LinuxMusicians

This month we only have 6 entries, and the closing date is the 27th. The guy organising this nearly threw in the towel a few months ago due to low numbers, and he gives up now it's very unlikely it will ever restart.
So if you have anything at all up to 3 minutes long that can be remotely described as relating to a colour (or two) please submit it ASAP. This fun contest has run since (at least) the early 2000s and it'd be a crying shame if it ends.

P.S.
I first entered something in May 2007

I don't know what it is, got a link?

d.healey wrote: ↑Sun Jul 23, 2023 9:42 pm

I don't know what it is, got a link?

https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopi ... 9c503aa1f8

This is a busy time of year. There's lots of graduations, weddings, anniversaries. People go on vacations. Folks don't want to be indoors at a computer when the weather is nice, especially after lockdowns.

I recommend the organizer establish a yearly "summer break" for the contest. Put it on hiatus in june, and pick it back up in sept when people feel recharged.

That seasonal break makes sense. But the contest rules for entry are pretty demanding. KVR's 'One Synth Challenge' is still available, has grown nicely over the years, and get's some excellent creations year-around. The archives are also a good way to preview potential purchases, hearing how users get on with synth's without any advertiser hype. An alphabetized list of the synths is here, and clicking on a link for a given synth, presents a player to hear individual entries . Very handy!

https://sites.google.com/site/kvrosc/osc-synths-a-z

As an example, since U-he have great linux ports:

https://sites.google.com/site/kvrosc/20 ... y-one-u-he

This month's contest: https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=598764

Older contest entries are on archive.org in this format: https://archive.org/details/OSC112Synth1

so you can grab the contest name from the alphabetized list, and edit the above url

If a title from the alphabetized list looks like:

OSC 61: OBXD

In the archive, it would betruncated like: https://archive.org/details/KvrOsc61Obxd

Cheers

In all the time I've been on KVR there's only been two occasions when I've been able to take part in the OSC. The first was when the synth was Zyn, and the second was when it was any synth.

I didn't think the rules for the cafe contest were particularly onerous - certainly they never stopped up to 50 people taking part in the past!