Winners Announced: Oenkenstein Audio's Rumble Klank Competition - Last day Oct 31

[challism]

UPDATE/EDIT
After a few days the panel has made their judgement:
1st prize: Quarmat.
2nd prize: Steedus.
3rd prize: Danilo Villanova.

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Now Rumble Klank Singing Bowls Generator has been released, Oenkenstein Audio in collaboration with Reasontalk wants you to get your creativity going with a challenge:

The Rumble Klank musical piece/song competition.
https://www.reasonstudios.com/shop/rack ... ble-klank/

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Klank is a singing bowls generator, but can also be used as an instrument or as an oscillator for a synthesizer.

Some hints:
• The generator comes with long duration samples. Adjust the Release to get more ‘plucky’ sounds.
• Tune two or more bowls to the same pitch. It gives a massive sound and is a good starting point for building your own instrument.
• The drones can be used as pads without a sudden attack and its audio output can be a starting point for modular synthesis.

Wish you all good luck and fun,

/Ed Gool
Oenkenstein Audio


The rules:

General:
• Entries must be emailed to reasontalkcontest@gmail.com (WITH "KLANK" IN THE SUBJECT LINE)
Please include: 1) a link to your track, 2) your ReasonTalk username and 3) ‘Klank song competition’ in the subject/header of the email.
• Entries must be submitted by 23:59:59 PST on October 31 (before 12:00AM / 00:00 PST November 1).
• Only one entry per participant.
• No remixes or cover songs. Your work must be original.
• Do not use copyrighted samples or material that hasn’t been cleared.
• Be aware that we will ask you to provide the Reason project file to check for compliance to these rules. If you bounce to track, leave the original lane/device intact!
• Oenkenstein Audio reserves the right to showcase all submissions on the media page of the Oenkenstein Audio website.

Instruments:
• All sounds must originate from Rumble Klank Singing Bowls Generator, other than drum / percussion samples (Kong, Redrum, NN-19/XT, Dr. Octorex and Mimic) and recorded vocal or instrument tracks.

Effects:
• Any of Reason's stock M-class effects (the yellow devices).
• Any of Reason's stock effects (the red half rack devices).
• Reason's Scream Distortion, RV7000 Reverb, The Echo, the two Softube Amps and Audiomatic Retro Transformer.

Utilities and Players:
• No restrictions.

Prizes:
• 1st place: Free license for all 5 Rack Extensions made by Oenkenstein Audio.
• 2nd place: Free license for Rumble Klank Singing Bowls Generator and two other Oenkenstein Audio Rack Extensions of your choice.
• 3rd place: Free license for Rumble Klank Singing Bowls Generator.

Judges:
Oenkenstein Audio and ReasonTalk Team.

Link to the products page:
www.oenkenstein.nl/products.asp

Countdown timer: https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/v ... nt=cursive
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[Carly(Poohbear)]

I would like to recommend to the dev to change his intro price to a few days after the results of this competition.

Currently "Introduction price until october, 31, 2021." same date this comp closes.

[challism]

I would like to recommend to the dev to change his intro price to a few days after the results of this competition.

Currently "Introduction price until october, 31, 2021." same date this comp closes.

Good idea

[Oenkenstein]

I would like to recommend to the dev to change his intro price to a few days after the results of this competition.

Currently "Introduction price until october, 31, 2021." same date this comp closes.

I have extended the introduction price of Klank to November, 10, 2021. However, it will take a few days before the updated product page will appear in the Reasonstudios shop with the new date.


Thanks for the suggestion. Thumbs up!

[Steedus]

I just bought it! Haha. If I have time I’ll try an entry, thanks.

[bossa]

Hello, a question regarding the competition rules: will it be allowed to record the own voice and play it back with the Mimic Sample Player?

[Oenkenstein]

Hello, a question regarding the competition rules: will it be allowed to record the own voice and play it back with the Mimic Sample Player?

Yes.
You are allowed to record your own voice and use Mimic. Yes, please

[challism]

Only 1 day 17 hours remaining (at the time of this posting).
Get your piece entered before time runs out.

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[wowhow]

Hi, thank you for the competition!
I love how singing bowls sound. These samples are really so amazing.
The different type of bowls, glasses, and even rubbing sounds. Wow.
For my track, I tried a new age track where I just played C major keys randomly but with a constant pulse.

[Steedus]

I wanted to do so much more, but I was just too busy the last 2 weeks .. oh well, hope this is ok. Thanks for the interesting instrument.

EDIT: I have a few hours left, so will make some tweaks ... posting back soon

[Danilo Villanova]

Here's my entry. Done in Reason 11 Intro, all stock devices.

[challism]

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[Quarmat]

Hello there!

here's my entry for the competition. I tried to tune everything perfect and then I decided it was much better in its "natural" sound. I hope you can enjoy the track.

Have a nice day and thank you for hosting the competition!

[Steedus]

Here's my entry with some tweaks. Made a spooky track for halloween.

[bossa]

You can listen to my contribution here. This is a classic minimal music piece:

[challism]

Thanks for the contributions. The contest is now closed. Please be patient while the judges deliberate. We should have an announcement in the next few days. Stay tuned! In the meantime... go make some music.

[Oenkenstein]

Yes, the competition is closed. Thank you so much contenders for the entries. They are very diverse. Ranging from (spooky) soundscapes, Steve Reich to pop songs.

Two owners of the singing bowls and also a member of Reasontalk joined the team of judges. When judging, factors such as creativity, originality, the use of the Rack Extension and composition were taken into account.

After a few days the panel has made their judgement:
1st prize: Quarmat.
2nd prize: Steedus.
3rd prize: Danilo Villanova.

We had a blast listening to the various tracks and it was interesting to see how verdicts changed when they were played more often.

I will PM the winners to ask for their Reasonstudios username and distribute the free licences according to the prizes they have won. Second prize winner Steedus is allowed to choose 3 Oenkenstein Rack Extensions, as Klank was already bought.

Many thanks goes to Challis from Reasontalk who proposed the contest and conducted the whole process.

Thumbs up and keep up the good work and make fine music!

[Re8et]

It may counts nothing but to my taste ...

1: Bossa
2: Wohow
3: Quarmat

nice sounding bells.

[bossa]

Thank you very much Re8et! I was very pleased!

It may counts nothing but to my taste ...

1: Bossa
2: Wohow
3: Quarmat

nice sounding bells.

[Quarmat]

Thank you for appreciating my track. It was a pleasure taking part to this competition. I enjoyed composing with Klang. I also appreciated all the tracks in this thread: the ethnic-hypnosis of Bossa's the mesmerizing texture of Wowhow's the dark atmosphere of Steedus' and especially the mystical tune of Danilo's track. You are great composers and I am honored to be part of this bunch.

I would like to thank Oenkenstein Audio and Challism for hosting this competition. Great fun, awesome tunes.

Have a nice day!

[challism]

This was a tough one to judge. There were some really interesting and solid contributions. A heartfelt "thank you" goes out to all those who entered; without you, there wouldn't have been a contest. Congratulations are due to all of you!

[Steedus]

Thanks for the opportunity! It was fun to do a competition again, I haven't tried one in a while. Fun (but a little stressful) to have a strict deadline haha. Nice to hear how the other entrants used the instrument.

Thanks Oenkenstein Audio, Challism and all who entered.

[Danilo Villanova]

Thank you for the opportunity!! Very happy to be in the podium. Thanks to all who contributed. It’s an awesome instrument that I hope to use in the future

[Danilo Villanova]

Thank you for appreciating my track. It was a pleasure taking part to this competition. I enjoyed composing with Klang. I also appreciated all the tracks in this thread: the ethnic-hypnosis of Bossa's the mesmerizing texture of Wowhow's the dark atmosphere of Steedus' and especially the mystical tune of Danilo's track. You are great composers and I am honored to be part of this bunch.

I would like to thank Oenkenstein Audio and Challism for hosting this competition. Great fun, awesome tunes.

Have a nice day!

Hey, Quarmat. Congratulations on making first place! And thanks for your nice comments. Your track is awesome! What did you use for the cajon sounds?

[Quarmat]

Hey, Quarmat. Congratulations on making first place! And thanks for your nice comments. Your track is awesome! What did you use for the cajon sounds?

Thanks, I enjoyed your track! For the kajon I used an OctoRex with three loops that can be found in the Reason Factory Library:

• Kahon_01a_100.rx2

• Kahon_01b_100.rx2

• Kahon_01c_100.rx2