This month's one synth is Thorn by Dmitry Sches. This track started out life as a wee fiddle with Playbeat 4. Once I got a rhythm I liked, I generated a load of variations as the basis of the track. The rhythm is supposed to get more complex as it goes on. I then made vague representations of the Playbeat samples using Thorn. For the finishing touches I added a bunch of tracks using the glitch sequencer and arpeggiator. Be warned, it is glitchy and rendered to a -9.9 LUFS-I sausage.

The whole thing was created in Bitwig Studio 5.3.2 using 15 instances of Thorn and the following additional plugins:

- As usual, dpMeter 5, Blue Cat Gain3 and KClip for clip to zero (made a lot easier by Thorn's own limiter)
- Scaler EQ
- Compressor+ to tame the percussion
- Newfangled Elevate for mastering (needed a bit of reigning in: it was up to about -5 LUFS)
- Mastering the Mix LEVELS for metering

Given the noisy nature of this track, Thorn's built in effects were more than sufficient.
Cover art by me for once...

Jagged

Made in BitWig with 65 instances of BLEASS Monolit (the pads have like 10 instances on an instrument picker etc so not really that many, just lots of dupes)


using the following free vst and bitwig plugins:

TDR Kotelnikov
BX Masterdesk Classic
Dragonfly Room
TDR Nova
EpicPlateMk2
Valhalla Supermassive
OTT
Airwindows KplateD
Panagment2
Wider
KHS Transient Shaper
STFU
KHs Dual Delay
Raum
KHS Haas
Sound Delay
Chop
Pancz
TDR Molotok
Deelay
FreshAir
FerricTDS Mk2
GClip
Saturation Knob
BusterSE
Ozone Imager2
AirWindows BussColors4
KHs Clipper

BitWig:
Sculpt
Focus
Tool
Note Transpose
Key Filter
Instrument Layer
Instrument Picker
Delay-2
FX Layer
Humanize
Filter+
EQ-2
Convolution
Gate
Multiband FX3

Bless Moonlit Love

This month's challenging one synth is BLEASS Monolit. On the face of it, a simple mono synth but with a few extra twiddly bits. This track has nothing to do with the title except that maybe your brain will be a bit more squishy when you're done listening. Maybe turn it down a wee bit, there are a few extra resonant sections...
Again it's the turn of Tracktion Waveform Pro 13 and, oddly (hah) 13 instances of Monolit. This synth has no built in effects but for some reason I didn't use many external effects:

- the usual clip to zero trio of dpMeter5, Blue Cat Gain 3 and KClip Zero
- Audiomodern Panflow
- khs Stereo
- Tracktion TCompressor and TEqualiser
- the inevitable Valhalla Supermassive
- Waveform's built in Master Mix
- Mastering the Mix LEVELS

Squishy

Entry for One Synth Challenge 195 - Full Bucket Ragnarök2

Concocted in Reaper, using 35 instances of Full Bucket's Ragnrök2.
9 instruments, 7 effects, and 18 percs ( layering involved this time. ) No 3rd party sounds present. 
Lightly massaged, here and there, by TDR Nova at track level. Also present: HOFA System Gain & Hy-Delay 4.
Drums snipped by KClip Zero, subsequent light revitalising by Flux Bittersweet
Reverberated by U-he Protoverb and Valhalla Supermassive, aided by TDR Nova, HOFA System Pan & Delay, JS Mixer & A1 Stereo Control
Light manipulations at master level by TDR Nova, Flux Bittersweet, A1 Stereo Control & Limiter No6

Bouquet de Fleurs

Created for the One Synth Challenge #195 with 45 Instances of Ragnarök 2 by Full Bucket Music in FL Studio 2024. Every sound is made from scratch in Ragnarök 2. 

Link One Synth Challenge: https://sites.google.com/site/kvrosc/2025/osc-195-ragnarok-2
Link to current VST: https://www.fullbucket.de/music/ragnarok.html

Technical Details:
DAW: FL Studio 2024
Instances of Ragnarök 2: 45
BPM: 127

FX:
Channel EQ [3]
Fruity Compressor [2]
Fruity Convolver [Reverb] [1]	
Fruity Delay 2 [3]		
Fruity Delay 3 [2]	
Fruity Limiter [2]	
Fruity Multiband Compressor [1]
Fruity Parametric EQ2 [4]
Fruity Reeverb 2 [6]	
Fruity Stereo Enhancer [2]	
Maximus / Soundgoodizer [1] 	
TAL Reverb 2 [1]	
Youlean Loudness Meter 2 [1]	

Wy quoyk Yy. Yw qolN su Yy. Hgyv mwj wy. :)


Sounds like a Plan (OSC #195 - Full Bucket Music Ragnarök Mk2)

My entry for the KVR One Synth Challenge #195: Ragnarök 2 by Full Bucket Music
Daw: Studio One Pro
Synth: 7x Ragnarök 2

Studio one fx: Compressor, Limiter, Splitter, X-Trem, Cross Delay, Ampire, BitCrusher, Beat Delay, Groove Delay

Other free fx: BassAmp64(AirWindows), Soundly Shape It, Valhalla, Raum, DrumSlam64, Infinity264, BiQuad264, A1TriggerGate

JuergenK - Ambient2 - KVR #195: Ragnarök 2 by Full Bucket Music

This month's One Synth Challenge uses Ragnarok by FullBucket (and CrimsonWarlock). The slightly odd interface took a wee bit of getting used to but I'll not use that as an excuse for this effort. It does contain some passable bird type noises hence the unrelated reflection of a jungle in my living room. This is a first outing for my Exquis so most of it was recorded from live rather than my usual generated MIDI.

Anyway, this is brought to you with Bitwig Studio 5.3 and 19 instances of Ragnarok.  The following plugins were also used:

- dpMeter5, Blue Cat's Gain 3 and KClip Zero on clip to zero duty
- khs Delay, Reverb and Stereo to tart things up a bit
- Panflow to get it moving
- Bitwig's compressor+, eq+, drum machine, delay+ and multi-note
- the inevitable Valhalla Supermassive and almost as inevitable Raum for some reverb flavours
- TDR Kotelnikov and Nova for mastering with a wee bit of KClip Zero 

Also used Modalics Beat Scholar to generate the MIDI for the percussion and iZotope's Tonal Balance for, er, tonal balancing...

Unrelated Reflections

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

My entry into KVR's One Synth Challenge for August 2025 made only using DS Thorn plugin instrument. No samples. No other synths. Only 8 instances of Thorn.

Polynik77 - Ode to Thorn

I'm an electronic music producer and composer. I like to make music in many genres ranging from Ambient, Soundtrack, 80's Retro and Chilled-Out Beats to Dance, Trance, EDM, Darkwave (Retro and Modern,) Industrial and Experimental styles.

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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