Re: Players Challenge
Posted: 20 May 2018
It is rather quiet here! Are you struggling with making the videos or everyone is polishing their creation to perfection?
You're not too late. Trial versions are expected to be used as the prizes are the player rack extensions themselves. I'm not exactly sure what you mean by certain level required, but this challenge is open to everyone.
I could be wrong but I think it's just too much stuff going on at once for most people to join. The challenge seems to be confusing to many people.
Simply put, the competition focuses on the Players. And because Players by themselves don't make sound, it's nice to see them in action. The judges want to see and hear and want the public to see how you are using the Players. So the video really is the primary focus. There is no strict guideline on the format of the video and how it is presented. It can be with dialogue, with captions, or just screen capture by itself with details in the YouTube description. You can lead into a song with an explanation or just take off.TritoneAddiction wrote: ↑22 May 2018I could be wrong but I think it's just too much stuff going on at once for most people to join. The challenge seems to be confusing to many people.
Lots of rules to follow. The challenge itself probably makes sense from a judge perspective, but from a creative perspective your met with a wall of rules/restrictions. And only using players as a way to write music perhaps isn't the most intuitive way of writing music. (maybe that's just me)
It's 7 new REs to get your head around in a pretty limited time.
The submission rules alone are most likely too much for most people to join. Making a video, combinator patches, song file. Are they all being judged? What's important? The song, the video, the patches? It's pretty confusing.
And it's also likely many people don't have any experience making videos (or even want to make videos).
And unrelated, there is also the May Madness sale going on. People are probably busy checking out potential RE to buy.
I don't know. Maybe keep things simpler for the next challenge. Not trying to be an asshole, just want to share my thoughts.
Like I mentioned earlier in the thread, it's great that these challenges exist and I think a lot of Reason folks appreciate them.
The video doesn`t need to be Ryan Harlin good. You could even use your mobile to make the video and bounce the audio of Reason and sync it to it. I guess you can even do that on an iPad or similar.joeyluck wrote: ↑22 May 2018Simply put, the competition focuses on the Players. And because Players by themselves don't make sound, it's nice to see them in action. The judges want to see and hear and want the public to see how you are using the Players. So the video really is the primary focus. There is no strict guideline on the format of the video and how it is presented. It can be with dialogue, with captions, or just screen capture by itself with details in the YouTube description. You can lead into a song with an explanation or just take off.TritoneAddiction wrote: ↑22 May 2018
I could be wrong but I think it's just too much stuff going on at once for most people to join. The challenge seems to be confusing to many people.
Lots of rules to follow. The challenge itself probably makes sense from a judge perspective, but from a creative perspective your met with a wall of rules/restrictions. And only using players as a way to write music perhaps isn't the most intuitive way of writing music. (maybe that's just me)
It's 7 new REs to get your head around in a pretty limited time.
The submission rules alone are most likely too much for most people to join. Making a video, combinator patches, song file. Are they all being judged? What's important? The song, the video, the patches? It's pretty confusing.
And it's also likely many people don't have any experience making videos (or even want to make videos).
And unrelated, there is also the May Madness sale going on. People are probably busy checking out potential RE to buy.
I don't know. Maybe keep things simpler for the next challenge. Not trying to be an asshole, just want to share my thoughts.
Like I mentioned earlier in the thread, it's great that these challenges exist and I think a lot of Reason folks appreciate them.
There are seven Players in the prize pool and three people will win them all. It's a $203 value (considering the current sales) and a $229 regularly priced value. Sorry for any confusion in the rules. You must use all the players since the prize pool for each winner is all of the players. For simplicity, the rest is limited to Reason devices, because again, the focus is the utilization of Players.
Folks are free to ask any questions if anything is unclear. But in the end, those who put forth the effort will be the ones with a chance to win the prizes
Yeah I understand that this challenge has to be set up in a different way compared to a normal synth challenge. That makes sense.joeyluck wrote: ↑22 May 2018Simply put, the competition focuses on the Players. And because Players by themselves don't make sound, it's nice to see them in action. The judges want to see and hear and want the public to see how you are using the Players. So the video really is the primary focus. There is no strict guideline on the format of the video and how it is presented. It can be with dialogue, with captions, or just screen capture by itself with details in the YouTube description. You can lead into a song with an explanation or just take off.TritoneAddiction wrote: ↑22 May 2018
I could be wrong but I think it's just too much stuff going on at once for most people to join. The challenge seems to be confusing to many people.
Lots of rules to follow. The challenge itself probably makes sense from a judge perspective, but from a creative perspective your met with a wall of rules/restrictions. And only using players as a way to write music perhaps isn't the most intuitive way of writing music. (maybe that's just me)
It's 7 new REs to get your head around in a pretty limited time.
The submission rules alone are most likely too much for most people to join. Making a video, combinator patches, song file. Are they all being judged? What's important? The song, the video, the patches? It's pretty confusing.
And it's also likely many people don't have any experience making videos (or even want to make videos).
And unrelated, there is also the May Madness sale going on. People are probably busy checking out potential RE to buy.
I don't know. Maybe keep things simpler for the next challenge. Not trying to be an asshole, just want to share my thoughts.
Like I mentioned earlier in the thread, it's great that these challenges exist and I think a lot of Reason folks appreciate them.
There are seven Players in the prize pool and three people will win them all. It's a $203 value (considering the current sales) and a $229 regularly priced value. Sorry for any confusion in the rules. You must use all the players since the prize pool for each winner is all of the players. For simplicity, the rest is limited to Reason devices, because again, the focus is the utilization of Players.
Folks are free to ask any questions if anything is unclear. But in the end, those who put forth the effort will be the ones with a chance to win the prizes
Oh for sure. We'll see what happens. Still five days left. Thanks for voicing your opinion.TritoneAddiction wrote: ↑22 May 2018Yeah I understand that this challenge has to be set up in a different way compared to a normal synth challenge. That makes sense.joeyluck wrote: ↑22 May 2018
Simply put, the competition focuses on the Players. And because Players by themselves don't make sound, it's nice to see them in action. The judges want to see and hear and want the public to see how you are using the Players. So the video really is the primary focus. There is no strict guideline on the format of the video and how it is presented. It can be with dialogue, with captions, or just screen capture by itself with details in the YouTube description. You can lead into a song with an explanation or just take off.
There are seven Players in the prize pool and three people will win them all. It's a $203 value (considering the current sales) and a $229 regularly priced value. Sorry for any confusion in the rules. You must use all the players since the prize pool for each winner is all of the players. For simplicity, the rest is limited to Reason devices, because again, the focus is the utilization of Players.
Folks are free to ask any questions if anything is unclear. But in the end, those who put forth the effort will be the ones with a chance to win the prizes
To be honest I wasn't commenting from my own perspective of participating or not since I'm not even interested in any players, new or old. So it's very likely I wouldn't have entered this particular challenge whatever the rules where.
Putting my own motivation aside I was more trying to make an objective observation on why more people probably aren't joining the challenge. The rules may seem logical and all, but if people as artists don't feel inspired by them then it's less likely they'll enter. After all how something feels matters a lot when it comes to music and creativity. Logic matters less.
Again I say all this not to put the people down who set this challenge up. I say it because I want these awesome challenges to continue here at RT with a lot of participation. They're great and we're all greatful people make the effort to set them up..
We'll see what happens. There's still time left. Maybe more people will join. That would be great. Looking forward to hear what people come up with.
Another option for screen capture for macOS is Quicktime (already installed).tiker01 wrote: ↑22 May 2018
The video doesn`t need to be Ryan Harlin good. You could even use your mobile to make the video and bounce the audio of Reason and sync it to it. I guess you can even do that on an iPad or similar.
To help you a free screen recorder is mentioned in the rules and a link to a tutorial is added as well.
I agree the editing part is quite tuff, and youtube took off the windows/messages popo ups for marketing reason... I too did not have enough time for it, I'm right into a firestorm, that's why I kinda rushed it, no fancy editing, but it's something that interests me, and I could get back into this,Galaxy wrote: ↑23 May 2018Reason for not entering the challenge = not wanting to waste trials for every available player in the store. Have to use all players and not all players work into production methods. Can't make videos on shitty computer. Quality of video has to make a difference and be considered for marketing purposes. Judges might be different this time around cause so many designers extensions being used but never impressed me the tastes of judges selections in the past. Different strokes I guess. Would have been better to break up this challenge on a per player basis.