One Synth Challenge #7- 2022 Edition

[Rich Hanson]

Well here it is, 14 tracks, 12 forum members, 10 synths

https://soundcloud.com/one-synth-162448 ... al_sharing

Start your speculating now!

A reminder that each track is downloadable if you wish to listen to non-data reduced versions, which will last until the playlist is made public after the big reveal.

I shall reveal the contributors and the synths but not which tracks they relate to at about 7pm tomorrow evening.

[BJG145]

Hooray

Nice one Rich

[fruitcake]

Just had my first listen through. All great tracks! Well done everyone.

Great job of herding the cats Rich

[IAA]

Well done Rich , enjoying these. Hard to believe that these tracks just use one synth, shows what can be wrung out. I will hazard some guesses later..

[Drew Stephenson]

Good work Rich, will have a listen later but I won't even attempt any guesses on which was made on what.

[Bob Bickerton]

Thanks for your work Rich. Will have a listen tonight.

Bob

[Folderol]

Just had a listen through. This is going to be a tough one. The sheer diversity is fantastic

[Martin Walker]

First listen personal favourites.

Track 01: I've only got as far as this and I already want to buy this synth that growls like an animal and tinkles like a stream, whatever it is!
Track 06: And now I also want to buy the beautifully percussive and wiry synth featured here

Track 09: Love the metallic and electronic piano sounds from this track (FM synthesis surely?)

Track 14: Ooh - this has some beautifully haunting timbres too, with lovely internal motion

I need more funds!

Well done everybody

Martin

[fruitcake]

Here’s my wildly wrong guesses. I’ve listened through a few times. Really impressive work by all. There’s not a track here I wouldn’t happily add to my library.

1. No clue
2. Modular
3. DSI
4. Hmm
5. Waldorf
6. FM synth
7. Korg DW8000
8. VP 330
9. No idea
10. 2600
11. Another DSI
12. Prophet
13. Jupiter
14. Clueless

[N i g e l]

A good selection of tunes & styles. No8 with the vocoder - thats gotta narrow down the posibilities quite a bit.

[RichardT]

I am clueless, really, apart from Will’s track! There are some great sounds, but my big lesson is that pretty much all modern synths seem to be insanely powerful and flexible. Amazing variety….

[Rich Hanson]

There's one in there that has really surprised me - it was a synth I used in a previous OSC but the person has taken it further than I did!

[Bob Bickerton]

Wonderful array of sounds there, but I wouldn’t have a clue on identifying the synths!

We’ll worth downloading the wav files - I’ve found - now that I’ve figured how to do it on my iPad!

Look forward to hearing them again when I get back to the studio at the end of the week.

Bob

[MarkOne]

Wow, I really enjoyed listening to all of them.(even mine) Some fantastic sounds in there, I couldn’t even speculate, most of the time what synths were in play.

But really well done all.

[adrian_k]

What a great listen! I can’t join in the guessing game as I don’t know the first thing about synths.

I don’t think any of you should mention this challenge to your partners though, they might listen and then wonder why anyone needs more than one synth….

[Folderol]

What a great listen! I can’t join in the guessing game as I don’t know the first thing about synths.

I don’t think any of you should mention this challenge to your partners though, they might listen and then wonder why anyone needs more than one synth….

Easy. You just tell them that each synth can only create one type of music

[N i g e l]

No4: could be a Casio or a GM VST like TTS-1, or maybe somthing posh pretending to be Casio-like.

My guess will be the Roland GAIA, which has a GM synth hidden under the VA knobby panel.

It will be interesting to see the artist/synth list

[Folderol]

Rich, as some synths have been used more than once, will you say how many times the multiple use ones have been done - I'm not entirely sure it will help folks, but it could be that just one synth was used 4 times!

[Drew Stephenson]

Surely number is by Folderol? And probably on Yoshimi?

[Rich Hanson]

I shall be trickling out a little more information later on...

[Folderol]

Surely number is by Folderol? And probably on Yoshimi?

Oh come on now. You really think number is my sort of thing? If I contributed it would be far more likely to be number or possibly number.

Besides which I said I was going to try to produce a track without Yoshimi (and have 5 other synths).

Sheesh!

[Drew Stephenson]

Ok, it appears I missed the pertinent detail "4" in my post.
I know you were doing a non-Yoshimi entry but as we have more entries than entrants I wondered if you'd sneaked in a bonus one as well.

I've had these on in the background today but I'm going to have to give them all a much more thorough listen later as there's so much happening in the details.

[Rich Hanson]

The following forum members contributed at least one composition:

adrian_k
BJG145
blinddrew
Bob Bickerton
Dr Bing Klazeby
Folderol
fruitcake
IAA
MarkOne
resistorman
Rich Hanson
RichardT

The following synths were used, two of them twice, one of them three times:

Arturia Microfreak
Arturia Pigments
Cherry Audio DCO-106
Expressive-e Imagine
Korg minilogue xd
Moog Sub37
Roland JDXi
Roland SC55
Waldorf Rocket
Yoshimi

Tomorrow I think I shall reveal who did what.

Let the speculation continue!

[BJG145]

Track 14 - this has some beautifully haunting timbres

+1, this is a gem.

I love track #8 too, been trying to figure out the words...

[Folderol]

Track 14: Ooh - this has some beautifully haunting timbres too, with lovely internal motion
Martin

Yes. That really grabbed me too... And an excellent choice as the last one in the list.

Quite a few people contributed who's style I'm not familiar with, and surprised Drew has joined in - always thought of him as a real+voice sort of guy.

I'm not helped by the fact I've no experience of most of the synths either

I'm guessing Roland JDXi for track 8