Exploring Orchestral Instrument Libraries one by one. Each track features one Sample Library (Kontakt mostly). These are all only brief encounters of mine with them as I don't own them, except for the free Spitfire Audio BBCSO Discover. But I deeply enjoyed making music with them all. Hopefully there will be more coming through along the way.

Single Orchestral Library Only Tracks

TheOrchid

Findings

Symphonic Quickie with Audio Imperia's Nucleus

Nucleus001

Here's a quick little first encounter with Jaeger. Didn't quite know what to do with it at first, but it is pretty powerful and makes me want to know better, hahaha.

Jaeger

A quintet for flute, oboe, horn, bassoon and harp.
Done with Spitfire Audio's BBCSO Core, In this first attempt of mine to do a quintet, I'm exploring freely various styles without any decent knowledge over any of them. It's really more like I'm just getting my feet wet in the general concept of a quintet. But along the way I've become more and more excited about the possibilities. Chances are that I'll do a lot more of these, but it did take me a good 7 days to get to this and I feel like it's far from finished.

Ahnenträume

Done entirely with Orchestral Tools' Berlin Inspire 1, this is a W.I.P I keep coming back to, because it is actually loads of fun to work on.

The Liar

Entry for KVR One Synth Challenge #198 using Massive X by Native Instruments

DAW: Reaper

Plug-Ins Used:
35x Massive-X (Native Instruments)
11x ReaEQ (Cockos)
5x ReaComp (Cockos)
4x Raum (Native Instruments)
2x SPL BiG (Plugin Alliance)
2x bx_glue (Plugin Alliance)
1x Transient Master (Native Instruments)
1x SPL Vitalizer MK3-T (Plugin Alliance)
1x bx_console AMEK 200 (Plugin Alliance)
1x bx_masterdesk Pro (Plugin Alliance)
1x MAnalyzer (MeldaProduction)

Machinations [OSC #198 Any Synth - Massive X]

Entry for OSC#198

DAW: Reaper
Synth: Surge XT
22 instances - half from scratch

FX:
Valhalla Supermassive
OrilRiver Reverb
Dead Duck: Delay, Filter, Limiter
kHS Gain
ReaEQ
JS: Saturation, Exciter
SPAN & YouLean Loudness Meter

The Whelming

This track is composed with RipplerX a free modelling synth by Tilr for KVR OSC199, all sounds ar made from scratch
Instruments:
33x  VST3i: RipplerX (Tilr)

Effects:
JS: Delay (Floaty)
JS: Limiter 3 (Tukan)
VST3: MCCGenerator (MeldaProduction)
VST3: MCompressor (MeldaProduction)
VST3: MConvolutionEZ (MeldaProduction)
VST3: MEqualizer (MeldaProduction)
VST3: MTuner (MeldaProduction)
VST3: Raum (Native Instruments)
VST3: AtomicReverbFree (MolecularBytes)
VST3: SkyNet (Shift Line)
VST3: TAL Reverb 4 Plugin (TAL-Togu Audio Line)
VST3: kHs Transient Shaper (Kilohearts)
Master: 
JS: RCInflator 2 (Oxford Edition)
VST3: BLENDEQ (AnalogObsession)
VST3: POORTEC (AnalogObsession)


Tropical Surprise OSC199

Entry for KVR's One Synth Challenge #199 using RipplerX by tilr

35x RipplerX (tilr)
20x ReaEQ (Cockos)
10x dearVR Pro 2 (Dear Reality)
3x TDR Kotelnikov (Tokyo Dawn Labs)
3x Valhalla Supermassive (Valhalla DSP, LLC)
2x ReaComp (Cockos)
2x ADSR-1 (tilr) 
1x Raum (Native Instruments)
1x JS Limiter 3 (Tukan)
1x JS MIDI Transpose Notes
1x bx_masterdesk Classic (Plugin Alliance)

Resonate [OSC #199 RipplerX]

Made for KVR One-Synth-Challenge 199
https://sites.google.com/site/kvrosc/2025/osc-199-ripplerx

bzz - Mare Spei

emerge

Made for the KVR One Synth Challenge 199

All sounds from scratch with ~35 instances of RipplerX

Made in Bitwig 5.3.13
Bitwig FX: Tool, Delay+, Filter+, EQ+, Compressor+, Limiter, Convolution
Other FX: OTT, TDR Nova, Limiter No6, kHz Limiter, kHz Clipper, Deelay, Raum, Gate-12, STFU

z.prime - Device Assisted Filtered Delay Lines

My entry for OSC #199

19 instances of Ripplerx - all from Init

DAW: Reaper

Dead Duck: Delay, Filter, Limiter, Autopan, TiltEQ
Oril River Reverb
Valhalla Supermassive
ReaEQ, ReaXComp
Limiter No6
SPAN, Youlean Loudness Meter

Gravity Gravel Cats

Made with 36 instances made from init of RipplerX in Bitwig.  using the following vsts:

BX Masterdesk
Limiter No6
TDR Kotelnikov
LoudMax
Dragonfly Room
OTT
TDR Nova
Valhalla Supermassive
Pureist Gain
Kstation
Free Clip2
kBeyond
STFU
BusterSE
SuperCharger

BitWig:
Note Selector
Note Repeats
Note Transpose
Tool
Multiband fx-2
Delay2
Dribble
XY Instrument
Instrument Layer
Sculpt

Vibelastic

Entry to the OSC contest #199 Using TILR's  RipperX physical modeling synthesizer.
All sounds created with that synth in Live 12.

Findings

Taronium

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