One Synth Challenge #158: Surrealistic MG-1 Plus by Cherry Audio (MilksterX Wins!)

[hope4ever]

Sadly I was just a wee bit too old for the rave scene! My mass music scenes were Isle of White and Reading festivals back in the late 60's! First started listening to music on 7" records in the mid 1950's, and working with bands in the mid 1960's until the mid 1980's.
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Been to Isle of Wight on holiday as a kid loved it, great place to go.
Happy you are still interested in music.

[hope4ever]

I got a msg in soundcloud from a record label A&R department asking to sign my tune. I took a look there and online and it all seems legit. I am a bit confused I guess. Initially I got an email from soundcloud titled "New message from Record Label".

I had already decided to build upon Mix 24 - 2nd and am currently adding to it, but thats the one the record label likes too.

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EDIT: (I am NOT entering any of my three soundcloud hosted songs linked in posts in this thread into One Synth Challenge #158, because I do not want my songs released under the CC License terms.)

[hope4ever]

hey new people you could try adding up to 30 tags to your uploaded soundcloud music, I used a website I found in google that supposedly shows the popular tags, see below...

https://www.hashtagmenow.com/soundcloud-hashtags

I used some of those tags above that were relevant and some of the ones I thought up including genres etc, including KVROSC for this challenge.

You can see my tags at my soundcloud account below, just click on a song title to see them...
add my account to the end I didnt want it to embed here for this..
soundcloud.com/
awen22

To be honest I have not noticed more views to my songs other than what may be expected from people here listening..

But it may help to get noticed?

here were the tags I used for my songs in soundcloud..
#dance #instrumental #beat #techno #soundcloudartist #sound #soundcloud #soundcloudmusic #musician #music #musicproducer #unsignedartist #newartist #newmusic #artist #producer #trance #hard #hard trance #energy #KVROSC #"One Synth Challenge" #synth #synthesizer #rave #90s #freeparty #tune #bass #bass #electronic #"hard trance"

[empphryio]

I got a msg in soundcloud from a record label A&R department asking to sign my tune. I took a look there and online and it all seems legit. I am a bit confused I guess. Initially I got an email from soundcloud titled "New message from Record Label".

I had already decided to build upon Mix 24 - 2nd and am currently adding to it, but thats the one the record label likes too.

It's a bot. They're all over soundcloud. Just delete and move on. No legitimate record company is listening to new uploads on soundcloud.

[BrainBeatMusic]

I got a msg in soundcloud from a record label A&R department asking to sign my tune. I took a look there and online and it all seems legit. I am a bit confused I guess. Initially I got an email from soundcloud titled "New message from Record Label".

I had already decided to build upon Mix 24 - 2nd and am currently adding to it, but thats the one the record label likes too.

It's a bot. They're all over soundcloud. Just delete and move on. No legitimate record company is listening to new uploads on soundcloud.

That is apart from their own (Repost) which I hear may only start looking at you if you have well over 10k legitimate plays a week. You probably will also have to be a Pro or Repost member too.

[hope4ever]

Due to bot like behaviour I outright asked them if they are a bot, awaiting response... hopefully from a human lol

[BrainBeatMusic]

I tried asking these questions in the general OSC thread but have not gotten are response yet so am going to try here.

One question I can't seem to find an answer to is are we allowed to post your entries to Spotify and Apple music etc? Oh, and can we monetize on SoundCloud too? I think this should be ok and still remain under the CC licence but am wondering if there is something specific to these competitions restricting it?

[doctorbob]

Bots appear all the time. If you tag with EDM or similar they will get you a second after posting the track! Either ignore or report and get them taken down. Reporting does work.

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[diaseis]

Here is my entry for OSC #158 !

It's kind of a weird track, I still can't decide whether I like it or not.

I used Ableton Live 10 Suit and 33 instances of Surrealistic MG-1 Plus.

https://soundcloud.com/autonym8/diaseis ... er-osc-158

Stock Plugins :
1x Arpeggiator
6x Auto Filter
8x Auto Pan
8x Compressor
1x Delay
6x Echo
19x EQ Eight
3x Gate
9x Glue Compressor
2x Limiter
2x Multiband Dynamics
2x Reverb
4x Saturator
36x Utility

External plugins :
2x TAL Reverb
2x TDR Nova
1x TDR VOS Slick EQ
1x ValhallaSuperMassive
2x Youlean Loudness Meter 2

[hope4ever]

I tried asking these questions in the general OSC thread but have not gotten are response yet so am going to try here.

One question I can't seem to find an answer to is are we allowed to post your entries to Spotify and Apple music etc? Oh, and can we monetize on SoundCloud too? I think this should be ok and still remain under the CC licence but am wondering if there is something specific to these competitions restricting it?

Interesting point, you prompted me to check the rules of this challenge again...
https://sites.google.com/site/kvrosc/rules
Quote:"Track licenses are whatever you set it to when they are on your own account at SoundCloud, but when in archive it's: Creative Commons license: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0"

I am confused now, I set my song license in soundcloud to all rights reserved, not the CC license.
If the song has a new license when in archive (I guess to mean when hosted for this challenge here or in a .zip? How can you have two contradictory licenses for the same song, I guess the CC would preceed because it is the lesser rights... so why can you still enter an all rights reserved song here if the license will default to CC potentially forever on for that song, I am confused?

[hope4ever]

Bots appear all the time. If you tag with EDM or similar they will get you a second after posting the track! Either ignore or report and get them taken down. Reporting does work.

dB

Thanks for the new tag idea, EDM is a great tag that I missed out on. Electronic Dance Music.

[zarf]

I tried asking these questions in the general OSC thread but have not gotten are response yet so am going to try here.

One question I can't seem to find an answer to is are we allowed to post your entries to Spotify and Apple music etc? Oh, and can we monetize on SoundCloud too? I think this should be ok and still remain under the CC licence but am wondering if there is something specific to these competitions restricting it?

Interesting point, you prompted me to check the rules of this challenge again...
https://sites.google.com/site/kvrosc/rules
Quote:"Track licenses are whatever you set it to when they are on your own account at SoundCloud, but when in archive it's: Creative Commons license: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0"

I am confused now, I set my song license in soundcloud to all rights reserved, not the CC license.
If the song has a new license when in archive (I guess to mean when hosted for this challenge here or in a .zip? How can you have two contradictory licenses for the same song, I guess the CC would preceed because it is the lesser rights... so why can you still enter an all rights reserved song here if the license will default to CC potentially forever on for that song, I am confused?

That's a good question! I've been around here for a while but never really thought about it
1) So does that mean that I can download any tracks from the archive and use them for anything I want that is non-commercial so long as I give credit and don't alter it?
2) And, er, yeah - how can one identical piece of music have two different licenses if it's set different on SoundCloud? How does that work folks?
Just curious

[FrogsInPants]

That's a good question! I've been around here for a while but never really thought about it
1) So does that mean that I can download any tracks from the archive and use them for anything I want that is non-commercial so long as I give credit and don't alter it?
2) And, er, yeah - how can one identical piece of music have two different licenses if it's set different on SoundCloud? How does that work folks?
Just curious

Having dual licenses in general isn't all that uncommon. It just means you can have and use it under the terms of license A, or under the terms of license B, like how you can use JUCE either under their commercial license terms, or under GPL. Whether it makes sense to license under CC BY-NC-ND as part of OSC, and reserve all rights otherwise, I'm not sure. I'm not even sure that the rights are necessarily transitive - If I license to the OSC organizers under CC BY-NC-ND, does that give anyone else the rights to use my piece under those terms, or just allow the OSC archive to serve them for people to listen to? I'm sure there must be some detailed legal language behind the CC licenses, but I'm not familiar with those details.

It's not terribly important to me, as I have no desire to use my pieces for commercial purposes. I still find it interesting, though.

[zarf]

That's a good question! I've been around here for a while but never really thought about it
1) So does that mean that I can download any tracks from the archive and use them for anything I want that is non-commercial so long as I give credit and don't alter it?
2) And, er, yeah - how can one identical piece of music have two different licenses if it's set different on SoundCloud? How does that work folks?
Just curious

Having dual licenses in general isn't all that uncommon. It just means you can have and use it under the terms of license A, or under the terms of license B, like how you can use JUCE either under their commercial license terms, or under GPL. Whether it makes sense to license under CC BY-NC-ND as part of OSC, and reserve all rights otherwise, I'm not sure. I'm not even sure that the rights are necessarily transitive - If I license to the OSC organizers under CC BY-NC-ND, does that give anyone else the rights to use my piece under those terms, or just allow the OSC archive to serve them for people to listen to? I'm sure there must be some detailed legal language behind the CC licenses, but I'm not familiar with those details.

It's not terribly important to me, as I have no desire to use my pieces for commercial purposes. I still find it interesting, though.

Thanks for the insights! Raised more questions, of course, but all good. I'm in a similar boat - doesn't affect me really, certainly not trying to make any money with OSC tracks - but I am interested in it.

[doctorbob]

Not interested in making money from my OSSC tracks! But then, what fool would pay me money for them anyway??

But, good questions for those who might wish for their OSC tracks to raise a few pennies.

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