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Winter competition with a gigantic prize pool!

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What started out as one of those “wouldn’t it be cool if”-ideas kick-started 5 days of intensive planning, negotiating and coding. What we ended up with was a community of developers that came together like champs and brought us the biggest prize pool we have ever seen!

Changing Seasons: The Winter Themed Competition

We’re very proud to announce this competition. Not only does the prize pool exceed anything we’ve ever seen in a Reason centric competition, it also shows what kind of power a closely connected community packs. We know we didn’t get to reach out to all the developers out there. It’s nothing personal! What started out as a rather impulsive idea only a little more than a week ago escalated into what the competition became today; we simply didn’t have enough time to reach out to everybody!

Enough with the boring stuff, let’s get to it!

Rules and details

  • The overall theme of this competition is “Winter“. The rest is up to you!
  • Only one entry per person
  • Double check everything! As soon as you have submitted your entry, your submission is final!
  • Song duration must be at least 2 audible minutes
  • No remixes or cover songs. We want 100% original entries
  • Starts: December 1st 2017
  • Ends: December 19th 11.59pm CET (GMT+1) (5.59pm EST)
  • Submissions are private and must be submitted through here – Entries that haven’t been submitted through that form will not be considered. No forum submissions!
  • If timezones confuse you, you can always check the submission site – It features a countdown
  • The submission form has a “Propellerhead Username” input. We are only using this to forward to the sponsors for the winning entries so you can receive your prizes. Please triple check this before submitting!
  • We urge people not to share their creations. This is simply to rule out any upfront favoring of entries (rather, dismiss any accusations of such if needed). Upload your entry as unlisted on SoundCloud/Allihoopa, or whatever host you prefer
  • No device limitations. Yes, you can use VSTs! Only requirement is that your sound generating devices aren’t 100% VSTs
  • If you bounce to track, you must leave the original note lane/device intact. This goes for VSTs as well
  • Competitors must provide the Reason song file upon request
  • ReasonTalk staff, and the staff from sponsors’ companies can’t participate in the competition
  • While it’s not a requirement or necessarily an advantage, we do like ourselves some artistic, creative sugar, whether it’s a sudden change in time signature, key changes, genre transitions and so on. Don’t be afraid to see if you can make it work!
  • Do not use copyrighted samples or otherwise material that hasn’t been cleared

Prizes

Winner

  • Propellerhead Reason 10 upgrade (from an eligible version)
  • Blamsoft – 2 Rack Extensions of your choice
  • Fielding SoundWorks – Europa Relay
  • GForce Software ChamberTron RE (or your choice of any GForce RE)
  • Jiggery Pokery – JPS Harmonic Synthesizer
  • KiloHearts – Toolbox
  • Kuassa – Choose one of these bundles:
    • Kuassa EVE-AT Bundle + Kuassa Kratos 2 Maximizer
    • Kuassa Amplifikation Bundle
    • Kuassa Efektor Modulation Bundle + Kuassa Efektor Distortion Bundle
  • Lectric Panda – Nostromo
  • Lab One Recordings: 3 Rack extensions of your choice
  • Mathieu Demange – RYM2612 Iconic FM Synthesizer
  • Reasonistas – SideChain ReAction Enveloper
  • Robotic Bean – Resonans and a collectors cowbell
  • Selig Audio – Leveler + Surprise!
  • SoftPhonics – ScoRe
  • SoftPhonics – ScoRe 2

1st runner up

  • Blamsoft – 1 Rack Extension of your choice
  • Fielding SoundWorks – Europa Relay
  • GForce Software – Re-Strings (or your choice of any GForce RE)
  • Jiggery Pokery – Chenille Chorus Ensemble
  • KiloHearts – Faturator
  • KiloHearts – Transient Shaper
  • Kuassa – Product of your choice, up to $59
  • Lab One Recordings: 2 Rack extensions of your choice
  • Lectric Panda – Fritz
  • Mathieu Demange – RYM2612 Iconic FM Synthesizer
  • Reasonistas – SideChain ReAction Enveloper
  • Robotic Bean – Any Rack Extension other than Resonans, and an exclusive cowbell
  • Selig Audio – DeEsser
  • Selig Audio – Gain
  • SoftPhonics – ScoRe

2nd runner up

  • Blamsoft – 1 Rack Extension of your choice
  • GForce Software – Re-Tron (or your choice of any GForce RE)
  • Jiggery Pokery – Organ of your choice
  • KiloHearts – Faturator
  • KiloHearts – Transient Shaper
  • Kuassa – Product of your choice, up to $59
  • Lab One Recordings: 2 Rack extensions of your choice
  • Lectric Panda – Fritz
  • Mathieu Demange – RYM2612 Iconic FM Synthesizer
  • Reasonistas – SideChain ReAction Enveloper
  • Robotic Bean – Any Rack Extension other than Resonans, and an exclusive cowbell
  • Selig Audio – Gain

Voting

For now, we’d like to keep the voting process a secret. We do want you to know that we have everything lined up and ready, no matter what may hit us. We must however inform you that we expect a lot of entries. Imagine 100 entries at a minimum 2 minutes duration (as per requirement). That’s well over 3 hours of music! Therefore, the date for voting/announcing any kind of results isn’t set just yet, we’ll have to be flexible about that.

Judges

  • The ReasonTalk staff
  • Representatives from our sponsors:
    • Andrew Best (Blamsoft)
    • Matt Black (Jiggery Pokery)
    • Rob Buse (Lectric Panda)
    • Mathieu Demange
    • Noel G. (Reasonistas)
    • Dimi Nalbantov (Kuassa)
    • Andrew Skelton (Softphonics)

A big and warm thank you goes to all the sponsors:

If you have any questions, please resort to the forum thread.

Good luck!