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OSC158 Wyst (Surrealistic MG) 31/73 42%

20 instances with almost entirely just surge xt fx. On 6/4/22 I did upload a much shorter version. You can certainly vote based on the older longer version or whatever you like. Just really felt like it didn't deserve the extra 90 seconds. Didn't want to take that bit extra of peoples' time. ..Gradually whittled it down from 6 minutes to 3. It just seems to take more than a month for things to percolate in my mind. Sorry.

OSC159 Time Laughs (Surge) 41/57 72%

OSC160 Blinders Off (Adl plug) 14/32 44%

KVR One Synth Challenge #169 kHs by Kiloheartz. 

29 instances in Reaper with supermassive valhalla, protoverb, ReaEq, Loudmax, A1 StereoControl, OrilRiver, TDR Kotelnikov, bluearp, panagement free, OTT.

So hot and no water. Only hearing strange garbled voices on radio. Bird sized bee-things keep coming at us from behind. You have to face them or they bite you. We did find shelter in a small cave but we can't stay there. We decided to go up the mountain. Maybe there will be water or some radio reception. Maybe no bees. Sometimes we had to climb and then got attacked by flying things. And of course the corporate representative tried to doublecross us but we took care of him. We reached a swamp part ways up after nightfall. Something sounds like frogs but we haven't seen them. Radio still has strange voices but it seems peaceful here.

OSC169 Alastor 1012: Mountain Ascent kHS Kiloheartz 43/55 78%

This is my submission for the OSC 171 Apricot. It was made with 27 instances in Reaper.
Transient Shaper (Kiloheartz)12
TDR Kotelnikov 1
Bass Professor 2
ReaEQ 17
OTT 1
FRANK 1
master_me 1
A1StereoControl 1
Distortion (Kiloheartz) 11
epicPLATE 11
Spaceship Delay 2
Valhalla Supermassive 6
Compressor (Kiloheartz) 2
STUF (ZEEK) 3
ReEQ Parametric Graphic Equalizer 5
A1 TriggerGate 2
SPAN 1

Not as interested this time as much in critical feedback. (Edit: oh go ahead and be critical if you like). I realize it's a bit repetitive. Simplistic bassline. Not even any drum fills. But I really like it as is. A lot. The harmonica sounded like it was saying "down the river". From there I started thinking of a river on fire that was sort of like the infinite corridor in the castlevania tv series on netflix. I might try to find a more representative picture. (Originally uploaded on 5/7/23. On 5/9/23 I went back and changed the high pass on bass and kick from 50hz down to 25 hz or so. And made drums a bit more coherent in general.)

OSC171 Down Fire River (Apricot) 30/44 68%

OSC 173

Reaper
26 instances Bucketone 
3 of Bucketpops. 
Solaris x 1
CocoaDelay x 1
OrilRiver x 17
NastyDLA x 4 (no chorus)
ReEQ x 21
Loudmax, A1StereoControl, Master_me

Constructive feedback appreciated. 
Synthesizer reggae is a bit dubious anyway IMO. I made 4 tracks for 173 as I liked the synth so much. This is probably the 3rd best of those. But more curious concerning feedback for this one. If played loud on a good system I do enjoy it personally. 

OSC173 Heraklion Actually (Bucketone/Pops) 18/43 42%

I used to feel
I used to feel bad
Bad, man
Bad, man

Reaper 6.83 
27 instances of Vaporizer
JS: Saturation x1
TDR Nova x1
A1 StereoControl x3
Transient Shaper by Kiloheartz x2
OTT x2
Fabfilter x27
TDR Kotelnikov x6
Raum x17
Supermassive Valhalla x10
Protoverb x3
master_me x4

He felt so bad he turned off his ability to feel and left earth. Elmo had had enough. 

Critical comments appreciated though of course I may not agree.

Used To Feel OSC178 Vaporizer 19/36 53%


This is AuroraFM. 32 instances using Reaper 6.83
6 Transient Shaper (kiloheartz)
24 Raum
4 ProQ3 (Fabfilter)
3 A1Trigger Gate
1 Replika
1 JS Saturator

Master: A1 StereoControl, Master_me and LoudMax.
Wow, almost no EQ. 

I discovered AuroraFM this month, thanks to Elvicente. I love it. Really underrated synth. FYI I made 9 tracks just with it this month. in those 9 tracks some sounds are dx7 patches I found online, some factory, some Elivicente, some tweaked, some mine. Maybe some dexed patches but I doubt it... I don't recall exactly for each track. This track was entered based on the discord consensus from 5 I posted there. 

Critical feedback very much appreciated. 

Hidden Oasis OSC 179 (AuroraFM) 21/57 37%

KVR OSC 180 Regency
Reaper 6.83 36 instances
Bass Professor x 1
Transient Shaper (Kiloheartz) x 4
A1 Triggergate x 8ish
ReEQ x20ish
Raum x20ish
TDR Nova x1
Cocoa Delay x4
Valhalla SuperMassive x2

Master
A1Stereo Control x1
Master_me x1
LoudMax x1

I really like the way this sounds. Sorry it's 8 minutes while moving slow. It does slowly develop and gets a bit more interesting in the second half. It is how it's meant to be. 

It may not add anything at all to the listening experience for you but FWIW I picture in my head a futuristic city of immortals who in order to be rejuvenated finally have to start mixing their DNA with other creatures. Is it a good thing or bad? It's a new thing. Turns out it's not terrible. Though there was a lot of trepidation and some factions preferred death.

Transmogrifications OSC 180 Regency 18/34 53%

44 instances Surge XT (clap) in Reaper 6.83
Lots of Raum and ReEQ
A bit of A1Triggergate, CocoaDelay,JS Saturation, TDR Kotelnikov and Nova, Bass Professor.
A1 Stereo Control, master_me and LoudMax on the master.

Surge sounds way better than I remember back in 159. ....I suppose this track is unusual in that it has 3 or 4 minute middle section that is ambient "background" music before having two minutes at the end with much more happening. Hopefully a few of you will appreciate what I have done here. 

OSC181 Warrior's End (Surge XT) 26/47

Industrial noise in 19EDO
KVR OSC 182
Reaper 6.83
53 instances of Charlatan 3
Lots of Raum, ReEQ and OTT
TDR Nova (sidechanged to the kick on lower freqs)
Some Pancake2, CocoaDelay, A1 TriggerGate, TDR Kotelnikov
master_me

OSC182 Stranded (Charlatan3) 15/41

KVR OSC183 Audible Planets
63 or so instances of Reaper 7.1
Lots of ReEQ, Raum, ReaLimit, OTT.
Some A1TriggerGate, kiloheartz transient shaper, Supermassive Valhalla, CocoaDelay. Bit of sidechain with TDR Nova. A1 Stereo control, Kotelnikov 

When I first posted it on the 18th the first minute was pretty minimal. But then I seriously revised with final version on 25th. Sorry.
I'd appreciate if you played it loud on good speakers. I personally don't otherwise bother listening to it. 

0:00 Intro
1:00 glitch?
2:30 rotary phone
3:20 star trek whales
4:20 piano part

OSC183 No service (Audible Planets) t10/27

KVR OSC 184
Reaper 6.83
20 instances
The organ patch near the end was made by Viroo. 
ReaLimit, Raum, Replica, ReEQ, LoudMax

Not really looking for comments this time though if you really want, feel free. 

Missed OSC184 Tonez 21/32

42 instances of Reaper 6.83 using Cherry SEM
Some Raum and Replika. ReEQ, Transient Shaper (kiloheartz), Bass Professor, ReaLimit, JS: Saturation, ReaComp, NBIAR feedback time/volume

Did the delay tuning which meant a single instance per note.

Alibi OSC 185 SEM Cherry 16/32

20 instances of Reaper 6.83 using Vital and a good bit of OTT.
And ReaLimit, ReEQ, OrilRiver, Valhalla Supermassive, Raum, Replika, TDR Nova,Transient Shaper and JS: Note Filter 
Yes it might sound a bit like some other song. I'm OK with that. Was unintentional and very much a different song.

Goodbye Schlubedoo OSC 186 Vital (Any 2) 14/42

KVR OSC 187 (Extrabold)
Reaper 6.83
38 instances of "Extrabold" by Nakst.

OTT, ReaLimit, Raum, OrilRiver, Valhalla SuperMassive, ReEQ, A1StereoControl, Replika, TDR Kotelnikov, TDR Nova, LoudMax. 

LUFS-I = -11.2 LUFS-S = -8.9

I think it sounds great. Really happy with it. But happy to hear why you didn't like it.
I'm happy to share the opera lady patch if anyone wants. Similar patch can come close to an abnormally realistic violin imo. Or maybe I'm just losing it.

There Will Be Poems (OSC 187 Extrabold) 14/37

OOOSC #1
Out of OSC. Illegal theme: all noises from your mouth/voice. 

Dont Look To The Sky (OOOSC 1)

This is KVR OSC 188 sixtraq by fullbucket
Reaper 6.8ish
35ish tracks using ReEQ, OTT, ReaLimit, Supermassive Valhalla, Raum, OrilRiver, Replika, A1StereoControl, A1TriggerGate, Kiloheartz trance gate, T-Force Trancegate 2, JS:Saturation, TDR Nova, Distortion (Kiloheartz) (not much), Trailbender (delay), Transient Shaper (Kiloheartz) and LoudMax.

Gertrude Moonchilde (OSC 188) (sixtraq by fullbucket) 17/32

Comment if you like but don't feel like you need to. I'm not happy with this one somehow. Feel like it slipped away. Don't feel like I figured out Myth so much. It is almost all init(as usual) with plenty of my own samples, some physical modeling, etc). Really tried to utilize what was special about Myth. But think I would have done better just with presets this time. 

OSC 189 Myth made in Reaper 6.83.
30ish instances. 
ReaLimit, ReEQ (not ReaEQ), OTT, Supermassive Valhalla, Raum, OrilRiver, A1Triggergate, Kiloheartz Trancegate, A1StereoControl, LoudMax, Replika, TDR Kotelnikov
LUFS-S=7.9
LUFS-I=11.4

Cautionary Tale OSC189 (Myth)

KVR OSC 190 Vital

85ish instances in Reaper 6.8x

OTT, Raum, Supermassive Valhalla, OrilRiver, ReEQ (not Rea), A1 StereoControl, A1TriggerGate, ReaVerb, ReaLimit, TDR Kotelnikov, LoudMax, js note filter.
lufs-i 10.8

I modified Jasinski's cymbal and a couple of Bowman's snares. I used a bit of Bowman's box guitar and TNS' (TheNeverScene) guitar. I used a lot of a delay tuned guitar. IV! showed me how to tune it with one patch. But because it has a glide I had to make it one note per instance and then use JS note filter. That's extreme patch borrowing for me. Finally NeverBeenInARiot mentioned the Reaverb "trick" that is used on the cymbal. So a big thanks to those OSCers.

Hard Route OSC190 (Vital) 27th

55ish instances of zebralette using Reaper 6.83

OTT, ReaLimit, LoudMax, TSOM's B&S, Supermassive Valhalla, Raum, A1TriggerGate, ReEQ, TDR Kotelnikov, Replika, Reaverb, A1StereoControl

LUFS-I = 11.1

The last 7 minutes are very slow ambient which isn't popular in OSC and of course it's long. Feel free to skip if that's a problem for you, although just to be clear, I love it. 

Thank you Jas (white noise), TSOM (cymbals), Exponent (exophase!) for sound design help.

Forgotten Dream OSC191 Zebralette 6th

OSC 192 Six Sines
Reaper 6.83
39ish instances
ReaLimit, ReEQ, A1Triggergate, A1StereoControl, Distortion (kiloheartz) and JS:Saturation (these two only for the thunder rumble), Raum, Supermassive Valhalla, ReaVerb, TDR Kotelnikov, OTT, Replika, Loudmax.

Thanks to Exponent for the snare. 

LUFS-I=-11.1

The Day It Rained OSC192 Six Sines

Happy day as a child

OOOSC #3 drum sample loop
Also used Hilowitz's short bass/decent sampler, kontakt piano/raum, my hammered dulcimer, rutger hauer, six sines, and questionable vocals.

OOOSC 3 Tears in Rain

Turned comments off as I'm just really not feeling music lately. 

OSC193 Thorn
Reaper 7.33 60ish instances inefficiently used.
A1TriggerGate, kHs Trancegate, ReEQ, ReaLimit, Loudmax, OTT, Supermassive Valhalla and Vintage Verb, A1StereoControl, Trailbender delay, Raum, Replika, TDR Kotelnikov

Filthyboy Ichabod OSC193 Thorn 23/44

Comment whatever you like.

OSC 194 Monolit
Reaper 7.3 35ish instances
ReEQ, ReaLimit, Supermassive Valhalla, Raum, JS velocity and humanizer randomizer, JS: Saturation, LoudMax.

Victimless Crime OSC194 Monolit 18/27

My submission for OOOSC#4.
Oatmeal vsti mostly. An old discontinued free synth from 2008. Cept for some battery percussion and miloslav philharmonic for the brass and piano near end. I wanted to use real instruments but the weird set of notes I used works best in Oatmeal.

Diverging Paths

OSC 195
Reaper 7.3
23 instances
ReaLimit, A1StereoControl, ReEQ, Replika, Valhalla Supermassive, Raum, ReaVerb, Trancegate (khs), STFU, OTT, Loudmax
LUFS-I=11.2

Any comments appreciated.

Saneville OSC195 Ragnarok2

KVR OSC 136. If you're going to give me less than a 4 I would really like some feedback. I won't be offended. 
31 instances in Reaper 6.08
Usually unison 3 but needed to freeze some tracks. Lots of green eugene and valhalla supermassive. Some molot, mautopan, orilriver, tdr kotelnikov, tdr slick eq, OTT, ReaEQ, bx_subfilter, Mwavefolder (1 instance on a snare only lightly used), A1Triggergate 
Luftikus, TDR kotelnikov and Limiter No. 6 on Masters

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