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One Synth Challenge #167: Any One DAW Synth

Each track has been produced by making use of only one synth. Most of these synths are either freebies or discontinued oldies. No samples! All drums and percussion also come from these synths.

One Synth Sound Design Portfolio

Dreamz

Made for the KVR One Synth Challenge 155:
https://sites.google.com/site/kvrosc/2022/osc-155-any-one-synth
https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=575714

All sounds made entirely from scratch with the Roland System-8 hardware synthesizer on the System-8 Model.
DAW: FL-Studio 20.9
Instances / Recordings: 40 Audio Tracks

DAW Plugins:
Fruity Parametric EQ2 [22], Fruity Limiter [3], Fruity Stereo Enhancer [14], Fruity Delay 2 [4], Fruity Delay 3 [4], Fruity Reeverb 2 [3], Fruity Convolver [1]

3rd Party Free:
Youlean Loudness Meter 2 [1], Melda MCompressor [2], Analog Obsession LOVEND [2], Xfer OTT [8], TAL Reverb 2 [3]

3rd Party Commercial:
Waves H-Reverb [II]

3rd Party I got it for free but it´s actually Commercial:
Izotope Ozone 8 Elements [1]

No wolves were harmed during the production of this track.
Mixed and Mastered by a Neodymium-doped yttrium orthovanadate crystal.

Impedance Music - DPSS (OSC#155 - Roland System-8)

All Sounds created with AudioNebula Aurora fm Synth for kvr's OSC155 challenge.

Prelude to Aurora - OSC 155

Made with 11 x Sinmad synth  [https://nusofting.com/plugins/sinmad-synth]

DAW: Ableton Live : Ableton FXs: Delays, Reverb, Compressor, Equalizers
+ BeatSkillz Max 1

OSC 155

Sinmad The Shamest

An unmastered, slightly-mixed, last-minute track for OSC 155.
All parts played live.

—Synth—
Behringer Model D (5 instances)

—Effects—
ReaEq
TDR Molotok
Voxengo Tempo Delay
Xfer Dimension Expander

Recorded in Reaper

You and Everything (OSC 155)

DAW: Cubase 11 Pro
19 instances of Synister
19 instances of Valhalla Supermassive
Some Cubase native AutoPan, EQ and Compression

Synister - Winter In Berlin

One Synth Challenge 156 @ KVR. Sequenced using 12x instances of Synister.

DLA (Osc156 - Synister)

The servant robots have sensed that an attack is eminent.

OSC156 Down Everybody (Synister) 22/25 88%

Monthly OSC contest track using Synister to create all sounds in Ableton Live 11. 
A melancholic track for the times.

Techquiem (OSC 156 - Synister)

My submission for the One Synth Challenge, using Synister https://the-synister.github.io/ as only sound source.

YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ3wYgS0TIM

DAW: Ardour 6.9 on Archlinux
38x Synister instances via yabridge/wine

Audio Effects:
-LSP Parametric Stereo EQ
-Calf Vintage Delay
-ZaMultiCompx2
-ACE Compressor
-airwindows Reverb
-TAP Tubewarmth
-Dragonfly Hall Reverb
-Wolf Shaper

MIDI effects:
-B.Schaffl
-x42 MIDI Strum

Masterbus:
-Luftikus EQ
-LSP Parametric EQ (Stereo and MidSide)
-LSP Stereo Compressor
-airwindows ToTape5
-Refine
-x42 DPL Limiter

MyLoFy - Shattered

My submission for OSC156, the One Synth Challenge for Februrary 2022.
All of the sounds were created out of the Synister synth by QUL at the University of Berlin.

This track was made with Reaper on Linux.
There are 17 instances of the Synister.

Ritual [OSC156]

My entrance for the KVR OSC 1 2023. Made in Mulab. 
19 instances of Musynth. (Added a new lead, 23. January)
All effects except the trance gate (A1 Trigger Gate) are Mulab built in.

ElViecho - Optimism

This is my submission for KVR's One Synth Challenge No. 167. 

DAW: Bespoke Synth, a modular DAW. https://www.bespokesynth.com/
Both leads are generated with a randomized perlin LFO.

This is one patch with the following plugins as final link, wrapped with carla inside of Bespoke:
-LSP Parametric EQ (Stereo and MidSide)
-LSP Compressor
-ToTape5
-Slew3
-x42-dpl

Here is the patch, if anyone wants to check it out (CC-BY):
With external plugins (Linux specific): https://mark.nl.tab.digital/s/KRBTYyHg3d2TQjW
No external plugins: https://mark.nl.tab.digital/s/Db2aKZ4AQFydZYA

Solo By Chance

My submission for the KVR One Synth Challenge #167

DAW: Studio One 5 
Synth: 40x Mai Tai

Native FX:
Limiter
Binaural Pan
Fat Chanel
CTC-1	
Splitter
MultiBand Dynamics

Extern FX:
Smart EQ 3
SplitEQ
Balancer
Peel
FabFiler Pro C2
Raum
Objeq Delay 2

Sleepless in Germany Part 4

Sleepless In Germany Part 4

Here's my Jan OSC track made in bitwig using only the grid to generate sounds.

using 27 instances of the grid.

FX
Paid:
Adptr Metric AB
BX MasterDesk
Ozone 9 Elements
Scaler 2
Shadow Hills Mastering
SmartComp2
TDR Kotelnikov GE
TDR Limiter 6 GE

Free:
Airwindows Monitoring3
KHS Transient Shaper
Span
TDR Nova
Valhalla Supermassive

Bitwig:
Convolution
Delay+
Drum Machine
EQ+
EQ-2
EQ-5
Instrument Layer
Instrument Selector
Mid Side Split
Note Transpose
PolyGrid
Reverb

The Auld Skool Shimmy

This time - in Jan.23-round of the OneSynthChallenge - one Synth included in the DAW had to be used. Now, MuLab (by Mutools) is an affordable, but (at least for me) musically inspiring DAW with a slim but powerfull composer and including an extremely flexible synth called MUX. It's even possible to include another composer within the synth ....
Now this song is made with MuSynth, which contains synth- and effect-modules of MUX, but no samples at all.
I used 14 instances of MuSynth with some MUX-EQ, compressor, limiter, echo and reverb. Only in the master I used "MHorse P3" and "LoudMax" - both are available for free.
Enjoy!

Muxination

For this track I used 17 instances of Subtractor which was the first and only synthesizer in Reason 1.0 back in 2001. 

For reverb and delay I used Reason's DDL-1 and RV7000. For creamy long reverbs I used a free plugin by Airwindows named Galactic 64. On the masterbus I used Channev by Analog Obsession which is a free mastering plugin.

Subtractor - What Comes From Within

In fields of freedom, wild and bright,
A spirit danced with untamed light.
But wires wove 'round her limbs so tight,
And screens replaced her starry flight.

The TV hummed its hypnotic song,
Violence echoed, shadows long.
Her wings grew heavy, once so strong,
Till free spirit's flame was finally gone...

All instruments and voices have been designed in Surge XT without any use of samples. Happy 15th anniversary to OSC!

Surge XT: 25 instances
DAW: Cubase Pro 13
Free Reverbs: SunBurnt (Unplug.red), Dragonfly Hall (Michael Willis), Raum (NI).
Free delay: Deelay (Sixth Sample)
Free EQ: Graphic EQ (Viator DSP)
Free compressor/limiter: Sonicrusher (Linda Audio), Lens (Auburn Sounds)

TSOM - Wings Of Silence - OSC#181

28 instances of Zebralette 2 by U-He. All the sounds were made from scratch, except the snare which is a Taron snare and the sitar which was made by Howard Scarr.

DAW: Reaper 7.30
Reverbs: SuperMassive, MConvolutionEZ, PSP Chamber
Delay: Sixth Sample Deelay
EQ and Compressor: Analog Obsession Frank CS, Airwindows Consolidated, Audiothing Blindfold EQ, Viator Graphic EQ

Mastering plugins by Tukan Studios: Multiband Processor, Tape Recorder S2 and Limiter 3      I also added Poortec EQ by Analog Obsession Just before Limiter 3 to clean up the spectre a little and re-uploaded the track (2025-01-16)

TSOM - Zebralette Dancing (OSC#191)

For this track I used 11 instances of a wonderful synth named Thorn by Dmitry Sches (DS Audio). All modulations of the parameters have been done live by making use of aftertouch and/or the modulation wheel. So no automations other than some volume changes here and there. In a studio setting, I think this makes the music nice and organic. Of course, a DJ on stage always does this. 

The title “Anemoia” is referring to the phenomenon of feeling nostalgic to a time or place that one has not experienced before...

DAW: Reaper 7.34

Mixing: Plexi Tape, Space Station, Echoes T7E and Grain Space by Audiority. Sonsig Rev-A by Relab. Body & Soul by TSOM, Graphic EQ by Viator and UADx 1176 FET Compressor by Universal Audio.

March 11th: New mix and added WideFire by United Plugins to several tracks.

Mastering: Smart EQ4 and Smart Limit by Sonible

Anemoia (OSC #193)

Odin 2: 13 instances 
DAW: Reaper 7.42
Reverb/Delay: Deelay by Sixth Sample
EQ: Graphic EQ by Viator
Compressor: EDComp by Analog Obsession

Inside Outside (OSC#197)

For this OSC Any Synth Challenge, I chose the PS-3300, a beautiful software emulation of a late 1970s analogue polyphonic synthesizer from KORG. Cherry Audio developed this soft synth. Every sound you hear was created using the PS-3300. I tried to create an overall sound that matches the capabilities of a studio production in 1978. This is in honour of this beautiful synthesizer and its creators.

29 instances of PS-3300 by Cherry Audio 
Reverbs: Body &Soul by TSOM, VertiVerb by Audiority and VitaliumVerb
Delays: Deelay by Sixth Sample and Dual Delay X by UVI
EQ: Claro by Sonnox and Graphic EQ by Viator
Compression: FET-76 by Arturia
Enhancer: Type B by Audiothing
Mastering: Smart:Limiter and Smart:EQ4 by Sonible

Please note: I haven't used any distortion or saturation plugin to create the guitar tone. It's all been synthesized in PS-3300

After the Rain (OSC#198-Cherry Audio PS-3300)

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