2024-MAY-01 Info: Check out our current running Songwriting Competition 081 - which offers an interesting twist and a focus on sound design.

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by gruskada
Wed Aug 26, 2020 15:50 CEST
Forum: Songwriting Competition
Topic: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC036 August 2020 - Winners announced
Replies: 113
Views: 53515

Re: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC036 August 2020 - Submissions until 28-08-2020 23:59 UTC+2/CEST

”Gatekeeper”, Olli H https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aUkch0lUEZ268usMzJC1pj8o4WevnkCE/view?usp=sharing Wow, Olli, this is one of your best efforts as far as matching the music to the contest. It's really good as well. My only comment would be that the drums sound very fake in parts (though they ar...
by gruskada
Sun Jul 05, 2020 14:02 CEST
Forum: Songwriting Competition
Topic: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC034 June 2020 - Winners announced
Replies: 43
Views: 30319

Re: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC034 June 2020 - Winners announced

Congrats to all the winners! Good contest this month - lots of great submissions.
by gruskada
Wed Jul 01, 2020 15:06 CEST
Forum: Songwriting Competition
Topic: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC034 June 2020 - Winners announced
Replies: 43
Views: 30319

Re: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC034 June 2020 - Voting until 01-JUL-2020 23:59 UTC+2/CEST

Hehe i can recognize EastWest stuff at begining, nice intro. Did you performed those strings? Yeah, it is a very recognizable sound :smile: I still love using it, though. I performed the strings all with closed voicings, then modified the MIDI to make them open chords in the last section, and to fi...
by gruskada
Mon Jun 29, 2020 23:26 CEST
Forum: Songwriting Competition
Topic: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC034 June 2020 - Winners announced
Replies: 43
Views: 30319

Re: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC034 June 2020 - Voting until 01-JUL-2020 23:59 UTC+2/CEST

bedlamward - Climb - doesn't sound like "big beat" to me. I kept thinking that this is going to be so cool once it transforms into big beat, but it never does. - closest you get is an 80's style snare effect - interesting song, though - I like the vocal synth stuff, though it sounds a bit...
by gruskada
Wed Jun 24, 2020 02:18 CEST
Forum: Songwriting Competition
Topic: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC034 June 2020 - Winners announced
Replies: 43
Views: 30319

Re: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC034 June 2020 - Submissions until 24-06-2020 23:59 UTC+2/CEST

Note: I couldn't get it at -14LUFS, I used the Ozone learn target feature, but still, Youlean Loudness Meter marked that it was at -13.5LUFS, I don't know much about mixing, I did my best, but these thigs are hard to understand, sorry. The "learn threshold target" will adjust based on the...
by gruskada
Tue Jun 23, 2020 13:58 CEST
Forum: Songwriting Competition
Topic: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC034 June 2020 - Winners announced
Replies: 43
Views: 30319

Re: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC034 June 2020 - Submissions until 24-06-2020 23:59 UTC+2/CEST

https://soundcloud.com/gruskada/power-cycle This one was pretty easy to name, sticking with my software development naming scheme. "Power Cycle" is just a hard reboot, where you completely shut down first. If you're having serious problems, especially network related, usually you want to ...
by gruskada
Sun Jun 21, 2020 16:46 CEST
Forum: Songwriting Competition
Topic: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC034 June 2020 - Winners announced
Replies: 43
Views: 30319

Re: song writing comp

this entry for the song competition is called climb ( just written ) unfortunately i submitted an older song first time so had to get my skates on . piano bass synths and vocals . can any body tell me where i can hear your song competition tracks . link below . https://drive.google.com/drive/my-dri...
by gruskada
Wed Jun 03, 2020 16:39 CEST
Forum: Songwriting Competition
Topic: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC033 May 2020 - Winners announced
Replies: 65
Views: 41040

Re: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC033 May 2020 - Winners announced

Thanks, everyone! I thought I was going to get buried this month, especially since the song deals with politics, and I'm not a singer/rapper. I appreciate all the feedback - I really do try to use this to improve. I'm glad my timing mistakes seemed to play into the theme this month, but this is some...
by gruskada
Thu May 28, 2020 14:26 CEST
Forum: Songwriting Competition
Topic: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC033 May 2020 - Winners announced
Replies: 65
Views: 41040

Re: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC033 May 2020 - Voting until 01-JUN-2020 23:59 UTC+2/CEST

maybe it is just the rum. Assuming you were serious, rum and forums don't mix well. A lot of my songs have been significantly beaten up here as well. Consider if the criticism makes sense to take into consideration (at least for your next song), and move on. It's not fun, but at least most of the t...
by gruskada
Thu May 28, 2020 04:59 CEST
Forum: Songwriting Competition
Topic: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC033 May 2020 - Winners announced
Replies: 65
Views: 41040

Re: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC033 May 2020 - Voting until 01-JUN-2020 23:59 UTC+2/CEST

Benedict Roff-Marsh - The Shifters This is very interesting. It reminds me a bit of King Crimson. The song is somehow relaxing in an odd sort of way. I've got to say I hated it the first time I listened to it, but that's pretty common with avant garde-type stuff for me. Then, with the good stuff at...