KVR Audio

Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 10:52 pm

Here's how it's going to work.

The donors of some non-cash prizes have specified to whom they want their prizes to go -- maybe to the top three, or to OSX developers, or it could be the donor's personal choice, or some other criterion might be the deciding factor. Those prizes will be awarded according to the donors' wishes, of course.

All the other non-cash prizes go on this Virtual Prize Table. *whips away opulent silken cover to reveal a large folding utility table* Hm. Looks better with the cloth on. *replaces it* There.

Now, once all the prizes are on the table, the winners will pick from among them in order of their ranking in the Developer Challenge 2007 results. xoxos, mucoder, and Ugo have already been awarded their cash prizes, so they'll have to wait a little for their turns; their picks will be delayed by a number of turns that I hope will provide the most equitable possible division of the goodies, giving everyone a fair shake.

Because Tolga* lined up so many donors, and because those donors were so generous, the prize table is going to be overflowing with glorious loot. I believe everyone will get at least one prize, and if my estimate is right some will have a second pick as well. If things run short I'll come up with something to ensure nobody goes home empty-handed.

Yes, it's true: as the Dodo said after the Caucus-Race, "Everybody has won and all must have prizes."

My next post in this thread will be the list of prizes. I'll update it as I confirm which prizes the donors will allow to be distributed in this way. If all goes well, the prize picking can commence tomorrow (Thursday), my time (U.S. Eastern Daylight Time).

I'll call out whose turn it is, then that entrant can post what they want to pick. I'll update the prize list to show what remains, then call out the next winner. This will repeat until all prizes have been distributed and dozens of studio floors are covered with ripped-open virtual gift-wrapping paper.

Once more I thank you all for your excellent entries in the DC, and for your patience while the million details get worked out. The reward for your talent and stoicism is imminent. *salute*
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* ... and others? sorry, I don't know, but feel free to correct me if other folks helped to secure donations. Credit where due, sez me.

Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 12:59 am

Prizes whose winners have already been determined

Before we get to the prizes yet to be distributed, here's a list (more or less in alphabetic order to start) of the non-cash prizes whose donors have specified who is to win them. In parentheses you can see who won them and in italics I'll tell what needs to be done for the winners to collect.

Awarded: Dash Signature donates an HQS + TDP bundle of the winners' choice to everyone in the top five (xoxos, mucoder, ugo, de la Mancha/sinkmusic, Acrobat).
UPDATE: I have sent your names and email addresses to Luigi and he'll get your goods to you. You need not do anything until you hear from him. There are a couple of sample libraries you can choose from; he can give you the details.

http://nusofting.liqihsynth.com/dash-so ... aries.html

Awarded: Eigentone Research provides a NFR license to Accelerando to the entrants who made OSX plug-ins (mucoder, Shuriken.se).
Winners, I will email you with contact information for Eigentone.

http://www.eigentoneresearch.com/Home.html

Awarded: Odosynths has donated ten -- count 'em, ten! -- licenses each for Unknown 64 Pro and Six, to be given to the top ten winners (xoxos, mucoder, Ugo, de la Mancha/sinkmusic, Acrobat, Chris Roberson, Martin Eastwood Audio, rlma-labs.de, NickSonic, and Psychic Modulation).
I'll contact Odo to arrange for you to pick up your prizes, and let you know the details when I know them.

http://www.odosynths.com/vst.htm

Awarded: Paztech Records (now Newport City Rollers) provides two downloadable albums to the #1 place dev (xoxos), and one each to #2 and #3 (mucoder and ugo).
I'll contact Paztech to arrange for you to download the tunes you've won.

http://www.newportcityrollers.com/

Awarded: SampleBytes has donated a coupon for $100 off on any SampleBytes DAW to every entrant, and a $200 coupon for the #1 winner, xoxos.
I'll send SampleBytes a list of all winners' email addresses and names so you can claim your coupons.

http://store02.prostores.com/servlet/sa ... StoreFront

Awarded: spacedad's talented offspring, Jacky Lee, decided to donate the SynthEdit logo acrylic painting to the developer of Duckling Compressor (Betabugs).
I'll give spacedad your contact info so you can arrange shipping.

http://jacky.theprize.googlepages.com/

Awarded: Urs Heckmann / U-he is giving each of the top three [edit: wrong; top FIVE!] winners their choice of Zebra2, Filterscape, or MFM2 (xoxos, mucoder, ugo, de la Mancha/sinkmusic, Acrobat).
Winners, I'll either email you the contact information so you can pick up your prizes from Urs, or I'll send your contact details to him, whichever he prefers.

http://www.u-he.com/

Awarded: xoxos has donated one licensed plug-in of the winner's choice to everyone who entered a plug-in for DC2007.
Please contact xoxos via PM or through his Website to arrange to collect your prizes.
http://www.xoxos.net/

Prizes that are on the big table

Now that's taken care of... what's on that table, you ask? Oooo, I'm gonna tell ya! Note that there are several of some prizes to be claimed.

Taken (Martin Eastwood): TruePianos from 4Front Technologies (1 of 5)
Taken (multree, for Christian Budde): TruePianos from 4Front Technologies (2 of 5)
Taken (lotus2035): TruePianos from 4Front Technologies (3 of 5)
Taken (GaryG): TruePianos from 4Front Technologies (4 of 5)
Taken (se:ba of lidsquid audio): TruePianos from 4Front Technologies (5 of 5)

http://www.truepianos.com/

Taken (Duncan Parsons): A license for the AudioMulch Interactive Music Studio

http://www.audiomulch.com/

Taken (Ugo): $100 certificate toward any Bandmate Loops products

http://www.bandmateloops.com/storefront.php

Taken (Psychic Modulation): Any Camel Audio product, your choice (1 of 2)
Taken (mucoder): Any Camel Audio product, your choice (2 of 2)

http://www.camelaudio.com/

Taken (stk of arcDev Noise Industries): DelayDots Spectrumworx (for PC only -- check your specs)
Taken (xoxos): DelayDots Sound Designers / Spectral Suite (for PC or OSX -- check your specs)

http://www.delaydots.com/xproducts.html

Taken (Robert Parry of Paztech Records): $30 downloadable sounds from ElectroniSounds (1 of 5)
Taken (xoxos): $30 downloadable sounds from ElectroniSounds (2 of 5)
Taken (sinkmusic): $30 downloadable sounds from ElectroniSounds (3 of 5)
Taken (Jack R): $30 downloadable sounds from ElectroniSounds (4 of 5)
Taken (Lithium): $30 downloadable sounds from ElectroniSounds (5 of 5)

♦http://www.electronisounds.com/

Taken (Ugo): A $250 certificate toward any purchase from the Image-Line online shop

http://www.image-line.com/

Taken (NEK-X): Complete archive of SynthEdit or SynthMaster sources from JoBro Media (1 of 3)
Taken (spacedad): Complete archive of SynthEdit or SynthMaster sources (your choice) from JoBro Media (2 of 3)
Taken (lotus2035): Complete archive of SynthEdit or SynthMaster sources (your choice) from JoBro Media (3 of 3)

http://jobromedia.netcipia.net/xwiki/bin/view/Main/

Taken (Noam from Musicrow): Any Kong Audio Chinese (or Mongolian) instrument plug-in, winner's choice

http://www.chineekong.com/vstmain.htm

Taken (larsby of Shuriken.se): Any single product (VST or Soundset) from Manytone (1 of 3)
Taken (Peter of Freakrush Team): Any single product (VST or Soundset) from Manytone (2 of 3)
Taken (softegg): Any single product (VST or Soundset) from Manytone (3 of 3)
Taken (Duncan Parsons for Rough Draft Audio): Fretless Bass Soundset from Manytone

http://www.manytone.com/

Taken (de la Mancha): A copy of Reaktor 5 from Native Instruments

http://www.native-instruments.com/

Taken (realisation): Perimeter Sound Arts DVD Collection, Volume 1

http://www.perimetersound.com/
(If you choose the downloadable form, you also get Kunundrum)

Taken (Stefan Hållén): A ProSounds design session -- 128 professionally-designed presets for your plug-in
Taken (Chris Roberson): ProSounds PS-1, with upgrade to PS-2 when available

http://www.pro-sounds.net/

Taken (JoBro Media): A license for Renoise tracker-style composing environment (1 of 2)
Taken (mucoder): A license for Renoise tracker-style composing environment (2 of 2)

http://www.renoise.com/

Taken (Lithium): A big goodie bag from Skint Records

http://www.skint.net/
See http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=3177089 for photo and listing of contents.

Taken (HERCs Music Systems): "Zero" drum samplebundle from Sonic Specialists

http://sonicspecialists.com/Joomla/content/view/59/142/ (scroll down a bit)

Taken (kx77free): A standard license (the full commercial one) for SynthMaker

http://synthmaker.co.uk/

Taken (R. Lindner): Zebra2 from U-He
Taken (NickSonic): Filterscape from U-He
Taken (Another Small Clue): MFM2 from U-He

http://www.u-he.com/

Taken (Artvera for Team Modus): Ugo Audio bundle of Metallurgy, Ironhead & Tunguska, Disturbance, M-theory & Dualism (1 of 2)
Taken (spacedad and jacky lee): Ugo Audio bundle of Metallurgy, Ironhead & Tunguska, Disturbance, M-theory & Dualism (2 of 2)

http://www.ugoaudio.com/

Taken (Eigentone Research): Synaesthesis experimental Impulse Response library download from Virtuasonic (1 of 2)
Taken (Sonicase): Synaesthesis experimental Impulse Response library download from Virtuasonic (2 of 2)

http://www.virtuasonic.com/

Taken (Spyro): WIVI Brass 1 from Wallander Instruments

http://www.wallanderinstruments.com/

Taken (Acrobat): A full copy of Wusikstation from Wusik.com

http://www.wusik.com/

Taken (sunahura): Your choice of downloadable albums from Zircon Studios (1 of 3)
Taken (Caco): Your choice of downloadable albums from Zircon Studios (2 of 3)
Taken (softegg): Your choice of downloadable albums from Zircon Studios (3 of 3)

http://www.zirconstudios.com/

Holy KVR Mackerel -- that's all

Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 5:57 pm

Bump for addition: Kong Audio Chinese instrument plug-in; and more info: Skint Records goodie bag (no longer so mysterious). Still lining up more goods for y'all to pick from. (Tolga did the real work, of course, I'm just wrapping up the last details to put the swag in your bag.)

Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 1:15 pm

Bump to add Native Instruments Reaktor 5.

Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 5:47 pm

Bump for Wusikstation and SynthMaker. But wait, there's more: still contacting donors to see what goes on the table and what goes directly to specific winners. Expect more good stuff shortly.

Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 6:40 pm

And another bump for Ugo Audio and Virtuasonic. Yes, we're wrapping up the alphabet.

de la Mancha · Post by **de la Mancha** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 7:09 pm

This is getting exciting

Once you've got the prizes from ZZZZZzzzzzaardvark Fryingpanware sorted out then we're away!
(is it a George Harrison Health Grill?)

Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 7:12 pm

I'm awaiting a pawful of replies. The emails so far aren't coming back quite alphabetically. In other words, there's still more to come and it's just as good as what you see so far. A glittering heap adorns the table, but there's still space for a few more jewels!

sonicase · Post by **sonicase** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 8:30 pm

hmm

i see a couple things i would actually want
but i'm last

oh well

Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 9:05 pm

I hope there'll be something you can use. And it's an incentive to do well this year! :-}

Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 9:20 pm

Bump for ProSounds PS-1/PS-2 and preset design session (I told you there was some really good stuff still coming).

Note that I'm color-coding the prize items, with pre-awarded ones in gold and available prizes in bright green. As entrants make their choices I'll update the list to show which items have been taken.

[edit]

SOME ADVICE FOR THE WINNERS (that's you)

If you need to research any of the available items -- to be sure they're compatible with your system, for instance -- now would be the perfect time to do it. :-}

Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 10:30 pm

Manytone checks in -- three winners may choose any single Manytone product.

Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 1:13 am

That's probably all for this evening. Apologies to everyone for how long it's taking; I've been contacting donors and contestants and preparing the prize list in odd bits of off time between working, eating, and sleeping. But the end of the tunnel is in sight, friends, and that's not a locomotive light at the end -- it's a simulated power indicator LED.

Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 2:35 pm

Bump to add the mighty and majestic Wallander Instruments WIVI Brass 1. =@.@=

xoxos · Post by **xoxos** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 5:28 pm

i wouldn't mind the reaktor 5, tho i don't know what my wheedling potential is there.

DC2007 Prize Distribution... FINISHED! Thank you one and all