This track made for the KVR One Synth Challenge #196. All sounds generated by the VSTi Primer 2. Only DAW and free 3rd party FX used.

DAW: Reaper

Track Details:
11 * Primer 2
11 * ReaEQ
1 * Bass Professor
3 * kHs Transient Shaper
4 * OTT
2 * Oril River
1 * TDR Nova

Master:
TDR VOS SlickEQ
Voxengo MSED
Limiter No.6

Meter:
SPAN
YouLean Loudness Meter

Stats:
LUFS-I: 13.7
DR: 9

Enjoy

A Primer in Blues - OSC #196 - Primer 2

Here's my OSC for June 2025,  featuring the synth Primer 2 in Bitwig
with 36x Primer 2
and the following VST:
TDR Kotelnikov
TDR Vos SlickEQ
Raum
DearVR Pro2
Exoverb
Supermassive
TDR Nova
Pancake2
ReaGate
TDR Prism
Wider
KHS Trancegate
TDR Molotok
KHS Transient Shaper
Limiter No6
Fresh Air
STFU
BusterSE
FerricTDSmkII
GClip
Saturation Knob
Ozone Imager
BussColors4
KHS Clipper
Bitwig:
Sculpt
Focus
Tilt
Peak Limiter
Tool
Humanize
delay-2
Saturator
Compressor
Compressor+
Filter+
Key Filter
Reverb
EQ-2
Key Filter
Instrument Layer
Convolution
EQ-5
Gate
Multiband FX-3

Durnoss Channel

This month's one synth effort is brought to your long suffering ears by Audible Genius' Primer 2. Featuring the events of three and a bit minutes in the life of a nicely dressed bee by the name of Johnnie. He's judged by his peers to be 'quite good'. Listen in awe as he leaves the hive, flies round a bit, dodging the birds, and settles on a few flowers before flying off home for a well deserved rest.

This month it fell to Tracktion's Waveform Pro 13 for DAW duties along with ten instances of Primer 2. Layering: I've heard of it... Also featuring the following plugins:

- dpMeter5, Blue Cat Audio Gain3 and KClip Zero on clip to zero as always
- AudioModern Panflow
- Tracktion TReverber8
- NI Raum
- no instances of Valhalla Supermassive
- TDR Nova and Kotelnikov for mastering along with another KClip Zero to keep it all in check

MIDI for one of the arps was recorded from Pitch Innovations Eternal Arps. Patches are a mix of Init based and a few from the rather marvellous random buttons.

Thanks as usual to H0lyGh0st for the image created under the threat of using AI instead...

Good Johnnie Bee

DAW: Reaper

Track Details: 29 * ODIN2, 29 * ReaEQ, 20 * Oril River, 12 * LFX1310 (autopanner), 7 * Twin Delay, 4 * Bass Professor, 2 * TAL Dub Delay
Master: SlickEQ, Voxengo MSED, Limiter No. 6
Meter: SPAN, YouLean Loudness Meter
Stats: LUFS-I : 15.6, DR: 6

Oh-Din My MIDI is on Fire - OSC#197 - ODIN2

A derelict ship floats through space haunted by an intelligent computer system that has gone mad from millennia of solitude.  Made for the July 2025 KVR One Synth Challenge https://sites.google.com/site/kvrosc/ using the free Odin 2 synthesizer https://thewavewarden.com/pages/odin-2

SILICON_SPECTRE - [OSC 197 Odin 2] Derelict

My track for KVR One Synth Challenge n. 197 (July 2025), in which existential horror and reckless fun go hand-in-hand.

All sounds generated by free VST synth Odin 2, developed by TheWaveWarden

Burakku Horu

Made with 16 instances of Odin 2 by WaveWarden.

Piggy Time (KVR OSC #197)

here's my OSC made entirely with Odin2 in BitWig

using 25x Odin 2 and 120 more Odin2's tuned to 40 notes using the delay as Karplus strong and the following free VSTs and Bitwig FX:
VST:
TDR Nova
TDR Kotelnikov
AirWindows VariMu
Limiter no6
Valhalla Supermassive
Voxengo Sound Delay
Saturation knob
Free Clip2
BX Tuner
Span
Air Windows Kplate140
Raum
KHs Transient Shaper
TB Spectrogram
Airwindows KplateA
STFU
Airwindows NonLinear Space
Pancz
Fresh Air
AirWindows CreamCoat
BusterSe
KHs Haas
TDR Molotok
AirWindows ToTape8

BitWig:
Sculpt
Focus
Peak Limiter
Tool
Transient split
Delay -2
Humanize
Stereo Split
Note Filter
Arpeggiator
Instrument Layer

Kilvornoch

This month is the turn of the rather lovely Odin2 by The Wave Warden. Another track with a title that is almost completely but not quite totally unrelated to the tune. When a cheese sammich just won't cut it, I present: Odin's BLT.

Back to Bitwig this month for another track created from a bunch of launcher clips adlibbed into a track in one take. A few other wee bits and pieces were added and here we are. All patches from init apart from maybe the kick which started out as a preset. There would have been some automation of Odin's parameters only there seems to be some sort of clash between Bitwig and Odin2 when using automation.

Anyhoo, 15 instances of Odin2 and some of the usual suspects:

- dpMeter5, Blue Cat Audio Gain 3 and KClip Zero on clip to zero duty
- kHs Stereo
- kHs Trance Gate
- OTT
- ZL Equalizer
- the ubiquitous Valhalla Supermassive
- TDR Kotelnikov and Nova ably assisted by KClip Zero on mastering duty
- percussion sequenced with Beat Scholar's MIDI rendered to the track
- arp MIDI generated by Eternal Arps

For those who care about such things:
-10.6 LUFS INT
-8.8 LUFS ST

Artwork with thanks to H0lyGh0st.

Apologies for the repetitiveness: listening over and over and it still doesn't feel like six minutes to me so I didn't cut it down. Also there's nothing to induce a boyband to stand up from their stools...

Odin's BLT

This track made for the KVR One Synth Challenge #198. All sounds generated by the VSTi Synthmaster One.

DAW: Reaper

Track Details: 12 * Synthmaster One, 4 * OTT, 1 * Oril River, 4 * ReaEQ, 2 * Saiki MIDI Arp (Beta), 8 * Satson CS, 2 * Twin Delay, 1 * Waves VEQ4, 1 * Valhalla Room

Master: Voxengo MSED, Satson CS, Limiter No6 GE
Meter: SPAN, Youlean Loudness Meter

LUFS: -11.8

Enjoy

Perchance a Trance Pt 1 - OSC #198 - Synthmaster One

Submission for One Synth Challenge 198 ( happy 200th ! ) 

Made in Reaper 7, using  MiniKORG VSTi, by KORG. 28 instances for 17 instruments, the difference is down to voice splitting.
  Additionally, on instrument tracks: HOFA System Gain, HOFA System Pan, U-he Colour Copy, TDR Nova, U-he Satin.
  On reverb buses: U-he Protoverb, Valhalla Supermassive, aided by Flux Bittersweet, TDR Nova, HOFA System Pan, HOFA System Delay
JS Mixer, and A1 Stereo Control
  On the master bus: TDR Nova, A1 stereo Control, TDR infrasonic, TDR elliptical
Softube Chandler Curvebender, UAD Ampex ATR-102, Flux Bittersweet, and TDR Limter 6 GE

EL3V80R83D

This track is made for the One Synth Challenge #198, using Dawesome Myth. 
Cover Image made completely by myself. 

Most sounds are created completly from scratch by my self. Exceptions see below.

DAW: Ableton 12

11x Myth

Self made Patches don't use Instrument Samples as Iris even though that is a great feature of myth,
    I was exploring the a more traditional synth like  side of Sounddesign with Myth:
4x Init Iris  (sinewave)
1x self resampled Iris (resampled from selfmade a no Iris MythPatch )
1x TriSawPulse WT selfmade
3x No Iris.        

Preset: 2x OuterWorlds - ExpressiveE (Adjusted - and any modulation played via MPE) [no Iris used in there to]


Ableton:
8x MPEControl 
14x Utility
1x Glue Compressor
1x Limiter
1x Multiband Compressor
1x EQ8


2x Neold U2A 
6x Ozone 10 - Dynamic EQ
1x Arturia Bus Peak

1x Dawesome Hate (Ott, Saturator,  Compressor, EQ)
1x Dawesome Hate (Compressor)
1x Dawesome Hate (OTT, Saturator, Clouds, Compressor)

Fbr - OSC198 - Space Sirens

Made for the KVR One-Synth Challenge #198 with 32 Instances of the Yamaha DX7 Mk. 1 Hardware-Synthesizer. Every Sound is programmed by myself in Dexed, send as Sysex to the hardware and adjusted on the hardware itself, because the sounds were sometimes a bit off (Keyvelocity. The Attack on the EGs most of the time)

„In a small alley, not far from the bustling market square, lies a very special place for lovers of nostalgic sounds: the Retrothek.
This charming shop is passionately dedicated to restoring and selling antique audio equipment. Whether classic tape recorders, exotic amplifiers, or rare electronic musical instruments—sooner or later, they all find their way to the workshop, where they are carefully restored to their original condition and returned to their old or new owners.“
~ excerp from a payed advertisment report in the local newspaper

Techical Details:
DAW: FL Studio 2025
Instances: 32 (Full RAM Card)
BPM: 127/137

DAW FX:
Channel EQ [9]	
Fruity Delay 2	 [4]
Fruity Limiter	[1]	
Fruity Parametric EQ 2 [3]		
Fruity Reeverb 2 [4]		
Fruity Stereo Enhancer [4]	

COMMERCIAL FX:
Arturia Comp Diode-609 [6]	
Arturia Rev LX-24 [4]

FREE FX:		
Ozone 9 Elements [1] (Was free when I got it)	
TAL Filter 2 (As Auto Pan) [1]	
TAL Reverb 2	[2]				
Youlean Loudness Meter 2 [1]

Thumbnail Credits:
Roll-Up Banner Model: Miklos_Gyorfi (from CGTrader)
Modern Piano Stand Model: Rex Hans [Blenderkit]
Painted Plaster Wall Texture: chroma 3D [Blenderkit]
Wooden Floor Texture: ydd 3D [Blenderkit]
Wood Light Texture: James Middleton [Blenderkit]
Room, Banner-Content (Texture), Yamaha DX7 Modell & Texture, as well as the Rendering itself are done by myself.

Hope you'll enjoy this :)


Die Retrothek (OSC#198 - Yamaha DX7)

This month's One Synth Challenge is an any synth round so for no apparent reason I've gone for Kilohearts' Phase Plant. Given that this can use any kHs plugin internally, there are very few external plugins used. As is becoming increasingly usual, the title here has nothing to do with the track.

This uses 16 instances of Phase Plant in Tracktion Waveform Pro 13. Surprisingly light on the CPU although it did crash a few times. The following plugins were also used:

- the usual dpMeter, BlueCat Gain3 and KClip3 (rather than Zero as commercial plugins are allowed this month) for Clip to Zero
- SSL Native FlexVerb to try to add a little something to the bass
- Mastering the Mix MIXROOM and BASSROOM for eq
- Minimal Audio Cluster Delay
- Neold U2A on the percussion buss
- Neold Big Al for a wee bit saturation
- Mastering the Mix FASTERMASTER for mastering: don't usually use automated master thingies but as this doesn't mention AI anywhere, I thought I'd give it a go...

There are some Holy Grail style coconut horses in there somewhere.

Lambo Number Five

My entry for KVR One Synth Challenge n. 198 (August 2025).
All sounds generated from the VST synth Surge XT (20 instances).

Enjoy!

Late Summer Clubbing

My entry  for KVR One Synth Challenge #198 Any One Synth (Happy 200th OSC!)

DAW: Studio One Pro 7.2.2
Synth: 18x Babylon 2 W.A. Production

Studio One FX: Pro EQ, Splitter, Analog Delay, Compressor
Other FX: Soundly Shape It (Soundly), Infiltrator (Devious Machines), Peel (ZPlane), MMatcher (Melda)


OSC 200

Soft synth noodlings with a bit of hardware design on the side....

I make noise which mostly resembles music.

Aspiring composer for audiovisual projects (mainly games) and KVR One Synth Challenge acolyte living in his own little universe.

"The Nightmare Machine", new EP, OUT on 08.15.2025!

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