Like the atmospheres through here. Maybe it's just my speakers, but the low end is getting a little muddy.

A  tad to predictable IMO, esp. given the track title. A bit of actual dissonance wouldn't have hurt.

Enjoyed the feel that you created and there was some great percussion.

I'm enjoying the collection of sounds, they work well together, and nice live feel. For me the mix isn't bringing out the best in the music (especially the hat on the left sticks out uncomfortably for my ears!)

Good groove/drums, no so much the first lead/melody, so it's better to my ear when you start to solo in the middle of the track.

nice choice to cut the bass for a second here - really creates a nice moment.

One Synth Challenge #140: Pendulate

Travelling

Eye Of The Storm

The HALLOWEEN 2020

Copyright Brian James McDonald (ASCAP)
Copyright Hoon Toons Publishing (ASCAP)
All Rights Reserved Worldwide

"What Did You Expect?" (Fusion)

Phillip Glass: Satyagraha

Mark Steinbach performing "Transports de Joie" from L'Ascension Olivier Messiaen at Sayles Hall Brown University, 2007.

Transports de Joie

Closer Now

Magic Hour

Copyright 2025 Brian James McDonald (ASCAP)
Copyright Hoon Toons Publishing (ASCAP)
All Rights Reserved Worldwide

A Moon and Some Roses (for Piano)

A Piano In Vienna (Piano Improv)

"The truth is whatever floats your boat..."

The sounds in this track were created exclusively by Newfangled Audio's Pendulate virtual instrument plugin for the KVR One Synth Challenge 140.

***Track Statistics***
Key and scale:  D minor/D Dorian

DAW: Studio One 5 Pro

  New Fangled Audio Pendulate: 12x
 
 Stock DAW FX plugins on channels and group busses:
 --------------------------------------------------
 Compressor: 10x
 Limiter: 3x
 Pro EQ: 8x
 Channel Strip: 2x
 Mixverb: 1x
 Room Reverb: 2x
 Gate: 1x
 Analog Delay: 2x
 Beat Delay: 1x

 Additional stock DAW FX plugins on the mix bus:
 -----------------------------------------------
 Limiter: x2
 Fat Channel: x1

Demos

Cognitive Dissonance - Selective Reality

not dance but...

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

Desktop

World Mechanics

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

Join the challenge by going here: https://shorturl.at/bhBFQ

ToneDeF is a software engineer by profession, part-time composer by inclination. He is influenced musically by what he listens to, which consists of hard rock, hair metal, synth-pop, progressive rock/metal, new age electronic, techno/trance, and classics from the Romantic and Baroque periods. It is not unusual to hear tiny shades of commercially successful works within his own humble little ones -- he considers it an homage to the truly talented.

One of ToneDeF's guilty pleasures is recreating the music of classic computer/video games utilizing modern synthesized and sampled sounds. His first submission to SoundCloud was a re-imagining of the main theme music from the classic LucasArts game, "Ballblazer".

Although he has chosen "ToneDeF" as his handle, rest assured that he is not actually "tone deaf".

Who exactly are "The ElectroMetal Minstrels"? They are the virtual musicians "performing" the virtual instruments on each track sequenced by ToneDeF.

Cognitive Dissonance - Selective Reality

ToneDeF & The ElectroMetal Minstrels

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