My OSC Entries (KVR OSC)

One Synth Challenge #172: Lith by Soda Devices

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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

My entry for KVR OSC #172 using only Lith by Soda Devices was made today June 6th 2023 from scratch: https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=597641

# of Lith instances used: 63
DAW: Cubase 12
DAW FX: Steinberg Compressor, PingPong Delay, Autopan
FREE FX: Toneboosters Reverb, ValhallaSupermassive & TDR Kotelnikov

Lithuanian Samba Festival

Track made for KVR One Synth Challenge (OSC-172) using the Lith VST Synth.
I was thinking about the electric feeling when things go well combined with the gifts of the imagination. A track for the promise of sunshine for summer 2023.

Liths = x6
DAW = Presonus Studio One
Plugins: De-Esser. Fat Channel, Klanghekm IVG12, Beat Delay, Pro-EQ, Room Reverb, Valhalla Super Massive, Analog Delay, Melda MCompressor, MEQ, Frontier Limiter

FrankH - Filaments And Figments

Made for KVR OSC #172
FL Studio 20.6
14 instances of  Lith by Soda Devices

DAW FX's:
9x Fruity parametric EQ 2
4x Maximus
1x Fruity Delay 3

Other FX's:
5x zOne ArxOne
2xOrilRiver

Keyboard Warrior (Lith)

One Synth Challenge #172 Lith synth.

DAW:
Studio One 5 pro

18 instances of Lith

FX:
Cramit
kHs Transient shaper
Valhalla Supermassive
TDR Nova
Wider
Sonalksis FreeG
STFU
LoudMax64
Tal Reverb2

Subway

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%

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

Day Strolling

Climb

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

BIZ (Osc179 - UAD PolyMAX)

Careful

Peace

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)

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

KIN (Osc181 - SurgeXT)

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

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

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

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)

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.

OSC172 Schmuingo (Lith) 30/32 97%

Empty Castle