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Welcome to the Quadelectra and Reasonistas Arkana Granular Synthesizer Song Challenge.
THE RULES

• Judge's decision is final
• Only 5 winners with no cash alternative.
• Song challenge begins May 7th, 2017
• Song challenge ends June 8th, 2017 @ 11:59 pm EST
• After the closing date, you are not allowed to change, alter or resubmit your entry. Any re-submissions or alterations will result in disqualification
• All entrants, when requested, must be prepared to provide evidence that the rules have been adhered to. This includes providing a copy of the Reason song file to verify that only the Arkana Granular Synthesizer was used for synth sounds.

What you may use in your song (with copyright permission):

• Arkana Granular Synthesizer Re for all synth sounds
• Any Reason native and rack extension Effects and Utilities, including R9 "Players" (no external plug-ins or hardware)
• Any Factory Sound Bank drums and/or 3rd party drum sample libraries, but not drums and/or samples from external plug-ins.
• Any recorded instruments and vocals (excluding external synths)
• Any vocal samples
• Any collaboration for any of the above

What you may not use in your song:

• No synth that is not Arkana Granular Synthesizer unless for modulation purposes
• No VST, external plug-ins or hardware
• No instrument samples (you can use FSB drums samples and samples of Arkana Granular Synthesizer but keep source file for verification)
• No programs outside of Reason that generate synth sounds
• No copyrighted material
• No cover songs

THE SUBMISSION
All participants must post their song in this thread and we will update the OP to include each entry. This confirms your song was accepted.

THE JUDGES
Thodoris Evangelatos @ Quadelectra
Noel G. @ Reasonistas

The judging will be based off the following criteria:

• Showcasing of Arkana Granular Synthesizer (this is critical)
• Arrangement and songwriting
• Originality and creativity
• Mixing and engineering

THE PRIZES
1st place: Arkana and 4 other Quadelectra Re of choice
2nd place: Arkana and 2 other Quadelectra Re of choice
3rd place: Arkana and 2 other Quadelectra Re of choice
4th place: Arkana and 2 other Quadelectra Re of choice
5th place: Arkana and 2 other Quadelectra Re of choice

Arkana Granular Synthesizer shop page: https://shop.propellerheads.se/product/ ... lar-synth/

Good luck to everyone!

P.S. Use this official Reasonistas Arkana Combinator backdrop in case you create and would like share custom Arkana patches.
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Accepted entries will be posted below.

Entry # 1 - Grecco - Arkana (ft. beklynnmusic) -https://allihoopa.com/s/v1bFZBTA


Entry # 2 - Plastic Fractal - Can You See It


Entry # 3 - tsteger - Arkana


Entry # 4 - TROY - The Last Hold


Entry # 5 - Grecco - Exploring The Universe


Entry # 6 - RE8ET - ARKANA ON TROPICS


Entry # 7 - RE8ET - ARKANA PIECES


Entry # 8 - Loque In The Sky - Arachnophobia


Entry # 9 - Despondo - Backlash


Entry # 10 - freyelise (Bureau of Broken Sounds) - The Ark Ascension


Entry # 11 - Zhi Zhu (AJ 3000) - Dream Sketch (Quadelectra Arkana Song Challenge)


Entry # 12 - Advanced Suite - Track N The Day 02 Master1

Challenge accepted.

Here we go again....

This thing is absolutely amazing.

Grecco what are those vocals they are pretty amazing...

Great Track @Grecco

Nerveclinic wrote:Grecco what are those vocals they are pretty amazing...

Thank you!

Troyvasanth wrote:Great Track @Grecco

Thank you!

Cheers! Crossed fingers

The demo sounds sounded amazing! Unfortunately it seems to be Reason 9 only. Sad panda.
Good luck everyone! Enjoy making music!

Here is my entry:

can you see it:

plasticfractal wrote:Here is my entry:

can you see it:

Very cool! Nice job on this.

Despondo wrote:

plasticfractal wrote:Here is my entry:

can you see it:

Very cool! Nice job on this.

Thanks! I kept getting such crazy sounds from it. I could have made my track an hour long if I hadn't stopped myself.

Hey Guys!!
Here is my entry
All sounds generated from Arkana except the drums.

Hi again. Here is my next entry With love to All! Pure Reason 9.2. No bounces.

I was never going to post anything, I was lost playing this synth... making sounds...
ok, music time!

Another one
I'm definitely in love with this Synth....

Here it is...Some experiments with the synth, a bit trashy and distorted. Sounds from Arkana, drums are from FSB.
I used 2 samples from xclusivedrum/FX section in Arkana. Not sure if this was allowed. If not, skip this track. If it was allowed, please add it.

Has anyone figured out how to hook up sustain pedal to do its thing with Arkana? I'm mildly annoyed by Resonans and now Arkana seemingly not caring about pedal messages. I'm only now getting into this synth. It's a different beast all right, and will probably take some time to learn the intricacies.

Here's my entry....

Here's my entry into the basket. My first idea was more of an ambient, second turned out synthwave, but this third iteration I thought might have legs for this challenge. (Don't get me wrong, I'm keeping the synthwave idea for later, it turned out pretty good.. Just not that good a showcase for the synth in question. )



How did everybody find this synth? I found it hard to make my own samples that sound good on this. Aliasing seemed to be a problem (which I totally exploited in my entry track, so no sweat). Also tuning was surprisingly not that simple, after moving the speed and length knobs I had to summon a Neptune for a tuning meter with the pitch knob to get back on track. A lot of the time my patches just sounded sharp and nasal, but occasionally I did stumble upon a nice evolving texture. Oh, and the lack of sustain pedal functionality drove me crazy, not used to that at all. I did like the LFOs though, nice range and selection of waveforms, including my personal fav S+H. Also it was very gentle on the CPU, never had to spare a thought on that.

In case I have messed up with timezone adjustment , has it finished please ??

It's the EST /EDT adjustment plus BST /UT which has me worried .

I cannot imagine what I have to worry about really : half an hour is not going to make a difference to my effort . from the handful i have listened to so far there is evidence of some solid productions, with some terrific sound design , It is a synth which appears simple to operate however in my experience editing can yield unpredictable results. In the end I settled for a mixture of sounds including factory presets , with their modulation edited.

Thank you all that participated in the Quadelectra Arkana Song Challenge. We accepted all entries and will be back in a week or less to announce the top 5 winners. Good luck!