Dark ambient ethereal soundscapes for your pleasure.

DARK AMBIENT - EMPTY SOUL

bh9090 - TWO [ODIN]

track 1 of the new album Ozed.  All up on Bandcamp already

gumusservi
the light of the moon as it shines upon the water

gumusservi

Composed for OSC 142, using only 11 instances of Vital plus a few effects in Reaper:
TDR Nova for some sidechain EQ ducking
Dragonfly Room Reverb for some send reverb
Limiter No6 for loudness mastering

Tuned in 31edo, once again mostly using meantone[12] subsets

Twigs

Send-off

Leonard Bowman - Send-off

For OSC 143. Made using only the Bleep Labs Nebulophone.
https://bleeplabs.com/product/nebulophone/
47 separate tracks of audio containing 119 audio clips selected from 128 recordings totaling 325 MB.

No external processing was done to the recordings beyond volume adjustments, static panning, and adding fade-ins and fade-outs.

My Zoom H4N was used as the audio interface.

All Grown Up

Leonard Bowman - All Grown Up

This track made using all hardware for the KVR One Synth Challenge #143

My sound source is my Yamaha DX-11. The hardware effects were from the Zoom Studio 1201, Boss Digital Reverb, Behringer Virtualizer Pro and the FX section of my Yamaha AW16G Hard disk recorder.

Each track was recorded separately, and then each track was recorded again with any effects required at 100% wet (so the dry and wet tracks can be mixed as required). Once all this had been done, each track was then played back through my Behringer MX2642 analogue mixer and EQ applied using the low, swept mid and high EQ section. The EQ was done for ALL tracks, including the tracks with effects and percussion elements (38 tracks in total).

All 38 tracks were then mixed with no mastering effects, only using SPAN and Youlean Loudness Meter 2 (free) to check the overall levels and frequency content.

Mixed in Reaper 6.

Final tracks used for mixing after EQ.

1. Bass 1 - programmed to have a small pluck, dry.
2. Bass 2 - programmed to have a full body sound, dry.
3. Keyboard 1 - a basic FM piano, dry.
4. Keyboard 2 - track 3 + reverb.
5. Keyboard 3 - track 3 with a delay
6. Guitar - a raw acoustic sound, dry
7. Guitar - track 6 + reverb
8. Pad 1 - one of the classic DX sounds, dry
9. Pad 1 - track 8 + reverb
10. Strings 1 - classic DX strings,dry
11. Strings 2 - track 10 + reverb
12. Flute solo 1 - pure DX sinewave sounds, LFO vibrato and level scaling (reduce harmonic content for higher notes),dry
13. Flute solo 2 - track 12 + reverb
14. Flute solo 3 - sound of flute 1 but with modulation of operator parameters via mod wheel, dry
15. Guitar solo 1 - classic DX "flamenco" guitar sound,dry
16. Guitar solo 2 - track 15 + reverb
17 - 38. Percussion elements. Bass drum, hats, bongos, toms, rides, triangles etc! Some elements layered with 2 or 3 DX sounds. All dry.

Stats:
LUFS: -14.9
DR: 10

No volume automation was done either, all relative volumes are done by the playing and the key velocity of the DX-11. This means that if you got enough DX-11's on stage into a mixer plus FX units, this track could be played exactly as you hear it, LIVE!

Please enjoy the lovely sounds of this early 80's synth.

DoctorBob - Sounds Of The DX11 - OSC #143

All sounds including drums with Dexed, a free DX7 emulation. Pretty silly, but fun to write - I'll probably trying my luck in One Synth Challenge #143 with this one.

Recorded and mixed Jan 28, 2021 by Mountainé.

Dubby McWannafly

Dubby McWannafly | OSC#143 | w/ Dexed (Yamaha DX7 emulation)

Created for the KVR One Synth Challenge #143

DAW: Bitwig 3.3
Synth: 19x PG-8X

FX:
2x MStereoExpander
1x Roth-AIR
5x FerricTDS
1x Marvel GEQ
1x LoudMax
1x YALA
6x MEqualizer
2x MSaturator
2x MCompressor
2x Valhalla Supermassive
4x SLAX
11x Overtone GEQ
2x MAutopan
8x Cocoa Delay
1x Giant Verb

Continuation

"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

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

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 (OSC 144)

Kyle Benjamin