The Wave Warden
these sounds and other presets for Odin will be released soon.

more information about the cover image here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stars@desertSunset(byTdeGroot).JPG

Leonard Bowman & J.T.'s Penrose - Desert Stars

Made for OSC 138, using only the free synthesizer Surge and a handful of external effects.

Tuned in 34edo. Patches used will be available on KVR soon.

Leonard Bowman - Rare Earth

made for disquiet0457, for the Haiku System Sounds contest:
https://www.haiku-os.org/news/2020-09-11-system-sound-contest/

features wooden percussion instruments and the software synth Surge, working to make potential interface sounds for Haiku.

More on this 457th weekly Disquiet Junto project, System Alert (The Assignment: Compose sounds for an OS), at:

https://disquiet.com/0457/ 1

Thanks to Erik Schoster for suggesting this project.

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0457-system-alert/

Forest Dream Soundset for Haiku - Disquiet0457

For OSC 140, made in 2 days because the ideas didn't come out of hiding until yesterday.

33 instances of Pendulate, an experimental monosynth with interesting potential.

Tuned in something resembling 31edo, although it mainly sticks to the meantone[12] that we all know and love.

Leonard Bowman - Inquire Within

Composed for OSC 142, using only 11 instances of Vital plus a few effects in Reaper:
TDR Nova for some sidechain EQ ducking
Dragonfly Room Reverb for some send reverb
Limiter No6 for loudness mastering

Tuned in 31edo, once again mostly using meantone[12] subsets

Leonard Bowman - Send-off

For OSC 143. Made using only the Bleep Labs Nebulophone.
https://bleeplabs.com/product/nebulophone/
47 separate tracks of audio containing 119 audio clips selected from 128 recordings totaling 325 MB.

No external processing was done to the recordings beyond volume adjustments, static panning, and adding fade-ins and fade-outs.

My Zoom H4N was used as the audio interface.

Leonard Bowman - All Grown Up

made for Disquiet0471 - Phase Transition.
Made using a recording of ice cubes in a small glass of water captured by my Zoom H4n. This was played back in a number of ways, many using Vital.
Then I recorded some spoken word to build the atmosphere a little more. The lyrics are intentionally unclear so I won't list them here.

More on this 471st weekly Disquiet Junto project — Phase Transition / The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it — at:

https://disquiet.com/0471/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1

Subscribe to project announcements here:

https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0471-phase-transition/

disquiet0471 - On A Frozen Lake

A musician and engineer, or at least someone who makes music and engineers things.
Mostly tracks for the KVR One Synth Challenge.
Some of my newer music happens under the name Wrenharmonic.

If I've taken down an old track, it's probably still available somewhere. (or you can just ask me for the file)

Benjamin_D

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