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Balloons

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

20250524

Nothing Left

My track for KVR One Synth Challenge n. 197 (July 2025), in which existential horror and reckless fun go hand-in-hand.

All sounds generated by free VST synth Odin 2, developed by TheWaveWarden

Burakku Horu

here's my OSC made entirely with Odin2 in BitWig

using 25x Odin 2 and 120 more Odin2's tuned to 40 notes using the delay as Karplus strong and the following free VSTs and Bitwig FX:
VST:
TDR Nova
TDR Kotelnikov
AirWindows VariMu
Limiter no6
Valhalla Supermassive
Voxengo Sound Delay
Saturation knob
Free Clip2
BX Tuner
Span
Air Windows Kplate140
Raum
KHs Transient Shaper
TB Spectrogram
Airwindows KplateA
STFU
Airwindows NonLinear Space
Pancz
Fresh Air
AirWindows CreamCoat
BusterSe
KHs Haas
TDR Molotok
AirWindows ToTape8

BitWig:
Sculpt
Focus
Peak Limiter
Tool
Transient split
Delay -2
Humanize
Stereo Split
Note Filter
Arpeggiator
Instrument Layer

Kilvornoch

This month is the turn of the rather lovely Odin2 by The Wave Warden. Another track with a title that is almost completely but not quite totally unrelated to the tune. When a cheese sammich just won't cut it, I present: Odin's BLT.

Back to Bitwig this month for another track created from a bunch of launcher clips adlibbed into a track in one take. A few other wee bits and pieces were added and here we are. All patches from init apart from maybe the kick which started out as a preset. There would have been some automation of Odin's parameters only there seems to be some sort of clash between Bitwig and Odin2 when using automation.

Anyhoo, 15 instances of Odin2 and some of the usual suspects:

- dpMeter5, Blue Cat Audio Gain 3 and KClip Zero on clip to zero duty
- kHs Stereo
- kHs Trance Gate
- OTT
- ZL Equalizer
- the ubiquitous Valhalla Supermassive
- TDR Kotelnikov and Nova ably assisted by KClip Zero on mastering duty
- percussion sequenced with Beat Scholar's MIDI rendered to the track
- arp MIDI generated by Eternal Arps

For those who care about such things:
-10.6 LUFS INT
-8.8 LUFS ST

Artwork with thanks to H0lyGh0st.

Apologies for the repetitiveness: listening over and over and it still doesn't feel like six minutes to me so I didn't cut it down. Also there's nothing to induce a boyband to stand up from their stools...

Odin's BLT

STREAM: linktr.ee/neukatalyst

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Final Placement: xx/xx (xx)
Made for KVR Audio's "One Synth Challenge" #197

This month, it was "Odin 2" by TheWaveWarden. Odin 2 was the only synth used across multiple instances, including all drums. Only stock-effects and perpetually-free effects were used to process them and the master. Other usual rules apply: no samples, paid effects, or self-modulating effects.

-DAW:
FL Studio 2024

-Instances used:
16	Odin 2

-Effects, excluding FL controllers/modulators:
1	Burier
1	DC1A3
1	Disperse-X (Plugdata)
2	EQUO (FL)
4	filtrr
2	FIN-MICRO
10	Flux Mini 2
1	FP-Hype (Patcher)
1	FP-Retro (Patcher) (OSC-complicit modules only)
2	Fruity Balance
1	Fruity Delay Bank
3	Fruity PanOMatic
13	Fruity Parametric EQ 2
1	Fruity Stereo Shaper
1	kHs Bitcrush
1	kHs Dynamics
1	kHs Gain
1	kHs Gate
1	kHs Haas
2	kHs Ring Mod
1	kHs Stereo
2	kHs Transient Shaper
1	LoudMax
3	Magic Dice
4	MONSTR
1	peakeater
1	Soundgoodizer
2	Soundly Place it
3	Spectral Compressor
1	Squash
3	TB_EZQ
1	TugSpect
3	Valhalla Supermassive
1	Vapor
2	VitaliumVerb

Neu KatalYst - Mouthpiece [KVR OSC 197: Odin 2] [Electronic]

Made entirely with sounds from the Odin 2 synthesizer: https://thewavewarden.com/pages/odin-2

All sounds made from init.

Bitwig not 6
Odin2 x ~30
Bitwig FX: Delay+, Filter+, EQ+, Compressor+, Dynamics, Saturator, Tool, Peak Limiter
Other FX: TDR Nova, vladg Limiter no6, Raum, OTT, Cramit, Tape Cassette 2, TAL Reverb 4, kHz haas

z.prime - Steps

*Work in Progress* 

The first of a collaboration between myself and Transient Failures. I recently was introduced through cEvin Key's patreon to Transient Failures and their wonderful ambient works on SoundCloud. Drew's blend of dark ambient industrial falls right into my musical language so I reached out to her and let her know how much I loved her music and how one day I hoped to collaborate.

I will simply say this - I am so grateful to find people that I am able to share my life's walk with. We move through life far more quickly than we can imagine, so filling it with amazing partnerships is so important to me. 

Now go check out Transient Failures if you like prolific dark ambient: 
https://soundcloud.com/transientfailures

9.7.2015 vh2.0 [the journey]

The first of a collaboration between myself and hale. i posted some music on cEvin Key's patreon's discord and they reached out to let me know how much they loved my music and hoped to collaborate one day.

being someone that is usually open to collaborating i thought why not. so they "served" with the initial offering. we did a round of volleys and now this is mine back. to say it's been one of the most rewarding things i've done this year would be an understatement.

previous version here: https://soundcloud.com/jprost/972015-vh20-the-journey

the edits this time are subtle and probably best heard with headphones.

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