One Synth Challenge #144: Rand by Sampleson

"A journey in sound", as they say...

All sounds from the virtual Rand synthesizer.

Recorded and mixed at Violence St. Studios, Feb. 2021 by Mountainé.

Beyond the Castle (single)

Beyond the Castle

Beyond the Castle | #OSC144 | Rand

Meet Rand, a synth that really won't behave itself. When you open it up, there's one button that randomly resets all the parameters. You never know what you're going to get. 

Okay, so you can go under the hood and tweak things, but they never stay tweaked. It's frustrating and yet also quite stimulating. This effort is an attempt to embrace the randomness - every time the track is rendered from the DAW, it comes out slightly differently. 

So imagine what the others must have sounded like.

For the 144th One Synth Challenge

DAW: Logic

Rand x18

Logic FX only:
Channel EQ x24
Compressor x20
Expander x 1
Exciter x 1
Noise Gate x2 
Limiter x13
Clip Distortion x 1
SilverVerb x1
Space Delay x2
Bitcrusher x1
Frontier x2

Youlean says it's -14.1 lufs

Random OSCess Memory - OSC144

Made as submission for the KVR forum's One Synth Challenge No 144. All sounds (even drums) are made with Rand VST by Sampleson

More technical details about this track:
https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=8033635#p8033635

Osc 144 Rev02

Random Flashbacks

23 Rand synth for OSC 144
made in Ableton Live + Ableton EQ Reverb Delay Compressor.
Max 1 as non Ableton plugin.

OSC 144

Undone Refrain

This track made for the KVR One Synth Challenge using only sounds from the VSTi Rand. Free 3rd party and DAW fx used.

DAW: Reaper 6

Track details:
17 * Rand
17 * ReaEQ
6 * Oril River
1 * Bass Professor Mark 2
1 * Reacomp
5 * OTT

Master:
TDR VOS SlickEQ
Ferric TDS
Voxengo MSED
Limiter No. 6

Metering:
Youlean Loudness Meter 2 (free)
SPAN

LUFS: -12.1
DR: 9

Enjoy

DoctorBob - Grandiosity - Rand OSC #144

29 instances of RAND vet in Logic Pro X for OSC 144.

OnTrackP OSC144 RAND - Push The Damn Button Again

This track was produced for the One Synth Challenge 144 using the free "one button" software synth Rand by Sampleson.

The title Capricho, meaning "a whim" in Spanish, embraces the random nature of the synth as well as the unpredictability of the composition.

Recorded in Ableton 10 using 31 instances of Rand and made with mostly randomized then edited patches. More substantial editing was applied to the main bass and percussion patches.

Stock Ableton effects were used and Youlean Loudness Meter Free was used to determine final master volume.

Capricho

Maltoné - Capricho - Rand Synth

Created with Sampleson Rand for the KVR One Synth Challenge #144
Rand x19
Fx used:
ReaEQ x 5
Valhalla Supermassive x10
Tal DUB-II x3
TAL Reverb 2 x1
BPB Saturator x3
PanCake2 x4
ReaComp x2
RoughRider3 x1
BPB Dirty Filter x1
Master bus fx:
TDR Kotelnikov
ReaEQ
LoudMax

Evening Ascent

markheath - Evening Ascent (KVR OSC #144)

Submission for the One synth Challenge 144  - Rand, https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=560213

Mixed narrowly in REAPER  at  -12.5 LUFS using :

Rand VSTi( 28 )  14  monophonic instruments, 7 FX and 7 percs, all single layer 
ReaEQ (9) ( light EQ duties ),Limiter No6 ( perc bus ),TDR Nova ( sidechain comp ), Hy-Delay free (6), Slate fresh Air  ( on snare ), Analog Obsession Fetish ( on toms, lightly ), Blue ARP (4) 

reverb: 
Oril river ( 10, mono ), mid-side encoder, Oril river, A1 stereo Control, ReaEQ
Mixer

master: 
band splitter, Flux BitterSweet v3, Sleepy-Time Records Transient, band joiner
Mid-side encoder, Oril River, A1 stereo Control, ReaEQ, mixer, TDR Nova, Slick EQ, Limiter No6

ELEX - The Tree Of Three

This is my entry to the "One-Synth-Challenge #144". Every sound is created with the free VST plugin "Rand" by "Samplson" using 21 instances in Cubase Elements.

The Crackler

Rockingricky - The Crackler

NEW REMASTERED VERSION ON YT: https://youtu.be/vRcEqO4eOHA

Submitted for One Synth Challenge #144 in February 2021 featuring "Rand" by Sampleson.

This is my little electro-ambient sketch. All the sound are generated via the big button and than tweaked to taste. It was kinda interesting to create a track using purely random sounds. The instrument itself sounds pretty good for free VST, but unfortunately it has some strange issues with the engine itself. You can hear crackling noise on some sounds. Also, there is no way to make this plugin sound in mono without the external processing. Applying a stereo with control plugins does the job, but makes it sound a little phasy, like a subtle chorus.

After all, I think that "Rand" could be used to learn synthesis, and sometimes it generates very interesting sound effects, but while the sound issues are present and it's feature set is kinda rudimentary in some places (no attenuation for LFO's and envelopes for example) it feels more like a toy than a useful tool.

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Fear the Unknown

To the Unknown! (OSC#144)

My submission for KVR OSC144 (Rand)

15 instances of Rand

DAW: Reaper 6.23

Inserts:
Klanghelm MJUCjr
Variety of Sound FerricTDS
Sonic Anomaly Transpire
Cockos ReaComp, ReaEQ, ReaGate
Xfer OTT
DeadDuck DD Limiter, DD Delay
OrilRiver

Sends:
Dragonfly Hall Reverb
Valhalla Supermassive
DeadDuck DD Delay, DD Reverb
Cockos ReaComp, ReaGate
Variety Of Sound FerricTDS

Master Bus:
lkjb Luftikus
TDR Tokelnikov
DeadDuck DD Limiter
Variety of Sound FerricTDS

KVROSC 144

SeBaer - Give Up, Retry, Lose Again (OSC144 - Rand *Third Place*)

An ambient exercise using the unusual synthesizer "Rand".  I set a rule for myself with this track, that all sounds created by using the 'random' button and no tweaking or editing the patches.

20 instances of Rand
Ableton Live Suite 10
EQ8, Compressor, Limiter, Valhalla Super Massive.

In Drift (OSC 144 Rand)

One Synth Challenge 144 February 2021
Rand (formerly Push) by Sampleson

DAW: Cakewalk by BandLab 
Synth: Sampleson Rand (29)

FX Plugins: Cakewalk EQ (15), PSP PianoVerb (free), Voxengo OldSkoolVerb, Valhalla SuperMassive (6), Alex Hilton A1 Trigger Gate (4), Xfer OTT (2), Kilohearts Delay, Cakewalk Sonitus Delay, Auburn Sounds Couture (2), TDR Molotok, chowdsp ChowMatrix

Master: LoudMax64bit free

Metering: Voxengo SPAN

Image credit: "Abandoned Power Station" by Curtis Gregory Perry is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

opdobqo - Abandoned Power Station - KVR OSC 144

Made for KVRAudio's One Synth Challenge #144: Rand by Sampleson

DAW: Reaper 6.23
Rand: Made 24 instances by pushing the button once and ended up using 22. No tweaking except for some randomized automations via LFO in the DAW.
Plugins:
Tracks: Leet Delay 2, Supermassive, Dragonfly Plate Reverb, MAutoPan, ReaComp, OTT, TDR Nova, Loudmax
Master: Coffeepun, Luftikus, MJUCjr, Youlean Loudness Meter 2, SPAN, Airwindows Monitoring

OSC #144 Rand

RuediRena - Vielleicht Stahl (One Big Rush)

Made entirely using the Rand (formerly Push) plugin by Sampleson for KVR's One Synth Challenge #144 in Ableton Live 11

Milkster - Ghosts In My Machine

This is my submission to the Rand KVR OSC 
Only one instance of the synth were used to do this track.

One instance of Rand

Rand One Instance One Synth Challenge #144 Rand

Made for OSC 144: Rand

DAW: Reaper

FX (all from Reaper except Rand and SPAN):
- Rand x30
- ReaComp x5
- ReaEQ x11
- ReaVerbate x2
- Channel Time Delayer x2
- Stereo Field Manipulator x1
- Master Limiter x1
- [Metering only] Oscilloscope Meter x1
- [Metering only] SPAN x1

Treeheated - Stateful

Synth: Rand x1 (one instance)

Recorded, mixed, and mastered in Reaper 6.

FX: 
BlueARP (Oleg Mikheev)
Tal Reverb 2 (Togu Audio Line)
ReaDelay (Cockos)
TDR Nova EQ (Tokyo Dawn Labs)
Dimension Expander (Xfer Records)
SGA1566 (Shattered Glass Audio)
LoudMax Limiter (Thomas Mundt)

Sister Andesite

Sister Andesite (OSC 144)

A simple and quickly produced song in a genre that makes me nostalgic. I hope you enjoy it!

DAW: Reaper 6
Rand: 33 instances
Native FX: ReaComp, ReaEQ, ReEQ
3rd Party Free FX: OrilRiver, SuperMassive, Cocoa Delay, GClip, LoudMax, W1 Limiter, OTT, MAutopan, RandArp, A1StereoControl
Mastering: JS: DC Filter, TDR Nova, TDR Kotelnikov, GClip, LoudMax
Metering: SPAN, Youlean Loudness Meter 2

Cover art: https://pixabay.com/photos/stained-glass-spiral-circle-pattern-1181864/

Nostalgia

Nostalgia (OSC 144 Rand)

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