OSC entry. All sounds made with instances of the same virtual synthesizer, this month it's Kairatune. It presented quite a challenge as it's monophonic and has limited oscillator wave forms and quirky integration.

30 instances of Kairatune in Live 11. Hybrid Reverb, EQ8, compression, limiter, saturation, delay, and Valhalla Super Massive.

Held in Stasis (OSC 145 Kairatune)

Been a while since I did one of these.

All sounds made with 20 instances of Kuma 508 software synth. 
Valhalla Super Massive, Ableton effects (EQ, Hybrid Verb, Saturation, Amp, Limiter, Compressor, Delay).

Pine (OSC 148 Kuma 508)

KVR.com's One Synth Challenge #151 
Created in Ableton Live 11. 70+ instances of the free VST synth GR-8.
Built in Live effects (Comp, EQ, Saturation, Delay, Hybrid Reverb, Auto Filter)
VST effects: Super Massive, Limiter 6.

Step into the fog one paw at a time (OSC 151 GR8)

One Synth Challenge track using Full Bucket's "WhispAir" synth to create all sounds. Produced in Ableton Live 11.

False Starts and True Stops(152 WhispAir)

Winter in Every Year (OSC 153 K1v)

Monthly OSC contest track using Synister to create all sounds in Ableton Live 11. 
A melancholic track for the times.

Techquiem (OSC 156 - Synister)

One Synth Challenge contest entry. Emulation of the classic Korg K8000 and 6000. All sounds made with using Full Bucket FB-799 synthesizer.

Butterfly Effect(OSC 157 FB 7999)

25 + instances of jpcima's "ADLplug" virtual FM synthesizer. Based on the Yamaha OPL sound chip emulation. Notably used in a Commodore 64 expansion, the Sound Expander, as well as several arcade games.

Made in Ableton Live 11 using built in effects (EQ8, AutoFilter, Delay, HybridReverb, Saturation, Vinyl Distortion)
Third-party plug-ins used include OTT, Fire, Supermassive, Deelay, and Limiter6)

Weight of Years (OSC 160 ADLplug)

Here's something a bit different. The 'One synth challenge' this month was to use Spitfire Audio's free BBC symphony orchestra sample instrument to make a track. Gave it a shot. Full classical or film score or what ever.  What do you think?

Made in Ableton LIve 11 using Valhalla Vintage Verb, iZotrope's Neutron 3 and Ozone 9.

Fanfare I (OSC 165 BBC)

Entry for OSC 168. All sounds created with Voltage Modular by Cherry Audio in Ableton Live 11. 25+ instances. Using built in effects, eq8, compressor, autofilter, drum bus, delay, hybrid reverb, plus plug ins: SuperMassive, and Limiter 6.

Modulus (OSC 168 VoltageModular)

It's a little longer but the journey required it. Sail into the sea of stars and find what waits.

ONE SYNTH CHALLENGE. All sounds made with KHs One soft synth using Ableton Live Suite. KHs free effects plugins, Ableton effects (eq, delay, compressors), Valhalla Super Massive, and Limiter 6.

A Sea of Stars(OSC 169 KHs One)

Summer music for your yacht.

31 instances of Nakst's Apricot synth created all sounds.
Using Live Suite 11, built in eq, delay, Valhalla Super Massive, OTT, KHS Distortion, Compressor, and Limiter.

Yacht No. 4 (OSC 171 Apricot)

A complex textural tapestry evolves out of a single tone.

22 instances of Soda Devices Lith.

I hope you take a second to listen to the details.

I found a flaw but I'm sure it will be fine(OSC 172 Lith)

Inspired by the classic scifi novel of the same name.
Conceptual tech-house narrative: space launch, first contact, communications break down where in battle ensues.

All made using U-He's beta version of the Hive synthesizer (48 instances if you care about those things). All patches created by me. Programmed and mixed in Live 9 using native effects and TDR Kotelnikov, Nova67P and Limiter6. 

Mote in Gods Eye (OSC71 Hive)

KVRAudio.com's OSC 185 July 2024. Using over 60 instances of only Cherry Audio's "Synth Expander" synthesizer to create all sounds in this track. 

Created in Ableton Live Suite 12 with Ableton effects (compressor, autofilter, eq 8, limiter, amp, cabinet, delay, hybrid reverb, saturation), Valhalla's Super Massive, and Limiter 6. 

Pull up a high G safety harness, and strap in for a cosmic voyage across the stars on your very own space whale.

Ride the Space Whale (185 Synth Expander)

For OSC 186 NA2S- Using 50+ instances of Vital and Socal Labs Wavetable synthesizers to produce all sounds in Ableton Live. Processed with Limiter 6, Valhalla Super Massive, Saturation, Cabinet, Amp, Pedal, Autofilter, Hybrid Reverb, Compressor,  EQ8, Channel EQ, and Delay.

Pumpkin Spice (OSC 186 NA2S- Vital and Wavetable)

Created with 56 instances of Extra Bold synthesizer in Ableton Live 12 Suite.

Ableton live effects (eq, compressor, saturation, reverb, delay, gate, limiter, autofilter)
Valhalla Super Massive, OTT, and Limiter 6

Outback Jackhammer (OSC 187 Extra Bold)

Hit em style: 212 BMP, 5/4 time signature. 
https://x.com/DDDrewDaniel/status/1817910903557570569

All sounds 38 instances of Full Bucket Six Traq in Ableton Live.

TDR Nova, Kotelnikov, Molotok, Brainworx Master Deck Classic, LoudMax, Valhalla Super Massive, and Ableton plugins.

Infernal Combustion Engine (OSC 188 Six Traq)

Pulsing rhythm, pumping bass, glitchy fills. What more do you want?
Produced in 2011. Never released.

Simple Things

People On Ladders

Fox on the Box (Remix)

All sounds created or processed through Dawesome's Myth synthesizer.

Using Ableton Live 12, built in effects, Valhalla Super Massive, TDR Nova, BX Masterdeck, and OTT.

Lyrics:

And your face like stone
So beautiful but always cold
Halo round your head
like butterflies they always lie

Tonight you won't go
To places they want you to go
You Shine like a star
They want to see you fall 

Soon your name will fade
Like chalk in rain but faces stay
And the times we had
Both good and bad grow sweet with age

Tonight you won't go
To places they want you to go
You Shine like a star
They want to see you fall 

Tonight you fall
a star will burn out before the dawn
Before this song is over
Tonight this song is over...

Lessons in Survival (OSC 189 Myth 2)

Vital, Live 11 + effects, Ozone, Nectar 3, Neutron 3, Sausage Fattener, FF Timeless2, OTT, 80+ instances.

This is an end of the year tribute to the OSC community. Thanks everyone for 10+ years of reasons to finish a track most months. See if you can spot an allusion to your handle. Sorry I couldn't get a reference to everyone. Some are more conducive to cheesy lyrics than others and I also ran out of room. If you weren't included doesn't mean I don't like you...
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Lyrics:
Calling the Doctor 
Have you seen the Goose?
Ghost's Never Been in a Riot
With a Madman on the loose
 
The E.M.P. is on the track
The E.M.P. is on the track

Merlin sounds like liquid
Elusive Milk romance
An I.V. full of silence
Taron up zee pants

The E.M.P. is on the track
The E.M.P. is on the track
On...

El Vicente's on the track
Emikaela's on the track
Hennessey is on the track
Z is on the track

The O.S.C.

The Virus has potential
to Rob you of your Brain
And Silver Trees Seep into your dreams
Exponential Negative pain

The E.M.P. is on the track
The E.M.P. is on the track
On the track
On...

The O.S.C.

E.M.P.  (OSC 190 Vital 2)

Drifting off the coast of an alien sea.
All sounds made with 46 instances of Zebralette 2 in Ableton Live 12

Effects include native Ableton eq, compression, limiter as well as
Valhalla SuperMassive, The Sound of Merlin Heart and Soul, TDR Nova, Slick EQ, BX Masterdesk Classic.

Hydrofluoric (OSC 191 Zebralette2)

Ableton Live 9
45 or more tracks. Camel Crush and built in Live effects.


How It All Falls To Pieces (OSC74 Dexed)

One Synth Challenge entry #192 using Six Sine to create all sounds. About 26 instances. Created in Ableton Live 12 using native effects + OTT, Jacked Brat, TDR Nova, Brainworks Masterdesk Classic, Valhalla Supernova, Boba, Cambridge Bloatanizer, kHs Limiter.

More Than Six

Harkening back to early Cure days. A song about shadows and memory. My crappy vocals and all.

Lyrics:
through the dark window from the outside
i watch shadow shift like memory
silhouettes dance across the empty room
while echos fade in time with your heart beat

the night whispers of a secret love
a flickering light from a distant land
even a shattered dream grows quietly
and we wonder how it all began

i sink beneath the waves that hold me
the water changes into sand
time disolves into eternity 
where your voice hold no demand

see how shadows chase an empty tide
drifting footsteps wash away
and everything grows quiet now
everything we left to yesterday 


The Night My Guide

Monthly track for One Synth Challenge at KVRaudio.com
The sounds in this track were made using Viking VK1 from Blamsoft
http://blamsoft.com/vst/vk-1-viking-synthesizer/

Wind Wishes It Were Stone (OSC107 Viking VK1)

All sounds made with the software synthesizer Wave Razor. A soundtrack to some movie never made.

Hard Won Battles (OSC 119 Wave Razor)

KVR OSC track for December 2012. 25+ instances of U-HE's Bazille modular synth.  Ableton Live, Reverb, compressor, saturator, EQ8, Limiter. 3rd party plug ins Overtone GEQ, PTEq-1a, TAL-Reverb-3, TAL-Dub-3, DC1A

Barricades (OSC47 Bazille)

KVRaudio.com's One Synth Challenge. All sounds created and programmed with Matt Tytel's amazing Vital synthesizer. That's right no singer was harmed in the production of this track. Vocals were programmed too.

IN "Truly Alive" I wanted to channel the Cyberpunk ethos. The scene, a rainy dystopian city scape. An emotional AI pining for a love that can never return. 

Lyrics:
The night is young, inside i wait alone
Looking out upon the city and everything we sold
Take the glory take the pain take it all if we're together
if you could come back to me cuz one thing lasts for ever

Will this last for ever?

Time plays in revers
I'm falling in love with the memory of you
Shadows fill my dreams and when they leave
all they leave is a memory of you

You put your hand on my heart 
feel it beat in time with you
the first time i feel truly alive
magic all around comes true
You put your hand on my heart 
feel it beat in time with you
floating weightless through the stars
magic all around comes true

It's One A.M. outside I hear the rain
Beating on the concrete beating on my heart again
All i have are memories of when we were together
We were dancing on the rainy streets one thing lasts for ever.

You put your hand on my heart 
feel it beat in time with you
the first time i feel truly alive
magic all around comes true
You put your hand on my heart 
feel it beat in time with you
floating weightless through the stars
magic all around comes true

Truly Alive (OSC 142 Vital)

All sounds made with the incredible TAL J8 https://tal-software.com/products/tal-j-8. 

This is a recreation of the 1980s synth powerhouse the Roland Jupiter 8. For years I've salivated over owning one of these vintage beasts. Now at least I can harness the huge sound.

Created in Ableton Live 10. Using Ableton effects (EQ8, Compressor, Saturation, Reverb, Limiter) + TAL Filter, OTT, CamelCrusher, Valhalla Supermassive.

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