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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.

DJ Crackle wrote:this sounds intense.

Wub is the DSF comedy master.

Is Fruity Granulizer allowed?

wub wrote:So is Granulizer not allowed then?

HomeNoiseRecord wrote:when we are ready to send you the link can I use a downloadable 320kbps tune from my soundcloud? Ill sign up to rapidshare or soething if i have to, but if i dont neeeeed to ......

filthy_ wrote:an AU available to logic users?

Why this contest is VST-only wrote:...VST development in general has favored PC only because of the circumstances of code availability to 3rd parties [as regards Microsoft and Apple...]

Wikipedia wrote:VST plugin standard

The VST plugin standard is the audio plugin standard created by Steinberg to allow any third party developers to create VST plugins for use within VST host applications. VST requires separate installations for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

The majority of VST plugins are available for Windows due to both Apple's proprietary Audio Unit software for OS X and the lack of information and patent encumbrances that make development difficult for Linux platforms

The good news is, though, that you're not totally without options. ... and there are more than a few options for VST-adapting software for Mac. See this post for more about that.

But just to reiterate gently, the world of freeware VST's is definitely slanted towards PC users. Luckily you plucky MacHeads are resourceful though, right? Also, you are more than welcome to start your own AU or RTAS or whatever contest.

wub wrote:So is Granulizer not allowed then?