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brok landers · Post by **brok landers** » Wed Dec 21, 2016 1:21 am

first off - congrats to the winners.

second - first 3 are exactly in the order i voted. to me that shows, that in the end it's the professionalism of the plugins that made them win - rather than the "it must be a groundbreaking new thing" approach - which i wholeheartedly welcome.

third - i must say, that i was quite underwhelmed buy this dc's entries. somehow i expected more (flame on, it's just my subjective feeling). i expected the development of plugins to evolve with the generally upped standard of quality over the time. imo in this dc they did not - hence the first 3 places won that way, since they're the only ones that kinda did that evolution.

Chris-S · Post by **Chris-S** » Wed Dec 21, 2016 12:03 pm

brok landers wrote:third - i must say, that i was quite underwhelmed buy this dc's entries. somehow i expected more (flame on, it's just my subjective feeling). i expected the development of plugins to evolve with the generally upped standard of quality over the time. imo in this dc they did not - hence the first 3 places won that way, since they're the only ones that kinda did that evolution.

Nevertheless we've seen a 10% increase in the number of entries (DC14: 37 entries).

brok landers · Post by **brok landers** » Wed Dec 21, 2016 5:15 pm

Chris-S wrote:
brok landers wrote:third - i must say, that i was quite underwhelmed buy this dc's entries. somehow i expected more (flame on, it's just my subjective feeling). i expected the development of plugins to evolve with the generally upped standard of quality over the time. imo in this dc they did not - hence the first 3 places won that way, since they're the only ones that kinda did that evolution.
Nevertheless we've seen a 10% increase in the number of entries (DC14: 37 entries).

true. but only shows once more, that it is not the quantity, that counts.

harryupbabble · Post by **harryupbabble** » Wed Dec 21, 2016 5:20 pm

Well maybe, it only takes one favourite entry, to make it one of the best DC ever.

noizy · Post by **noizy** » Wed Dec 21, 2016 10:04 pm

I am a bit speechless as my Reaktor synth REFRACTOR made it in the Soundware category. I thought I´d never win so I am more than happy

Thanks to everyone who did vote or at least try my synth, thanks to everyone who participated in this contest and thanks to KVR!!!

.jon · Post by **.jon** » Thu Dec 22, 2016 8:58 am

Congrats noizy! I was delighted to see a Reaktor ensemble among the entries.

Barmaleus · Post by **Barmaleus** » Sat Dec 24, 2016 3:51 pm

Ohhh, totally forgot about the free goodies! Must check them out!

FabienTDR · Post by **FabienTDR** » Sun Dec 25, 2016 5:30 pm

First of all, congrats to Ulean, Ursa DSP and Musical Entropy for their winners!

brok landers wrote:third - i must say, that i was quite underwhelmed buy this dc's entries. somehow i expected more (flame on, it's just my subjective feeling). i expected the development of plugins to evolve with the generally upped standard of quality over the time. imo in this dc they did not - hence the first 3 places won that way, since they're the only ones that kinda did that evolution.

Don't be so hard! Consider the relatively short period of time (we initially planned to join, too, but couldn't handle the workload over the DC period, despite, or maybe because of our "pro" infrastructure). These "modern standards" are really demanding, so I guess there's no other choice than making radical cuts here and there to hold the release date. Under normal circumstance, you'd simply build on previous work, or look around for more manpower and postpone the release. None were options here afaik.

I found several interesting concepts and thoughts among the entries. Cool stuff. I'm sure many products, winners in particular, will now be polished and extended extensively.

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Sun Dec 25, 2016 7:38 pm

Thanks a lot for the new skin, and expansion bank.

Based on the "how to do it" description, I managed to get it to work straight away.

Looks mighty fine

brok landers · Post by **brok landers** » Mon Dec 26, 2016 4:13 am

FabienTDR wrote:
brok landers wrote:third - i must say, that i was quite underwhelmed buy this dc's entries. somehow i expected more (flame on, it's just my subjective feeling). i expected the development of plugins to evolve with the generally upped standard of quality over the time. imo in this dc they did not - hence the first 3 places won that way, since they're the only ones that kinda did that evolution.
Don't be so hard! Consider the relatively short period of time (we initially planned to join, too, but couldn't handle the workload over the DC period, despite, or maybe because of our "pro" infrastructure). These "modern standards" are really demanding, so I guess there's no other choice than making radical cuts here and there to hold the release date. Under normal circumstance, you'd simply build on previous work, or look around for more manpower and postpone the release. None were options here afaik.

I found several interesting concepts and thoughts among the entries. Cool stuff. I'm sure many products, winners in particular, will now be polished and extended extensively.

first off - a shame that you couldn't make it to enter. i'm sure that you would've raised the bar to quite some extend, maybe easily would've won - with a clear reason.
second - i don't mean it the hard way. it's just my honest subjective impression. nothing more...

.jon · Post by **.jon** » Tue Dec 27, 2016 1:25 pm

This was the best DC for me, Lagrange and Spaceship Delay both made their way into my permanent plugin selection. That's a 100% improvement to previous top year

Soarer · Post by **Soarer** » Sun Jan 08, 2017 2:22 pm

Roth-Air is great! Nice and crispy.

Ivan_C · Post by **Ivan_C** » Tue Jan 31, 2017 9:11 am

Just got a little private e-mail from Ben telling me the identity of the KVR DC 16 wildcard prize winner

Youlean · Post by **Youlean** » Tue Jan 31, 2017 10:42 pm

Ivan_C wrote:Just got a little private e-mail from Ben telling me the identity of the KVR DC 16 wildcard prize winner

Congratulations!

Ivan_C · Post by **Ivan_C** » Wed Feb 01, 2017 8:21 am

Thanks ! I hope you enjoyed your trip in LA

KVR Dev Challenge 2016!