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***12th Official Composition Contest*** ENDED! GO VOTE!
#7760713 - 12/15/07 12:33 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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ENDED! VOTING THREAD CREATED!!! http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/7805584/an/0/page/0
Hello and welcome to the eleventh official composition contest. My goal is to assist people in pushing their compositional skills farther along the path. Having a deadline is sometimes the perfect ingredient needed for creating an awesome sounding piece.
Rules and Contest guidelines: *Contestants will be presented with a photo. They have 1 week to recored an original composition to express that photo by means of moving air molecules. (music) Any genre! (please keep it original.. no pulling out some old recording.)
*The little criteria for the actual composition is .MP3 file format and its recommend to keep the track shorter then 4 minutes.
*Submit your final MP3 to: xxx It must be in before the end of the day on the due date for it to be posted as a candidate for voting. (When you email me your track, please name it and let me know your USERNAME)
*The final vote will take place in a voting thread. Once I upload all the tracks I will set up a poll. A NOTE: The order which will be listed is solely based on who sends in their tracks first. If you get it done mid week.. send it in! The people voting might become a bit hasher hearing the 5th down the list. (try and be the 1st or 2nd on the list) Only the title of the tracks will be posted to make sure no bias is involved in the vote.
*The winner is picked on account of the number of votes they have at 10am (pacific time)of the day proclaimed the end. If there is a tie, we let votes go on for another 24 hours. The winner gets to pick the next picture. Common sense guidelines when picking photos. Keep it as different as possible then the last photo. (EX: Nature, the city, human face, abstract art, animals, any other kind of art, scenes... ect)
Thanks for reading and good luck composing.
This photo is kind of standard, but something in it captured the way I feel perfectly.
Edited by Toddo (03/02/09 11:09 PM)
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Re: ***12th Official Composition Contest*** Dec. 14-22 [Re: Toddo]
#7763866 - 12/15/07 10:24 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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mmm finally got logic running on my mac so i'll finally be joining in again! Pretty pic too, i look forward to it
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Re: ***12th Official Composition Contest*** Dec. 14-22 [Re: x2and2makes5]
#7767136 - 12/16/07 08:04 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Very nice! I've missed your entry's these last few rounds.
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Re: ***12th Official Composition Contest*** Dec. 14-22 [Re: Toddo]
#7768170 - 12/17/07 01:37 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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nice copy and paste... you forgot to take off the last paragraph from last competition.
good picture btw.
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Re: ***12th Official Composition Contest*** Dec. 14-22 [Re: Toddo]
#7768423 - 12/17/07 07:18 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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stickied
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Re: ***12th Official Composition Contest*** Dec. 14-22 [Re: automan]
#7768537 - 12/17/07 08:30 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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can you guys post the gear/software you use to create the awesome ambient tracks? I want to get in on this, but I am not sure what I need exactly.
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Re: ***12th Official Composition Contest*** Dec. 14-22 [Re: Syle]
#7769242 - 12/17/07 11:56 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Hey style, The only gear I use is a keyboard that functions as my midi controller. I download a lot of VST's and Sample libraries. These can be played in real time with my keyboard (via midi.) Your best bet is just downloading them. Some of the best stuff I have came from oink...that place had some unbelievable gold mines. 16 gig orchestral library, beautiful choirs, ethnic sounds, crazy drum kits...sigh. (Oink was shut down in october)
The computer program you use is not going to effect the way your music comes out (at least not at our level of production.) Use something that you know or a lite version of a any DAW. I'll tell you right now, it does hurt starting off. YOu won't have a clue wtf your doing...but just read, watch videos, and make tracks as best as you can. YOu learn more and more little tricks with every track you make.
I started off in fruity loops (which I still use today.) A lot of people shit on for whatever reason. To hell with them, it's an easy program to learn, you get instant satisfaction (or as instant as it can be) and you get introduced to a lot of the terms the larger programs use.
You can still play VST's in fruity.
I also recored live instruments into my tacks I post in the contests (some of them at least.)
Learn about BitTorrents.
THepiratebay.org Supernova.com
Oh, and thanks for the sticky!!
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Re: ***12th Official Composition Contest*** Dec. 14-22 [Re: Toddo]
#7778817 - 12/19/07 06:36 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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mmm i just got the SWQL Symphonic Orchestra Gold pack, cant wait to get that running
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Re: ***12th Official Composition Contest*** Dec. 14-22 [Re: x2and2makes5]
#7779154 - 12/19/07 07:43 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Very nice...your going to enjoy it.
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Re: ***12th Official Composition Contest*** Dec. 14-22 [Re: Toddo]
#7779534 - 12/19/07 09:08 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Still waiting for you to hook me up with some info and samples and whatnot 
Nice pic, I might come up with something. I'm way out of my league in these contests now, but this picture reminds me a lot of the first pic we had...maybe I can pull something out of my ass.
I like it for sure. I tried making something to the last one. I was in the process of trying to make/play and damn heavy version of a mario tune, but I never finished it.
I'm gonna have to try my hand at fruityloops. I find cool edit is really easy to use as well
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Re: ***12th Official Composition Contest*** Dec. 14-22 [Re: Spooge]
#7779781 - 12/19/07 10:18 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Read above...I'm not going to send you all the tools I use...for the simple fact most of them are way to huge to upload (and they can be found on those torrent sites) Follow the instruction and read up on bit-torrents. Thats what basally what got me started in this stuff. 
Hope to see you this contest...I've been really busy with some other tracks so I have no idea what I'm going to do. Oh well..I'm sure something will come up. (or thats what I'm hoping for...)
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Re: ***12th Official Composition Contest*** Dec. 14-22 [Re: Toddo]
#7783310 - 12/20/07 08:31 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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yeah, I use utorrent frequently, but what do I search for exactly?
Yeah, I've had 3 songs sort of on the go myself. I'm really liking some of the new stuff I'm coming up with.
I'm hoping for an actual mic this xmas
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Re: ***12th Official Composition Contest*** Dec. 14-22 [Re: Spooge]
#7783787 - 12/20/07 10:37 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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you can use headphones as a microphone.... sometimes it doesnt sound that bad.
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Re: ***12th Official Composition Contest*** Dec. 14-22 [Re: Spooge]
#7784510 - 12/21/07 04:21 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Your looking for VST's.
Native Instruments Steinberg Edirol
Just search those up and pick up anything that looks interesting. Your going to trip when you see how powerful some of those tools are.
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Re: ***12th Official Composition Contest*** Dec. 14-22 [Re: Toddo]
#7786793 - 12/21/07 07:24 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
Toddo said: Your looking for VST's.
Native Instruments Steinberg Edirol
Just search those up and pick up anything that looks interesting. Your going to trip when you see how powerful some of those tools are.
hey nice, i'll take a look around tonight.
to yawning: this is what I've been using for the past year. All my composition tracks were recorded through this as well as all my others(made a "finalized" amateur cd couple weeks ago)

I can't play to loud or else it frapps and distorts the sound when recording, so I usually use my little 10 watt crate bass amp and I hook up either my boss metal zone pedal or this:

I set up the little amp about 6-8 feet away from the mic above(again, if it gets to close, the sound will come out all distorted and sound like shit, regardless of what I do with the microphone levels and whatnot)
I record through cool edit and after it's finished I mess with eq, removing hiss and clicks and pops. Sometimes I add some chourus or delay through the programs effects.
I think I've done pretty good on some of my tracks for what I'm working with. I've never thought of using headphones though. Do you think they will work better than my current mic? I find a picture of my only headphones...but I find there is a short in them, the left side always cuts out randomly so I don't know if it'll be good to record with them:
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Re: ***12th Official Composition Contest*** Dec. 14-22 [Re: Toddo]
#7787666 - 12/21/07 11:51 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I work tomorrow but I'm going to record tomorrow night at around 10:30pm pacific(when my gf goes to work)
So can you push it until the 23rd possible? I'll be emailing you the track in the early early AM
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Re: ***12th Official Composition Contest*** Dec. 14-22 [Re: Spooge]
#7787767 - 12/22/07 12:37 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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No problem! I'll wait and post on the 24th. Good to see you back in the game.
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Re: ***12th Official Composition Contest*** Dec. 14-22 [Re: Toddo]
#7795745 - 12/24/07 01:54 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
Toddo said: No problem! I'll wait and post on the 24th. Good to see you back in the game.
*checks calendar* haha
Just an idea, if your still planning on posting today...since it's the holidays and such, not many people are going to be around on the boards to vote, so maybe extend the voting time as well?
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Re: ***12th Official Composition Contest*** Dec. 14-22 [Re: Spooge]
#7796344 - 12/24/07 06:21 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I can't post them ATM. Will get back to you guys. Merry Christmas! I'll probably post tomorrow night.
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