The sample data that comes with the plugin is common to every entrant, and a part of the realm of possibilities of that synth package, unchanged from one entrant to the next. Especially when there's such a small selection of sample material, it's quite obvious if someone just plays back something from the sample pool and calls it a dayzarf wrote:If the rule is to be 'Any factory content is fine' then of course happy to go with that, while asking the question: why are factory samples OK, but my samples not - seeing as if we do that we are already not just using the synthesis capabilities of the synth...
. Instead, it's there as one piece of the challenge, to be used in an inventive way, and a level playing field for all, using that one synth in its default installation and the stuff that comes with it. If it was okay to import any audio, everyone would be free to craft any audio at all, from anywhere using any tools possible, and then import that; the "one synth" aspect would be lost. The factory content is a part of that "one synth" package that is available to everyone using it to their best potential, whereas importing any audio from anywhere reaches outside of that known space.
... Sound effects, an "acoustic" element or two, that sort of stuff. The challenge of "sounds nothing like a synthesizer" is very gratifying when, in the end, it still comes from a synthesizer. Anyway, I digress.)