I feel sometimes you’re often misunderstood in your style. You are definitely not afraid of sounding harsh, gritty and angular in your tracks and I appreciate it so much. Regarding this track, though, I’m not really sold on the buzzing drones, it’s like they coat the rest of the arrangement a little too much sometimes. The rest underneath is really good, though!

this song was created in an underground radioactive laboratory by mutated bottom dwellers.

I think you've finally figured how to execute your niche quite well. Cinematic underground music, really dig it!

I'm glad you put 194 in the tags, because otherwise I never would've been able to catch the beat lol! Once I was able to count out the different parts my brain was able to start making sense of it

Once again, early Skinny Puppy. Except for the "lead". TBH I don't love the lead. I wish that one single sound was replaced. The rest is doing a lot of things I really like. Also strangely I like it much better on headphones.

it's a well balanced mix. I can't complain about the weird experimental approach - since you're one of my biggest influences now.

The panning is grat, but does my head in after a while. Some interesting motifs poking up here and there.

I like how the width opens up in the last section.

I always love your experiments. You always strive for innovation and things that are out of form and interesting but this one I have to be honest I am struggling a bit to follow it but don’t mind me keep on pushing boundaries!

One Synth Challenge #194: Monolit by BLEASS

johnkhf - Short Circuit Shuffle OSC194

Comment whatever you like.

OSC 194 Monolit
Reaper 7.3 35ish instances
ReEQ, ReaLimit, Supermassive Valhalla, Raum, JS velocity and humanizer randomizer, JS: Saturation, LoudMax.

OSC194 Victimless Crime (Monolit 18/27)

Made for OSC#194

19 instances of Monolit synth

FX:
kHs Filter
kHs Clipper
kHs Transient Shaper
kHs 3-Band EQ
kHs Reverb
TAL-Reverb 4
kHs Compressor
kHs Haas
kHs Dual Delay
epicPLATE mkII
Limiter6
DAW: Renoise

finished: 7.04.2025, updated a little later


PeterBPL - Short-necked Giraffe on a Road Trip

Loris - Wake Up
Reaper 7

108 instances of Monolit

FX Used: 
Gclip
frequency spectrum analyzer
VUMeter
Voxengo SPAN
Signilizer
KHz Distortion
ReaComp
ReaPhaseRotator - to try to get the sine wave in the kick phase aligned
MCompressor
KHz Clipper
ReaXComp
ReaEQ
Khz Reverb
KHz Filter
Ozone 8 Imager
MBandPass
Mequalizer
KHz Delay
MConvolutionEZ
KHz Formant Filter
Khz transientShaper
Ohmicide - not used to its full potential
ReaLimit
MCharmVerb
Khz gain
MComb - for light accentuation on percussion
Khz Stereo
KHz trance Gate

This song took several tries to get to where i want it. Once i fleshed out the idea, i started layering sounds to get a fuller feel for the track and to decorate the space. im particularly proud of the kick which is three active instances of the synth, i crafted the envelopes down to the milisecond and used an oscilliscope to precisely dial in the timing. I had several initial approaches for the kick none of which worked well. I worked a lot on the percussion to get metallic sounds using the FM function of the synth and also using a lot of EQ to peak frequencies. I woulnd say i went full 11/10 but i went 9/10 on EQ. I also used some distortion, to about 8/10. I accentuated sounds but did not completely distroy them. A lot of texture to certain percussion was obtained by layering different sounds at different pitches and also different FM ratios etc. Playing with envelopes goes a long way. 

The bass sounds are all very simple actually and most are a few layers deep with different waveforms FMing at different ratios and pitches. I was gonna go ballistic on the basses and use EQ, clipping and even convolution to obliterated the sound. But to avoid being DQ i opted for the PG 13 version. 

the amount of automation in this project with greater than 100 instances of the synth has made it a chore to navigate. Some midi clips have 6 or 7 layers of automation and other have only one but heavily adjusted everywhere. the automation i used the most is volume. Cutting sounds so they dont interfere with other sounds and to cut reverb tails, and also to shape sounds since i did not like the way the envelopes in the synth itself worked at times. Working with audio clips would have made this much more easy. I do not think i will go this hard for OSC ever again. But then again...it was kinda fun...

The song is clipped and compressed severely. I could have pushed it harder but i did NOT!! in order to preserve that last gasp of dynamic range that was slowly waiting to die. This is not a ballad, or classical, its dubstep - or something like it. 

The song got its name from the distinct digital alarm sound that we're all so familiar with. I used it in the buildup, in the drop, everywhere...

Nothing on the master except Gclip and ReaLimiter. 

Thats all i got

Loris - Wake Up!

Stream on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/6mSKcze7qnV0bQKOpDLn42

DAW: Reaper

Synth: Monolit (35 Instances)

Mixing FX (Free): ReaComp (Only Sidechain), ReaGate(Gating Snare Reverb), ReEQ (HP/LP), Flux Mini 2(Sidechain),  Orilriver, Supermassive, Deelay, DD AutoPan, Panagement 2, Wider, Lil Tube (Subtle Bus Saturation), GClip, Loudmax, ReaLimit

Mastering: Nova, Lil Tube, Kotelnikov, LoudMax

Metering: Prism

Calling the Monolith

Call the Monolith (OSC 194 Monolit)

This month's challenging one synth is BLEASS Monolit. On the face of it, a simple mono synth but with a few extra twiddly bits. This track has nothing to do with the title except that maybe your brain will be a bit more squishy when you're done listening. Maybe turn it down a wee bit, there are a few extra resonant sections...
Again it's the turn of Tracktion Waveform Pro 13 and, oddly (hah) 13 instances of Monolit. This synth has no built in effects but for some reason I didn't use many external effects:

- the usual clip to zero trio of dpMeter5, Blue Cat Gain 3 and KClip Zero
- Audiomodern Panflow
- khs Stereo
- Tracktion TCompressor and TEqualiser
- the inevitable Valhalla Supermassive
- Waveform's built in Master Mix
- Mastering the Mix LEVELS

Squishy

My entry for KVR's One Synth Challenge 196 using Audible Genius' free Primer 2 software synthesizer. I used Reaper 7.40, 28 instances of Primer 2, 7 instances of Cockos ReaEQ, 5 instances of Sonic Anomaly's Transpire, 5 instances of Cockos ReaComp and one instance of TDR Limiter No.6. 

OSC 196 - hsje - Getting Home

PrimeCut

Entry for OneSynthChallenge#196
All sounds made from scratch with Audible Genius Primer 2 soft synth.

No Brainer

purchasingly-Luna Primer Waltz [OSC 196]

Here's my OSC for June 2025,  featuring the synth Primer 2 in Bitwig
with 36x Primer 2
and the following VST:
TDR Kotelnikov
TDR Vos SlickEQ
Raum
DearVR Pro2
Exoverb
Supermassive
TDR Nova
Pancake2
ReaGate
TDR Prism
Wider
KHS Trancegate
TDR Molotok
KHS Transient Shaper
Limiter No6
Fresh Air
STFU
BusterSE
FerricTDSmkII
GClip
Saturation Knob
Ozone Imager
BussColors4
KHS Clipper
Bitwig:
Sculpt
Focus
Tilt
Peak Limiter
Tool
Humanize
delay-2
Saturator
Compressor
Compressor+
Filter+
Key Filter
Reverb
EQ-2
Key Filter
Instrument Layer
Convolution
EQ-5
Gate
Multiband FX-3

Durnoss Channel

Meat and Potatoes Followed by Wine and Chocolate

Track I made for KVR's One Synth Challenge (OSC) #196. This is the first OSC challenge I have competed in, and the first track I would say I've "finished". It's crazy dense, and I've never made something like this before, but I hope someone likes it! Dedicated to Berlin and it's amazing EDM culture.

Club OSCT

My entry for KVR OSC #196: Primer 2. Brutal feedback please!

FX counts (excl. monitoring):
- VST3i: Primer 2 (Audible Genius) x23
- JS: MIDI Transpose Notes x1
- VST3: TDR Nova (Tokyo Dawn Labs) x1
- VST: ReaComp (Cockos) x1
- VST: ReaDelay (Cockos) x2
- VST: ReaEQ (Cockos) x2
- VST: ReaLimit (Cockos) x1

Factory Tour

Soft synth noodlings with a bit of hardware design on the side....

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

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