BMS Song Competition: The Warmup

Jeremy Lim · 07-29-2008, 01:12 AM

Ladies and gentlemen of Music Production:

Summer has been very kind to the forum with a surge of activity from lots of great talent - both new and old.

To encourage continued growth and to help break the ice, I would like to propose that we hold more frequent contests. It's a way for all of us to participate in the same context and deal with some awkward audio situations that we would normally not have to face. Ultimately, we become better musicians for it.

Having said that, the warmup works like this:

- Contestants will receive three samples which they can download here. No other samples or sounds (including VSTs) can be used. Allowed samples can be sliced or otherwise modified as desired
- Song length is limited to 0:30 (or thirty seconds)
- Effects (e.g. delay, reverb, etc.) are allowed
- One entree per contestant
- Entrees will be judged by two people, The Chemist and myself. A third judge may be appointed if deemed necessary. Judges will look for technical creativity as well as musical creativity
- Winners will receive bragging rights in a stickied post at the top of the Music Production forum with a link to their submission and URL of choice (i.e. free promo).

The contest begins immediately and ends at 11:59PM on August 9th, 2008.

Got questions, suggestions, or comments? Throw them down!

The Chemist · 07-29-2008, 02:18 AM

Frankly, the problem with the forum is that there is little to no sense of a community on here. Contests might make like four people have fun, but that won't make people start posting and actually talk to each other like an actual music production forum.

Aside from the occasional contest, we should place more emphasis on making discussion threads, instead of individual song threads. I think a good start would be to delete all the sticky threads and start an introductions thread from scratch. If I had it my way, I would make it a requirement to post a decent introduction and background to even post on these forums. From there, start bringing in the typical threads (setups, links, etc). The whole erasing thing is more to see who is with the program and whos not, since there are posts from over two years ago in the sticky threads, most from people who haven't posted here in months (or longer).

While having a setup discussion is cool for looking and comparing, there should be a thread dedicated to new equipment coming out, which can range from headphones to synthesizers. Threads dedicated to programs and sequencers. Maybe a thread dedicated completely to synthesizer discussion. Or whatever. The idea is to make people talk and interact with each other, more than what would happen with a contest that no more than four people would join anyway.

We need the forum to be a discussion between musicians/producers (friends even), not just ears for productions.

My opinion anyway, and everything I wrote can be possibly null and void if you take into account the ratio between dedicated musicians/producers, hobbyists, and those just messing around with Fruity Loops (the latter which I predict is the majority).

ronji · 07-29-2008, 01:30 PM

will we need to provide proof that we're only using the provided samples? what i'm working with doesn't sound much like what was provided..

Jeremy Lim · 07-29-2008, 02:39 PM

I think we're all fairly honorable here. Helix has mighty good hearing too, so I'm sure we can peg stuff down.

ronji · 07-29-2008, 03:12 PM

heh, i deconstructed the samples quite a bit... at any rate, if necessary i'll try and recreate the process in a recording to show it's legit =)

i look forward to hearing the entries in this contest.

Warpticon · 07-29-2008, 10:30 PM

Freaking wow at those samples. and....I'm almost done.

Just need to tighten up some levels, mix things up a bit, and add one more layer.

PURPLE DRANK · 07-30-2008, 07:48 PM

hahaha youre fucking kidding me those sounds are great

Beatdrop · 07-30-2008, 10:39 PM

All done.

Beatdrop - Space Cows And Bodily Functions

Warpticon · 07-31-2008, 02:32 AM

Beatdrop is a beast. I was trying to do something a lot like that, and couldn't get close to that many usable sounds. Maybe I just wasn't patient enough. That joint is awesome, though.

On a totally unrelated note, there sure are some terrible musicians making songs in LMMS.

ronji · 07-31-2008, 10:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Beatdrop

All done.

Beatdrop - Space Cows And Bodily Functions

that was very good. i'm pretty nervous to follow that. i better ramp it up!

**helix eternal** · 07-31-2008, 08:44 PM

Well, when I had the idea for this contest I actually wanted to hear the quacks and farts, not techno techno techno

Eshmasesh · 08-04-2008, 11:29 AM

ah shit, I forgot totally about this thing lol. I'll try to work on something, not much to do now that school's out.

Jeremy Lim · 08-04-2008, 02:44 PM

Hey folks, update in the first post.

Quote:

Originally Posted by helix eternal

Well, when I had the idea for this contest I actually wanted to hear the quacks and farts, not techno techno techno

Goes to show you that there's lots of ambition in the community, no? If people can make an ACTUAL song out of quacks, farts, and moos ... imagine what a little 3xosc love would do.

Warpticon · 08-04-2008, 09:36 PM

Aw, crap, forgot to render before I uninstalled FLS

And since I'm in the process of reconfiguring my system, I'm in no real hurry. So you just got another delicious taste of my non-music (unless this goes on long enough that I can get set up again.

patrickphan2 · 08-05-2008, 01:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Beatdrop

All done.

Beatdrop - Space Cows And Bodily Functions

beatdrop cheated. no way you could've made a bass drum with those sounds! I'm kidding. Wow dude your insane. my song sucks balls. Its all empty and sad

. Tell me if the link does not work.
http://keithd.dyndns.org:8080/hosted...0moo%20cow.mp3