Hmm, no need to be all critical. It's a fun competition. Three scenarios can occur from this.

1) You win $200 and get exposure
2) you win and even if you get cheated out of your winnings (which I don't think will happen), you still get free exposure.
3) You lose and you still get exposure.

Either way, you win something (exposure, money, or both)
Honestly, if you think your music is "Professional" quality, than just submit it to professional studios to get signed and forgot this competition (if copyright issues of your tune is such a huge issue)...but right now i think everyone participating is in the learning stages of music and is content with giving free music out to gain exposure in return. We can't jump too fast in thinking we actually deserve money for our music. Build the exposure and the money will come down the road. Just be happy that this competitions is giving money away.

Bye for now

Hey,

I don't use fruity loops but most music programs have this feature. Use "busses" to connect channels to auxillary tracks. Note that reverb and delay generally require high amounts of cpu power. What this means is that you should put your reverb and delay stuff in the auxiillaries and connect them to your channel strips via busses. This will save you tons of cpu power. That is....I don't know if fl has that feature but it should. Lots of music programs use them or so I heard. Hope this helps.

Bye for now

Oh no. Don't buy logic express. Don't make the same mistake as I did. I was worried that logic pro would be too much of a jump from GB3 (GB4 didn't exist back then) so I decided it would be smart to start with a less complex program. Logic express lasted me a month and I got sick of it. It has so many of the good features missing. Spend the $500 to get that logic bundle. Your lucky, when I bought logic pro 7.2 it cost me $450 with student discount (without student discount it would have cost me $999.) Now the bundle is a fraction of the price and you get many more programs together. I feel ripped off.

I can always help you use logic pro if you do get it. I think it's great but then I never tried the other music programs like FL or reason so a bit biased.

Bye for now

Well I don't call you and idiot Twoism, but I think we should give a chance to new ideas. I suppose the SOTY contest is not a new idea (since SOTY 2007 existed), but if there is a SOTY 2008 doesn't that mean that the idea works? I particularly like this because I get lots of time to make a song (a whole year). I was never fond of the MAC contests (though I think a contest is better than no contest at all) because you only get a 1 month notice to make a song. I take much longer than a month to make a song because of school and other personal things making life busy. Plus the fact that I'm no professional so everything takes like 3 times as long to make compared to the more experienced music "engineers".

I do have to side with you about expressing your opinion. This is a forum and you can say whatever you want. However, I think we can express our opinion a little bit more throughly.

@ WIZ. I personally think the whole submitting another person's song in is weird. Why doesn't the person who made it send it in? I'm sure he/she isn't that lazy enough to not submit his song in and get another person to do it. Oh well. This is your competition so your rules. :)

Bye for now

At 2/17/08 02:09 PM, Twoism wrote: Were you watching me read the thread? I read the thread, I disagreed. Don't think you're idea is so fool-proof that I'd have to like the idea.

I made a constructive suggestion and why I thought my suggestion was better. I made no personal remarks, I said the thread was redundant, which I feel it is. You resorted to a petty insult to make your point. I merely made a point.

Calling someone an idiot, is never constructive. If you other people to make construtive posts maybe you should too.

Here is a suggestion. Stop on that project and make another song. Return back to your previous song when you get stuck on your new song. For me, before I even finish a song I probably make like 5 differents songs. I than combine the best parts out of all 5 and put them into a nice mix. Of course I do some transposing to make sure everything is in the same key. Your almost done your song so not many more times to continually listen to it...unless you are trying to make a 8 minute song. That would suck then.
Bye for now

The only problem with this is that what if we don't have the same program as you? I use logic pro so I won't be able to place your riff in a format that is usable for mine. Your idea sounds fun, but this thing songs like a big massive collab. I like to make music all by myself or with a small collab with another person.

Anyway, I'm sure some may be interested, but you may have to use the more direct approach of PM the people about your idea. The forum has too many threads that your thread just gets lost in the pile up.

Bye for now

Wow, that's a lot of reviewing in one day. Why don't people review? Well first I'd be satisfied with the amount of reviews you got for your one song. Secondly a lot of the people on NG are still young guys. 15-18 age range. It's common that this age group considers themselves more over others. Plus I tend to find people won't review your stuff if you don't give them not only a great review but a great score. Oh and when I say great review I mean a fake one where you say things like "your song is perfect" This can sell millions" "you should make a cd" "your the best artist on NG" "I can't stop listening to this. I listened to it a 10000000 times and still grooving to this" yadda yadda yadda.

But than again there are always exceptions. There are a lot of nice people on NG who would love to review your stuff if you ask (which you did) but there are a lot more on NG who wouldn't think your worth their time even if you ask them to review. Simply put, you want to post music on the AP, then your going to have to deal with how the AP is....flaws and all.
Bye for now

Awesome! I was waiting for someone to make a fun competition not related to NG. I have a question though. If you do nominate someone, can you take away the nomination later? Maybe I didn't read your post clearly but if you can nominate songs from the get go (eg. right now) and late come september your like why did I nominate that song way back. You can get rid of your nomination right? Or does nomination all start near the end of the year? That's what I find as a big flaw because usually songs you heard many times get old and boring versus songs that get posted near December where everything is new and fresh. This can effect your nomination/opinion.

Anyway, I think what your doing is great. I may submit, but still got no songs finished. I'll make some electronic just for you. :)

Bye for now

Checked up on this competition. I love that song by triangleshower. The closest thing yet to a baby lullaby. (my opinion of course) :) This competition looks like fun. My first BBS post! Bye for now