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SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC048 August 2021 - Winners announced

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Re: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC048 August 2021 - Submissions until 24-08-2021 23:59 UTC+2/CEST

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Mister Fox wrote:
Mon Aug 16, 2021 22:06 CEST
Apologies for the possible misunderstanding in this case, but your entry does fit the genre/premise.
So please, go ahead and update your post. :phones:
Thank you Mister Fox, No need to apologize, probably it's my fault.
Updated my first post.

Rowan wrote:
Tue Aug 17, 2021 17:20 CEST
Does it fit the genre?
I’m not very educated about genres either, but I think definitely do.
And it has a good start, I look forward to continuing the solo at the end. :)
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Re: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC048 August 2021 - Submissions until 24-08-2021 23:59 UTC+2/CEST

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A friendly reminder:
Including today, 7 days left to submit your production


If you want to access the extended game mechanics of the Songwriting Competition (asking for feedback during production), please try to release your first edits within the next 3 days to have enough time to get possible feedback (if needed/wanted) and continue to work on your song.




@Rowan
I've listened to your WIP, yes that would work.
TrojakEW

Re: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC048 August 2021 - Submissions until 24-08-2021 23:59 UTC+2/CEST

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My entry for this round. Well this time I was struggling a lot. Made three different basic tracks/ideas in hour. I decide to finish the last attempt since I do not have time to do something else and it was far the best idea of all. This is for sure final version and I will do not make any changes to it. Even if I have more time for it I'm not sure if I will be able to improve it. The more I working on music the more I understand that I'm not musician. :hihi:

Track have 90 bpm and it is kind of hybrid attempt. Chillout with bit of Lo-fi but I was also trying to make beat more upfront. Vocal phrases, words are in Latin but I have no idea what they sing, so in the end it may sounds like nonsense for those who understand it.

Was trying to get as much mono compatible track as I can do. It is not perfect but instrument levels are almost same for stereo and mono playback. There is some minor problem with one or two instruments that loose bit of power in mono playback but you can still hear them. I think this is far my best attempt to have wide stereo while making it mono compatible. Even numbers shows small difference between both stereo and mono version.


Made using FL Studio 20.6
Instruments used:
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1x NI Drum Lab, 2x NI Analog Dreams, 2x Output Signal, 1x Output Substance, 1x Eduardo Tarilonte's Cantus, 3x Sudden Audio Raw Strings, 1x 8Dio Acoustic Grand Ensembles Vol. 1
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Used Effects:

1x Izotope Neutron 3, 7x Izotope Neutron 3 Equalizer, 1x Izotope Ozone 9, 1x Izotope Tonal Balance 2, 1x Izotope Insight 2, 2x Noveltech Vocal Enhancer, 9x zOne.sk Arx One, 1x Fruity Convoler, 1x Fruity Peak Controller, 1x Fruity Limiter, 1x Guitar Rig 6
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Statistics:
Max momentary loudness -8.6 LUFS
Max short-tem loudness -11.0 LUFS
Integrated loudness -14.1 LUFS
Loudness range 7.3 LU
True peak L -1.01dB
True peak R -1.01dB
DC offset L 0% (-131.9dB)
DC offset R 0% (-132.2dB)

Statistics Mono:
Max momentary loudness -8.8 LUFS
Max short-term loudness -11.4 LUFS
Integrated loudness -14.6 LUFS
Loudness range 7.4 LU
True peak L -1.01dB
True peak R -1.01dB
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Re: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC048 August 2021 - Submissions until 24-08-2021 23:59 UTC+2/CEST

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Post by EsteveCorbera »

Hello guys,
How's summer?
I present to you my proposal this month. This time I wanted to add voices to the theme. I did my first song sung! But the voices are not recorded by me but I have taken advantage of library voices (samplers). :o
Let's see what you think. Thank you for your comments. :educate:




Equipment:
DAW:

Reason 12

Instruments:
Europa Shapeshifting Synthesizer
Thor Polysonic Synthesizer
Subtractor Polyphonic Synthesizer
Redrum Drum Computer
NN-XT Advanced Sampler
NN-19 Sampler
Malström Graintable Synthesizer
Grain Sample Manipulator

Effects:
Audiomatic Retro Transformer
Scream 4 Sound Destruction Unit
RV7000 MkII Advanced Reverb
MClass Compressor
DDL-1 Digital Delay
The Echo
MClass Maximizer
COMP-01 Compressor / Limiter

Utilities:
Combinator
Mixer 14: 2
MicroMIX
Matrix Pattern Sequencer
Scales & Chords
Dual Arpeggio
Spider CV Merger & Splitter
Note Echo

Other effects outside of Reason:
2B Delayed
Minimal Audio Rift-filter-lite
HoRNet Plugins HoRNet Total EQ

Other tools:
iZotope Ozone 9
Plugin Alliance SPL HawEye

Ghosthack Ultimate Vocal Library 3

Thanks
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Re: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC048 August 2021 - Submissions until 24-08-2021 23:59 UTC+2/CEST

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A friendly reminder:
We're in the final 24 hours to submit your production.
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Re: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC048 August 2021 - Submissions until 24-08-2021 23:59 UTC+2/CEST

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Here is my submission:

FLAC: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SLEbwt ... sp=sharing
MP3: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bWQmDi ... sp=sharing

It was kinda busy month, so things are not perfect and not qouite in a way I wanted them to be. Another spontaneous experiment that I'm glad I finished. It goes a little bit off, as I usually go crazy with my ideas, but I also found that Downtempo is kida wide genre with many different influences.

Instruments and techniques:

1. The main drum loop has taken from FL Studio stock library, edited to taste.
2. The percussion elements are taken from LinnDrum and TR-707 Samples From Mars packs.
3. U-He's 'Repro-1' used for a bass drone.
4. Ample Sound Guitar LP used for rhythm and solo electric guitar parts, processed with ToneLib GFX:
- Echo, Chorus and clean Fender '65 Twin Reverb emulation for rhythm part;
- Echo and overdriven Fender '65 Twin Reverb emulation for solo part.
5. Lo-fi pad from SampleScience 'Dreamwaves' with D16 'Decimort' samplerate reduction effect on it.
6. Synthetic strings from TAL Sampler's factory library (Fairlight).
7. Synthetic Vox sound from SampleScience 'Vaporwaves'.
8. SampleScience 'Room Piano' is a lo-fi piano library.
9. Female vocals from FL Studio stock library.
10. U-He's "ColourCopy" as a main echo send.
11. Eventide's "Blackhole" as a main reverb send.

Produced in FL Studio 20.8

Technical details:
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Last edited by VCA-089 on Fri Aug 27, 2021 19:21 CEST, edited 2 times in total.
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Re: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC048 August 2021 - Submissions until 24-08-2021 23:59 UTC+2/CEST

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Hi,
here's my track, Nightmall. I hope it fits the genre...

https://soundcloud.com/nannigrandi/nightmall

WAV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e2XbkR ... p=drivesdk

Instruments & other

GEM S2
Korg X3R
Roland Fantom 8
M-Tron Mellotron Samples
My archive’s old radio samples approximately 1980 (originally on tape)

DAW: Reaper on MacBookPro

REAPER Render Tue Aug 24 23:26:23 2021

WAV: 24bit PCM, 44100Hz, 2ch, 2067kbps
Peak -1.2
LUFS-I -14.8
Last edited by celiodie on Wed Aug 25, 2021 09:30 CEST, edited 4 times in total.
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SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC048 August 2021 - preparation phase

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It is the 25th August 2021, 4:30 UTC+2/CEST - this month's Songwriting Competition has official ended

Welcome back to our regulars, and very warm welcome to those "dipping a toe" into songwriting this month.


If I didn't miscount, we had 6 participants this month, which would sadly be 8 entries less compared to last month (14 entries), and 7 less compared to last year (13 entries). Please scroll further down below to read up on the game mechanics and the voting process.



The "staff balancing vote" add-on rule does not apply (I might add final words regardless / step in if there are ties)
"Sole Winners Podium" rule (equal or less than eight participants results in a single winner) does apply. (1-position Winners Podium)

There was no (number: 0) production submitted after the deadline
No (number: 0) entry has been disqualified (productions released outside of the game's timeframe)
No (number: 0) entry has been redacted



:arrow: How do we go from there?

Over the course of the next (hopefully) 24-48 hours (usually up to 6-12 hours maximum after the game has ended), I'll gather all links into one post and hot-link to that from the first post of the thread. Please, no more changes to your entries, but please do check your links that these entries are downloadable. We then perform with the final feedback and "public vote" system.


We have 6 participants. That means that each participant can vote for 5 tracks, the staff will will not cast a balance vote, unless there is a tie that can't be broken (or if it would add a bit more spin to the game).

Keep the Rules and Guidelines in mind. As long as we're not exceeding 20 participants, let's give feedback to all participants and(!) cast your vote for all of them.

The Top 5 list can look something like this:
01 (10 pts) - Mr Moon
02 (09 pts) - Mr Sun
03 (08 pts) - Mrs Venus
04 (07 pts) - Mr Mars and his companions
05 (06 pts) - ...

Please take a look at the last two Songwriting Competition for how your feedback and vote could look like (sans the super technical information):
SWC047 - Song Collection and follow-up
SWC046 - Song Collection and follow-up

Please cast your vote in collective form through the "spoiler text" bbcode:

Code: Select all

[spoil]01 (00 pts) participant
02 (00 pts) participant
03 (00 pts) participant[/spoil]
Please use the forum username of the participant to make it easier during the score collection to address what vote belongs to whom.



Please also take note of the Rules and Guidelines (see post #7) on giving feedback (mandatory for all participants, the only main criteria to get disqualified if you do not participate). Even if you already gave feedback prior to the deadline, please offer some final encouraging words, and maybe give some additional tips for improvements on the way.

Feedback from non-participants is highly encouraged (voting not needed!). The same goes for entries after the deadline, or those that sadly do not count for the current running game (even if you've exceeded the deadline, why not post your entry regardless?). Musicians and Engineers are always after constructive criticism. This is what this forum is about.




Have some general feedback? Please voice your feedback/opinion/concerns here:
Songwriting Competition - General Gossip Thread



Please have an eye on this thread! :tu:
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SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC048 August 2021 - Voting until 01-SEP-2021 23:59 UTC+2/CEST

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Let us kick off the VOTING PROCESS, which will end on Wednesday, 01-SEP-2021 23:59 UTC+2/CEST latest


There is a GLOBAL COUNTDOWN to check for deadlines.
Just follow this link: Global Countdown (on homepage)



Here is the collection of productions from all participants (in hope that I didn't forget anyone). As usual, if you click on the small upwards-arrow right beside the quoted name, you can jump to the original post and read up on the documentation for this production.


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becsei_gyorgy wrote:
Sun Aug 15, 2021 14:53 CEST
"Monophobia"



Bonus Video:
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Rowan wrote:
Tue Aug 17, 2021 17:20 CEST
"Finer Than Before"

TrojakEW wrote:
Sun Aug 22, 2021 19:29 CEST
"Hope"

EsteveCorbera wrote:
Tue Aug 24, 2021 01:10 CEST
"Descans"

VCA-089 wrote:
Tue Aug 24, 2021 19:09 CEST
"Psychedelic Sea"



FLAC: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SLEbwt ... sp=sharing
MP3: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bWQmDi ... sp=sharing

Youtube release (spectrometer view)
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celiodie wrote:
Tue Aug 24, 2021 23:46 CEST
"Nightmall"



drive (WAV): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e2XbkR ... sp=sharing
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BONUS ENTRIES (submitted after the deadline - feel free to give feedback, but you sadly can not vote for these entries)


<no bonus entries>
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Please consult the last post on how your vote could look like (which links to more sources). And to make it simple for me for counting the votes - please use the forum usernames in your listing. Thank you!

SWC048 participants giving feedback to each other (to every participant) is mandatory. Ideally, please focus on the "overall experience", and what you think could be improved in a future release of this production (technical or even instrumentation). Please be open minded, objective and constructive.


INFORMATION: If you've submitted your entry in multiple file formats, the statistic sheet (posted alongside the results) will focus on the uncompressed material first (WAV), then FLAC, then MP3. The higher the quality, the less possible loss on bonus points for "Loudness Specs" due to offsets introduced by a used CODEC.


Good luck to all participants! :tu:




If you have an idea for a future Songwriting Competition, please post about this in the theme/genre request page.
Rowan

Re: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC048 August 2021 - Voting until 01-SEP-2021 23:59 UTC+2/CEST

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Mister Fox wrote:
Wed Aug 25, 2021 04:54 CEST
INFO: File can't be downloaded from SoundCloud
Fixed (I'm a soundcloud n00b) :)
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