Fair enough. I’m a lousy producer, and maybe songwriter.
The social element will allow me to be more flexible with Loopop’s rule(im in a chamber-pop and sound collage vibe these days)
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Never cared much for the youtuber paradigm. So it’s nice to see them taking a different track on this one. Not so much the competition & prizes (although I wouldn’t mind getting a prize), but giving their audience an opportunity for meaningful participation beyond “like and subscribe” consumption.
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Glad to see many of the prizes are already spoken for by people here. 
Absolutely. While I wouldn’t mind winning one of those prizes, if I end up making a track it’ll be because it’d be a good time for me to get some quality time with the OT for a change.
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Got to admire the preparation that must have gone into this 
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Going to do this but going to jam it live using my small modular I’ve just finished. Think it eliminates me as won’t really be able to recreate it but it gives bit of motivation to do something with my new setup
Also no way will it be good enough to win anyway 
If it wasn’t for Current sounds coming from your gear I’m not sure I’d enter. Now I’m dreaming of one of those Lyra-8 prizes…
Here’s my entry for the contest:
There’s plenty of good entries already, and still a lot of time left. Good luck everyone 
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Really nice! Hope you win!
Funnily enough, I listened to about ten (random) entries on Youtube yesterday and THREE of them were using the same texture sample I was thinking of using throughout my track. Of course it was probably a really obvious way to use that sample, so I’m glad I hadn’t really started yet.
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Thank you! I also use that that texture sample (without the voice in it), but it fit in after I made the main melody, so it was to cool to not include. Looking forward to hearing your entry!
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Rules say to keep it recognisable and not to chop, mangle and change its sound. But that’s all the fun of sampling
I understand why though as it’s to show the type of music made by these machines
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Gave this a go as well. Fun little challenge working entirely in the box instead of hybridly.
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Love those chords. Nice to see Renoise being used too.
It’s Bitwig actually! I’ve also used Renoise in the past but never got that proficient with it.
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And I only went to the optician last week…
The skin had me over… saw the familiar orange and black and didn’t look any closer!
I’d love a Nymphes too but unless I’m mistaken, it’s not amongst the list of prizes. 
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I think Loopop quietly removed it, but originally he also mentioned a total of 4 Nymphus synths being possible prizes.
Either that or me and Doug are from a parallel universe 
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(edited as there is an official playlist ha)
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I’ve also given a cursory listen to some entries. Some really good ones but I feel that it’s going to be difficult to determine if an entry adheres to this part of the rules:
"the point is to keep the soul of the instruments somewhat intact, but you can use effects (reverbs, delay, eq, filters, compressors, etc in your DAW/sampler of choice or free third-party plugins). The idea is to make music with the instruments and not something else otherwise this would just be a “make any song you like” contest".
Like someone said, often the most fun part of samples is when you really start to mangle them and make them your own - something which isn’t really the point of this contest (and I understand very well why).
But I hope people - both the ones who win and the ones who don’t - will be able to keep the contest fun. If not, well, there’s this in the rules.
10. You agree not to sue or complain to me or any of the companies donating prizes for anything including my bad taste in music - I’m running this contest in good faith to get people finishing music, learning from each other and hopefully winning some prizes. Companies aren’t paying me anything for including them in this contest, and they were kind enough to offer the prizes. There’s no appeals process, my decision is final.
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find it very interesting to see how people create their track.
VCVRack seems to be used quite often to create textures/loops/bloops/blips so might be quite hard to find the fine line between using samples and mangling samples but it’s great loopop put some open source vibe into this context (having to share your project or explain how you did it), more than 150 entries at this stage so I’m sure we’ll all learn something!
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Holy sh** these contests are getting more and more difficult 
The level keeps getting higher!
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On Loopops website it states:
“NO PURCHASE NECESSARY FOR THE DURATION OF THE CONTEST”
But are you allowed to use the samples for free after the competition?
Edit: Rule -20. You may use this sample pack in your music royalty-free, whether you submit a track to the contest or not
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