The servant robots have sensed that an attack is eminent.

OSC156 Down Everybody (Synister) 22/25 88%

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%

OSC 161 Synth1
40 instances in Reaper with ReaEQ and Span. Most with supermassive valhalla or vintage verb valhalla (commercial). Very few (drums mostly) with protoverb. A couple with spaceship delay or Replika (commercial). Luftikus to boost highs on a few instances and a bit on master. One or two TDR Nova and Transient master NI (commercial).
Master: ReaEQ, A1 StereoControl, Luftikus, Kotelnikov and... OTT.

OSC161 Restless Lives through the Hourglass 35/45 78%

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%

Reaper. 24 instances with SPAN, Bass Professor, ReaEQ, Kiloheartz distortion, and transient shaper, epicplate, supermassive, gclip, master_me, FRANK, OTT, A1 stereocontrol, STFU, A1 triggercontrol, dragonfly hall reverb, spaceship delay, panagement2, cocoa delay, luftikus, bluearp, TDR nova, ReaComp, LoudMax. 

I would appreciate critical comments.

OSC170 I wouldn't anyway (Octasine) 13/32 41%

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%

KVR OSC 172
Reaper 16 instances 
Most with ReEQ and Epicplate. One each of CocoaDelay, ReaDelay, Harcules, A1StereoControl, Master_me, and LoudMax. Everything at x4 quality except the kick at x2. Your subjective critical comments are appreciated.

OSC172 Schmuingo (Lith) 30/32 97%

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.

OSC178 Used To Feel (Vaporizer 19/36)


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. 

OSC179 Hidden Oasis  (AuroraFM) 21/57

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.

OSC180 Transmogrifications (Regency 18/34)

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. 

OSC184 Missed (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.

OSC185 Alibi (SEM Cherry) 16/32

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.

OSC187 There Will Be Poems (Extrabold) 14/37

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.

OSC188 Gertrude Moonchilde (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

OSC189 Cautionary Tale (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.

OSC190 Hard Route (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.

OSC191 Forgotten Dream (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

OSC192 The Day It Rained (Six Sines) 14/28

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

OSC193 Filthyboy Ichabod (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.

OSC194 Victimless Crime (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.

OSC195 Saneville (Ragnarok2)

Reaper 7.33
31 instances with ReaLimit, Replika, OTT, Raum, LoudMax, ReEQ, A1StereoControl.

All comments welcome 

OSC196 Full Circle Fool (Primer 2) 20/40

KVR OSC197 Odin2
32 Instances of Reaper 7.3

ReaLimit, Valhalla SuperMassive, Raum,TDR Kotelnikov, ChowTapeModel,ReEQ, Deelay, LoudMax .... and added OTT to the piano. 

All sounds from init except the vocal pad is a tweaked factory patch. 

What does the title/pic mean? 
I have had many dreams throughout my life about finding hidden doors that lead to magical places. The picture is of a abandoned stairway in a house I lived in for a few years in college. Leads to the backside of a refrigerator. I had dreams about that house, that there were secret floors burrowed back into the hillside, etc. And at one point years later I couldn't remember if this abandoned stairway really was there or I just dreamed it.

Anyway making this triggered another of that type of dream.

Empty Castle

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