What an interesting and creative mix of sounds at the top.....

What an trip. Awesome man. So many things going on in this track, nice!

A lot of great percussion going on. A galaxy of sounds well mixed and interwoven into the track.

I like the world music fusion kinda vibe. This one definitely has a unique character and tries to tell a story which I highly appreciate.

cool mashup of styles, this has amazing character - top work!

Lively and fun with a summery party atmosphere, nicely done!

I honestly don't know how you come up with music this... it's hard to describe.  I love stuff that challenges me and is novel and this is all that.  It's like being in a complex dream.  So much to look around at.

The Darius biography was very amusing and enlightening.  Sounds a cool dude.

One Synth Challenge #153: K1v by Nils Schneider

My entry for the KVR One Synth Challenge #153.  This month it's Nil's Kawai K1v - an emulation of arguably one of the worst synths in history (the VST is a great emulation though, great work Nils!)

12 instances of the Kawai K1v were used, Reaper DAW, and a truck-load of effects...

OSC153 - Nils' K1v

Cooper's Dream

All sounds produced using Nils Schneider's K1V emulation of the Kawai K1 in Bitwig 4.0

Photo by Garion Hutchings

8 Byte Magic

My submission for OSC #153

DAW: Reaper
Free plugins:
- Nils' K1v x20
- ++pitchdelay x1
- dblue Glitch x1
- OrilRiver x12
- STFU x1
- TDR Nova x1
- Xhip Quantizer x1
- Xhip Vocal x4
Stock plugins:
- 4-Tap Phaser x1 
- Chorus (Stereo) x1
- ReaComp x1
- ReaDelay x6
- ReaEQ x14
- ReaLimit x4
- Waveshaping Distortion x2
And util/viz plugins.

I/You

KVR OSC #153 - Nils' K1v 
https://www.nilsschneider.de/wp/nils-k1v/
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Just like Turbo B (member of Eurodance phenomena Snap!), went from the US to Europe and became very famous, another group of people during that period in time did the very same thing - but had no success at all…

Join Canadian funkateer Darius Derome, who in the late 1980s went to Europe with his brand new *Kawai K1m Desktop Module*(# released 1988) and his *Casio DG20 Digital Midi Guitar* (# released 1987), trying his luck in creating the genre Eurobreakdance. 

Contrary to Eurodance, that incorporates elements of hip hop, techno & house, Darius also wanted to include stuff like jazzfunk, world music, psychedelic soul & fusion while still keeping it within the ever popular 4/4 120 BPM structure. 

The record labels and the DJs at the radio stations/dance clubs at the time were sadly not ready for these adventures in music… 

Even worse, when Darius went back to Canada in the mid 1990s, the canadian version of Eurodance known as Candance was getting really big and hitting the airwaves: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurodance#Canada

Back in Canada and still equipped with only the Kawai K1m and the Casio midi guitar, Darius tried to create an alternative to Candance by promoting his guitar centric ”breakdance-fusion” for stoners - this time calling the genre BarréCannaDance.

Yet once again all this was done without any success and rejected by all record labels, radio stations and DJs.

In an interview from 1998, that was made after a 3 hour long improvised live show with his band Suburban Boogie Kollektive, Darius had the following to say: 

- ”Those who go for the already established obviously lack humility, so why even try to push the boundries when there are no boundries to begin with?” 

Further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurodance

Lit Alto (Nailing the Sole Feeture)

Midi controllers: 
Boss SY-1000 (Guitar to MIDI mode)
C-Thru Music's Axis-49

Number of instances of Nils' K1v: 
157

DAW: 
Cubase Pro 11

Stock Cubase effects made by Steinberg: 
Vst Bass Amp, Vst Amp Rack, Autopan, Stepfilter, Chorus, Limiter

Free effects used: 
Analog Obsession: Brit, Pre, ReLife & Sweetdrums
Thomas Mundt's Loudmax
Melda: Mcharmverb & Mvibrato
Valhalla Supermassive
Chow Tape Model
TDR Kotelnikov

Lit Alto (Nailing The Sole Feeture)

This funky little track is my submission for OneSynthChallenge 153 at KVR Audio forum.
All sounds are from K1v vst instrument by Nils Schneider.
Enjoy!

Vovaman - Galaxyfunk

bh9090 - ovals

kvr one synth challenge submission
https://sites.google.com/site/kvrosc/2023/osc-173-two-buckets

Hapi Lands

MKR Ultra - KVR OSC 173

All sounds made using Full Buckets - Bucket One & Bucket Pops freeware in Bitwig 5

Tronic Soul

3 Bucket Pops
9 Bucket One
5 Dragonfly Hall reverb
2 TDR Nova
5 Polyverse Wider
1 Zeek STFU
3 Deelay
3 Bitwig Tool

Spring Goose - Dance Of The Ghostly

A journey into the abyss and beyond...
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/5pN8LOloM7q8TxHtnVnik1

DAW: Tracktion Waveform 12.5 Pro
Synth: Bucket Pops (10), Bucket One (19)
FX: RandArp, CocoaDelay, OrilRiver, Supermassive, TAL Reverb-4, Compressor, kHs Transient Shaper, GClip, Loudmax, Gatelab, 8-band EQ, OTT, MUtility
Mastering Chain: TDR Nova, Kotelnikov, ChowTape, Loudmax
Metering: SPAN, YLM2

Celestial Echoes (OSC 173 Two Buckets)

Kvr "One Synth Challenge" #173 - One and Pops by Full Buckets

Growing Green

ZioMau - Growing Green

Created for the One-Synth-Challenge #173 with 21 Instances of the VST Plugin Bucketone and 2 Instances of Bucketpops by Full Bucket in FL Studio 21.

Fullbucket: https://www.fullbucket.de/music/vst.html
One Synth Challenge Website: https://sites.google.com/site/kvrosc/home
One Synth Challenge Forum: https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=8702278#p8702278

Effects:
Channel EQ [6], Fruity Delay 2 [4], Fruity Limiter [3], Fruity Multibandcompressor [1], Fruity Parametric EQ2 [1], Fruity Reeverb 2 [3], Fruity Stereo Enhancer [1], Maximus [1], Soundgoodizer [2]

Analog Obsession Lovend [1], DeadDuck DDGate [1], Denis Tihanov OrilRiver [4], Melda Production MAutopan [1], TAL Reverb 2 [1], TAL Tube [1], xFer OTT [3], Youlean Loudness Meter [1]

Mission to Space (OSC#173 Bucketpops & Bucketone)

Submission for One Synth Challenge 173 - Bucket One + Bucket Pops. 
Made in Reaper using:

Instruments: 
Bucket ONE (25) ; Bucket Pops (2) ;  TDR Nova ( 12, very lightly ) ; VOS Nasty DLA (6) ; LoudMax (1) ; Polyverse Wider (1)
Reverb buses (3) :
 Protoverb (4) ; Oril River ( 8 ) ;  TDR Nova (9) ; HOFA Pan ( 12 ) ; JS delay (2 ) ; mixer (3 ); A1 Stereo Control (3 ) 
Master : 
TDR Nova ; A1 Stereo Control ; M/S encoder ; band splitter ; Flux Bittersweet ; band joiner ; M/S decoder ; M/S encoder ; TDR Nova ; Protoverb ; mixer ; Limiter No6

This track was produced for the OSC #176 using the very cool Wavetable synth by SocaLabs. 

This time I wanted to go with a downtempo track emulating sampled drum loops and a lo-fi ambiance.   All drum sounds were created from scratch and most synths too.

Waves

Waves (OSC 176 – Wavetable)

My entry for the One Synth Challenge No. 176. Used synth:
https://github.com/FigBug/Wavetable
DAW: Ardour 8.1 on ArchLinux

Plugins used in this session:

CNT | TYPE | NAME
  5 * Lua    ACE High/Low Pass Filter (by Ardour Community)
  1 * LV2    x42-dpl - Digital Peak Limiter Stereo (by Robin Gareus)
  1 * LV2    LSP GOTT Compressor Stereo (by LSP LV2)
  5 * LV2    Dragonfly Hall Reverb (by Michael Willis and Rob vd Berg)
  1 * LV2    PeakEater (by T-Audio)
 40 * VST3   Wavetable (by SocaLabs)
  1 * LV2    LSP Compressor Stereo (by LSP LV2)
  1 * LV2    ZaMultiCompX2 (by Damien Zammit)
  2 * LV2    B.Schaffl (by Sven Jaehnichen)
 10 * LV2    ACE Compressor (stereo) (by Ardour Community)
  2 * LV2    Calf Vintage Delay (by Calf Studio Gear)
 25 * LV2    LSP Parametric Equalizer x16 Stereo (by LSP LV2)
  2 * LV2    MIDI Strum (by Robin Gareus)
  1 * LV2    EBU R128 Meter (by Robin Gareus)
  1 * Lua    ACE Amplifier (by Ardour Community)
  1 * LV2    LSP Multiband Compressor Stereo x8 (by LSP LV2)

Sport!

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

KVR OSC entries + sloppy improvisations made from scratch in a single day and then uploaded here. :)

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