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

Track for the One Synth Challenge #199, using RipplerX by tilr8/tiagolr

KVR OSC 199

DAW: Reaper

Track Details: 13 * RipplerX, 13 * ReaEQ, 1 * TDR Nova, 2 * Oril River, 4 * OTT
Master: SlickEQ, MSED, Loudmax 64
Meter: SPAN, Youlean Loudness Meter
Stats: LUFS: - 16., DR:12

Rippled Jazz - OSC#199 - RipplerX

Submitted for the KVR One Synth Challenge n. 199 (September 2025).

All sounds generated with RipplerX VST synth plugin.

Flying Through Liquid Skies

This track made for the KVR One Synth Challenge #200. All sounds generated by the VSTi Zebralette 3 (beta). Only DAW and free 3rd party FX used.

DAW: Reaper

Track Details: 19 * Zebralette 3, 17 * ReaEQ, 3 * Twin Delay, 2 * Oril River, 6 * OTT
Master: SlickEQ, MSED, Limiter No. 6
Meter: Span, Youlean LoudnessMeter
Stats: LUFS-I -14.5, DR:8

Perchance a (Striped) Trance Pt2 - OSC #200 - Zebralette 3 (beta)

This month's synth is u-he Zebralette 3. As others have stated, given the depth of this synth, I could've spent a whole month on sound design with another month for the track. Given the time constraint, I restricted myself to what my ignorance could produce and the result is this. Definitely more rhythmic than melodic, possibly a bit harsh in places. Once again the title has little to do with the content although, being tortoise adjacent, perhaps imagine a smallish tortoise has managed to get one of your toes in his mouth and won't let go...

This was started in Tracktion Waveform but the many crashes made me move to Bitwig again and the seemingly more stable Clap version of Zebralette. A paltry eight instances of Zebralette and the following additional plugins:

- dpMeter5, Blue Cat Gain3 and KClip Zero for clip to zero duties
- kHs Compactor
- xfer OTT
- NI Raum
- Valhalla Supermassive
- TDR Kotelnikov
- TDR Nova
- Mastering the Mix LEVELS and NI Tonal Balance Control to supplement my dodgy ears
- Bitwig Compressor+
- Bitwig Eq+
- Bitwig Mid Side Split
- Bitwig Saturator

Percussion MIDI initially generated in Modalics Beat Scholar and pasted into Bitwig. All other MIDI was either programmed or played 'live'. Arps from my Exquis.

Missing Toes

Composed for KVR One Synth Challenge 200 using only sounds from Zebralette 3 by u-he.

DAW: Reaper 7.49

21x Zebralette 3 (u-he)

8x ReaEQ (Cockos)
5x GrapHack (AnalogObsession)
2x ReaComp (Cockos)
2x TAL-Filter-2 (TAL-Togu Audio Line)
2x TDR Kotelnikov (Tokyo Dawn Labs)
1x HZ Multiplier (HigherHz)
1x TheMasker (Cinemystics)
1x epicVerb (Variety Of Sound)
1x Ambient Reverb 7 (Stone Voices)
1x BootEQmkIV (Variety Of Sound)
1x SPAN (Voxengo)
1x MLoudnessAnalyzer (MeldaProduction)
1x Unlimited (Sonic Anomaly)


Cover by Frances Yeung
https://unsplash.com/de/@yikkiyeung

eraze the borders - Night Of The Fists [OSC 200]

L'étude exquise de la zébralette

As always, music and image is made 100% by myself.
Most sounds made from init, except snare based on preset with alterations.


Zebralette3 beta2  19

Valhalla Supermassive 2x

in Ableton 12 with following stock fx:
DrumRack                1x (grouping of drum Zebralette3 instances)
Auto Pan                4x
Glue Compressor         9x
Compressor              1x
Limiter                 11x
Utility                 3x
EQ8                     12x
Saturator               2x
Arpeggiator            1x
Delay                   1x





FBr - OSC200 - L'étude exquise de la zébralette

Here's my OSC for October 2025,  made with Zebralette3 in Bitwig

with 58x Zebralette 3's
and the following FX and tools
Tonal Banalnce2
Adaptr Metric AB
Limiter No6
BX Masterdesk classic
TDR Kotelnikov
TDR Vos Slick EQ
TDR Nova
Dragonfly Room
Airwindows PureGain
Valhalla Supermassive
KHS Haas
TDR Prism
Pancz
KHS Limiter
KHS Transient Shaper
Scaler2
TDR Molotok
STFU
Fresh Air
Frontier
Raum
BusterSE

Bitwig:
Humanize
Note Transpose
Tool
Instrument Layer
Key Filter+
filter+
Peak Limiter
Sculpt
Multinote
Focus

The Fifth Dawn

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

Producer, Beatmaker (occasional MC & singer) from Berlin. Working with samples as well as synthesized sounds. Over 15 years of experience. Blending different genres, always with a hiphop flavour.

Regularly participating at Sample Science Berlin and KVR One Synth Challenge.

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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