KVR DC Results

[bk]

eitherway the true winners in all this are the users, an abundance of freeware with something for everyonr

awesome

I was about to post something exactly like this...
Thanks for saving me the trouble!

Thanks to all the devs, and all associated with making this happen. Truly outstanding work!

It's hard to believe only 600 or so people voted in this contest! I can't help but think that a "sticky" in the Instruments and Effects forums might have increased this to a huge amount.

[Vonbrucken]

ok right, true vurt but it sucks ...
and yes only 680 votants
i hope the magasine will make their own vote and i bet this will be not the ranking
apart from fire wich is a really inovative effect and bound to be a new classic as glitch as become in IDM and associated music !

[Hovmod]

ok right, true vurt but it sucks ...
and yes only 680 votants
i hope the magasine will make their own vote and i bet this will be not the ranking
apart from fire wich is a really inovative effect and bound to be a new classic as glitch as become in IDM and associated music !

Whether it was 680 or 68000 voters, their combined assessment of the entries obviously didn't agree with yours. Why is that so infinitely upsetting? If you liked the effects, use the effects, tell friends etc. Don't use Anna if it offends you that much.

[Vonbrucken]

of course i won't use it untill the synth is finalised !!!

[vurt]

it sucks is a bit much, yeah i personally preferred many of the fx, but that doesnt take away from urs win. to change your sig is a bit out of order in my opinion, why attack urs and his works because the majority disagree with you?

i do agree more votes would have been great, but im not sure it would have changed the outcome
and just because the others didnt win doesnt mean theyre useless, it just means the votes werent in their favour this time round.
to slight urs and his works only moves to insult the other contestants too, did any of them "expect" to win, do they feel cheated? would they all rather urs pulled out so someone else gets a prize? no im sure most of them would rather just get on with it and look forward to next year.
competitions like this while having the serious edge of a bit of cash should be more about fun and community building than this.

have to admit if i was urs waking up today to the news id won then finding some of the reactions, lets just say the pleasant winning feeling would last too long

[DWb]

now the answer to someone who said yes anna is in beta but the author , is the creator of synthmaker
first well it has nothing to do with this contest wich was about to create a fully workable and inovative vst (and anna failed so bad)
2nd
apart from the fact that synthmaker is crossplatform it has never created yet a good vst and as anna proved it so well it sucks on the cpu !!!

The CPU munching was what put me off voting for Anna, I have to admit. But I think that's because it has loads of features, not just because SynthMaker is massively suboptimal. S.A.N.E FM is SM too, and that's relatively light.

I had another play with Anna last night, actually - the sounds really are great! It's just that I'd probably never use it because my CPU isn't the newest and I'd basically have to freeze it to get anything else at all significant going on...

I'm amazed that Pushtec wasn't in there, though...

[shamann]

Congrats to the winners and thanks to everyone involved for a good spot of fun, especially Tolga for being all sorts of degrees of awesome. A thousand dollar first prize, that ain't bad at all, so nice one Urs.

I'm a bit surprised that the voting was so low, I'd have figured it would have topped at least a thousand users. My two favourites didn't win, but Fire was on my top 5 list. Let's hope next year is an even bigger event.

[Chris Roberson]

Heheh, I either saw myself coming out of nowhere with a monstrous victory, or flopping miserably for not hyping it well enough. oh well.


But this competition was plagued by the biggest side effect of giving stuff away for free: taking without thanking. 680 voters is disgustingly low for how many should have.

Case in point: The page that I hosted my updated Mini-Vyn got nearly 1000 hits in the last three days before the competition closed (when I uploaded the update). Even if they didn't vote for me, that's still saying somewhere in the league of 300-400 people didn't vote.


But yeah, it's all good. Congrats to those that came out on top. Next year I'll make a massive synth with preset management problems and a clicky laggy interface and DSP.

[androidlove]

for not hyping it well enough

i'm the real winner here. i got lots of nice new toys! ya me!

thanx again all

[Time Control]

All of the fun of this event aside, this reminds me a lot of a classical music/or any kind of music or art competition. The idea of art pieces competing against each other is perverse in it's very nature if you ask me. The fact that this event was community based was it's saving grace. (At least it wasn't decided by 8 aristocratic 90 year old millionaires.)
When artworks clash and do battle, there will always be a sour taste in the mouths of the losers because really, there is no way to say which ones are better. To state the obvious, it's not like a race where there is a clear winner by defined criteria.

[hma]

Big thanks to all developers!
these are my favorites (the ones i am using a lot):
Fire
Superubbish
PushTec
Repeatler

[Vonbrucken]

I'm a bit surprised that the voting was so low, I'd have figured it would have topped at least a thousand users. My two favourites didn't win, but Fire was on my top 5 list. Let's hope next year is an even bigger event.

totaly agree with this , and there could have been more donators , the price money freezed 2weeks before the end of the contest !

[VladimirDimitrievich]

I'm a bit surprised that the voting was so low, I'd have figured it would have topped at least a thousand users. My two favourites didn't win, but Fire was on my top 5 list. Let's hope next year is an even bigger event.

totaly agree with this , and there could have been more donators , the price money freezed 2weeks before the end of the contest !

Over $2000 isn't enough?

Sure, more is always nice but ffs...

[vurt]

well it is only dollars

[VladimirDimitrievich]