What do you love about music?
What really fires you up about it?
What got you into it in the first place?
What are the sounds you want to make or hear?
Right?
Well do that then
Reach deep within thy souls, children, and give us all you've got!
How's that?
Anyone know what I'm trying to say?
Be yourself, and for the love of music.
Or something
That's 'it'.
so ... with the hope that at the end of this longer contest we will have the material to maybe put together a KVR AUDIO CD (certainly for online distribution if not a physical product) in tribute to john peel and his absolute passion for music ... its time to put away all the usual pretence and stylistic posing of these contests and just make the music your heart and soul and guts have always wanted you to ...
(in the spirit of this one perhaps your voting should be a reflection of this and bollocks to technical ability and polished production ??? )
... please note the extended deadlines (to allow for the longer track length and to give me a break over new year) and altered limits on track length (along with the need to provide a shorter version too) ...
... at the end of this the winners will get their usual prize stuff but clueless and easybugger and me will also try to bash out a way of coming up with a tracklisting for the hoped for CD ...
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the technical rules for this month are as follows ...
1 - your track MUST be -
(a) encoded in .mp3 or .ogg format at 128kbps or lower
(b) no longer than 4 minutes running time BUT PLEASE ALSO SUPPLY A 1 TO 2 MINUTE EXCERPT / EDIT FOR MEMBERS SHORT ON TIME OR STILL ON DIAL-UP
(c) named in the format month-year-artistname-tracktitle (ie - 12-04-artistname---tracktitle.mp3) with AT LEAST the artist and title fields of the ID tag completed (untagged entries will be disqualified)
(d) composed using at least some software plugin instruments or effects
(e) entered into the contest by posting a DIRECT link in this RULES & SUBMISIONS thread (use the GOSSIP thread for everything else)
(f) submitted before the deadline (6pm GMT on monday 24th january)
2 - your track SHOULD be -
(a) composed specifically for this contest (ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT THIS MONTH)
(b) original material / remix / or hybrid in any style
3 - only one entry per person - no resubmissions without permission from the moderator
4 - any tracks not adhering to these rules will be strictly disqualified
5 - voting (members must have at least 20 posts to vote) will run from the submission deadline until 6pm GMT on monday 31st january - anyone voting for themselves will find ALL their votes disqualified - any entrants not voting will also be disqualified
6 - prizes this month so far ...
1 - again from darrell burgan over at ...
... a copy of his spectral relativity impulse library
2 - from the ever prolific ian from ...
... a copy of the intriguing YAVA2 (the package contains YAVA2 and YFG (YAVA Free Gift) - includes a manual for YAVA2 and 128 presets
3 - from the generous folks over at ...
... as ever im working on getting some more loot for you all ... so ... IF YOU ARE A DEVELOPER OR RETAILER who would like to contribute something please email or PM me with your offer - anything gratefully consideredsonoma wire works wrote:Sonoma Wire Works, developers of cutting-edge user interface design and software for the next generation of music products, have offered to give a free copy of Sonoma 7 VST effects plug-in to the winner of the December/January contest as well as the the contest that ends in February. Sonoma 7 VST is a comprehensive set of seven great sounding, fully optimized effects like auto-wah, multiband compression, modulation, delay, reverb, and parametric EQ. By combining all seven effects into one plug-in, musicians get convenient access to multi-effect presets, and the ability to instantiate more effects without using up extra insert or send locations. Each effect can be enabled or disabled separately, and by using a single window, screen clutter is minimized.
Free demo available here: http://sonomawireworks.com/effects.php
, standard poor mans ELO faux beatles middle 8 (these contests seem to bring out the worst in me 
), and piss poor Mick Ronson style 
