My cat Shouf died a couple of years ago. A dear friend of mine lost his cat this weekend and this brought back many wonderful memories of our mysterious, friendly and wise cat Shouf.

This track has been made using 11 instances of Voltage Modular in which I only used free modules from VM Nucleus, R_Ware x Airwindows and Haaschen bij haslo. My DAW has been Cubase Pro 12.
Third Party free VST FX: SuperMassive, Panagement by Auburn, Wider by Polyverse, LaLA by Analog Obsession and a wonderful new freebie by Amalgamated Signals named Clean Machine which I can recommend to everyone to beef up their mixes (compression, limiter and saturation)

Voltage Modular Nucleus - Shouf's Travels

ZioMau - Wet Shoes

My entry for KVR OSC #169

15 instances of kHs ONE
All sounds designed from scratch.

No Power Over Me

Made with 59 instances of kHs ONE. I wanted to create something evocative of taking my kids to see the sunrise for the first time. It is an incredible experience. The sheer power of the light and warmth hitting them was amazing to see. A true balance of beauty and power. I hope you enjoy  the tune.

Spotify: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/mmghost/analog-sunrise

Analog Sunrise

This is my submission for the OSC 171 Apricot. It was made with 27 instances in Reaper.
Transient Shaper (Kiloheartz)12
TDR Kotelnikov 1
Bass Professor 2
ReaEQ 17
OTT 1
FRANK 1
master_me 1
A1StereoControl 1
Distortion (Kiloheartz) 11
epicPLATE 11
Spaceship Delay 2
Valhalla Supermassive 6
Compressor (Kiloheartz) 2
STUF (ZEEK) 3
ReEQ Parametric Graphic Equalizer 5
A1 TriggerGate 2
SPAN 1

Not as interested this time as much in critical feedback. (Edit: oh go ahead and be critical if you like). I realize it's a bit repetitive. Simplistic bassline. Not even any drum fills. But I really like it as is. A lot. The harmonica sounded like it was saying "down the river". From there I started thinking of a river on fire that was sort of like the infinite corridor in the castlevania tv series on netflix. I might try to find a more representative picture. (Originally uploaded on 5/7/23. On 5/9/23 I went back and changed the high pass on bass and kick from 50hz down to 25 hz or so. And made drums a bit more coherent in general.)

OSC171 Down Fire River (Apricot) 30/44 68%

Final Placement: 39/42 (top 93%)
Made for KVR Audio's "One Synth Challenge" #171

This month, it was nakst's "Apricot:" a hybrid subtractive synth/sampler in CLAP and FL formats. Only one instance of Apricot was used. Other usual rules apply (no samples and no commercial effects). 

DAW:
FL Studio 21

Plugins used:
Apricot x1
(FL) Frequency Splitter x1
Cymatics Origin ("movement" and "chorus" disabled) x1
Fruity Balance x1
Fruity Parametric EQ 2 x1
LoudMax	x1
Magic Dice x1
Ozone Imager 2 x3

Art:
https://www.instagram.com/_thelowestkey/

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KVR One-Synth Challenge entries

Bath Salts (Apricot)

Neu KatalYst - 𝒷𝒶𝓉𝒽 𝓈𝒶𝓁𝓉𝓈 [KVR OSC #171: Apricot] [Vaporwave]

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

OSC 171 - All sounds developed in Apricot by Nakst including percussion. 19 tracks in Reaper with ReaComp, ReaDelay. TDR Nova EQ, Valhalla Supermassive, and Limiter 6.

bh9090 - Chapter 3

Epic Collection Vol. 1 - 83

This album features classical, pop, and synth music. Inspired by European history.

Echoes of Peace

Otto Taimela returns with his second album for London ambient free divers SWIMS, following 2024’s celebrated "Inner Beauty".

"Uncommon & Fragile" departs from Otto's meadowed, ivory-centric introspections, reaching further into binaural sound design, trance pointillism, and groundswells of angular percussion. This is less a club record, more something to soothe post-rave tinnitus on the bus home. 

”I guess you could say that this is the outcome of a great need for escapism. I’m not the biggest fan of the current timeline, so I wanted to make something pretty, splashy, colourful and quirky just for myself. Embracing simplicity in a way of leaning towards maximalism without getting too suffocated. It’s a ’dear diary’-kinda album….”
-Otto

▫️Mastered for vinyl by Giuseppe Ielasi
▫️Housed in printed sleeves designed by Esquive Studio
▫️Shrink wrapped for mint guarantee
▫️Limited to 150 copies

No Power Over Me

SilverPants