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

As We Dreamed [OSC88 TAL NoiseMaker]

Real edit of my OSC68 track, which was made with Synth1 only. 2014.

Dance In The Bureau (Real Edit) [OSC68]

Digital Dawn [OSC 89 Tunefish4]

The Morning After [OSC81 Oxe FM]

This track made for the KVR One Synth Challenge #201. All sounds generated by the VSTi Kontrast.

All FX are those within the Kontrast VST. Only minimal EQ on all tracks, and a very simple master chain of EQ, M/s and Limiter.

DAW: Reaper

Track Details: 25 * Kontrast, 24 * ReaEQ, 2 * TDR Nova GE
Master: Focusrite Red 2 EQ, Voxengo MSED, TDR Limiter 6 GE
Meter: SPAN, Youlean Loudness Meter
Stats: LUFS-I -13.6 , DR 8

Enjoy

Beware the Dark - OSC #201 - Kontrast

Composed for KVR One Synth Challenge 201 using only sounds from Kontrast by Dawesome.

Mid-1990s, somewhere in rural West Germany. A teenager wanders aimlessly through the foggy streets of the small village. The lanterns glow dim and orange through the mist. A dreary, cold November day in the loneliest place in the world. The boy inhales. Cold air fills his lungs and wraps around his soul. The boy exhales. Warm breath evaporates in a cloud before his eyes. He has to get out of here.

DAW: Reaper 7.54

22x Kontrast (Dawesome)

6x MSED (Voxengo)
4x ReaEQ (Cockos)
4x Rum (Klevgrand)
3x Sala (Fors)
3x ReaComp (Cockos)
3x Shade (UVI)
3x GrapHack (Analog Obsession)
2x Newfangled EQuivocate (Newfangled Audio)
2x TDR Kotelnikov (Tokyo Dawn Labs)
2x Ambient Reverb 7 (Stone Voices)
1x kHs Clipper (Kilohearts)
1x FilterFreak1 (Soundtoys)
1x ReaXcomp (Cockos)
1x Deelay (Sixth Sample)
1x kHs Trance Gate (Kilohearts)
1x HZ Multiplier (HigherHz)

eraze the borders - Cold Breath [OSC 201]

Composition, Production, Sound Design done By myself.
2 Patches based on Preset, but modified. 
(The Melody is based on TSOMs great Duduking preset, but with added noise and roughness)

Only The Speech sound uses a self recorded sample that is linearly played, the sound is still strongly modified by Kontrast.

Image as usually made by me. 

Thnx to z.prime for final checking and some helpful tips.


Made in Ableton Live 12.3 with:

Kontrast 			17x

Neutron 4 		5x  (without the anyway bad Automatic)
Boba 			1x
Bus PEAK 			4x
Glue Comp 		5x
EQ Eight 			3x
Utility 			2x
Shade 			3x


Fbr - OSC201 - wrld! d#mntn

"For in that sleep of hibernation, what dreams may come?"
This month's synth is the powerful and slightly odd Kontrast by Dawsome. This track started out as something approximating a melody bashed out on the Exquis. The chords were derived from that and here we are. This month was the turn of Tracktion Waveform Pro 13 and only eight instances of Kontrast. It's easy to produce harmonically rich patches with this synth so that seems to have kept the track count down. The percussion was done with a single patch using the sequencer. Kontrast comes with usual extensive collection of effects built in so only the following external plugins were used:

- the usual Clip to Zero combo of dpMeter5, Blue Cat Gain3 and KClip3
- Hornet ZeroEQ: giving this a shot to see how it performs
- Hornet ZeroComp as above
- bx_masterdesk Pro
- iZotope Tonal Balance
- Master the Mix Levels

Wavetables were generated from Taron's brilliant Wavetabling and the Gimp. I used a few of the factory wavetables too. All patches from init although some of them were started with the randomizer.

Sleepy Time for Terence

Here's my OSC for 11/2025  made with 21x Kontrast in Bitwig with the following free and paid plugins.

UADX Pultec EQP-1
Oxford Inflator
Bettermaker Bus Compressor
Newfangled Elevate
Invigorate
UADX Oxide Tape Recorder
TDR Prism
TOMO Audiolabs LISA
BX_XL V3
STFU
Model N Channel
Material Comp
Oxford Drum Gate
UADX Pultec MEQ-5
Devastator2
Sigmund2
Tekuron
Fresh Air
KHs Filter
Raum
KHs 3-Band EQ
UADx Fairchild 670 Compressor
TDR Nova GE
TDR Ultrasonic
TDR Arbiter
TB_Spectrogram
KH-Comp1
TDR Molot GE
Lindel MU-66
Dual Delay X
KHs Trance Gate
RO-SPR
QuantX
Edelweiss72
Shadow Hills Matering Compressor
TDR SlickEQ M
Invigorate
Scaler 2
ADPTR Metric AB
Tonal Balance Control 2
Monitoring 3

Bitwig:
Tool
Note Transpose
Instrument Layer
Note Delay
Delay-2
Humanize
Multinote
Mid/Side Split
Tilt
Peak Limiter

Shadow Scar

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.

Tracks done with only one synth VSTi, for the KVR One Synth Challenge, and lab snips, made with Renoise and Bitwig

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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