Really great sound design and production on this one.  Great listen!

Freaking stellar percussion, as usual. Bravo.

kickin ass as always, nice track man I enjoyed it

My submission for the July 2022 One Synth Challenge:

https://sites.google.com/site/kvrosc/2022/osc-161-synth1

- 83 instances of the classic freeware VST Synth1 v1.13
- All effects either freeware VSTs or FL Studio native effects
- 113 mixer tracks, lots of bussing
- 353 effects in total, not all used
- No modulation effects, overdrive/bit-crushing applied subtly per the rules
- 7886 notes
- No samples obviously, no presets used
- Upload is undoctored straight from the FL Studio render
~90% average CPU usage on average, with some parts peaking above 100% (meaning these portions take longer to render than to glitch through in realtime lol)

I tried to keep it short, promise. There are many songs for people to evaluate in this competition with undoubtably a lot of skipping-through. But this is song is many different sections strung together by a common chord progression. For such reason these markers are provided for easier evaluation:

0:13 Breakbeat/Rock instrumentation
1:12 Techno/909 section
2:20 Chiptune deviation
3:40 Electro/808 section
5:09 Acoustic string ensemble

Namesake: I played-through Fallout: New Vegas this month, often alternating between exploring The Wasteland and producing this song. In F:NV the player-character is a Courier tasked with bringing many different things concrete and otherwise to very different places with widely varying environments. Similarly this song's widely varying sections delivered to you with only brief transitions. I am The Courier.

Production: Between running out of time and being sick of hearing this track a thousand times, I am finalizing it here and now. I have good monitors but poor acoustics, no headphones and a motorbike instead of a car. As such the bass management/spectral profile is what it is. Crossing my fingers and walking away.

Happy to share the sound design behind any elements in the song, and after the competition is finalized presets can be provided on request.

I love synthesizers and cats.

One Synth Challenge July 2022

The Courier

The Chase - The Courier (July 2022 One Synth Challenge)

All sounds made using Novation V-Station vst in Bitwig

Epsilon system

Made with Wave Manuel for OSC 166

Thanks to https://soundcloud.com/the-never-scene for the rad tambourine patch

thanks to that ai that helped me with the cover art

Bodhi Bhāgyá

miau - Dark Voltage (One Synth Challenge #168)

Return To Green

YouTube versio has better streaming quality: https://youtu.be/Adfmvx2jIsg

"Memories blurred in time. Like it all was yesterday. Popping in my head like a rain drops. Walking down those cold empty streets in the rain, a perfect place to hide your tears. The store is still open. I gotta go there and get my favorite drinks, the only thing that can cure my pain...
Sometimes I wanna catch a ride and go away, where nothing will remind me of you and your betrayal."

Submission for One Synth Challenge #173 featuring "Bucket ONE" and "Bucket Pops" by Full Bucket.

For this track I mostly used slightly edited stock sounds of "ONE" and "Pops". The twist with a drum machine is nice, but I still used layering to create some drum sounds. The "Pops" doesn't have velocity sensitivity which is a bit of a shame (it could have a switch in the "settings" menu). There also seems to be voice limit, so it forced me to split "Pops" to several instances. The "ONE" synthesizer has a nice sound that feels vintage. Even stock sounds are very usable and have some character. But I found its interface a bit unintuitive. I still couldn't find a way to edit the second part when using double mode (I tried to load it from the preset, but it didn't work). It also doesn't have a mono/legato mode switch (or I just couldn't find it).

The FB's synths are usually very light on CPU, which pleases me a lot. I can safely run 30+ instances with mostly native effects. Good for those who have "old bucket PCs" like me...

8 instances of "Bucket Pops" and 22 instances of "Bucket ONE" used to create a track.

One Synth Challenge archive: https://sites.google.com/site/kvrosc/2023/osc-173-two-buckets?authuser=0
Thread, related to this round: https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=598764&sid=1c7a300b6be559d3ffc22dfc4c40f522

Follow me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/infravolt

Violet Rain

Infravolt - Violet Rain (OSC#173)

Electronic percussion sequences created in Pure Data with a touch of reverb & additional noise.

More on this 612th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Drum Vector (The Assignment: Walk the listener through variations on the same percussive instrument), at: https://disquiet.com/0612/

Thanks to Mahlen Morris for having proposed this project.

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0612-drum-vector/

Drum & Hum (disquiet0612)

An entry for the KVR One Synth Challenge #179 - Any One Synth.

The unreliable narrative of Spaceman D. Bassman continues...

As the sun falls gently towards the horizon, a lone figure casually lounges in a deck chair, the fiery sky reflected in his visor. In his hands he holds a large glass of his favourite cocktail, Sex on the Beach.

Lieutenant Spaceman D. Bassman had been through a lot lately. After almost 23 months marooned on an alien planet populated by those weird musical bees, his oxygen, water and food supplies were at dangerously low levels. Things were so desperate that he'd taken to supplementing his diet with several particularly fat and juicy bees with each meal. They tasted disgusting, but he loved them nonetheless.

After months of despair and having given up any hope of being rescued, somewhat miraculously, the Corp finally located his emergency beacon and saved him from an inevitable and very likely nasty, bee-poisoning related death. He was lucky, and thankful to be alive.

With his gums still raw and nippy from the bee stings, Bassman, now safely back on Terra, took a long swig from his glass, settled back in the chair, and put another cassette in his Cosmosblaster.

While the sun continued it's decent across sky, the heavy throb of psychedelic space dub and beesong filled the air once more. Bassman sighed a long sigh of relief and wiped a tear from his eye; He really loved those weird musical alien bees.

Fin.

Reaper 7
u-he Hive (x17)

Track FX: Pro-C2 (x4), Pro-Q3 (x14), MAutopan (x1)

Send FX: PSP Springbox, ValhallaDelay, ValhallaVintageVerb (x2)

Stereo Bus FX: Teote, Satin, Pro-Q3, Pro-L2, TDR Prism, Youlean Loudness Meter

OSC179 - Any One Synth

Hex on the Beach

One Synth Challenge 181 @ KVR. Sequenced using 30x instances of SurgeXT.

KIN (Osc181 - SurgeXT)

Tambourine

GoReVoMiT :3

Suspended at the intersection of unlimited digital potential in an analog world.

Bodhi Bhāgyá

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