It's a friendly music competition where you can win cool prizes but most importantly, meet amazing musicians, and learn a lot about mixing, sound design, and more!
Here's How It Works:
- Download our synth of the month here
- You make an awesome track before the 1st of next month using only the chosen synth and some effects *Rules Apply*
- Announce your submission here on this thread, with proper details
- At minimum, please mention # of instances of the synth, the DAW (Reaper, Ableton, etc), and all plugins.
- Submit your soundcloud link here following the correct format for title, download enabled, and submission description. Your song will be picked up on the OSC player
- Once submissions are over, the voting starts - you *MUST* vote to get a ranking or prize
- The voting link will be posted on the 1st, and OP will be updated.
- Maybe you win? You meet new friends? Learn something new?
- Most importantly... have fun!
**MAKE SURE YOU READ THE RULES** | See Contest Page for latest track Submissions, Info, FAQ & More
Bug Reports / Feedback / Support:
Submissions:
Will show up here once voting starts (n/a):
This Month's Synth:
From the github: "JS80P has two oscillators (and a sub-harmonic sine), and a lot of filters, effects, envelope generators, LFOs, and powerful macros to shape your sound with subtractive, additive, PWM, FM, PM, and AM synthesis, complete with polyphonic, monophonic, and split keyboard modes, MPE support, MTS-ESP tuning support, and analog imperfection emulation."
Prizes:
(Would you like to be a sponsor / prize donor? Contact RichardSemper via PM or go ahead and post your intended donation here! Get a cool mention on our donator wall of honor)
Note:
We are offering a secondary prize (on top of the normal prize): Additional Bonus Prize!
- **It's Back!!!*** Hardcore Mode: The highest Single Instance entry in the top 5 gets a cash bonus of $50 USD. (note: this prize may be carried forward to selected OSC challenges until it is won).
- Yuli Yolo Sound Design: Top 3 winners may claim a soundsets for Vital: Diversity, Bass Music Wavetables, Noises & Exciters
Ternär Music Technology : **New Prize*** 1x NFR for either Flechtwerk Pro or ChannelStrip Pro Many thanks to the developer :hug
Daw Junkie : **New Prize!!!*** A Complete Synth Bundle 2
Big Daw Audio : **New Prize!!!*** One copy of Calm Before Plugin - a mixing one knob plugin that "MAKE DROPS & CHORUSES HIT HARDER"
KV331 Audio : **New Prize!!!*** Synthmaster 3 Producer Bundle
Dawesome : One NFR for an arbitrary Dawesome plugin of choice!
NUSofting : Choose any one NUSofting plug-in of your choice
Touch The Universe : Winner has option to receive 50 banks, totaling $1000 USD!!!
Red Rock Sound : Choose 1 Copy of any plugin
Dmitry Sches : Diversion
Luftrum : Two Choices: 1x NFR license of either Bioscape or the new Lunaris 2 (or two soundsets of choice)
Audio Thing : Outer Space (vintage tape echo plugin)
JRR Sounds: Any 1 soundset (This is a secondary prize, you may pick it as well as your main prize)
JRR Shop : UVI: Digital Synsations (vintage 90's synth sample library and player)
satYatunes : One of any commercial product
Xenos Soundworks : Choice of any 1 product
Newloops.com : any 3 sound packs of choice (excluding bundles)
The Unfinished : Any two soundsets of Choice
Aiyn Zahev Sounds: Any 2 Soundsets of choice from the website (Uplifting Trance Presets)
Solidtrax : 1 Soundset of choice (except for the Future Chill and Space Trips expansions)
Bjulin : Inspire soundset for Zebra 2
LeapIntoTheVoid : Falcon Iterata X subscription or any two soundsets of your choice (Updated Prize!)
Mulperi : 1 Soundbank of Choice
Any other offers of prizes will be greatly appreciated.
Questions? Comments? Concerns? You want some love? Just post here in this thread
Want to try out your skills in other contests / competitions /challenges?- Itch.io Game Jams: Find game developers looking for musicians. Create music for games, and help win the jam!
- Mix Challenge - Join monthly recurring Songwriting Competitions (with a new theme/genre every month) and/or Mix(ing) Challenges (mixing multi-tracks from scratch). Win prizes!
- RemixExs - A list of contests / music challenge (Seems to be having issues as 2024)
- Skio Music Contests - Lots of remixes you can join (Mostly EDM) - big prizes.
- Splice contests listed on Splice
