Competition At Kvr

Ledger · April 10, 2005, 10:04pm

This is from the KVR forum. I have already purchased the soundsets and downloaded them and all went fine. Trusted it as it is from a well known poster and fxb patch writer at KvR. I am only spamming this here as it is for a good cause and you`ve also got a chance to win one of a number of VSTs

Original thread

“Tsunami Sound Design Competition : Part 2”

Since the last of the Tusnami Sounds Sets has been released, Zvon and myself have been making arrangements with a few companies so we could host a competition and a giveaway that will hopefully increase the sales of Tsunami Sounds Volumes 1 and 2. There are a ton of really great prizes to be won…so whats the catch and how will these events increase sales? Simple, you have to buy at least 1 of the volumes to play the game. ; ) Details on both the competition and the giveaway are below.

Competition:

This competition will be a song writing competition. Sounds easy enough right? the catch is, that you can ONLY use sounds from volumes 1 and 2 of the tsunami sounds sets. There are 10 prizes available for this competition so the winning tracks will be split into 10 categories…for example, Strangest Song, Most Original, etc…etc. The competition begins today, April 1st, 2005 and runs until April 28th, 2005. At that time, Zvon and myself will just the entries and select the winner for each category. Exact guidelines for submissions are below:

Song’s must be at least 2 minutes long…please do not sumbit any entries that are longer than 4 minutes.

All submissions must be in mp3 format.

You may only use sounds from the Tsunami Sounds Collection volumes 1 and 2, with the exception of drums and vocal samples.

You may submit your track either via an attachment to an email or by uploading it you your own site and sending us the link to download. In either case, entries should be sent to competition@totcproductions.com

You may enter more than 1 song into the competition to qualify for different categories, however, you can only win once.

If you have won a prize in our first competition, you are not eligible for this one.

As long as the above requirements are met, any and all songs will be seriously considered. The categories and the prize that will be awarded for each are as follows:

Category Prize

1.Best Overall Sonalksis Multiband Bundle (worth over 450 dollars!!!)
2. Most Original Linplug CronoX 3 VSTi. (when released)
3. Most commercial sounding Fxpansion DR-008 VSTi
4.Strangest Audio Damage Mayhem VST Suite
5. Worst Overall Maxx Claster eJ VSTi
6. Most likely to be played in ToTc’s car. SonicBytes EST VSTi
7. Most likely to be palyed in Zvon’s car. Anamark Anamark Pro VSTi
8. Most likely to end up in a movie soundtrack. Wusik.com Wusikstation VSTi
9. Most likely to end up in a smut film AudioRealism Bassline VSTi
10. Most likely to get you on a “Where are they now” episode. SonicBytes ERA VSTi

Ok, so some of them are odd categories, but at least you’ll be able to have some fun with this, and the prizes are well worth the offort. So GET TO WORK!!!

Now, what about this giveaway I mentioned? Here’s the details on that…Everyone that purchases a Tsunami Sounds Volume will be entered into a random drawing for 10 different prizes. If you have bought volume 1 in the past, you will already have been entered into the drawing once. You can enter up to 2 times, by purchasing both volumes 1 and 2. So, to recap, if you bought volume 1 any time before this was announced and you purchase volume 2, you will have 2 entries in the hat. Got it? Good. The prizes up for grabs in the random giveaway are as follows:

ConcreteFX Kubik VSTi

Les Productions Zvon Prepared Rhodes Soundset (Multiformat)

Pro-Sounds PS-1 VSTi

EVM Synths Dvx Vega VSTi

SonicBytes GAT’R VST

Audio Damage Digitalis Bundle

Elemental Audio Neodynium Plugin

SoftPlug Adventus VSTi

ManyTone Productions Manystation VSTi

Dangerous Bear Underground pH0 Bundle

Sounds great right! And all you have to do to get the chance to win one of these fabulous products is buy a volume or two. And the money goes to charity, so you feel good and so do we. ; )

Any and all questions should be mailed to competition@totcproductions.com

Thank you all for your continued support, and hopefully this will help us make alot of money for south asia.

Peace!

Ledger · April 20, 2005, 12:36am

Bump!

I have been talking to TotcProductions by e-mail and he has told me that not many people have entered this contest so the chances of winning a VST are quite high. Time is running out on this however so if you are interested it seems the sooner the better.

Anyhow just another bump for a worthy cause.

Edit: There is a second thread on this topic at KvR HERE

sagosen · April 20, 2005, 10:35am

If they had an actual samplepack they’d get more entries, I’m sure! I don’t have most of the synths needed for the presets sold in the packs, but since it’s for a good cause and as there are nice prices involved I’m in.

Ledger · April 20, 2005, 1:36pm

Good man Sagosen!

I also only have one of the commercial synths that the presets are for but I found there are more than enough free synth presets to get an entry going for the comp. You also do get the Anamark player as a bonus which isn`t too bad.

I will pass on what you have said about a samplepack to Totc as I think he will be open to suggestions to improve any future competitions.

Good Luck with your entry mate! I look forward to see what you do with the presets!

EDIT: Just in case you missed it in the first thread linked, this was also said relevant to entries to the comp:

TotcProduction

Refering to a question on whether mangling effects etc were allowed to be used on the presets in entries.

Kizzume · April 21, 2005, 9:31pm

So let me get this straight:

It’s a competition that requires one to purchase sounds to enter, and the prize is a free sound??? Huh???! Did I interpret this correctly? Will someone please re-explain this?

edit: I know that it’s for a good cause, but it just seems a little weird not to have the samples already available in a package IF those samples are actually the ones required. I’d be interested in contributing how I can at this time to the cause, and my boyfriend donated quite a bit of money within 7 days after the tsunami, but right now money is not the way I am able to contribute. Currently I’m broke, which makes me unable to participate.

Ledger · April 22, 2005, 3:55pm

What you are buying is not actual sounds but fxb and fxp patches that you can use with VSTs that you already own. There are patches for both commercial VSTs, and free ones such as synth1, superwaveP8 and a fair few others.

The contest requires you to make a tune using only the synth fxb/p patches with the VSTs in your collection.

The prizes however are not more sounds but actual VSTs which are listed in category order in the quoted post.

If you are not able to participate now but would like to in the future, I will post back here if TOTC runs another contest like this. Any further publicity you can give this contest is surely helpful aswell although time is running out on it as it finishes on the 28th of this month.

Ledger · April 27, 2005, 1:48pm

Final Bump!

Last day to buy these presets and be entered for the prize draw, also if you were super-quick you might be able to get an entry in for the song comp!

escii · April 28, 2005, 12:22pm

who is the winner?

Ledger · April 28, 2005, 12:51pm

Apparently the deadline is 11:59 pm (EST) tonight, and the results will be availablewithin 5 days from then. I will post a link to the results thread here when it is up at KvR.

sagosen · April 28, 2005, 10:02pm

anybody go “damn” now?

edit.
seems like I’m an hour ahead, hey, I can make another tune!

…or sleep and actually FUNCTION tomorrow… dang!

Ledger · May 10, 2005, 8:19pm

The first set of results for the comp are out now (halfway down the page):

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.ph…unami&start=105

Congrats sagosen on winning the Audio Damage Mayhem Suite!

sagosen · May 11, 2005, 3:48pm

Thanx Ledge.

Um, what did you call yourself @ KVR again, and what did YOU win?

Ledger · May 11, 2005, 7:04pm

I`m 4tune over there,

I won the CronoX3. It`s not out yet so I may have to wait a while, but look forward to getting my hands on it, it looks pretty cool from the preview!

Just checked out the mayhem plug site, that TimeFnk delay looks pretty interesting. Also looks like you`ll be able to get some speaker busting noises from the others too .