Another one-synth challenge - @full-bucket 's ModulAir!

Lots of fun to be had with ModulAir - experimenting with the sequencers, emulating the setup  of various analog synths, various FM setups, or just plain going crazy with routing and modulating everything.

DAW: Studio One Professional 5.2
Full Bucket of choice: ModulAir
ModulAires: 41, from init. No samples / wavetables.
Efx: ProEQ, DD Compressor, IVGI, DC1A, CA-2A, Frontier, TDR VOS Slick EQ, StereoTool, Overtone, PSP Xenon

Into the Night

Into the Night (One Synth Challenge: ModulAir)

Another foray into one synth territory - an old, but excellent choice: TAL Noizemaker.

Man Down

Recorded and mixed at Violence St. Studios, Sept. 2021.

Easy Wave (single)

Easy Wave

Getting ready for the ski season, smack down in the middle of synthwave and some genuine '80s library synth-pop (not really, though - I haven't skied in decades.)

Here I am revisiting my very first synth - the Korg Wavestation. Most of the sounds come from a bank I've been putting together in the course of the past couple of days - probably my first real programming session with this synth since the '90s! 

Works great for this kind of stuff as well, even though it's best known for slowly evolving ambient pads, and probably those cheesy wave-sequencing percussion loops.

The Trail

This Night Will Last Forever (Single)

This Night Will Last Forever

RM47 Needed U (A Mountainé Midnight Ride / Remix)

I always enjoy playing around with vocal stems - thanks for the opportunity, @RM47 !

Integrated (LUFS): -10.1
Loudness range (LU): 10.4
BPM: 120

Photo: Thomas Hawk
Title: To Go Home (https://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/34842511075/)
Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/
Other: Apart from cropping, no changes were made to the original photography.

Needed U (A Mountainé Midnight Ride / Remix)

RM47 Needed U (A Mountainé Midnight Ride / Remix)

It somehow feels like sacrilege to move so close to Fagen and Becker and mess it up with a dirty Switched-On-Moog lead.

But I think I made up for it by elevating  my way out of trouble by way of dreamy Lyle Maysian key changes in the chorus.

(and here's a repetitive music video of random Blender stuff to distract you from the music! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7md5afPOF6w)

Robots in Suits

Robots in Suits (A One Synth Challenge: The u-he Triple Cheese)

Pulse

Pulse (experiment/quickie)

Pretty slow and deliberate, but I like it! Just a single, "generative" patch from a free synth, Synister, and a couple of effects. Who needs a full modular setup, right??

Tmourg

Tmourg (experiment/quickie)

Mi scusi... non parlo la lingua

A summer mood.

Photo by: Georgie Sharp, 2014
Licence: CC BY-NC 2.0
Link: https://flickr.com/photos/georgiesharp/12379380474/
Other details: The original photo has been adapted and transformed by Mountainé.

Heatwave

Another entry for KVR's One Synth Challenge - finally an orchestral library (Spitfire's FREE BBC Symphony Orchestra Discover)!

Another Starry Night

schiing - Another Starry Night (with Spitfire's FREE BBC Symphony Orchestra Discover)

Slower Than Andante

Slower Than Andante (first draft)

RetroARPtive (Single)

RetroARPtive

Incidental music from an imaginary movie.

Cargo

Cargo (Full Version)

Space music! Harmonies, melody, too! The Boötes Void is one of the largest known voids in the universe, and is referred to as a supervoid. Its discovery was reported in Robert Kirshner et al. (1981). (Wikipedia)

Boötes Void

A little novelty that I'm submitting for KVR's "One Synth Challenge" for January 2018. Never done that before! All the sounds on this track, "drums" included, was made with a 33 instances of a monophonic VST emulation from Blamsoft called VK-1 Viking.

8 Bits of Tokyo (One Synth Challenge: VK-1 Viking)

Pardon my brash attitude, but I believe that this is what was commonly referred to as "ear candy" by preppy people back in the day. Please note that every sound on this track, drums and perc included, was made with a free soft synth called Diodow. Check it out!

Pour Some Vape into Those Smooth Etudes, Kid! (Single)

Pour Some Vape into Those Smooth Études, Kid!

A track intended for the the #OSC109 Challenge. I decided not to enter this month, though. All sounds exclusively from the Fathom soft synth - created from scratch by The Ted Mountainé Orchestra.

Old Land (Single)

Old Land (using some presets I made with the Fathom soft synth)

Matinée (That's How They All Go)
OSC #111, May 2018

DAW: Studio One Pro 3.5.5
Crust Instances: 45

Studio One fx: 
34x ProEQ
10x Fat Channel
4x  Mixtool
1x  Tricomp

3rd party fx: 
2x TDR Vos SlickEQ
1x DD Reverb
4x DD Delay
5x DD Compressor
2x BootEQmkII
1x WA TubeSaturator Free (a bit of tube warmth on the master)
1x Limiter6 (as master limiter)
1x Sleepy-Time Mono Channel
2x Sleepy-Time Transient
5x BitterSweet
4x Full Bucket Delay (no mod)
1x TAL Reverb 4 (main verb on fx bus)
1x SPAN Analyzer

Matinée (That's How They All Go)

Here's my submission for KVR's #OSC112. Particularly pleased with my mix this time - I hope you agree! Best played semi-loud on a decent but saturated set of headphones, or, hopefully, in your car. Chill y'all, he said, sardonically mocking his infinite uncoolness.

DAW:		Studio One Professional 3.5
DAW EFX:	ProEQ (15), Limiter (1), Fat Channel (4), Mixtool (6)
SYNTH1:		26 instances, all from scratch

Master chain: ProEQ -> TDR Vos SlickEQ -> BootEQmkII -> DD Reverb (4%) -> Crosstalk2 (35%) -> Limiter -> Limiter6. 

Loudness, etc.
EBU R-128 -11.4 / Range 4.7
Global RMS (AES) -9.7
BPM: 134
Recorded: June 1-7, 2018
Mixdown: June 7, 2018

Other 3rd party efx:

Molot03 (1)
TALReverb4 (2)
ThrillseekerLA (1)
Bark of Dog 2 (1)
HY Delay (1)
DD Reverb (3)
BitterSweet (1)

Mt. Hope (Single)

Mt. Hope

I think I'll leave it there - here's my entry for KVR's October One Synth Challenge - u-he's Triple Cheese this time. Partly inspired by my fellow OSCer doctorbob's memories of the Cathedral Tour of.... well, which band, d'you think?? Hence the rather liberal amount of reverb and decay, you see :)

DAW: Studio One Professional 4.1.0
Triple Cheese: 31 instances, all from scratch

Master chain: 
Sleepy-Time Stereo Channel -> TDRVosSlickEQ -> Crosstalk -> DD Reverb -> ProEQ (x2) ->Limiter6

Other effects:
ProEQ: 8x
BitterSweet: 1x
DD Compressor: 1x
Stone Voices Ambient Reverb: 4x
Sanford Reverb (no mod.): 1x
DD-Delay: 1x
Cocoa Delay: 1x

Loudness, etc.
EBU R-128 -11.1/ Range (6.0)
Global RMS (AES) (-10.0)
BPM: 102
Recorded: Oct 11-18, 2018
Mixdown: Oct 18, 2018

Spires, Circuits & Syllabus (Single)

Spires, Circuits & Syllabus

Yet another track made exclusively with ModulAir!

Playa' (Single)

Playa'

Playa' (One Synth Challenge: ModulAir)

My entry for KVR's One Synth Challenge - December 2018. Two synths (plus commercial efx) allowed this time: Elek7ro & NoiseMaker from TAL.

Very happy with this one. It's more or less finished - I'll probably add some discreet effects and rhythm elements before posting my submission to KVR. I won't do that prematurely this month - last month I posted three tracks before I was happy :)

Selected commercial plugs used: Newfangled Audio's EQuivocate, Eventide's SP2016Reverb, Overloud's GEM EQ550, Waves' Scheps Omni Channel

Silent Spacecraft (Single)

Silent Spacecraft

Silent Spacecraft (One Synth Challenge: TAL Elek7ro & Noisemaker)

Created with Xavier Kalensky's SE PolyMod - a lovely retro-style synth.

Dedicated to Japanese anime in the 1980s and poor Ariana's tattoos, I guess - both of which I know very little about.

Anime '85 (Single)

Anime '85

Anime '85 (One Synth Challenge: SE PolyMod)

Here's my entry for the OSC 10 Year Anniversary! After initializing 5 or 6 projects with various commercial synths, Krakli Plugins' free synth YAVA4 was ultimately the one to inspire my muse. So thanks to Ian Webster for a fun synth that sounds brilliant! 

I can warmly recommend this synth for bird song, orchestral textures, electric guitars and synthwave. Probably for everything else you throw at it, too! :)

Flamingo Kid and the Movie Box

Flamingo Kid and the Movie Box (One Synth Challenge: YAVA4)

Hey, put on your retro sports jacket and get in my spaceship for a bit of  action before we watch another episode of "30something"!

My entry for the One Synth Challenge, April 2019. Great synth - Surge. Everything you hear comes from (a lot of instances of) the same synth.

Floating in Space (Cocktails)

Floating in Jazz (Cocktails)

Floating in Space (Cocktails) (One Synth Challenge: Surge)

My entry for OSC #124 with MSoundFactory: Film score style with geopolitical undertones!

Great synth, endless possibilities.

DAW: Studio One Professional
MSFs: 29 patches from init
ProEQ: 7
IVGI: 1
Master: ProEQ -> BootEQ -> DD Reverb -> GStereo -> Unlimited

Arctic Frontier (Single)

Arctic Frontier

Arctic Frontier (One Synth Challenge: MSoundFactory)

A deeply relaxing track for your Sunday morning meditation, if I may say so myself.

Inner Flight

Ready for another space mission?? My submission for KVR's One Synth Challenge, May 2020. Great synth – a very believable (and completely free!) simulation of Korg's 1982 Mk II.

Horizon Bound (Single)

Horizon Bound

Cool synth with some nice bells and whistles in its free incarnation. Very easy to use, and great returns (thanks to the synth, not me!). Great job, hyakken!

Splash!

Splash! (#OSC137 - HY-Poly by HY-Plugins)

All sounds including drums with Dexed, a free DX7 emulation. Pretty silly, but fun to write - I'll probably trying my luck in One Synth Challenge #143 with this one.

Recorded and mixed Jan 28, 2021 by Mountainé.

Dubby McWannafly

Dubby McWannafly | OSC#143 | w/ Dexed (Yamaha DX7 emulation)

"A journey in sound", as they say...

All sounds from the virtual Rand synthesizer.

Recorded and mixed at Violence St. Studios, Feb. 2021 by Mountainé.

Beyond the Castle (single)

Beyond the Castle

Beyond the Castle | #OSC144 | Rand

"Ever since I was a boy, my ambition has been to live completely surrounded by music, My dream is not to miss out on anything. That's why I've never settled on one musical discipline." – Michel Legrand

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