Alesis has announced a new YouTube contest, the Show Your Rig Video Competition. This sounds a bit like a single entendre – but if you’ve got Alesis equipment and you show your rig on YouTube, you could win a big package and upgrade your gear. Here are the details: Do you love your Alesis gear?… Read More Alesis “Show Your Rig” Video Contest
Virtual instrument company SMule is looking for the most “smulian” Ocarina videos in their This Contest Blows contest..
Need a kick in the pants to get that album put together? February Album Writing Month (FAWM) might be what you need. Each February, FAWM.ORG forges a collaborative community where musicians of all walks and skill levels write an album’s worth of material in the shortest month of the year (roughly one tune every other day).… Read More February Album Writing Month
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGA9SaAXFEw A trio of up and coming electronic dance musicians from Montreal have been crowned the top synthesizer composers in Canada. FM Radio Gods, Montreal dance scene heavyweights, were judged the winners of the Roland Synthesizer Contest at the competition Finals held in Montreal last week. There sound blends minimal house, glitchy electro, trance and techno. Their video for… Read More Montreal Trio Named Top Synth Composers In Canada
Video site Vimeo has teamed up with the band Justice on a new video contest – HOW WERE YOU GREAT IN 2008? Drawing from this past year, they want to see what you did that was GREAT. Whether you were filming, recording, playing, listening, drawing, snapping photos, writing, traveling, touring, blogging, promoting something you love, voting, blah blah… Read More Justice Video Contest: How Were You Great In 2008?
Pulse: Pure Analog Lifeforms is a new $29.95 sound library by Richard Devine and Josh Kay, described as a “rare and perfect exhibition of vintage and new school sounds.” There’s a related remix context you may want to check out, too. Description: Pulse contains all the musical maps and charts you need to plan and… Read More New Sound Library: Pure Analog Lifeforms
New music sharing site SoundCloud has announced a Jazzanova remix contest: We’re really excited to tell you that Jazzanova are doing a remix contest for their new single ‘I Can See’ on SoundCloud. We just had a listen through the parts and it really sounds like a fun remix project to work on. Ben Westbeech… Read More Jazzanova Takes Remixing To The Cloud
Ohm Force has announced a fun contest – How The Minimonsta Saved The World. How it works: you make a cool track with Minimonsta before November 30th (you can use the free demo version), you send it to Ohm Force, you win cool stuff. Details here. How The Minimonsta Saved The World comic below:
Behringer has launched the Design the Next DJ Mixer survey – an online survey that gives you the chance to let them know what you’d like to see in their next DJ mixer. “No one knows more about the right mixer for their style of music than the DJ”, stated Scott Garside, Behringer Corporate Communications Manager.… Read More Behringer Wants You To Design The Next DJ Mixer
From languid sonic landscapes to energetic dance tracks, the many entries received by Roland Canada for the first successful run of the Roland Synthesizer Contest have been trimmed to six by an expert panel of judges and now the public can weigh in with their opinion. Uploaded to the Roland Synthesizer Contest MySpace site, the top six tracks… Read More Voting Starts In Roland Synthesizer Contest
