KVR Audio

z.prime · Post by **z.prime** » Mon Jun 03, 2013 12:46 am

ontrackp wrote:Is this an appropriate forum to ask specific questions to the other producers?

Sure... maybe the submissions thread would be a little more appropriate, or the general thread if there are more general questions. Either way, you'll probably get answers from most people here. Unless they're mean, like me.

V'ger · Post by **V'ger** » Mon Jun 03, 2013 1:30 am

Yes ideally there but could be here as well. Picking up info nuggets from others is very useful so sharing welcome (and appreciated) anywhere.

Mike777 · Post by **Mike777** » Mon Jun 03, 2013 3:33 am

voted. wow that was not easy

Nightpolymath · Post by **Nightpolymath** » Mon Jun 03, 2013 6:18 am

Voted.

Entangled Noise · Post by **Entangled Noise** » Mon Jun 03, 2013 6:41 am

Voted

Cat Gordon · Post by **Cat Gordon** » Mon Jun 03, 2013 8:04 am

Voted.

Tip: have duplicate forms open - the first one could be just for marking down all tracks you might want to assign a vote your 1st listen through, the second one could be for draft votes for your 2nd listen through of the tracks you marked down, and the 3rd would end up being your submitted form. I just used 2 duplicates, but in retrospect 3 would have made it easier.

@bjporter - Even if I wanted to fill it up more...I'm afraid that is the extent of my sound design skills. Took me forever to get those sounds out *cry*, and I am so awed when I hear other tracks that were submitted.

Ciao all, I had fun listening to all the creativity from you guys

VitaminD · Post by **VitaminD** » Tue Jun 04, 2013 2:37 am

V'ger wrote:Time to vote for your top 5 tracks. All tracks are here.

RULES:
- Give 5 points to the track you think is best, 4 for second, then 3, 2 and 1.

Oops.

The form is created in a way to allow multiple 5s 4s 3s etc. I missed that rule above and ended up voting several 5s some 4s some 3s not knowing what to do

Had you just had a drop down with 5 boxes, that would have made it easier... and obvious.

Davias · Post by **Davias** » Tue Jun 04, 2013 3:05 am

5 is not enough tracks I would like to vote for

how to choose the 5 ? there is so many good stuff or interesting... I will need more than one listening to choose. And it is really long to hear 60+ tracks

I miss time to work with feldspar (or to buy vst)

sovarozum · Post by **sovarozum** » Tue Jun 04, 2013 5:15 am

I've voted!

Hmm... aside from a drop down list, maybe it would be easier to scale the amount of points that are allowed to be given with the amount of entries that are in a particular month's contest?

For instance, a month with over 40 entries might see 6 points as best instead of 5? Not to shame the current voting system, just thought I would share an idea.

Kondarivan · Post by **Kondarivan** » Tue Jun 04, 2013 5:17 am

V'ger wrote:@Kondarivan: Seems that type of dropdown form style is not doable in Google documents right now as far as I can see. But if I or anyone should find a better system it will of course be considered.

You are using Google forms, right? For me, it works without any trouble: Add an item, and for question type, select "Choose from a list". Then, add the options.
However, I couldn't find a way to create a fast Soundcloud embedding system, sorry. Perhaps Google forms really is not enough customizable for such an approach...

IrionDaRonin · Post by **IrionDaRonin** » Tue Jun 04, 2013 9:31 am

sovarozum wrote:I've voted!

Hmm... aside from a drop down list, maybe it would be easier to scale the amount of points that are allowed to be given with the amount of entries that are in a particular month's contest?

For instance, a month with over 40 entries might see 6 points as best instead of 5? Not to shame the current voting system, just thought I would share an idea.

I always wanted this, for huge lists, that makes the vote easier.

Have a nice day

V'ger · Post by **V'ger** » Tue Jun 04, 2013 10:57 am

@VitaminD: No problem, just vote again, I've removed the one with errors

@Davias and Sovarozum: Believe me it will not be easier if you have to choose more than 5, we had more before and most found that even more difficult. The scalable idea with the slightly increased number for huge fields like now is not bad though, it's like a bonus point to a favorite 'outsider'. I will include this as an option in the next rules vote and see what people think then.

@Kondarivan: Yes one can make dropdown select boxes but how to tie that in with a scoring spreadsheet(s) to automatically get scoreboards like we use now?
https://sites.google.com/site/kvrosc/os ... scoreboard

solidtrax · Post by **solidtrax** » Tue Jun 04, 2013 1:01 pm

Just thinking out loud here, but when people feel that picking only 5 tracks is to hard (I can imagine), why don't we change the way we vote completely?

I would love to be able to give 1 to 5 points (stars) to every track I listen to.. listen to it.. and decide for yourself what kind of rating you want to give that track. I could end up with 3 tracks I believe are amazing and all deserve 5 points.. so I give them all 5 points.

Maybe there are 6 tracks that I think are good, but nothing special, I could give them 3 out of 5 points.

So, give ALL tracks a rating between 1 and 5 points/stars and in the end, it's very easy to see who received the most points. (and the second most, third most, etc..)

Many time in previous OSC's I wanted to give points to more than 5 tracks, but I couldn't. That problem would be gone in this scenario.

In my opinion, this would be the most fair way of voting.

z.prime · Post by **z.prime** » Tue Jun 04, 2013 1:07 pm

solidtrax wrote:Just thinking out loud here, but when people feel that picking only 5 tracks is to hard (I can imagine), why don't we change the way we vote completely?

I would love to be able to give 1 to 5 points (stars) to every track I listen to.. listen to it.. and decide for yourself what kind of rating you want to give that track. I could end up with 3 tracks I believe are amazing and all deserve 5 points.. so I give them all 5 points.

Maybe there are 6 tracks that I think are good, but nothing special, I could give them 3 out of 5 points.

So, give ALL tracks a rating between 1 and 5 points/stars and in the end, it's very easy to see who received the most points. (and the second most, third most, etc..)

Many time in previous OSC's I wanted to give points to more than 5 tracks, but I couldn't. That problem would be gone in this scenario.

In my opinion, this would be the most fair way of voting.

This is a really awesome idea! I've always wanted to just give points to tracks that deserve them, narrowing the points to 5 tracks is the hardest part, sometimes.

IrionDaRonin · Post by **IrionDaRonin** » Tue Jun 04, 2013 1:33 pm

solidtrax wrote:Just thinking out loud here, but when people feel that picking only 5 tracks is to hard (I can imagine), why don't we change the way we vote completely?

I would love to be able to give 1 to 5 points (stars) to every track I listen to.. listen to it.. and decide for yourself what kind of rating you want to give that track. I could end up with 3 tracks I believe are amazing and all deserve 5 points.. so I give them all 5 points.

Maybe there are 6 tracks that I think are good, but nothing special, I could give them 3 out of 5 points.

So, give ALL tracks a rating between 1 and 5 points/stars and in the end, it's very easy to see who received the most points. (and the second most, third most, etc..)

Many time in previous OSC's I wanted to give points to more than 5 tracks, but I couldn't. That problem would be gone in this scenario.

In my opinion, this would be the most fair way of voting.

Do you mean a rate system with stars?

For example, if there was only 8 tracks in the contest.

Track 1 **
Track 2 ****
Track 3 *
Track 4 *****
Track 5 *
Track 6 ***
Track 7 **
Track 8 *****

So we could vote for all tracks, each star means +1 point.
This way all tracks could be voted and in the last moment, it is easily to see the winners, the ones with more stars.

Well, this would be nice when scoring. This way you don't have to break your head about the best ones. You just vote, and the sheet scoring system would add all these points.

Hmm... Never thought that. Nice point.

Have a nice day

One-Synth-Challenge 52: Podolski - Voting and Results