Excellent !  That's a superb old bar piano !  And the music is just super enjoyable ; I love how very languorous this track sounds :)  @#$%,  you're good at this stuff  !

now it's just downright sad.  Spaceman is one pathetic dude....

Great concept track - and very creative use of Surge!

As always, great beats! The bass, the piano, the lead melodies - everything sounds very good...

This is beautiful cool down and transition back to the main theme. Nice work! I dig the pic of the deteriorated piano too.

Great song. Good sound design and a very nice melody.

Endless

across 110th street

For this One Synth Challenge I used 26 instances of a free synth named "One" by the Swedish company Kilohearts who are famous for their Phase Plant synthesizer. I used many of their free FX plugins as well. Additional free plugins are LaLa by Analog Obession, Wider by Polyverse and RF-DSP by Ronan Fed which is a wonderful and free multi-FX module that I found online just a couple of days ago.
DAW has been Cubase 12 Pro

Kilohearts One - Mille Coeurs

ot one this month made with my new cool DAW. 

32 x Saurus 4

All FX are Bitwig stock exclusively

-- Comp, EQ, Delay+, Reverb, Filter+, Bit-8, Peak Limiter, Amp, Convolution --

Simanus - Eightysaurusbruh

Painful Summer

dancing pirate

All sounds made using Regency by Nakst for KVR Audios One Synth Challenge #180

Bikini Wax

The station 104.5 KDAT (based in Cedar Rapids, IA) uses the KOST ReelWorld Packages dating from 2022 to 2018. This aircheck was obtained on February 28, 2024, at 12:41AM (GMT+8) / February 28, 2024, at 11:41AM (EST) via their web application.

Disclaimer: As usual, I do not own this material and they're under copyright by Townsquare Media, Inc., and audio elements by ReelWorld Productions (Seattle, WA), thus only presented here for entertainment and archiving purposes only.

[ARCHIVE] KDAT Imaging and ReelWorld Jingles — Early 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

Track made only using sounds from the Charlatan 3 Synthesizer by BlauKraut Engineering

27x Charlatan 3 Synthesizer
Daw: Cubase 13pro
Stock Cubase Effects:  Compressor, Brickwall Limiter, EQ
3rd Party Plugins:  Fire, Couture, PanCake

Run Faster

MiJoFranDa - Run Faster - Charlatan 3 OSC#182

My OSC track for KVR Charlatan3 made in Bitwig

featuring 22 Charlatan3 instances and the following plugins.
Air Windows Air3
Airwindows Infrasonic
Airwindows Ultrasonic
Frontier
Pancz
Sound Delay
Supercharger
TDR Kotelnikov
TDR Molotok
TDR Nova
Wider


Bitwig:
Audio Reciever
Chain
Convolution
Compressor+
Drum Machine
EQ-5
FX Grid
FX Layer
Humanize
Instrument Layer
Mid / Side Split
Multiband FX
Note Fx Selector
Note Repeats
Note Transpose
Over
Peak Limiter
Tool
Transient Control

Glennie wants a 303

For OSC 182, made with Charlatan3 for all sounds.
Tuned in 15edo.

Barfly Skank

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