KV331 Audio has announced their annual "SynthMaster Track Contest" with $2000 cash and software licenses prizes:
- 1st place: will receive $600 cash + SynthMaster Everything Bundle license.
- 2nd place: will receive $500 cash + SynthMaster Everything Bundle license.
- 3rd place: will receive $400 cash + SynthMaster Everything Bundle license.
- 4th place: will receive $300 cash + SynthMaster Everything Bundle license.
- 5th place: will receive $200 cash + SynthMaster Everything Bundle license.
- 6th-10th place: will receive SynthMaster Everything Bundle license.
The rules of the contest are:
- Any licensed user of SynthMaster 2, SynthMaster 2 iOS, SynthMaster One, SynthMaster One iOS, SynthMaster Player or SynthMaster Player iOS can enter this contest.
- The submitted track should be between 3 to 5 minutes.
- The following can be used during the production of the track:
- External effects.
- Vocals / vocal samples.
- Drum samples / drum synths.
- Acoustic instruments / sample libraries of acoustic instruments are allowed in a limited fashion: Up to 20% of the tracks in your project file can contain acoustic instruments or sample libraries.
- The following are not allowed to be used during the production of the track:
- External synths (hardware or software, doesn't matter).
- Presets from SynthMaster 2/SynthMaster One expansions or user presets can be used.
- Participants are encouraged to design their own presets as user presets will have up to 10% weight during final voting.
- Participants are encouraged to shoot videos of their projects and share on Instagram/YouTube as video content will have up to 10% weight during final voting. The Instagram videos must feature the following tags in their descriptions: #synthmaster #synthmasterone #synthmasterplayer #vst #vsti #ios #auv3 #synth #songcontest #musicproduction. Participants can publish as many Instagram videos as they like during their music production process.
- The song links should be submitted to KV331 Audio by November 23, after being uploaded to file sharing services like Dropbox or Google Drive. The song should be in 320kbits/sec, 44.1kHz stereo MP3 format. While submitting the song links, participants should also include the following information as well:
- Name of the DAW application.
- Names of the presets used in their song.
- Custom presets they designed during the making of their track, if there's any. (not mandatory but will earn up to 10% extra points.).
- YouTube link of their project video, if there's any. (not mandatory but will earn up to 10% extra points.).
- Participants should use KV331 Audio's 'contact us' page for submitting the necessary information:
- All songs will be uploaded to a new playlist on KV331 Audio's SoundCloud channel and announced on their Facebook channel between November 23-December 1.
- Public voting for the tracks will take place on KV331 Audio's SoundCloud channel between December 1-December 15. Only likes on the SoundCloud tracks will be counted towards public voting. There will also be a private judge voting for the tracks. The judges will be determined by KV331 Audio internal team. The breakdown of the voting will be as follows:
- 40% public voting.
- 40% private judge voting. (This year we will have a guest judge, whom we will announce later.).
- 10% Instagram/YouTube video content.
- 10% custom preset design.
- The Top 10 results will be announced until December 25 and cash prizes will be paid in 7 business days via PayPal or wire transfer, after receiving an invoice from the corresponding winner.
- User presets will be released on KV331 Audio's public user library (cloud) after the contest.
- KV331 Audio will require the Top 10 contestants to submit their DAW project files to verify that the track has been created exclusively with KV331 Audio products and also to create promotional content. During submission, any tracks that don't contain a KV331 Audio product should be frozen/printed.
