Blue Glowing Man Dance Experience 2024

An entry for the KVR One Synth Challenge #181 - Surge XT.

The anachronistic tales of a washed up barfly continue...

The air was thick with a haze of smoke, amber fluid and regret. A neon sign flickered through the grimy window, casting the room in a sickly green glow. In a darkened corner booth slumped Spaceman D. Bassman, one time Space Corp Trooper extraordinaire, now Terra's most despondent drunk.

Bassman's once celebrated career had been a shooting star, blazing bright before burning out in a fiery re-entry. The mission to the Sinfony system, meant to be his crowning achievement, had ended in catastrophe. No longer heralded as a hero but as a liability, Bassman had been humiliatingly dismissed from the Corp, deemed unfit to serve by the medical board who cited bee-related psychological trauma and chronic dub abuse.

The dive bar he found himself in offered little solace. Under a single incandescent bulb in the corner of the room, a raggedy-assed band were grinding out a strained one drop pastiche that only served to drive him deeper into despair. He had played bass himself a long time ago. His fretboard heroics used to attract admiring glances but now all he could muster were pitying stares and whispered condemnations. His attention drifted back to his drink, the dubby skanks replaced by the deafening roar of his own failures.

One night, a young woman slid into the seat on the other side of the booth. Her eyes, the colour of honey on a stormy day, held a curious glint. Seemingly unfazed by his haggard appearance and the strong smell of urine, she spoke passionately of her dreams of travelling to the stars, her voice a sweetly buzzing melody that cut through the fog clouding his mind.

That night, for the first time in a long time, Bassman didn't drown his sorrows in silence. He spoke of the cosmos, of the dance of celestial bodies, of weird musical bees, his voice regaining a spark it had lost for so long. The woman listened, enthralled, her eyes reflecting the distant stars he could no longer reach.

As the night wore on, a camaraderie blossomed between the washed-up space trooper and the aspiring star traveller. In the flickering neon glow, an unlikely friendship was forged, a melody of hope born from the depths of despair. Perhaps, he thought, even a broken star could find solace in the rhythm of a new dream.

Fin?

Reaper 7
Surge XT (14)

Track FX: CHOW Tape Model (3), JSFX MIDI Note Filter (6), ReaComp (10), ReaEQ (11), ReaLimit, TAL Reverb 4, TDR Molotok, TDR Nova, Venn Free Clip 2

Send FX: Sixth Sample Deelay, TAL Reverb 4, Surge XT (audio in), ReaEQ, ReaComp

Stereo BUS: CHOW Tape Model, Blue Cat Gain, TDR Nova, VladG Limiter #6, ReaLimit, Cockos Loudness Meter

OSC181 - Surge XT

Barfly Skank

In these rare moments where the air is light
It's easier to breathe the oxygen
And though my eyes are waning in the night
The clearness of my mind is mine again.

When I gaze upon your gemstone orbs
I see the riches of the universe;
Your fingers and their feathered touch transports
My soul to realms that rise above the earth.

Yet despite this call to greater majesty,
And though my heart does soar on eagles' wings,
I am yet grounded in simplicity;
My joy is built upon the smallest things

You make me laugh and smile and cry and sing;
My heart is filled with all these smallest things.

And somehow unbeknownst to me,
It is through these I touch infinity.

Pinpointing Infinity (OSC181 Surge)

One Synth Challenge 181 @ KVR. Sequenced using 30x instances of SurgeXT.

KIN (Osc181 - SurgeXT)

Entry for OSC#181: Psyllium Disco

"Captain Silverpants was so excited to have received the bulky package of little seeds from the man from Aberdeen.  He had ingested the lot about 30 mins ago - his eyes were closed letting the feeling grow and grow.  Where would it take him..?

Hours later, reading Wikipedia while still on the toilet, he discovers that, despite it's funky name, psyllium is mostly used a constipation remedy..."

DAW: Reaper
40 instances of Surge XT
OrilRiver Reverb
Ambient Reverb
Dead Duck Overdrive, Filter, Limiter, Delay, Autopan
ReaEQ, ReaComp, ReaXComp
JS Channel Time Delay
kHs Trance Gate, Gain
Limter No6
SPAN, YouLean Loudness Meter

Thanks to Milkster and Neverbeeninariot for image, title and inspiration.  You sent me on a fun trip.  
A journey through to disco and beyond.

Psyllium Disco

15 instances of surge xt in bitwig 5.1.4.
6x surge xt effects
bitwig eq+
chow tape model
wider
tdr nova
tdr kotelnikov
loudmax

The Hilarious Mishaps And Cosmic Challenges Of Space Medicine

Track made only using sounds from the Charlatan 3 Synthesizer by BlauKraut Engineering

27x Charlatan 3 Synthesizer
Daw: Cubase 13pro
Stock Cubase Effects:  Compressor, Brickwall Limiter, EQ
3rd Party Plugins:  Fire, Couture, PanCake

Run Faster

MiJoFranDa - Run Faster - Charlatan 3 OSC#182

KVR OSC ExtraBold submission
https://sites.google.com/site/kvrosc/2024/osc-187-extrabold

ExtraBold

Gethiox