Really nice work, love the composition. Only suggestion is that I'd love to see a little more musical phrasing in your melodies; little bits of expression can really make a synth sing.

I like the birds at the start but they start getting a little distracting from the music -- which is lovely and simple

Nice accoustic bass drum to ride on. Sweet music

really nice earthy, natural vibes. for me the birds feel a bit too rigid and 'loopy' when next to the feeling of the music. really nice track.

little bit slow, and somewhat repetative. but otherwise a good track

One Synth Challenge #134: Easter Lockdown Special - Any Synth

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. 

Confrensic

OSC 134. Olly Audio. Ode to the birds

There's No Time To Explain (OSC 134)

7/4 
Sleeping in the Forest

I thought the earth remembered me,
she took me back so tenderly,
arranging her dark skirts, her pockets
full of lichens and seeds.
I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed,
nothing between me and the white fire of the stars
but my thoughts, and they floated light as moths
among the branches of the perfect trees.
All night I heard the small kingdoms
breathing around me, the insects,
and the birds who do their work in the darkness.
All night I rose and fell, as if in water,
grappling with a luminous doom. By morning
I had vanished at least a dozen times
into something better.
-Mary Oliver

OSC134 I Slept As Never Before (Massive X 38/51)

For KVR-OSC 134 - Easter Lockdown Any Synth

Done in Reaper v5.51

26 x Zebra by U-he


Dynamics: U-he Presswerk, Bass Professor II, TDR Nova, Maxwell Smart
Filter: ReaEQ, TDR VOS SlickEQ, MQ57
Satturation: Green Eugen, Thrillseeker XTC
Delay: NastyDLA
Reverb: Dragonfly
Stereo: MidSideMangler, GStereo
Analyser: SPAN

Photonic - Desire

My submission for One Synth Challenge #134: Easter Lockdown Special - Any Synth - using NI's Massive X.

NI Massive X: 37 instances from scratch
DAW: PreSonus Studio One Professional

EQ: PreSonus ProEQ, Fuse Audio Labs RS W2395c, Lindell PEX-500, Newfangled EQuivocate, GEM EQ550, Elysia Niveau, TBProAudio sTilt
Saturation: Brainworx Black Box HG-2, Klanghelm IVGI, Signal Noise SN03-G Taperecorder

Dynamics: Klanghelm DC1A

Mastering: PSP Xenon, Flux Stereo Tool

Fever Dream

Fever Dreams

Fever Dreams (OSC134 - Massive X)

Made for the KVR One Synth Challenge. Everything you hear in this song was made with Image-Line Sytrus.

particlefarm - Citron

Join the challenge by going here: https://shorturl.at/bhBFQ

OSC134 I Slept As Never Before (Massive X 38/51)

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