Going Through the Motions

Day Strolling

Climb

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)

Nothing Left

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: 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]

*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.

9.7.2015 vd3.0

808day25

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"

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