Players Challenge

Lectric Panda, LoveOne, Robotic Bean, Selig Audio, Static Cling, Zvork, and ReasonTalk are happy to announce the details of the Players Challenge.

The spirit of the Players challenge

It is important to emphasize that this time around it is more like a live act challenge rather than a classic song challenge, but having a solid sound and entertaining performance is still important! The goal of this challenge is to push the boundaries of making pattern-based music with Player devices. Therefore, we ask you to be creative and create projects with crazy interconnected Player stacks. Save your Player stacks as combinators and send them to us, so we can share a pack containing the best patches.*

To spice up the competition you need to submit a video, in which you show how you have been using the players in your project. What you present and how you present it in your video is up to you! For instance, you could start with an intro of walking everyone through your setup, leading into your song. You could play your song at the start and include captions/annotations during the playback of what is going on. Get creative and just do your best to make it interesting! If you have a question, just ask! Good luck!

Rules

• Only 4 winners with no cash alternative
• Only one entry per participant
• Song challenge begins 11th of May, 2018
• Song challenge ends 27th of May, 2018 @ 11:59 pm Stockholm time
• Create combinators from your creative Player stacks for submission
• To submit your entry follow the steps in the Submission section
• All entrants, when requested, must be prepared to provide evidence that the rules have been adhered to.
• Judges’ decision is final

What you HAVE TO use in your project:

• All third party Player devices listed in the prize pool
• At least one Player per instrument (Players not altering the MIDI data do not count)
• Pattern automation

What you are ALLOWED to use in your project:

• Instruments: Stock Reason 10 devices, except their built-in sequencers, arpeggiators, or similar features
• Effects: Stock Reason effects only
• Players: All stock players including Drum Sequencer and the players listed below in the prize pool
• CV Utility devices (non sequencer): native Reason or Free Rack Extension
• CV sequencers: Stock Reason 10 devices or Free Rack Extensions allowed to feed Player stacks, only not the instruments directly!
• Samples: Any samples that comes with Reason 10
• Automation

What you CANNOT use in your project:

• Built-in sequencers, arpeggiators or similar features of instruments
• CV sequencers or helpers with direct connection to instruments!
• No programs outside of Reason (aside from video capture)
• No audio recordings this time
• No copyrighted material

Submission

• Submit a video (with audio) showcasing how you are using the Players and pattern automation in your project.
  You can find some help about recording your screen and audio using a free software (Mac/PC) in the following video tutorial. Of course, feel free to ask questions in the forum.
• The video has to be uploaded to YouTube and the link has to be posted in the Players Challenge forum topic
• Upload your Reason song file to a file sharing service such as Google Drive or Dropbox and send us the link privately
• Share your Combinator patches containing your Player stacks and instruments. Upload the patches to a file sharing service such as Google Drive or Dropbox and send us the link privately (PM to tiker01)

If you wish, you may also upload your song to SoundCloud, etc. and post a link in the Players Challenge forum topic

Prize Pool

All winners will receive:

• Kompulsion
• MIDI Compressor
• MIDI-CV Converter
• Euclidean Rhythms
• Note View
• Chord Detector
• ST100 Strumming Machine

You can find the Players here.

*Disclaimer

You will retain all rights to your project as a whole. However, by participating in the challenge you agree that you are going to provide Combinator patches and/or template song, which will be compiled and shared with the ReasonTalk community.

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