Entries for KVR's One Synth Challenge: one month and one free synthesiser to create one track. Effects can be used, but only if they don't change the character of the sound coming out of the synth. Find it here: https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=301957

One Synth Challenges

Lion Dance. When the lion says dance, you dance.

One Synth Challenge number 146, with Nusofting's forthcoming synth Sinmad.

Talking drum effect created using feedback. No crates were dug during the making of this track.

DAW: Ableton Live 11
Sinmad x25

Ableton effects
EQ8-Compressor-Limiter-Spectrum racks x20

plus EQ8x2
EQ3 x1
Vinyl Distortion x2

Valhalla Supermassive x1

Youlean Loudness meter x1

Lufs = -14.4

Lion Dance - OSC146 (1st)

Edit: Always check your uploads people - this is the wrong one. Somehow the funky acid bass sound at the start has not managed to render in the version I've put up. I'll change it after the competition but the intro is not as intended. Pah. It should sound like this: https://soundcloud.com/taptapdoubletap/osc-151-dj-battles-properly-rendered

Too many DJs think they're GR-8 turntablists.

So you're at a party, right, and one guy wants to play trance, and the other guy wants to play hip hop and you just wish they'd stop arguing and get on with it.

All effects are Ableton Live
Phuturetone's GR-8 x37
Drums x6
DJ FX x3
"Tablas" and "Bongos" x4
Sort of neuro bass x6
Wub bass x4
Electro/Trap/Trance instruments x5
Textures and risers x9

Effects: lots of Limiters, most things have Compressor, EQ8, some Glue Compressors, a few Hybrid Reverbs and Reverbs, AutoFilter for the risers, Shaper to turn an arp into hi hats with LFOs. But most of the effects are in GR-8 and I made a lot of use of the internal distortion, EQ, reverb and chorus.

Too many DJs think they're GR-8 turntablists - OSC151

Acid Jazz

My latest entry for KVR's One Synth Challenge, round 155.

All sounds made using AAS's Chromaphone synthesiser. It's a physical modelling synth, so it's much easier to create these plucky percussive sounds than your more common subtractive or wavetable based synths.

Everything is on the one (except when it's not) - OSC155

It once saw a disco ball from the other side of the street. 

All sounds made with SurgeXT and effects from Ableton Live.

Surge Gainsbourg And The Disco Bakchod - OSC159

I finally lost the will to try to resurrect Synth1 which just kept not working in my DAW and the workarounds stopped working too. Ordinarily I would feel it's a blessing that it stopped me from tinkering with it any longer, but the mix is not quite right.

Anyway, here's my entry for the 161st edition of the One Synth Challenge - all sounds made by Synth1, when it was prepared to get out of bed.

Audio odio - OSC161

Entry for the 163rd edition of KVR's One Synth Challenge - everything made using instances of Cardinal.

(Came second - thanks everyone!)

Finding My Voice - OSC 163 (2nd)

Trench has discovered that her combine harvester goes faster when she plays drum n bass. Who knows why? Perhaps there's some sort of spiritual connection between the clutch and the bass? The build is great - the cutter starts up and there's a steady stream of grain into the hopper. When you get to the drop, it seems to be racing through the fields. 

The only problem is the breakdown...

My entry for the 164th edition of KVR's One Synth Challenge. All sounds made using Ghost, a forthcoming synth by exacoustics. As of October 2022, it's still in beta.

No machines were harmed in the making of this track.

Machine in the Ghost - OSC 164 (2nd)

It's the 167th edition of KVR's One Synth Challenge and this month was pick a DAW, any DAW, and use a synth included in that DAW. So I went for perhaps the second most obvious option: Ableton Live's Wavetable.

The Great Outdaws - OSC 167

This is what David Attenborough would sound like when he's discussing microplastics with his dolphin translator at the Assembly of Southern Right Whales, and an orca keeps interrupting.

Entry for the 169th edition of KVR's One Synth Challenge, using the free Kilohearts synth kHs One. Usually only free effects are allowed but we were allowed to use other Kilohearts effects so I've made use of SnapHeap and Multipass.

Whale kHsong - OSC-169

This is my entry for the 171st edition of KVR's One Synth Challenge - this month every sound was made using Apricot, a free synth by nakst.

There are just 10 instances of the synth this time, and it's an experiment in timekeeping. Seven out of eight people can dance to this - are you one of them?

Made using Ableton Live 11, with no third party effects. Each track has an EQ8, Utility, Saturator (in clip mode) and Compressor. No returns. The master has EQ8, Compressor, Glue Compressor, Utility.

Everything Is On The Seven - OSC 171

I have resurfaced. For the 176th edition of KVR's One Synth Challenge.

This month is Wavetable by Socalabs. All sounds made with Wavetable, in Ableton Live, with Live's effects - EQ8, Compressor, Glue Compressor, Drum Buss, Delay, Echo and Saturator for clipping. There's also a bit of Valhalla Supermassive on the pad.

Surf's up - Double Tap - OSC 176

Entry for the 177th edition of KVR's One Synth Challenge - with the synth this month being Synful, a symphony orchestra simulator, which is similar to physical modelling but not quite. Apparently it's "Reconstructive Phrase Modeling" - find out more here https://www.synful.com/about and here https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=603206

Professor Sir Gilbert Fortepiano had discovered a strange device in the deserts around London. The geiger counter showed some signs of life. He started taking notes - what could it be?

Radioactivestra - OSC 177

This is my entry for the 179th edition of KVR's One Synth Challenge - a month when we could use any synth, so I chose u-he's Zebra Legacy, or more specifically, the Dark Zebra. 

"In strange and uncertain times, sometimes a reasonable person might despair, but hope is unreasonable and love is greater even than this. May we trust the inexpressible benevolence of the creative impulse." Robert Fripp

hope is unreasonable - OSC 179 - Double Tap

Liquid to Vapour

Space dog is hangry. 

Entry for the 193rd edition of KVR's One Synth Challenge. Long gap due to stuff happening (no I haven't been in jail). All sounds made with Dimtry Sches's Thorn synthesiser. Lotsafun to play with - try it out.

Every Thorn Has Its Rawrs - OSC 193 - Double Tap

Amen, brake

Amen, brake - remixed

One Synth Challenge - all sounds made with Pendulate

Pendulosc - OSC 140

My entry for the 141st edition of the OSC, a track made only from the Monoplugs synth Monique and some free effects processors. It started out as a tribute to the Ozric Tentacles and turned into an 8-bit dnb soundtrack to Street Fighter II: Tweety-Pie vs Godzilla.

Moniqosc - OSC 141

Entry for OneSynthChallenge at KVR. Every sound was made using the synth Vital - yes, including the vocals.

Vitalosc - OSC142

Entry for the January OSC at KVR (hardware month). All tracks made using Arturia's Jup 8V emulation of the Roland Jupiter 8.

Not so much Mad Professor, more Zany Undergraduate.

23 instances of Jup 8V 
Drums x10
Instruments x8
Special effects x5

Effects:
Emulations: 
Tape-201 (Space Echo RE-201 delay)
Memory-Brigade (Electro-Harmonix Memory Man delay)
Plate 140 (EMT 140 plate reverb)
VCA-65 (DBX 165A compressor)
FET-76 (1176 FET compressor)

Plus Ableton Live effects:
Pitch shifter x2
Gate x2
Limiter
Compressor x2
Delay
EQ-Eight x 12
Drum Buss x3
Auto Pan

And YouLean Loudness Meter, says it's 15.8 LUFS

Zany Undergrad - OSC143

Meet Rand, a synth that really won't behave itself. When you open it up, there's one button that randomly resets all the parameters. You never know what you're going to get. 

Okay, so you can go under the hood and tweak things, but they never stay tweaked. It's frustrating and yet also quite stimulating. This effort is an attempt to embrace the randomness - every time the track is rendered from the DAW, it comes out slightly differently. 

So imagine what the others must have sounded like.

For the 144th One Synth Challenge

DAW: Logic

Rand x18

Logic FX only:
Channel EQ x24
Compressor x20
Expander x 1
Exciter x 1
Noise Gate x2 
Limiter x13
Clip Distortion x 1
SilverVerb x1
Space Delay x2
Bitcrusher x1
Frontier x2

Youlean says it's -14.1 lufs

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