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

2025

Made for OSC 187 using 12 ExtraBold synth by nakst

Do Not Touch My Delicate Robot

psicogramma key #1

"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

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]

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 

Catch The Tail

Made entirely with sounds from the Odin 2 synthesizer: https://thewavewarden.com/pages/odin-2

All sounds made from init.

Bitwig not 6
Odin2 x ~30
Bitwig FX: Delay+, Filter+, EQ+, Compressor+, Dynamics, Saturator, Tool, Peak Limiter
Other FX: TDR Nova, vladg Limiter no6, Raum, OTT, Cramit, Tape Cassette 2, TAL Reverb 4, kHz haas

z.prime - Steps

This is a submission for the One Synth Challenge hosted by KVR. I created this in Ableton using only the free software synth Vital

Kevlar Testarossa

The Pipers From The North
By Seap for One Synth Challenge 198, August 2025

Single synth of choice: Kult (Dawesome)

Each autumn, when the heather turned purple on the hills, the bagpipers came down from the highlands. At first, the village children heard only a faint drone, like the earth humming underfoot. They would freeze in their games, eyes wide, and scramble up into the oak trees to see better.

The sound grew, weaving and swelling, until it filled the valley like a storm of music—low drones rolling like thunder, sharp notes flashing like lightning. By the time the pipers emerged from the misted slopes, it was no longer a handful of men but an orchestra carried on the wind itself.

The villagers gathered in silence, listening. Year after year, the same mystery unfolded: a reminder that the mountains still breathed, and that the world above the clouds sent down its song to be heard.

Instruments:
9x   VST3i: Kult (Dawesome)

Effects:a
1x   VST3: A1PrimeDelay (A1AUDIO.de)
1x   VST3: MAnalyzer (MeldaProduction)
1x   VST3: Scaler EQ (Plugin Boutique)
1x   VST3: ValhallaVintageVerb (Valhalla DSP, LLC)
3x   VST3: kHs 3-Band EQ (Kilohearts)
1x   VST: PSP VintageWarmer (x86) (PSPaudioware.com)
2x   VST: ReaControlMIDI (Cockos)
2x   VST: ReaEQ (Cockos)


The Pipers From The North [OSC198]

Made with Synplant for OSC198 no samples just sounddesign!
DAW Reaper 7.43
Instruments:
40x VST3i: Synplant (Sonic Charge) Paid

Effects:
JS: 1175 Compressor
JS: RCInflator 2 (Oxford Edition)
VST3: BLENDEQ (AnalogObsession)
VST3: Cascade (Phonolyth) Paid
VST3: Hyperspace (JMGSound) Paid
VST3: MAnalyzer (MeldaProduction)
VST3: MCompressor (MeldaProduction)
VST3: MConvolutionEZ (MeldaProduction)
VST3: MEqualizer (MeldaProduction)
VST3: MStereoScope (MeldaProduction)
VST3: MStereoSpread (MeldaProduction) Paid
VST3: POORTEC (AnalogObsession)
VST3: kHs Transient Shaper (Kilohearts)

Johnkhf - Scaling the knife-edge ridge

Track for KVR's One Synth Challenge - 198:
https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=622721

Only used Vital, free and stock plugins.

YYeet - Rattlepit

This track is made for the One Synth Challenge #198, using Dawesome Myth. 
Cover Image made completely by myself. 

Most sounds are created completly from scratch by my self. Exceptions see below.

DAW: Ableton 12

11x Myth

Self made Patches don't use Instrument Samples as Iris even though that is a great feature of myth,
    I was exploring the a more traditional synth like  side of Sounddesign with Myth:
4x Init Iris  (sinewave)
1x self resampled Iris (resampled from selfmade a no Iris MythPatch )
1x TriSawPulse WT selfmade
3x No Iris.        

Preset: 2x OuterWorlds - ExpressiveE (Adjusted - and any modulation played via MPE) [no Iris used in there to]


Ableton:
8x MPEControl 
14x Utility
1x Glue Compressor
1x Limiter
1x Multiband Compressor
1x EQ8


2x Neold U2A 
6x Ozone 10 - Dynamic EQ
1x Arturia Bus Peak

1x Dawesome Hate (Ott, Saturator,  Compressor, EQ)
1x Dawesome Hate (Compressor)
1x Dawesome Hate (OTT, Saturator, Clouds, Compressor)

Fbr - OSC198 - Space Sirens

Here's my OSC for August 2025 made in Bitwig with all sounds coming from Serum 2 made from init.

using 29 instances of Serum 2 and the following vsts.

BX Masterdesk Pro
UADX Capitol Mastering Compressor
TDR Kotelnikov GE
UADX Hitsville Reverb chamber
UAD SSL G Bus Compressor
Kickstart 2
TDR Elliptical
TDR Arbiter
TDR Ultrasonic
TDR Infrasonic
Blackhole Immersive
UADX 175-b compressor
TDR Nova GE
QuantX
UAD 1176AE Compressor
UAD Manley Massive Passive EQ
Fresh Air
UAD 1176 FET Compressor
TDR Prism
TDR Limiter 6 GE
UAD Pultec MEQ-5 EQ
Khs Delay
UAD API 2500 buss compressor
UAD Studer A800 Tape Recorder

bitwig fx:
tool
note transpose
instrument layer
Humanize
Delay-2
instrument selector

A brief moment in time (when everyone had thought it had happened)

My entry for OSC198. All sounds made with the virtual synth Primer 2.

The Lure (by phankiejankie303)

This song has been sequenced Using my Synthstrom Audible Deluge groovebox for the OSC#198 challenge. Every sound has been made from init with the synth engine of this device. I then imported the stems and recorded additionnal deluge synth sounds using Bitwig. Hope you enjoy!

Black Wink (OSC#198 Deluge HW Synth)

Created for the KVRAudio forum's monthly One Synth Challenge #198 using the synthesizer: Diversion. About 30 instances of the synth were used to create all sounds you here.

Made in Ableton Live 12, EQ8, Delay, Izotopes Ozone 9, Neutron, UHe Satin, Pressworks, Valhalla Vintage Verb, OTT.

Thorns of the Wolf (OSC 198 - Diversion)

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*Each track is a journey on its own. From experiments down to dance.*
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psicogramma key #1

Liqih

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