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

One Synth Challenge #161: Synth1 by Ichiro Toda

A music track (called "ParallaX") was created with only one synth sounds (SYNTH1). SYNTH1 is a free VST. 
Can be found here : https://daichilab.sakura.ne.jp/softsynth/index.html.

ParallaX

This song has been made (yes, drums too) with 22 instances of the free synthesizer Synth1 from Ichiro Toda in the DAW Reaper for the One-Synth-Challenge number 161. It uses only a few additional FX for reverb, delay, EQ, compression and limiting.

OSC161 Frank Geppert Synth1 Cyber Love

My submission for OSC161, the One Synth Challenge for July 2022.
All sounds are made with Synth1 by Daichi Laboratory.

This track was made with Reaper on Linux. There are 16 instances of Synth1.
Other plugins used:
- Dragonfly Room
- B.Schaffl
- TAL Filter 2
- Airwindows ToTape6
- Luftikus
- x42 Digital peak limiter

Cover image was generated with wombo.art

Sunshine [OSC161]

Submission to KVR One Synth Challenge #161

Reaper, Synth1 (X23)
FX free:
epicVerb, Barricade v3, PanCake2, Stochas, TAL-Reverb-3, ValhallaSupermassive
FX built in Reaper:
ReaComp, ReaEQ, ReaXcomp, NP1136 Peak Limiter, Event Horizon Limiter/Clipper, Delay w/Tempo Ping-Pong

margaret0547 - Familiar

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

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

Audio odio - OSC161

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