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One Synth Challenge #184: ToneZ 2 by Retornz

5 Star!

Best synth instrumentals of 2025 (and late 2024), "laptop music" for the hungry of groove and weird.

2025

Made for the KVR One Synth Challenge 155:
https://sites.google.com/site/kvrosc/2022/osc-155-any-one-synth
https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=575714

All sounds made entirely from scratch with the Roland System-8 hardware synthesizer on the System-8 Model.
DAW: FL-Studio 20.9
Instances / Recordings: 40 Audio Tracks

DAW Plugins:
Fruity Parametric EQ2 [22], Fruity Limiter [3], Fruity Stereo Enhancer [14], Fruity Delay 2 [4], Fruity Delay 3 [4], Fruity Reeverb 2 [3], Fruity Convolver [1]

3rd Party Free:
Youlean Loudness Meter 2 [1], Melda MCompressor [2], Analog Obsession LOVEND [2], Xfer OTT [8], TAL Reverb 2 [3]

3rd Party Commercial:
Waves H-Reverb [II]

3rd Party I got it for free but it´s actually Commercial:
Izotope Ozone 8 Elements [1]

No wolves were harmed during the production of this track.
Mixed and Mastered by a Neodymium-doped yttrium orthovanadate crystal.

Impedance Music - DPSS (OSC#155 - Roland System-8)

One Synth Challenge 156 @ KVR. Sequenced using 12x instances of Synister.

DLA (Osc156 - Synister)

The servant robots have sensed that an attack is eminent.

OSC156 Down Everybody (Synister) 22/25 88%

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

Techquiem (OSC 156 - Synister)

My submission for the One Synth Challenge, using Synister https://the-synister.github.io/ as only sound source.

YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ3wYgS0TIM

DAW: Ardour 6.9 on Archlinux
38x Synister instances via yabridge/wine

Audio Effects:
-LSP Parametric Stereo EQ
-Calf Vintage Delay
-ZaMultiCompx2
-ACE Compressor
-airwindows Reverb
-TAP Tubewarmth
-Dragonfly Hall Reverb
-Wolf Shaper

MIDI effects:
-B.Schaffl
-x42 MIDI Strum

Masterbus:
-Luftikus EQ
-LSP Parametric EQ (Stereo and MidSide)
-LSP Stereo Compressor
-airwindows ToTape5
-Refine
-x42 DPL Limiter

MyLoFy - Shattered

This track made for the KVR One Synth Challenge #184. All sounds made by the free VSTi Tonez V2. Only DAW and free 3rd party FX used.

DAW: Reaper
Track Details:
39 * Tonez
39 * ReaEQ
2 * Oril River
1 * Bass Professor
3 * TAL Dub Delay
9 * LFX-1310
11 * OTT
1 * Pecheneg Tremolo
9 * Twin Delay

Master:
TDR VOS SlickEQ
Voxengo MSED
Limiter No. 6

Meter:
SPAN
Youlean Loudness Meter

Stats:
LUFS -15.1
DR 9

Wall Of Tonez - OSC#184 - Tonez V2

Track composed for the monthly KVR One Synth Challenge #184 with the free VST synth ToneZ 2 developed by Retornz.

It came out way goofier and sillier than I intended to be, honestly. Partly sploink, partly epic, partly EDM, partly "I-don't-know-what-anymore"... Imagine it as a sort of OST for a new hypothetical Worms game.

Enjoy!

Ready 2 Rumble - KVR OSC #184

Made for KVR One-Synth-Challenge 184
https://sites.google.com/site/kvrosc/2024/osc-184-tonez-v2

bzz - Rainy Tonez’ Shepherd

All sounds made using the ToneZ V2 VST3 plugin in Bitwig 5.1.9 and freeware / Stock plugins

28 Instances of ToneZ

FX used
EQ+, Dynamics, Delay-1,Saturator, Delay+, Compressor, Filter, Gate,
Camelcrusher, Gsat+, Wider, STFU, Freeclip, DeEss, Oril-River, SuperMassive, Ruina, Raum, A1-Triggergate, Drumslam

TDR Nova, TDR Molotov, TDR Kotelnikov, Loudmaxx

June Bugs

"He was fed up with these people. Those damned ignoramuses couldn't even tell the difference between the great Johann Sebastian Bach and a village band. Nevertheless, they insisted that his pieces be played. The beginning of a well-known piece was enough for them, and the priest had fun just improvising without the people noticing. These idiots had no idea. Just as little as they knew about his secret passion.... When the service was over, he would descend the stairs, sneak through the cloister... No one was ever allowed to know about his passion... They wouldn't understand... He crept into the catacombs where he had hidden his secret music studio. Full of anticipation, he opened "ToneZ" ....

The Secret Of The Priest

Made using 11 x VST ToneZ synth,  for OSC at KVRAudio.com,
DAW Ableton Live 9
Ableton effects: EQ-Eight, Reverb, Limiter

Chaos Train Spreads Molecules

Made for OSC 187 using 12 ExtraBold synth by nakst

Do Not Touch My Delicate Robot

"When I got the blues I feel like walking alone"

Made for One Synth Challenge #192:  using 9 instances of Six Sines by BaconPaul

Walking On The Beach

An experimental "gypsy dub" for you to dance or listen.

Folkish Trance Dub

Loris - Wake Up
Reaper 7

108 instances of Monolit

FX Used: 
Gclip
frequency spectrum analyzer
VUMeter
Voxengo SPAN
Signilizer
KHz Distortion
ReaComp
ReaPhaseRotator - to try to get the sine wave in the kick phase aligned
MCompressor
KHz Clipper
ReaXComp
ReaEQ
Khz Reverb
KHz Filter
Ozone 8 Imager
MBandPass
Mequalizer
KHz Delay
MConvolutionEZ
KHz Formant Filter
Khz transientShaper
Ohmicide - not used to its full potential
ReaLimit
MCharmVerb
Khz gain
MComb - for light accentuation on percussion
Khz Stereo
KHz trance Gate

This song took several tries to get to where i want it. Once i fleshed out the idea, i started layering sounds to get a fuller feel for the track and to decorate the space. im particularly proud of the kick which is three active instances of the synth, i crafted the envelopes down to the milisecond and used an oscilliscope to precisely dial in the timing. I had several initial approaches for the kick none of which worked well. I worked a lot on the percussion to get metallic sounds using the FM function of the synth and also using a lot of EQ to peak frequencies. I woulnd say i went full 11/10 but i went 9/10 on EQ. I also used some distortion, to about 8/10. I accentuated sounds but did not completely distroy them. A lot of texture to certain percussion was obtained by layering different sounds at different pitches and also different FM ratios etc. Playing with envelopes goes a long way. 

The bass sounds are all very simple actually and most are a few layers deep with different waveforms FMing at different ratios and pitches. I was gonna go ballistic on the basses and use EQ, clipping and even convolution to obliterated the sound. But to avoid being DQ i opted for the PG 13 version. 

the amount of automation in this project with greater than 100 instances of the synth has made it a chore to navigate. Some midi clips have 6 or 7 layers of automation and other have only one but heavily adjusted everywhere. the automation i used the most is volume. Cutting sounds so they dont interfere with other sounds and to cut reverb tails, and also to shape sounds since i did not like the way the envelopes in the synth itself worked at times. Working with audio clips would have made this much more easy. I do not think i will go this hard for OSC ever again. But then again...it was kinda fun...

The song is clipped and compressed severely. I could have pushed it harder but i did NOT!! in order to preserve that last gasp of dynamic range that was slowly waiting to die. This is not a ballad, or classical, its dubstep - or something like it. 

The song got its name from the distinct digital alarm sound that we're all so familiar with. I used it in the buildup, in the drop, everywhere...

Nothing on the master except Gclip and ReaLimiter. 

Thats all i got

Loris - Wake Up!

Stream on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/6mSKcze7qnV0bQKOpDLn42

DAW: Reaper

Synth: Monolit (35 Instances)

Mixing FX (Free): ReaComp (Only Sidechain), ReaGate(Gating Snare Reverb), ReEQ (HP/LP), Flux Mini 2(Sidechain),  Orilriver, Supermassive, Deelay, DD AutoPan, Panagement 2, Wider, Lil Tube (Subtle Bus Saturation), GClip, Loudmax, ReaLimit

Mastering: Nova, Lil Tube, Kotelnikov, LoudMax

Metering: Prism

Calling the Monolith

Call the Monolith (OSC 194 Monolit)

The great song by emikaela remixed by Liqih with a little help from Fadr , the AI app extract stems.  Of course I added my wonderful drums.

emikaela 'thursday night' [Liqih vs Fadr Remix]

This is my OSC for May 2025 made from the sounds of Ragnarok2
made with 58 instances of Ragnarok2 and the following free vsts:


TDR Kotelnikov
BX Masterdesk Classic
Airwindows Monitoring 3
KHS Delay
DevilSpring
Deelay
TDR Nova
DearVr Pro2
Raum
Valhalla Supermassive
KHs Dual Delay
Saturation Knob
AirWindows DubSub2
Spacer
KHs Transient Shaper
ExoVerb
FreshAir
Limiter No6
KHs Haas
Pancz
STFU
TensJr
IronOxide Classic2
BusterSe
TDR Molotok
GClip
Ozone Imager 2
BussColors 4
KHs Clipper

Bitwig:
Sculpt
Focus
EQ2
Convolution
Tool
FX Layer
Key Filter
Note Transpose
Multiband fx2
Mid-Side Split
Instrument Layer
Delay-1
Filter+
Delay-2
Multinote
Fx Layer

Kiltarlity

OSC#195 - FullBucket's Ragnarök 

DAW: MuLab
Instances: 40
FX: DearVR Pro 2, Deelay, Supermassive, FrankCS, OTT, LoudMax, Magic Carpet, KSHMER EssentialKick, TDR Nova, TENSjr, IVGI2, Plateau2

Taron - Stealing the Ragnarök

Hi everyone, I created a similar piece to the previous one from OSC 194, but in a different sound version.
I used 31 instances (Ragnarök 2)

All effects from Studio One 6.6 + free Dreverb2
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DAW: Studio One 6.6
31 instances - Ragnarök 2 / basic sounds from bank 1 and 2

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FX:
- built-in plugins from Srudio One 6.6
"Compressor, Binaural Pan, mixverb, Pro Eq, splitter, mixtool, limiter, analog Delay
+ free Dreverb2"

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Mastering:
Mastering using built-in Studio One 6.6 effects

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The joyful 90's Hard ver. (OSC #195 - All instruments in the song are from VST Ragnarök Mk2)

Composed and produced by Liqih for OSC 186 at KVR.
Using only 10 instances of Primer VST synth by Audible Genius.

1x Kick Drum
2x Snare
1x Hi-hat
1x Bass
1x Skank chords
1x Synth vocals
1x Synth plucks
1x Percussions
1x Pad


# DAW : Ableton Live
# Ableton effects: Delay, Reverb, Compressors, Gate, EQ-Eight
# Free FX: Cymatics Space Lite, Master compressor: BeatSkillz Max 1 

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