Here are the submissions for Open Battle #01!
Thank you all for your interesting participations!
Everyone is invited to cast their vote by next Sunday midnight: the winner gets to to come up with the brief for Open Battle #02!
Ooh, tough call. They’re all good!
@guga I think you really manage to capture the essence of what I meant.
Music and video are beautifully interwined, and you manage to distil some tension from it. Amazing video btw.
@sherelle the very melodic arpeggio is definitely a nice idea, the pop emotion you get from it is miles from what I had imagined…
@korpinen your sound revealed some wind I hadn’t seen in the video ^^
I felt like there was some old sci-fi movie tension at times…
My vote goes for @guga!
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thanks @LyingDalai, i’m glad you like it 
…wish there would have been more entries though, hopefully in the next open battle.
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Sure. I think my brief was not a good example, maybe a bit scary ^^
I think a good point was to let people use whatever piece of gear they want, so that the battle is open to everyone.
Anyway, I am extremely glad that there were 3 participants, and I do hope there will be more in the future!
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mm…don’t know, wouldn’t say so…maybe detailed? but not scary
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This may be true BUT the fact that you provided a ready-made video for us total video noobs to use was a huge thing. I’ve been wanting to do something like this - scoring to picture - for a long time and despite the long-ish brief this was actually a VERY low threshold battle: video was ready, you could use whatever equipment you want etc.
For a challenge/battle like this to work it needs to have some kind of ”rules” to it - that’s what makes it fun and a challenge.
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Note that absolutely not a single one of the challengers here and on op-forums gave some samples or patches
IMO, even if there are rules, it needs to stay fun so they must somehow be soft.
But I would have liked such “transmission” aspect to actually take place.
For one of op-forums battles, I had imposed some Model:Cycles sounds. I then took all the tracks in Ableton and assembled a big one out of this, with transitions of mine.
For a previous one I had imposed a start and an end sample so that transitions would be made easy:
I really like to insert such “union” factor in a challenge ^^
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…or else one could get the clips from this (or any other really) website: https://pixabay.com/ which has plenty free video clips that can be used, that’s where i got the ones i used, so maybe a good video source for the next time?
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Yes, that’s probably the logical next step for someone like me. 
could not upload a sample as max file size i think is 10MB? so would not work, but did actually provide the sound from the A4, well…not straight away but… 
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Oh, my bad!
You’re definitely one of a kind, then 
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well…just followed the brief
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Voting time is now over, congratulations @guga: you are the one to come up with next Open Battle brief!
And thank you to all participants and voters!
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thanks to all those who voted for my entry.
soo…any update on when the DNK will be shipped then? 
next Open Battle brief will be up soon, get all yer gears ready
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All of it?
ohyess 
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If you have a soundcloud account, would you mind uploading your track there so that it can be gathered in a playlist on Elektronauts Radio, please?
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Sorry, don’t have SC - only Bandcamp and a bit of Youtube right now. Thanks for asking tho!
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