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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

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: 11/41 (top 27%)
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]

Mocca And Vinyl

Another wee escape from the strictures of the One Synth Challenge. This time the theme is "predominantly sample based" so here's a bunch of related samples mashed together! This is the first time I've made a track just using sample packs. And a wee bit of lift from Klevgrand's OneShot.

Something Something Roses

Made for OOOSC#5 using all samples from my hard drive, no synth patches.
Tuned in 22edo.

-- Lyrics --

Look around, at night and you'll find out
The stars only show up if you dare to cut the lights out
Sighing like you're tired of the sun but when it shines out
Low on the horizon you'd never dare
To turn out the lights
No
We turn out the lights
Whoa

On the sound, you cling to the lighthouse
Staring at the shoals, you would never dare to strike out
Farther from the shore, where the land is out of sight now (but)
Looking at the stars to navigate, we turn out the lights
And sail away
A ship in the night 
Hey

(if you turn the lights off, you can be your own star)

Don't be afraid of the dark
Look around and you'll see the stars
Don't be afraid of the dark
Look around and you'll see

If you're afraid of the dark, join us,
You'll be surrounded by stars
If you don't know where to start, join us,
You'll be surrounded by stars
In the night there's a place for us,
Where we're surrounded by stars
And from the moment you start to to trust,
You'll be surrounded by stars

You look around at night, and you smile now
Basking in the light, coming from a trillion miles out
Beaming in the distance, no resistance, no fear
Just all of us here, and our thousand closest neighbors radiant,
Sending us a gift from decades past like a broadcast stating this:
"Don't be afraid of the dark
The lights are always on out here"

Turn Out the Lights / Surrounded by Stars

This is a submission for the One Synth Challenge hosted by KVR. I created this in Ableton using only the free software synth Vital

Kevlar Testarossa

This track is made for the One Synth Challenge #198, using Dawesome Myth. 
Cover Image made completely by myself. 

Most sounds are created completly from scratch by my self. Exceptions see below.

DAW: Ableton 12

11x Myth

Self made Patches don't use Instrument Samples as Iris even though that is a great feature of myth,
    I was exploring the a more traditional synth like  side of Sounddesign with Myth:
4x Init Iris  (sinewave)
1x self resampled Iris (resampled from selfmade a no Iris MythPatch )
1x TriSawPulse WT selfmade
3x No Iris.        

Preset: 2x OuterWorlds - ExpressiveE (Adjusted - and any modulation played via MPE) [no Iris used in there to]


Ableton:
8x MPEControl 
14x Utility
1x Glue Compressor
1x Limiter
1x Multiband Compressor
1x EQ8


2x Neold U2A 
6x Ozone 10 - Dynamic EQ
1x Arturia Bus Peak

1x Dawesome Hate (Ott, Saturator,  Compressor, EQ)
1x Dawesome Hate (Compressor)
1x Dawesome Hate (OTT, Saturator, Clouds, Compressor)

Fbr - OSC198 - Space Sirens

Here's my OSC for August 2025 made in Bitwig with all sounds coming from Serum 2 made from init.

using 29 instances of Serum 2 and the following vsts.

BX Masterdesk Pro
UADX Capitol Mastering Compressor
TDR Kotelnikov GE
UADX Hitsville Reverb chamber
UAD SSL G Bus Compressor
Kickstart 2
TDR Elliptical
TDR Arbiter
TDR Ultrasonic
TDR Infrasonic
Blackhole Immersive
UADX 175-b compressor
TDR Nova GE
QuantX
UAD 1176AE Compressor
UAD Manley Massive Passive EQ
Fresh Air
UAD 1176 FET Compressor
TDR Prism
TDR Limiter 6 GE
UAD Pultec MEQ-5 EQ
Khs Delay
UAD API 2500 buss compressor
UAD Studer A800 Tape Recorder

bitwig fx:
tool
note transpose
instrument layer
Humanize
Delay-2
instrument selector

A brief moment in time (when everyone had thought it had happened)

My entry for OSC198. All sounds made with the virtual synth Primer 2.

The Lure (by phankiejankie303)

This is my submission for the One Synth Challenge by KVR for the month of September. The track was made with 13 instances of RipplerX and stock Ableton Live plugins. 

Balloons

Empty Castle

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