may contest ... RULES & SUBMISSIONS

[Alex@ProgressAudio]

http://www.progressaudio.co.uk/Misc/050 ... etSoup.mp3

Here she be, a jazzy little number I just put together. I was playing around with my SOUP synth, added some drums with Halion, bit of EQ/compression/limiting over the stereo mix and voila!

Managed to kill a spare hour too!

Alex

[emdot_ambient]

FREE-FOR-ALL

There were several things that led to this monstrosity. First was the "free-for-all" non-theme . . . that in itself was enough to start the creative sparks flying.

Look at the definition:
free-for-all, n 1: a competition, dispute, or fight open to all comers and usually with no rules: BRAWL--free-for-all adj.

I decided to take the phrase literally and use it as my theme, or at least as a springboard to the many themes herein.

Part 1, Big Beat Smack-Down starts us off in the thick of the fight with a rollicking rabble of literal-minded combatants and sets a brisk pace. From there we transition to Part 2, Jazz Associations, which takes place in a sweaty night-club in the midst of a hot-tempered jazz romp and poetry slam, a free verse exploration of the word "free." Then we zoom into the future in Part 3, Set The Machines Free where the fate of the machine intelligence's is discussed. And then we cool off in Part 4, Jamaican Veranda with Alan (the main character from my April contest submission) and Skip Johnson, the first character we hear in Part 1 (the whistle blowing music director of this entire free-for-all).

I'd like to thank a few people right off the bat:
Markleford, thanks for the conversation we had in the Gossip thread about the reasons contest entries are limited to 2 minutes. If I hadn't told you that 2 minutes didn't give enough time for significant thematic development, I never would have set out so determinedly to prove myself wrong

Sickle237, thanks for pointing me toward the BaanTTRemix ensemble in Reaktor 4. It's a beauty on drums!

Gag3, thanks for inadvertently giving me the idea of exploring the words "free" and "freedom"; I put a couple of lines of poetry in for you in Part 2

Herodotus, thanks for posting those old drum loops. I did not use any directly in this song but I did use the 150 bpm loops kind of as a template for the drums in Part 1. I imported them and then visually/aurally made note of how they worked. What I ended up with is different from your loops but they did help get me going in the right direction

Everyone else posting at KVR, thanks for making this a fun place to come back to.

To all my fellow competition entrants (did I get that correct donkey tugger?), good luck and good bowling!

I'll post the technical stuff along with the lyrics in the Gossip thread. Suffice it to say that I used 145 unique audio clips, not including the stereo mixdown tracks or the sounds used more than once (there were actually 160 audio clips including the duplicated ones). All the drums are from Battery 2, using the Big Beat, Old Jazz, Best of Limelite and Reggae kits. Absynth, Albino2, Phantom, B4 and several Kontakt sample instruments were also used.

[The Peu]

Hi,

Here is my entry for this month.

Liquid leaf

It's actually very cheezy, but I like it anyway.

Here's the stuff I used:

Cubase SL 2.0 on PC, ImpOSCar, Synth1, Battery 2, TLs SaturatedDriver, Analogic Delay, Blockfish, TubeBaby, NDC trem plus, Retrodelay, CamelPhat3, Golden Modulator, Laidback-er, NWEQ V1 2, Voxengo Old School Verb, Homemade electric guitar, Blade Fretless bass, Proteus 2000.

TP

[auty]

Hey.

Just an avant-garde (electro-acoustic) piece I did for a bit of fun.

Using Crystal, 4Front Bass, Classic Compressor, Classic Limiter, Soundforge Acoustic Mirror, Samples from Doru Malaia and samples recorded and edited by myself. Things like keys jangling, elastic bands twanging on bottles.

Hope you like!

http://audioshots.com/auditorium/download.php?id=1343

[Khepira]

Here's my entry:

Down the Mountain

Home Studio 2004, Synth1, XG midi (Yamaha PSR 280), Voxengo Span monitor, Endorphin compressor, Cakewalk effects.

.

[_niko_]

My May entry:

May I

Sort of a goth porn rock piece featuring Jamstix, dfhs, guitar, bass, terrible singing, a couple of fx plugins and some sounds from a porn clip...

[VitaminD]

yep, you were warned. A little exercise for your speakers. use caution when playing back this audio stream. if you hose your monitors its not my fault. you can read warnings.. this is a warning *beep* <-- see

ingredients:

giana drums played through DrumRack
couple instances of Pentagon V1
multiple instances of CamelPhat v3
multiple instances of CamelSpace v1
couple instances of filterscape

all mixed together in the kettle (orion platinum) for a few hours

this is what rose to the top: you were warned.

before I get nastygrams saying 'heyy!!! winamp says this is a 151kbit VBR - you should be dq!!!' let me assure you its a 128kbit ABR and winamp is just a peice of crap. The rules say nothing about ABR just 128, which it is.

thank you for your time.

[mystahr]

Apparantly always the evening after my first workday after the weekend I'm greatly inspired and while creating and programming sounds I figured I'm gonna try doing it totally live this time

A one take (after two false starts) on the Juno60, Yamaha SY85 doing trons ran through quadraverb and a crazy multivox through a tape-delay
FilterscapeQ6 performing EQ services on the after production with some compadre, SIR and pocketlimiter

Ehm, cut the blah blah, people want to hear the music

or may even want to see the video for proof (6,2Mb wmv-file)

[edit] oh yeah..... It's called Clark's Island [/edit]

[nikp2000]

Alright, here's my tune

http://nikp2000.com/05_05_nikp2000_maybe_maybe_not.mp3

Nick

[Arglebargle]

When you're as slow of a songwriter as me, there's no farking way you can write a song specifically for a KVR contest AND work on your other original stuff.

Frozen Memories

This is a 2 minute excerpt from a tune I'm working on... 'tis a blend of electronica and rock. As for the tech side, I used:

SampleTank 2
Fender Squier guitar
Line 6 GuitarPort
Crystal
Triangle I
Vanguard Demo

One of these days I'm going to purchase the full version of Vanguard; it's a sweet-ass bit o' synth.

[Seus Hawkins]

My entry to the kvr may contest. May be somewhat boring, Competition is killing me anyway, I don't know what's good enough and the fact that it is free for all complicates things even more.

Regards

[Hampa]

Hi,

Something for the May contest. I went for the brawl theme aswell

http://www.heizenbox.com/0505-Hampa-tjock.mp3

cheers

[thimk tamk]

Alright, here goes nothing...
http://audioshots.com/auditorium/download.php?id=1369

A minimal piece I made with:
FL Studio 4
Tweakbench's "Peach" (old version, two instances)
Jeskola Filter
Fruity Delay and Reverb, and
Classic Delay

Hope you dig it!

[Mo Verdigast]

The months go by and so do I....
The music continues to pound into my brain
and so I am here again.



This is a song about rebirth and new beginnings.
The sun rises and so do I....

RADIANT

This song produced with Fruity Loops 5, which is getting quite good, especially for low-spec computers. Additional friends were invited to the party, included Wusik, Vanguard, and Audition, as well as newcomer (to me), MP3 Tag Tools.

[jsl]

Won´t Talk

http://www.jslmusic.dk/MP3/0505%20JSL%20Wont%20Talk.mp3
A song about hov stupid one can be. I´ll still remember it, even it is now 30 years gone.

Keys - Wusikstation
Bass - M42
Lead - M42
Strings - StringSynth
Drums - DK+
TLS Saturated Driver
RoomWorks
Cubase SX3 - Goldwave