One Synth Challenge #195: Ragnarök 2 by Full Bucket Music

This is my submission to the #kvraudio #OneSynthChallenge #195 featuring the VST Synth Ragnaroek by FullBucket. 
All sounds are coming from the Synth acompanied by a number of moderate tone shaping, mixing and mastering fx. I Mix/Master with MeldaProduction EQ/Compressor, Auburn Lense, Loudmax Limiter. All fx free or built into the DAW. DAW is Bitwig 5.3.x. No Samples. No Postprocessing after the audio export.
--
Ragnarök 2 by Full Bucket and Crimson Warlock

Last encountered in OSC70 this synth is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. Ragnarök 2 is an update of this unique synth simulating a custom-built one-of-a-kind analog synthesizer from 1980. It is written in native C++ code for high performance and low CPU consumption.

Ragnarök is the collaborative work of Hans Peter aka CrimsonWarlock aka TechnoGremlin (synth concept, GUI design, user manual, patch programming) and Björn aka Full Bucket (DSP+GUI+patch programming). Read more about the background of this project in the user manual and in the respective KVR thread! https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=620481

░▒▓  ømph ▓▒░

Made for The KVR OSC challenge using only the full bucket ragnarök synth and free plugins. No presets where used. All patches created from init. 

Ragnarök

Entry for One Synth Challenge 195 - Full Bucket Ragnarök2

Concocted in Reaper, using 35 instances of Full Bucket's Ragnrök2.
9 instruments, 7 effects, and 18 percs ( layering involved this time. ) No 3rd party sounds present. 
Lightly massaged, here and there, by TDR Nova at track level. Also present: HOFA System Gain & Hy-Delay 4.
Drums snipped by KClip Zero, subsequent light revitalising by Flux Bittersweet
Reverberated by U-he Protoverb and Valhalla Supermassive, aided by TDR Nova, HOFA System Pan & Delay, JS Mixer & A1 Stereo Control
Light manipulations at master level by TDR Nova, Flux Bittersweet, A1 Stereo Control & Limiter No6

Bouquet de Fleurs

This month's One Synth Challenge uses Ragnarok by FullBucket (and CrimsonWarlock). The slightly odd interface took a wee bit of getting used to but I'll not use that as an excuse for this effort. It does contain some passable bird type noises hence the unrelated reflection of a jungle in my living room. This is a first outing for my Exquis so most of it was recorded from live rather than my usual generated MIDI.

Anyway, this is brought to you with Bitwig Studio 5.3 and 19 instances of Ragnarok.  The following plugins were also used:

- dpMeter5, Blue Cat's Gain 3 and KClip Zero on clip to zero duty
- khs Delay, Reverb and Stereo to tart things up a bit
- Panflow to get it moving
- Bitwig's compressor+, eq+, drum machine, delay+ and multi-note
- the inevitable Valhalla Supermassive and almost as inevitable Raum for some reverb flavours
- TDR Kotelnikov and Nova for mastering with a wee bit of KClip Zero 

Also used Modalics Beat Scholar to generate the MIDI for the percussion and iZotope's Tonal Balance for, er, tonal balancing...

Unrelated Reflections

Made all sounds from only Full Bucket Music's Ragnarok 2
https://www.fullbucket.de/music/ragnarok.html

Ragnarok 2 x 27
Bitwig 5.3.8
Bitwig FX: Delay+, EQ+, Compressor+, Dynamics, Tool
Other FX: vladg Limiter no6, TDR Nova, XFer OTT, Dragonfly Room, Valhalla Supermassive

z.prime - Boom Boom Tss

Submission for One Synth Challenge #195 - "Ragnarok 2".
One Synth Challenge archive: https://sites.google.com/site/kvrosc/2025/osc-195-ragnarok-2

A new enhanced edition of this song is out on my YouTube channel. A slightly revisited mix and a few sounds added. Plus I recorded my bass guitar for it: https://youtu.be/141BdyqeZP0

More music:

Mercenaries: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc6QpwOlc0c&pp=0gcJCbAJAYcqIYzv
All Gunz Blazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojxE-rMtfOI
VVasabi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WHc3NVnn4s
Trailblazer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiEgYpJuoZQ
Ashes Of Time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CSN9S2Vq7U&pp=0gcJCbAJAYcqIYzv

I've been brought back to my video game soundtrack drafts lately. This song focuses on an atmosphere of a lush alien world that was turned into a battlefield. Although I'm happy with the usual Simmons style drums I made with this synth, there is a strange behaviour that occurs when two that uses noise instances playing simultaneously, some kind of weird phasing/flanging effect. I tried to minimize it as much as possible, but I can still hear it. The synth itself has good tone shaping capabilities and it's CPU efficient just like all Full Bucket instruments. I really like the sound of an overdrive and chorus effects, the much needed sauce for a virtual analog.

34 instances used to create a track.

Ragnarök

GeneralQ