OSC 45: Alchemy

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Status: Finished

Results: Scoreboard

  • Rules: Normal rules

  • + Alchemy limited to additive and spectral engines, but with NO samples allowed, only sounds designed from scratch. In other words, any patch that is using Additive or Spectral engines must have been made from scratch. If it's a patch is using VA's, only the factory waveforms are allowed.

  • The factory waveforms are in these folders: Basic, Pulse, Saw, Sine and Square

  • Here is a video showing what's allowed and not.

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Prizes:

Camel Audio : 1 Alchemy license, 5 x Sound Library of choice

KV331 Audio : Synthmaster 'factory'

Wusik : Wusik Station Full + Wusik EVE Full

MaxSynths : Free choice of either Crisalys, Cryologic, Teutonic Tension or aPiano

Rob Lee Music : A soundset for either: Sylenth1, Predator, Largo, Blofeld, PPGV3 or Dune

Electric Himalaya : Free choice of one soundset as sold directly via the website

Luftrum : Free choice of one soundset for either Glass Viper, Roland Gaia SH-01, Animoog or Reason

Kreativ Sound : 1 RAW Bundle (RAW Bass, RAW Drums, RAW TranSID, RAW Textures)

Aiyn Zahev Sounds : 2 Soundsets of choice (uplifting trance presets)

Studio 13.37 : Pro audio studio on a USB stick

Pooya Payvar (Stonail) : 1 custom made Max for [Ableton] Live: controller, midi or audio effect

Dream Audio Tools : 1 Platinum Bundle

Synth info:

Alchemy by Camel Audio (no longer available) is the ultimate sample manipulation synthesizer. It's a synth powerhouse and yet is very easy to use thanks to its powerful browser, performance controls and remix pads. Just tweak the library of included presets from many of the world's top sound designers or dive in and analyze your own samples - it's up to you.

Alchemy features additive, spectral and granular synthesis and resynthesis, sampling, and a very capable virtual analog engine with unison and PWM. You can morph or crossfade between sources. You can import your own samples from SFZ, WAV or AIFF files. A wide range of analog modeled filters are included, in addition to a flexible rack of effects which includes all those from CamelPhat and CamelSpace as well as many new effects such as a high quality reverb. The innovative modulation system is extremely flexible, yet easy to use. Alchemy also features a powerful arpeggiator with the ability to import the groove from any MIDI file for immediate synchronization to a beat.

Alchemy ships with over 2GB of samples and analysed content from in-house designers Tim Conrardy and Biomechanoid, as well as designers such as Ian Boddy, Robert Rich, Scott Solida and Nucleus SoundLab. A library of 300 presets from many of the world's top sound designers is included, arranged into categories for rapid access to the sound you require. A variety of expansion sound banks are in development.