I don't feel like you've got this one entirely right. The pads are rather loud and blocky, the ornamentation not quite as playful as needed, imho, and I don't think the (lead) sounds support the mood all that well. That's intuitively assuming you were aiming for smooth chillout music. Please do correct me if I'm wrong. I do really like the general direction you've taken with this, though. Most definitely worthy of another go.

really interesting lead sound here. and interesting notes.

I like the little poppy bkgd runs and sounds. Cute.

I've tried for that sub-bass effect about a million times with no success.  Great!

Ah.... a lovely, somewhat uncomfortable melody.  Very nice.

It's like a hook came up from the bottom of the track, grabbed me around the neck and pulled me in.  Nice!

I liked this a lot. Even the slightly awkward transition to the end - somehow it played well.  Nice work.

All sounds made from scratch with Socalabs Wavetable Synth for OSC#176

Triggered - ElVicente

Butterfly Surge

dstr - Butterfly Surge (One Synth Challenge #179 Surge XT)

In The Thin Air Tonight

Kvr Osc Regency Eauson

YouTube version has better streaming quality: https://youtu.be/8bCVJ1f2YPg

"The new generation of soldiers. Man and machine combined..."

Created with "Regency" virtual synthesizer from Nakst. 30 instances used to create a track.

This time I had a throwback to my earlier darksynth ideas. This synth is capable of some abrasive FM style sounds as well as classic subtractive ones. There are a lot of modulation possibilities and some effect to mangle the sound. It's also very light on the CPU. I had a lot of fun tweaking the presets and creating my own sounds.

Submission for One Synth Challenge #180 featuring "Regency" by Nakst.
One Synth Challenge archive: https://sites.google.com/site/kvrosc/2024/osc-180-regency?authuser=0
Contest thread: https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=8840745#p8840745

Twitter: https://twitter.com/infravolt
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/Infravolt

Hybrid Ops

Infravolt - Hybrid Ops (OSC#180)

one instance of regency in bitwig 5.1.4.

also using micropitch, eq+, chow tape model, wider, epic clouds, cramit, tdr nova, tdr kotelnikov, loudmax.

Voices Stacked To Grasp For Heaven

This week's podcast features music made by Naviar's community inspired by
Takahama Kyoshi’s poem “A distant mountain / Seen in the sunlight: / A desolate field”

Tracklist:

Adrian Lane - Seen In The Sunlight
Stan Magendanz - A distant mountain
LazenbeeIndustries - desolate field
mikey_a - Distant Mountain Seen
noble-earths – Distance
Night Note - A Distant Mountain

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku529-a-distant-mountain/ 

Credits:

music intro: “This ruined house” by Tuonela
voice intro: Ian Joyce
cover image: Alessio Soggetti
voice reciting the poem: Marco Sebastiano Alessi

Naviar Broadcast is a radio programme curated by Naviar, broadcasted on Resonance Extra every Wednesday at 7pm UK time. Thirty minutes of experimental music made in response to a weekly assigned haiku poem.
To have your music featured on the show, you'll have to participate in the Haiku music challenge: https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku
support the show: https://www.naviarrecords.com/support-us/

Naviar Broadcast #309 – A distant mountain – Wednesday 6th March 2024

An entry for the KVR One Synth Challenge #181 - Surge XT.

The anachronistic tales of a washed up barfly continue...

The air was thick with a haze of smoke, amber fluid and regret. A neon sign flickered through the grimy window, casting the room in a sickly green glow. In a darkened corner booth slumped Spaceman D. Bassman, one time Space Corp Trooper extraordinaire, now Terra's most despondent drunk.

Bassman's once celebrated career had been a shooting star, blazing bright before burning out in a fiery re-entry. The mission to the Sinfony system, meant to be his crowning achievement, had ended in catastrophe. No longer heralded as a hero but as a liability, Bassman had been humiliatingly dismissed from the Corp, deemed unfit to serve by the medical board who cited bee-related psychological trauma and chronic dub abuse.

The dive bar he found himself in offered little solace. Under a single incandescent bulb in the corner of the room, a raggedy-assed band were grinding out a strained one drop pastiche that only served to drive him deeper into despair. He had played bass himself a long time ago. His fretboard heroics used to attract admiring glances but now all he could muster were pitying stares and whispered condemnations. His attention drifted back to his drink, the dubby skanks replaced by the deafening roar of his own failures.

One night, a young woman slid into the seat on the other side of the booth. Her eyes, the colour of honey on a stormy day, held a curious glint. Seemingly unfazed by his haggard appearance and the strong smell of urine, she spoke passionately of her dreams of travelling to the stars, her voice a sweetly buzzing melody that cut through the fog clouding his mind.

That night, for the first time in a long time, Bassman didn't drown his sorrows in silence. He spoke of the cosmos, of the dance of celestial bodies, of weird musical bees, his voice regaining a spark it had lost for so long. The woman listened, enthralled, her eyes reflecting the distant stars he could no longer reach.

As the night wore on, a camaraderie blossomed between the washed-up space trooper and the aspiring star traveller. In the flickering neon glow, an unlikely friendship was forged, a melody of hope born from the depths of despair. Perhaps, he thought, even a broken star could find solace in the rhythm of a new dream.

Fin?

Reaper 7
Surge XT (14)

Track FX: CHOW Tape Model (3), JSFX MIDI Note Filter (6), ReaComp (10), ReaEQ (11), ReaLimit, TAL Reverb 4, TDR Molotok, TDR Nova, Venn Free Clip 2

Send FX: Sixth Sample Deelay, TAL Reverb 4, Surge XT (audio in), ReaEQ, ReaComp

Stereo BUS: CHOW Tape Model, Blue Cat Gain, TDR Nova, VladG Limiter #6, ReaLimit, Cockos Loudness Meter

OSC181 - Surge XT

Barfly Skank

All sounds made using Surge XT in Bitwig for KVR OSC 181

Harry Du Bois

Here's my OSC #181 for Surge XT made in Bitwig

Made with 27 instances of SurgeXT and 
Free VST:
Airwindows Infrasonic
Airwindows PurestGain
Airwindows UltrasonicX
ATK Colored Compressor
Bedroom Comp
Dragonfly Hall Reverb
Khs Transient Shaper
Limiter no6
STFU
Supercharger
TDR Kotelnikov
TDR Molotok
TDR Nova
TDR Vos SlickEQ
Voxengo Sound Delay

Bitwig:
Chain
DrumMachine
FX Layer
Key Filter
Mid/Side Split
Note Grid
Note Transpose
Peak Limiter
Tool

Ephemeral Echoes

Only the moon remains
floating in the memory upon
Kinokawa River
 
There's so little information about this amazing renga poet that I decided to share another poem written by him. This one is part of a longer sequence, written in 1463:

Only the moon remains
floating in the memory upon
Kinokawa River—
pale glistening waves,
the blank wake of drowned men.
 
About this poem, the author said: "Among the hundreds and thousands who have drowned and perished in this river
due to the disorders in this province were those whom I knew in former days. Often
I would walk along the river, gazing at the moon."

(Heart's Flower - The Life and Poetry of Shinkei)

Shinkei (1406-75) was a renowned renga poet and critic, best known for his two-part work "Sasamegoto" (Murmured Conversations). To find out more about this interesting and largely unknown poet-priest, I recommend reading Heart's Flower - The Life and Poetry of Shinkei by Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen

Haiku by Shinkei: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/3348384

Ephemeral Echoes

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