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The purpose is to A) punish the VSTi and make it do naughty things, and B) demonstrate that tools do not equal talent - and that sometimes limitations can be liberating and encourage you to try things you might not ordinarily do with your gear, not to mention showing people with fancy setups that there's more to a good song than expensive plugs.
In a nutshell, you are to make a song using only the provided VSTi, drum machine + breakbeat samples (breakbeat courtesy of Sackley) and the provided toolkit of DSP effects (the Kjaerhus Classic series.) You can also record your own vocals as long as they're used as traditional vocals, i.e. sung, rapped, or spoken content (no beatboxing or humming basslines
)The featured freeware VSTi for this round will be POLYIBLIT as selected by the winner of the first contest, Apastrat: Polyiblit is an excellent choice for its range of sound possibilities, potential depth of configuration, and stability on the wonky old PCs many of us still use. The featured drum machine kit is the Korg Prophecy kit, which has a wide variety of sounds and was noteworthy for Apastrat for its toms. And finally, our very own Sackley has once more generously provided 4 samples of the same break (which he both played & recorded live) with 3 versions having different mic tracks and the 4th being a composite mix.
The 3 Rules
1) Songs can only be made from the featured VSTi, and the provided drum machine kit and breakbeat sample (percussion can be synthesized from the VSTi as well.) You may also record your own vocal content provided it's sung or spoken and not you making synth, bass, beatbox or other instrumental sounds. If a vocal sample is ID'd* as coming from existing media such as film, music, television, the submission will be disqualified.
2) The aforementioned provided sounds can be processed only using the provided DSP vst plug-ins. You can use your sampler to capture, stretch, re-pitch, reverse, or chop the samples, but using native DAW or sampler processing to do anything like bandpassing, phasing, flanging, chorusing, gating, compressing, reverb, delay, etc. is not allowed *.
3) Song can be any style/genre; Song run time can be no more than 4 minutes (entries running over will not be included, period); two weeks deadline with 1 week of voting.
* Winner must be able to provide patch/screenshot/some sort of basic documentation for how sound
Contains: (download link removed 10/15/10)
~ Korg Prophecy drumkit,
~ Sackley's breakbeat,
~ the Kjaerhus Classic series installer .exe,
~ Polyiblit .dll... PLUS - as a bonus - every free patch & bank for it I could find. You're welcome.
Deadline for contest submissions is MIDNIGHT Pacific Standard Time (7 PM GMT) on October 14th.
When you're ready to submit your song, please upload to a share site (sendspace, rapidshare, divshare, etc) and PM me the link with your name and the name of the track.
Do not disclose your identity or anyone else's identity until voting is through, please.
. And other than FIR in/out display (or lack thereof, rather), there isn't much I'd change on ReaEQ.
