I'm immediately impressed, extra points for going the 'full hardware' route!

Great track, who needs software VSTs anyway?!!

I knew you would have some dusty hardware to break out! 😋

Fantastic from the start Doc. Hardware suits you! I particularly love the bass, that is excellently done.

Smooth. I'm guessing that this way of working has brought out more of your mixing and engineering experience to the table, and I can really hear a 'levelling up' of your production quality working this way, if you don't mind me saying so :)

Damn fine music sir. I will be listening to this in my so called real life.

All that techno process paid off - track sounds really nice!  And those DX sounds are terrific.

A lovely little trip thru hardware goodness -- nice track DB!

Holy cow Doc, you are on a role lately. I think this my new favorite of your tracks. The DX suits you. The writing on this track is just beautiful. The sound design finally matches the sensitivity of your writing. I feel like I'm listening to an artsy 1970s Italian film.

KVR OSC Personal Top Three

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

DLA (Osc156 - Synister)

Light Dream

Take the Risks

Relaxing Mindfulness

It's a New Day

Escape into Peace

NEW DRONE  I

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

FOMITOPSIS BETULINA

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)

Someone Said Whiskey

https://soundcloud.com/blisterpop/four-variations-for-left-by-jimmy-lem-disquiet0636

Wannabe Duet.(Duet with Jimmy Lem) disquiet0636

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

KIN (Osc181 - SurgeXT)

This track made using all hardware for the KVR One Synth Challenge #143

My sound source is my Yamaha DX-11. The hardware effects were from the Zoom Studio 1201, Boss Digital Reverb, Behringer Virtualizer Pro and the FX section of my Yamaha AW16G Hard disk recorder.

Each track was recorded separately, and then each track was recorded again with any effects required at 100% wet (so the dry and wet tracks can be mixed as required). Once all this had been done, each track was then played back through my Behringer MX2642 analogue mixer and EQ applied using the low, swept mid and high EQ section. The EQ was done for ALL tracks, including the tracks with effects and percussion elements (38 tracks in total).

All 38 tracks were then mixed with no mastering effects, only using SPAN and Youlean Loudness Meter 2 (free) to check the overall levels and frequency content.

Mixed in Reaper 6.

Final tracks used for mixing after EQ.

1. Bass 1 - programmed to have a small pluck, dry.
2. Bass 2 - programmed to have a full body sound, dry.
3. Keyboard 1 - a basic FM piano, dry.
4. Keyboard 2 - track 3 + reverb.
5. Keyboard 3 - track 3 with a delay
6. Guitar - a raw acoustic sound, dry
7. Guitar - track 6 + reverb
8. Pad 1 - one of the classic DX sounds, dry
9. Pad 1 - track 8 + reverb
10. Strings 1 - classic DX strings,dry
11. Strings 2 - track 10 + reverb
12. Flute solo 1 - pure DX sinewave sounds, LFO vibrato and level scaling (reduce harmonic content for higher notes),dry
13. Flute solo 2 - track 12 + reverb
14. Flute solo 3 - sound of flute 1 but with modulation of operator parameters via mod wheel, dry
15. Guitar solo 1 - classic DX "flamenco" guitar sound,dry
16. Guitar solo 2 - track 15 + reverb
17 - 38. Percussion elements. Bass drum, hats, bongos, toms, rides, triangles etc! Some elements layered with 2 or 3 DX sounds. All dry.

Stats:
LUFS: -14.9
DR: 10

No volume automation was done either, all relative volumes are done by the playing and the key velocity of the DX-11. This means that if you got enough DX-11's on stage into a mixer plus FX units, this track could be played exactly as you hear it, LIVE!

Please enjoy the lovely sounds of this early 80's synth.

DoctorBob - Sounds Of The DX11 - OSC #143

DoctorBob

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