One Synth Challenge #140: Pendulate

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

not dance but...

29 Pedulate synths in Ableton Live
+ Abeton Reverbs, Delays, Compressors, EQs

Desktop

World Mechanics

One Synth Challenge - all sounds made with Pendulate

Pendulosc - OSC 140

Tried to make a cinematic soundtrack that is unsettling, yet emotional and hopefully provides some closure.

As always, everything is synthesized and MIDI; no samples were used.

DAW: Reaper 6
Pendulate : 23 instances
Native FX: ReaComp, ReaEQ, ReEQ, ReaGate, ReaControlMIDI
3rd Party Free FX: RandArp, Leveling Tool, SN03-G Tape Recorder, OrilRiver, SuperMassive, Cocoa Delay, GClip, LoudMax, W1 Limiter,  OTT, MAutopan, A1StereoControl
Mastering: JS: DC Filter, TDR SlickEQ, TDR Nova, TDR Kotelnikov, GClip, LoudMax
Metering: SPAN, Youlean Loudness Meter 2

Tempest

Tempest (OSC 140 Pendulate)

Music made for the OSC Challenge 140, using only Pendulate to create all the sounds.

DAW: FL Studio 20.6
Pendulate: 55 instances

FL Effects: 
Fruity Parametric EQ2, Fruity Compressor, Fruity Limiter, Fruity Balance, Fruity Reeverb 2, Fruity Delay 3, Stereo Enhancer, Fruity Send, Fruity Delay Bank

3rd Party effect: OTT

Three Movements Of A Complex Pendulum

Leo Amaral - Three Movements Of A Complex Pendulum

"Watch... as a young ambitious camel, dreaming of getting both very rich AND entering the Kingdom of Heaven, sets off on an epic journey in search of the Big Giant Needle. A tale of dusty plains, dazzling cities and, of course, genies and bottles. Will The Eye remain shut...or open to reveal it's wonders ?"

Entry for the One Synth Challenge 140 ( Pendulate by Newfangled Audio ) at kvraudio.com

EQ was not used for sounddesign purposes.
No transient processing was used to create percussion. 
All 100% Pendulate.

The main players are:
12 instruments  (  flute-ish, reed-ish, 3 plucks , mallet, brassy, brassy-stringy, bass - sustained, bass - pluck )
7 SFX  ( buzz, creaky, metallic, noisy trickle, not-noisy trickle, bubbly laser sweep )  
10 percussives ( kick, snare (2i), clap, cymbal, hat, crackly boom, hand drum, short tom ) 

The support caravan:
ReaControlMIDI ( transposing to get noise )
BlueARP (4)  ( on SFX and briefly on Mallet )
TAL Dub II as bus effect for some instruments and SFX )
Valhalla Supermassive ( insert for Brassy  ) 
ReaQ (5)  ( light EQ'ing, light HP-filtering ) 
TDR Nova 12 ( light EQ'ing, light HP-filtering and sidechaining of kick to bass, also on master bus)
Blue Cat's triple EQ 4  (2) ( stereo control for Sustained Bass )
Oril River (14) ( seven pairs of mono instances )
ReaVerb ( very, very  lightly on master bus ) 
Chebyshev LP  ( on master bus ) 
Ozone Imager 2 ( on master bus )
Limiter No6 ( on master  bus )
Signalizer
Voxengo SPAN
Voxengo Correlometer
Youlean Loudness Meter 2

ELEX - 1002 : A Desert Odyssey

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

Pendulosc - OSC 140

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