Cool track overall, it's always nice to hear people exploring different genres within OSC

I kind of miss some random wild percussion hits throughout this.  I liked the pullback to the minimum section a lot.

The lead is very conservative to my ears -- I would love to hear it go "out there" a little to add to the fun.  Really nice production (of course) and great vibe.

This spacey lead really was a nice contrast element against the dub / reggae feel.

Nice variation in sound design on the lead elements.

Again, nice contrast between the sharper lead and the flute / soft lead.

There is a lot to like in this piece. Very open but with interesting elements. I think I would have maybe liked some demarcated section shifts to break it up but the vibe is there.

One Synth Challenge #194: Monolit by BLEASS

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)

johnkhf - Short Circuit Shuffle OSC194

Made in BitWig with 65 instances of BLEASS Monolit (the pads have like 10 instances on an instrument picker etc so not really that many, just lots of dupes)


using the following free vst and bitwig plugins:

TDR Kotelnikov
BX Masterdesk Classic
Dragonfly Room
TDR Nova
EpicPlateMk2
Valhalla Supermassive
OTT
Airwindows KplateD
Panagment2
Wider
KHS Transient Shaper
STFU
KHs Dual Delay
Raum
KHS Haas
Sound Delay
Chop
Pancz
TDR Molotok
Deelay
FreshAir
FerricTDS Mk2
GClip
Saturation Knob
BusterSE
Ozone Imager2
AirWindows BussColors4
KHs Clipper

BitWig:
Sculpt
Focus
Tool
Note Transpose
Key Filter
Instrument Layer
Instrument Picker
Delay-2
FX Layer
Humanize
Filter+
EQ-2
Convolution
Gate
Multiband FX3

Bless Moonlit Love

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)

Made for OSC#194

19 instances of Monolit synth

FX:
kHs Filter
kHs Clipper
kHs Transient Shaper
kHs 3-Band EQ
kHs Reverb
TAL-Reverb 4
kHs Compressor
kHs Haas
kHs Dual Delay
epicPLATE mkII
Limiter6
DAW: Renoise

finished: 7.04.2025, updated a little later


PeterBPL - Short-necked Giraffe on a Road Trip

Loris - Wake Up
Reaper 7

108 instances of Monolit

FX Used: 
Gclip
frequency spectrum analyzer
VUMeter
Voxengo SPAN
Signilizer
KHz Distortion
ReaComp
ReaPhaseRotator - to try to get the sine wave in the kick phase aligned
MCompressor
KHz Clipper
ReaXComp
ReaEQ
Khz Reverb
KHz Filter
Ozone 8 Imager
MBandPass
Mequalizer
KHz Delay
MConvolutionEZ
KHz Formant Filter
Khz transientShaper
Ohmicide - not used to its full potential
ReaLimit
MCharmVerb
Khz gain
MComb - for light accentuation on percussion
Khz Stereo
KHz trance Gate

This song took several tries to get to where i want it. Once i fleshed out the idea, i started layering sounds to get a fuller feel for the track and to decorate the space. im particularly proud of the kick which is three active instances of the synth, i crafted the envelopes down to the milisecond and used an oscilliscope to precisely dial in the timing. I had several initial approaches for the kick none of which worked well. I worked a lot on the percussion to get metallic sounds using the FM function of the synth and also using a lot of EQ to peak frequencies. I woulnd say i went full 11/10 but i went 9/10 on EQ. I also used some distortion, to about 8/10. I accentuated sounds but did not completely distroy them. A lot of texture to certain percussion was obtained by layering different sounds at different pitches and also different FM ratios etc. Playing with envelopes goes a long way. 

The bass sounds are all very simple actually and most are a few layers deep with different waveforms FMing at different ratios and pitches. I was gonna go ballistic on the basses and use EQ, clipping and even convolution to obliterated the sound. But to avoid being DQ i opted for the PG 13 version. 

the amount of automation in this project with greater than 100 instances of the synth has made it a chore to navigate. Some midi clips have 6 or 7 layers of automation and other have only one but heavily adjusted everywhere. the automation i used the most is volume. Cutting sounds so they dont interfere with other sounds and to cut reverb tails, and also to shape sounds since i did not like the way the envelopes in the synth itself worked at times. Working with audio clips would have made this much more easy. I do not think i will go this hard for OSC ever again. But then again...it was kinda fun...

The song is clipped and compressed severely. I could have pushed it harder but i did NOT!! in order to preserve that last gasp of dynamic range that was slowly waiting to die. This is not a ballad, or classical, its dubstep - or something like it. 

The song got its name from the distinct digital alarm sound that we're all so familiar with. I used it in the buildup, in the drop, everywhere...

Nothing on the master except Gclip and ReaLimiter. 

Thats all i got

Loris - Wake Up!

Stream on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/6mSKcze7qnV0bQKOpDLn42

DAW: Reaper

Synth: Monolit (35 Instances)

Mixing FX (Free): ReaComp (Only Sidechain), ReaGate(Gating Snare Reverb), ReEQ (HP/LP), Flux Mini 2(Sidechain),  Orilriver, Supermassive, Deelay, DD AutoPan, Panagement 2, Wider, Lil Tube (Subtle Bus Saturation), GClip, Loudmax, ReaLimit

Mastering: Nova, Lil Tube, Kotelnikov, LoudMax

Metering: Prism

Calling the Monolith

Call the Monolith (OSC 194 Monolit)

This track made for the KVR One Synth Challenge with all sounds created by the VSTi Monolit.

Thanks to Taron for letting me use a refined version of his bass patch.

DAW: Reaper

Track details:
15 * Monolit, Bass Professor, Piz midiPolyphony, Oril River, OTT, ReaEQ
Master Details:
TDR VOS SlickEQ, Voxengo MSED, Limiter No 6.
Meter:
SPAN, Youlean Loudness Meter
Stats:
LUFS: -13.0, DR: 9

Enjoy

A Trio awaits us - OSC #194 - Monolit

Made for KVR One-Synth-Challenge 194
https://sites.google.com/site/kvrosc/2025/osc-194-monolit

bzz - Silicon Dreaming

Marseille by night

STEF - Leaving Earth

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Skagerrak

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OSC194 Victimless Crime (Monolit 18/27)

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