Name: KIN (Osc181 - SurgeXT) by Cdbaksu in KVR OSC Personal Top Three
Duration: 5 min 24 s
Description: One Synth Challenge 181 @ KVR. Sequenced using 30x instances of SurgeXT.

Smiling music, excellent !   Love your rhythms and soft edged sounddesign. Not to mention the  tasteful solos and little surpises along the way. Very much enjoyed this !

Previous comment not here? Well I almost cried with joy to hear such a beautiful jazzy funky track. This made my day!

nice... pull it back and build it up -- in a very classy way.....

the music is so good it's easy to overlook the excellent sound design and production.  Very nice work this month!

I'm not sure what to write here, the song is so well produced, everything fits together seamlessly, the sound design is great. Musically it is just too complicated for my simple mind ;) Since I'm not classically trained in any way, I don't count rhythm changes or identify harmonic progressions, but my musical feeling tells me that this is just an amazing song! Good luck :)

Very well done!! Great sound design and very well composed!!!

KVR OSC Personal Top Three

One Synth Challenge 156 @ KVR. Sequenced using 12x instances of Synister.

DLA (Osc156 - Synister)

My entry for KVR One Synth Challenge #166.  This month it's Wave Manuel, a quirky but very flexible synth. Really surprised at the tones that came out of it.
Recorded in Reaper with 16 instances of Wave Manuell, and some free and native FX. All sounds produced with Wave Manuel.

OSC166 - Wave Manuel

One Drop Manuel

An entry for the KVR One Synth Challenge #177 - Synful Orchestra & VSCO Percussion.

As the sun sets on the horizon, casting long shadows across the alien landscape, a lone figure sits cross-legged, silhouetted against the fiery sky. In his hands he holds his trusty bass guitar, its strings gleaming in the fading light.

Lieutenant Spaceman D. Bassman had been stranded on this planet for 7 months, his crashed spaceship was damaged beyond repair, but he hadn't given up hope of being rescued. Every day he would refill his oxygen tank and walk into the poppy fields at sunset to jam on some dubby grooves, his music echoing across the vast expanse.

As he plays, he feels a sense of peace wash over him. The sounds emanating from his instruments are an ethereal mix of orchestral timbres and heavy dub, infused not only with the smells, sights and sounds of the alien planet and his hopes for the future, but also mixed with the melancholy of longing for his home-world. Music is his last connection to humanity, his way of staying sane in the face of loneliness.

One day, as Bassman was jamming on a particularly bad-assed groove, he heard a faint sound inside his helmet. His heart beat faster with excitement; At last, the Corp had located his damaged ship and had come to rescue him! Then, almost imperceptibly at first, he started to make out a strange melody, not entirely inharmonic to his tasty bass licks.

Bassman was stung violently on the forehead. He flinched and almost dropped his guitar. "Feck!", he howled. Out of the corner of his eye, he spotted a bee crawling on the inside of his visor, it's wings implausibly buzzing in a near perfect B Major. Desperate not to be stung again, he flailed his head around inside the helmet, attempting to squash the musical intruder against the side. After many attempts and with great effort, he struck one blow, then another, and with each strike the bee's buzzing became more and more erratic and atonal. Sensing victory, and with a final yank of his head, Bassman dealt a fatal blow, and the bee was silenced. 

As the sun continued it's slow descent below the horizon, Bassman composed himself, picked up his bass and continued jamming. Tomorrow he would seek out more of these alien musical bees, not only in the hope that one day they could forgive him for killing one of their own kind, but also that they might continue the collaboration between their two species on some more of those sweet-assed tunes.

Fin.

Reaper 7
Synful Orchestra (8)
VSCO Percussion (7)

A special guest appearance from an alien bee. RIP.

TrackFx : BC Chorus, CHOWTapeModel, db_Glitch1, IVGI2, MComb, MFlanger, MFreqShifter, MPhaser, Pro-C2 (7), Pro-Q3 (13), Ripple Phaser (Geraint Luff), Tape MELLO-FI, TEOTE, Kotelnikov GE.

MasterFx : Satin, TEOTE, Pro-Q3, Pro-L2, Loudness Meter (Cockos)

SendFx : Pro-R2, ValhallaDelay, ValhallaVintageVerb (2), Echobode, Ripple Phaser

OSC177 - Synful Orchestra

Dub Synfony

One Synth Challenge 179 @ KVR. Sequenced using 35x instances of Universal Audio PolyMAX Synth.

BIZ (Osc179 - UAD PolyMAX)

One Synth Challenge #181: Surge XT

all parts produced with Surge XT (except drums and percussion)

Journey Matters

Journey Matters ["one synth challenge" edit - Surge XT]

An entry for the KVR One Synth Challenge #181 - Surge XT.

The anachronistic tales of a washed up barfly continue...

The air was thick with a haze of smoke, amber fluid and regret. A neon sign flickered through the grimy window, casting the room in a sickly green glow. In a darkened corner booth slumped Spaceman D. Bassman, one time Space Corp Trooper extraordinaire, now Terra's most despondent drunk.

Bassman's once celebrated career had been a shooting star, blazing bright before burning out in a fiery re-entry. The mission to the Sinfony system, meant to be his crowning achievement, had ended in catastrophe. No longer heralded as a hero but as a liability, Bassman had been humiliatingly dismissed from the Corp, deemed unfit to serve by the medical board who cited bee-related psychological trauma and chronic dub abuse.

The dive bar he found himself in offered little solace. Under a single incandescent bulb in the corner of the room, a raggedy-assed band were grinding out a strained one drop pastiche that only served to drive him deeper into despair. He had played bass himself a long time ago. His fretboard heroics used to attract admiring glances but now all he could muster were pitying stares and whispered condemnations. His attention drifted back to his drink, the dubby skanks replaced by the deafening roar of his own failures.

One night, a young woman slid into the seat on the other side of the booth. Her eyes, the colour of honey on a stormy day, held a curious glint. Seemingly unfazed by his haggard appearance and the strong smell of urine, she spoke passionately of her dreams of travelling to the stars, her voice a sweetly buzzing melody that cut through the fog clouding his mind.

That night, for the first time in a long time, Bassman didn't drown his sorrows in silence. He spoke of the cosmos, of the dance of celestial bodies, of weird musical bees, his voice regaining a spark it had lost for so long. The woman listened, enthralled, her eyes reflecting the distant stars he could no longer reach.

As the night wore on, a camaraderie blossomed between the washed-up space trooper and the aspiring star traveller. In the flickering neon glow, an unlikely friendship was forged, a melody of hope born from the depths of despair. Perhaps, he thought, even a broken star could find solace in the rhythm of a new dream.

Fin?

Reaper 7
Surge XT (14)

Track FX: CHOW Tape Model (3), JSFX MIDI Note Filter (6), ReaComp (10), ReaEQ (11), ReaLimit, TAL Reverb 4, TDR Molotok, TDR Nova, Venn Free Clip 2

Send FX: Sixth Sample Deelay, TAL Reverb 4, Surge XT (audio in), ReaEQ, ReaComp

Stereo BUS: CHOW Tape Model, Blue Cat Gain, TDR Nova, VladG Limiter #6, ReaLimit, Cockos Loudness Meter

OSC181 - Surge XT

Barfly Skank

This track made for the KVR One Synth Challenge #181. My 120th consecutive entry since #61 (10 years). All sounds made by the free VSTi SurgeXT. Only DAW and free 3rd party FX used.

DAW: Reaper 7

Track details
43 * Surge XT
ReaEq, LFX-1310 (autopan), Oril River, OTT, Twin Delay, SlickEQ, MSED, Limiter No6, SPAN, Youlean Loudnes Meter

LUFS: -16.3
DR: 9

Yet Another Surge of Ambience - OSC #181 - SURGE XT

All sounds made using Surge XT in Bitwig for KVR OSC 181

Harry Du Bois

In these rare moments where the air is light
It's easier to breathe the oxygen
And though my eyes are waning in the night
The clearness of my mind is mine again.

When I gaze upon your gemstone orbs
I see the riches of the universe;
Your fingers and their feathered touch transports
My soul to realms that rise above the earth.

Yet despite this call to greater majesty,
And though my heart does soar on eagles' wings,
I am yet grounded in simplicity;
My joy is built upon the smallest things

You make me laugh and smile and cry and sing;
My heart is filled with all these smallest things.

And somehow unbeknownst to me,
It is through these I touch infinity.

Pinpointing Infinity (OSC181 Surge)

One Synth Challenge 181 @ KVR. Sequenced using 30x instances of SurgeXT.

KIN (Osc181 - SurgeXT)

Entry for OSC#181: Psyllium Disco

"Captain Silverpants was so excited to have received the bulky package of little seeds from the man from Aberdeen.  He had ingested the lot about 30 mins ago - his eyes were closed letting the feeling grow and grow.  Where would it take him..?

Hours later, reading Wikipedia while still on the toilet, he discovers that, despite it's funky name, psyllium is mostly used a constipation remedy..."

DAW: Reaper
40 instances of Surge XT
OrilRiver Reverb
Ambient Reverb
Dead Duck Overdrive, Filter, Limiter, Delay, Autopan
ReaEQ, ReaComp, ReaXComp
JS Channel Time Delay
kHs Trance Gate, Gain
Limter No6
SPAN, YouLean Loudness Meter

Thanks to Milkster and Neverbeeninariot for image, title and inspiration.  You sent me on a fun trip.  
A journey through to disco and beyond.

Psyllium Disco

I have had a middle ear infection with funny tinnitus in my right ear while creating this. I still don't hear right with my right ear. Otherwise: Created for the One-Synth Challenge #181 with the still great Wavetable VST Surge XT in FL Studio 21.2 Producer Edition. Every sound is created from scratch. Technical Details below:

Instances: 27 x Surge XT
BPM: 125, 127
DAW FX:
Channel EQ [4]
Fruity Delay 2 [2]
Fruity Delay 3 [1]
Fruity Limiter [3]
Fruity Multiband Compressor [1] 
Fruity Parametric EQ2 [4]
Fruity Reeverb 2 [11]
Fruity Stereo Enhancer [2]
Maximus/Soundgoodizer [4]
3rd Party:
kHs Transient Shaper [1]
Youlean Loudness Meter 2 [1]

A Relic From The Past (OSC#181 - Surge XT)

Home of Synthophones that ran out of luck. Or are about too. Life is hard, getting chased around by voracious phonovores. But whenever possible, it´s always good to get together and hoot a bit. Well...over there, it´s called music. 

An entry for One Synth Challenge 181 - Surge XT 
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details below:
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Made in REAPER,  using: 
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Surge XT ( 29 for 20 patches ) ; HOFA Gain (6) ; TDR Nova  ( 6, light ( dynamic ) EQ / compression) ; HY-Delay4 (3) ; Oril River ( 5, including 3 I forgot about ) ; KClip ; Bittersweet  – on tracks.
 
TDR Nova ; Protoverb (4) ; HOFA Pan (2) ; Mixer ; A1 Stereo Control ;
TDR Nova ; Oril River (4)  ; HOFA Pan (2) ; Mixer ; A1 Stereo Control ;
TDR Nova ; Oril River (4)  ; HOFA Pan (2) ; Mixer ; A1 Stereo Control  – on reverb buses
 
TDR Nova ( 2, expander ) ; ReaEQ + MS encoder + Protoverb + mixer ; TDR  Nova (EQ) ; A1 Stereo Control ; Limiter No6 ; Bittersweet ; Limiter no6 – on master

The Thirteenth Isle

Made For KVR OSC 181 - Using 14 instances of SurgeXT (Clap version) in Mulab v9.5 Beta
DAW Fx: muverb, limiter, filter, stereo splitter.
Cover Artwork by Jenny xx

KIN (Osc181 - SurgeXT)

Cdbaksu

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