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DSF VST Contest #3 Overview wrote:Edited from Original: The purpose is to A) punish the VSTs and make them do naughty things, and B) demonstrate that tools do not equal talent - and that sometimes limitations can be liberating and encourage you to try things you might not ordinarily do with your gear, not to mention showing people with fancy setups that there's more to a good song than expensive plugs.
In a nutshell, you are to make a song using only the provided VSTi, breakbeat sample (courtesy of Sackley) and the provided toolkit of DSP plugs (selected GVST series plugs, the Nyquist 5-Band EQ, Blockfish compressor, and Ariesverb.) You can also record your own vocals as long as they're used as traditional vocals, i.e. sung, rapped, or spoken content (no beatboxing or humming basslines)
The featured freeware VSTi for this round will be GSinth2 as selected by the winner of the first contest, Paravrais. There was also quite a bit of discussion on different rules and limitations - previous VST contests used to provide more DSP plugs and a drum machine kit as well as individually mic'd drum parts, but you the people have spoken and declared: that shit was too easy! This contest is stripped down, lean & mean. Show us your skills production ninjas! Also different: not all of the plugs are in the download pack, as GVST would prefer that we download 'em directly from them. There is a text file in the pack called "Links" with the download urls. You can find the pack at the top of this post.
The 3 Rules1) Sounds can can only be made from the featured VSTi and breakbeat sample (percussion can be synthesized from the VSTi as well.) You may also record your own vocal content provided it's sung or spoken and not you making synth, bass, beatbox or other instrumental sounds. If a vocal sample is ID'd* as coming from existing media such as film, music, television, the submission will be disqualified.
2) The aforementioned provided sounds can be processed only using the provided DSP vst plug-ins. You can use your sampler to capture, stretch, re-pitch, reverse, or chop the samples, but using native DAW or sampler processing to do anything like bandpassing, phasing, flanging, chorusing, gating, compressing, reverb, delay, sample-based re-synthesis, etc. is not allowed *.
3) Song can be any style/genre; Song run time can be no more than 4 minutes (entries running over will not be included, period); two weeks deadline with 1 week of voting.
* Winner must be able to provide patch/screenshot/some sort of basic documentation for how sound
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Other things to know:
~ Deadline for contest submissions was MIDNIGHT Pacific Standard Time (7 PM GMT) on February 23rd.
~ Do not disclose your identity or anyone else's identity until voting is through, please.________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
History:
Original Discussion Thread
VST Contest #1
VST Contest #2
