KVR One Synth Challange

My entry for the KVR One Synth Challenge #150.
Make with 13 instances of TAL Noisemaker in Bitwig Studio 4

OSC150 - TAL Noizemaker

Grubby Dub

My entry for the KVR One Synth Challenge #153.  This month it's Nil's Kawai K1v - an emulation of arguably one of the worst synths in history (the VST is a great emulation though, great work Nils!)

12 instances of the Kawai K1v were used, Reaper DAW, and a truck-load of effects...

OSC153 - Nils' K1v

Cooper's Dream

My entry for KVR One Synth Challenge #154.  This month it's u-he's Triple Cheese, a very unique physical modelling synth.  

10 instances of Triple Cheese, and few FX.

OSC154 - Triple Cheese

Où Est La Maison de Fromage

My entry for KVR One Synth Challenge #159.  This month it's the fantastic Surge XT from Surge Synth Team.  

Recorded in Bitwig with 13 instances of Surge XT and either free or Bitwig native effects.

OSC159 - Surge XT

Dissolution

My entry for KVR One Synth Challenge #166.  This month it's Wave Manuel, a quirky but very flexible synth. Really surprised at the tones that came out of it.
Recorded in Reaper with 16 instances of Wave Manuell, and some free and native FX. All sounds produced with Wave Manuel.

OSC166 - Wave Manuel

One Drop Manuel

A submission for the KVR One Synth Challenge #171.

The synth this month is Apricot by Nakst, a very capable 2 osc VA.  Great sound, and super light on the CPU, also loads like a demon.

13 instances in Reaper, some light processing from ReaEQ, ReaComp, and ReaLimit, plus Nova on the master.

OSC171 - Apricot

Kernel Panic

An entry for the KVR One Synth Challenge #173 - Two Buckets

"Life is disseminated through the galaxies in the form of nucleotide templates. These ‘seeds’ land on planets, are activated by solar radiation. and evolve nervous systems. The bodies which house and transport nervous systems and the reproductive seeds are constructed in response to the atmospheric and gravitational characteristics of the host planet, the crumbling rock upon which we momentarily rest.

It is time for life on Earth to leave the planetary womb and learn to walk through the stars".

~Dr Tim Leary

The track is one instance of Bucket Pops, some native Bitwig effects (mostly Delay+), and ValhallaSuperMassive, and quite a lot of automation and modulation :)

OSC173 - Two Buckets

Transmission from Sirius

An entry for the KVR One Synth Challenge #176 - Socalabs Wavetable.

The story so far :
A wavetable, a Jamaican, and a cowboy walk into a bar...

Thanks to Socalabs for a fantastic free wavetable synth!  10 instances used here, with some additional free effects (Deelay, FreeClip, kHs Transient Shaper, MEqualizer, and Kotelnikov and Nova from TDR).

OSC176 - Socalabs Wavetable

High Plains Grifter

An entry for the KVR One Synth Challenge #177 - Synful Orchestra & VSCO Percussion.

As the sun sets on the horizon, casting long shadows across the alien landscape, a lone figure sits cross-legged, silhouetted against the fiery sky. In his hands he holds his trusty bass guitar, its strings gleaming in the fading light.

Lieutenant Spaceman D. Bassman had been stranded on this planet for 7 months, his crashed spaceship was damaged beyond repair, but he hadn't given up hope of being rescued. Every day he would refill his oxygen tank and walk into the poppy fields at sunset to jam on some dubby grooves, his music echoing across the vast expanse.

As he plays, he feels a sense of peace wash over him. The sounds emanating from his instruments are an ethereal mix of orchestral timbres and heavy dub, infused not only with the smells, sights and sounds of the alien planet and his hopes for the future, but also mixed with the melancholy of longing for his home-world. Music is his last connection to humanity, his way of staying sane in the face of loneliness.

One day, as Bassman was jamming on a particularly bad-assed groove, he heard a faint sound inside his helmet. His heart beat faster with excitement; At last, the Corp had located his damaged ship and had come to rescue him! Then, almost imperceptibly at first, he started to make out a strange melody, not entirely inharmonic to his tasty bass licks.

Bassman was stung violently on the forehead. He flinched and almost dropped his guitar. "Feck!", he howled. Out of the corner of his eye, he spotted a bee crawling on the inside of his visor, it's wings implausibly buzzing in a near perfect B Major. Desperate not to be stung again, he flailed his head around inside the helmet, attempting to squash the musical intruder against the side. After many attempts and with great effort, he struck one blow, then another, and with each strike the bee's buzzing became more and more erratic and atonal. Sensing victory, and with a final yank of his head, Bassman dealt a fatal blow, and the bee was silenced. 

As the sun continued it's slow descent below the horizon, Bassman composed himself, picked up his bass and continued jamming. Tomorrow he would seek out more of these alien musical bees, not only in the hope that one day they could forgive him for killing one of their own kind, but also that they might continue the collaboration between their two species on some more of those sweet-assed tunes.

Fin.

Reaper 7
Synful Orchestra (8)
VSCO Percussion (7)

A special guest appearance from an alien bee. RIP.

TrackFx : BC Chorus, CHOWTapeModel, db_Glitch1, IVGI2, MComb, MFlanger, MFreqShifter, MPhaser, Pro-C2 (7), Pro-Q3 (13), Ripple Phaser (Geraint Luff), Tape MELLO-FI, TEOTE, Kotelnikov GE.

MasterFx : Satin, TEOTE, Pro-Q3, Pro-L2, Loudness Meter (Cockos)

SendFx : Pro-R2, ValhallaDelay, ValhallaVintageVerb (2), Echobode, Ripple Phaser

OSC177 - Synful Orchestra

Dub Synfony

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

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

An entry for the KVR One Synth Challenge #182 - Charlatan 3.

Bitwig 5
Charlatan 3 (13)

Track FX
Dynamics (3)
EQ+ (4)
Peak Limiter (1)

Send FX
ValhallaSupermassive (1)

ChowTapeModel
TDR Nova
Peak Limiter
Youlean Loudness Meter

OSC182 - Charlatan 3

Quacksalver

My entry for the KVR One Synth Challenge #185 : Cherry Audio SEM.

Written in Bitwig 5.2, using 40 instances of SEM for _all_ sounds.

Track FX ---
Bitwig Native :  EQ+ (14), Compressor (5), Convolution (3), Delay+ (2), Dynamics (1), Note Filter (25), Note Receiver (4), Note Transpose (1), Over (3), Timeshift (2), Tool (30)

Third Party FX : kHs Channel Mixer (25), kHs Transient Shaper (2), TDR Nova (1), Valhalla SuperMassive (1)

FX Sends ---
Bitwig Delay+, Klanghelm TensJr

Master ---
TDR Nova, Bitwig Peak Limiter, Youlean Loudness Meter

OSC185 - Cherry Audio SEM

EnSEMble Synthetique de Dub

An entry for the KVR One Synth Challenge #186 : Any Two Synths Challenge (Second Edition).

All sounds created with Vital and TAL NoizeMak3r.

In a disturbing turn of events, Spaceman D. Bassman flirts dangerously with major scales, gets sassy with a saxophonist, plays Arkanoid on his Grandpa's Amiga, does some cleaning round the house, and brings it all to a climax while totally amped up to the max on Tequila, Pimms and Irn Bru.

Reaper 7
Vital (17)
TAL NoizeMak3r (2)

Track FX : DAW Native
ReaComp (8)
ReaMIDIControl (1)
ReaEQ (12)
ReaDelay (1)
ReaVerb (2)

Track FX : 3rd Party
ChowTapeModel (2)
Distorque Rangebastard (1)
MAutopan (2)
TAL Reverb 4 (1)
Toneboosters Reverb 3 (1)
TDR Kotelnikov (1)
TDR Nova (1)
Sixth Sense Deelay (2)

2 BUS FX
TDR Kotelnikov (1)
TDR Nova (2)
TB Barricade 3 (1)
Cockos Loudness Meter (1)

OSC186 - Any Two Synths Challenge (Second Edition)

Skull Nugget

An entry for KVR One Synth Challenge #190 - Vital.
All sounds created with Vital.

She who waits...

Reaper 7
Vital (19)

Native FX :
ReaComp (1)
ReaMIDIControl (1)

3rd Party FX :
A1TriggerGate (1)
ChowTapeModel (3)
DSEQ (1)
GSatPlus (1)
MTremolo (1)
Pro-C2 (9)
Pro-Q3 (10)
Pro-Q4 (2)
Springbox (1)
Standard Clip (2)
STFU (1)
ValhallaDelay (8)
ValhallaFreqEcho (2)
TDR Limiter 6 GE (1)

OSC190 - Vital

Élan Vital

A track recorded for the One Synth Challenge #196 : Primer 2

REAPER

Primer 2 (13)

Blue Cat Gain (1)
CHOW Tape (1)
Deelay (4)
Free Clip 2 (2)
Limiter No6 (1)
Loudness Meter (1)
MIDI Note Filter JSFX (6)
MIDI Transposer JSFX (11)
OrilRiver (1)
ReaComp (13)
ReaControlMIDI (1)
ReaVerb (1)
Saike Transience (2)
Kotelnikov (1)
Nova (11)
TENSjr (1)
ValhallaFreqEcho (2)

Moar Cowbell !


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