My first exposure to Oblivion Sound Lab was during a search for horror film inspired synth patches four years ago. Dark Vision popped up in my search and the artwork immediately grabbed my attention. The website says the following:

“Dark Vision is OSL’s homage to the horror film scores of the late 1970s and early 1980s, when pioneering composers armed with analog synthesizers reinvented the soundtrack of cinema. The set contains 128 brand new patches inspired by legendary composers such as John Carpenter, Alan Howarth, Fabio Frizzi, John Harrison, Claudio Simonetti, Charles Bernstein and Jay Chattaway as well as the contemporary musicians who continue their sonic legacy.”

After reading that, I knew that this sound designer was my kind of people. I pressed play and was absolutely blown away at the quality of the work and immediately purchased the soundset. After installing the patches, I began tinkering around and the next thing I know, a song is done! I decided to share it with Jonathan Nicol, the designer behind these masterfully crafted patches. He liked the track and, with my blessings and a few small tweaks, added it to the collection of demos used to promote the soundset. Since then, I have been honored to contribute demos to his subsequent soundset releases.

He is generous in the number of patches included in each soundset. His pricing is great and easily affordable. You can count on the patches being usable with no filler. His sound designs are obviously created with great care and a deep understanding of synthesis. On top of that, he is a very talented graphic designer and musician (Binary Oblivion)!

Oblivion Sound Lab has just released a brand new soundbank for TAL Audio’s TAL-Pha called Public Broadcast. TAL-Pha is an impressive emulation of the Alpha Juno II. If you aren’t already familiar with TAL Software, they make great plugins, including the famous TAL-U-NO-LX. Yes, that’s a mouthful, but a wonderful plugin emulation of the Juno 60.

Here is the blurb on Public Broadcast from the Oblivion Sound Lab website.

“Public Broadcast is a trip back in time to the heyday of analog synthesisers, featuring 88 patches for TAL-Pha that celebrate the nostalgic electronic sounds of the late 1970s and early 1980s.

For this soundset I found inspiration in vintage library music, VHS idents, and synth-heavy television scores, and followed this thread to the present day via artists such as Boards of Canada, Pye Corner Audio and HOME.

Inside you will find plenty of melted, detuned and dusty sounds that are ideal for revivalist genres such as hauntology, synthwave and lo-fi electronica. Most patches have parameters mapped to modwheel and aftertouch for expressive performances.”

Check out the patches in this YouTube video to get a sample of the sounds.

I created four tracks for Public Broadcast, which I intend to release in some form for the Plastic Horizon project. More on that later. So, check out Oblivion Sound Lab! He has an excellent selection of soundbanks as well as audio plugins.

https://oblivionsoundlab.com/