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IrionDaRonin · Post by **IrionDaRonin** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 6:41 am

More ideas for the contest.

Acoustic Trance:
All sounds must be acoustic included the drums, but it must have a Trance song structure with the typical Trance stuff. Filtered arpeggios, huge pads, 4x4 floor beat. Etc. Vocals allowed (with delay)

This way, people who usually compose with guitars and acoustic stuff, will be pleased. And at same time, people who compose Trance electronic music, will find more ideas into acoustic sounds.

Have a good day and Merry Christmas everybody

robogone · Post by **robogone** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 2:17 pm

Going to have to bow out this month

I had an idea that I just won't have time to follow up with so will have to jump on next month's contest instead.

evo2slo · Post by **evo2slo** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 2:44 pm

Been totally stumped for the contest this month so last night I just threw a bunch of the drum tracks into my daw and soloed them one at a time and jammed over them. Pretty fun and some neat results but nothing very anthemic, then Doc Jon's led me to a folksy anti-anthem type of thing so I might go in that direction. Hopefully will have time to finish, but may end up submitting something a little half-baked just to participate. (long as it's not too embarrassing...)

IrionDaRonin wrote:More ideas for the contest.

Acoustic Trance:
All sounds must be acoustic included the drums, but it must have a Trance song structure with the typical Trance stuff. Filtered arpeggios, huge pads, 4x4 floor beat. Etc. Vocals allowed (with delay)

This way, people who usually compose with guitars and acoustic stuff, will be pleased. And at same time, people who compose Trance electronic music, will find more ideas into acoustic sounds.

Have a good day and Merry Christmas everybody

Cool idea! That could yield some very interesting tracks. Might have to try it myself even if it's not a contest - but I hope it is. Merry Christmas!

D.H. Miltz · Post by **D.H. Miltz** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 2:46 am

evo2slo wrote:may end up submitting something a little half-baked just to participate

I think mine will fall into this category too.

ClaRago · Post by **ClaRago** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 6:27 am

D.H. Miltz wrote:
evo2slo wrote:may end up submitting something a little half-baked just to participate
I think mine will fall into this category too.

This is a picture of a "mi-cuit" , it is actually delicious . One of my favourite cakes actually.

Please give us a taste.

kryptonaut · Post by **kryptonaut** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 10:08 am

Ooh, that "mi-cuit" looks yummy!

Laguna Rising · Post by **Laguna Rising** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 3:18 pm

D.H. Miltz wrote:
evo2slo wrote:may end up submitting something a little half-baked just to participate
I think mine will fall into this category too.

I guess the month of december is a very busy month in itself (in the western world at least).

rp314 · Post by **rp314** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 7:50 pm

Quite true but it also turned out to be a fairly daunting theme this month.

Generally speaking, I think that are too basic approaches to this theme. The first, which those already in probably employed, was to find an interesting percussion piece and compose something that fits well within it.

The second, which some besides myself might have tried, was to pick an entry from last month and try to compose something, shall we say, less rigorously, and then attempt to marry the two. The results, of course, tend to be not quite as satisfactory. Not 'tight' as some might put it.

Nobody wants to massacre someone else's work. If this was a traditional collaboration we would communicate about the necessary changes and either decide to make them or scrap the whole idea. Unfortunately in this case we pretty much only have the latter option.

On the bright side, you've got at least half a dozen really nice entries.

It would have been great to have had more than just a handful of last month's percussion pieces used but I wouldn't abandon challenging contest themes based on just this experience.

D.H. Miltz · Post by **D.H. Miltz** » Sun Dec 23, 2012 4:35 am

Just two more entries and I won't have to change the wording on my generic voting thread document.

Zombie Queen · Post by **Zombie Queen** » Sun Dec 23, 2012 11:23 am

I'm almost there... so one more. Perfect chance to get into the winning 10.

Aziraphal · Post by **Aziraphal** » Mon Dec 24, 2012 12:52 pm

Very sorry about me not showing up this month, guys.

Apart from a challenging theme, December is the most stressful month for parents.

Hint: In this silly country we have 3 (three. 1. 2. 3) &%$!ing Santas.

Merreee X Matt

Zombie Queen · Post by **Zombie Queen** » Mon Dec 24, 2012 1:39 pm

Aziraphal wrote:Hint: In this silly country we have 3 (three. 1. 2. 3) &%$!ing Santas.

That means feeding kids with presents three times in a row? No biggie. We were having hanukkah when kids are getting stuff 7 (1.2.3.4.5.6.7) times in a row, then st.Nicholas birthday and now the tree....

Shangsean · Post by **Shangsean** » Mon Dec 24, 2012 2:31 pm

I'm not entering this month. Just too much work, both in my job and to create the track. Good luck to all involved though.

Was thinking about ideas for next month and my wife suggested a super hero theme song. Not a bad idea in my opinion. It doesn't have to be for any existing superhero.

ClaRago · Post by **ClaRago** » Tue Dec 25, 2012 7:46 am

Thank you gigue07 for using my theme for your Anthem of the Forest. I will be playing it later on for our Christmas tree when our guests arrive. Merry Christmas & Peace to everyone else.
Thanks to evo2slo for a piece of protest song . I am all with you.

D.H. Miltz · Post by **D.H. Miltz** » Tue Dec 25, 2012 11:15 am

Submissions thread is locked, voting thread is up.

Next month is a free for all. (Merry Xmas, GMoneh.) Still a three minute limit. But we're going to try lifting the quality setting/bitrate limit. We'll see what happens.

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