SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC092 April 2025 - Submissions until 24-APR-2025 23:59 UTC+2/CEST

[Mister Fox]

A friendly reminder:
Including today, 07 days left to submit your production.

So far, we have 03 entries and some minimal feedback among participants.

We need 09 participants for a regular sized podium, and more than 15 for an extended one.



Now is the perfect time to post your entry!

If you want to access the extended game mechanics of the Songwriting Competition (asking for feedback during production), please try to release your first edits within the next 3 to 4 days to have enough time to get possible feedback (if wanted/needed) and continue to work on your song.

To those sitting on the fence - please don't feel scared off and think "the bar is set too high, I will never make it" - set yourself a shorter private deadline. Just make music, submit your entry, join the conversation. See where this goes.

By joining, you're already a winner. The rest is bonus.

[toadhjo]

I'm working on a track. It's not coming together as smoothly as I hoped but I'm pretty sure I'll finish it in time to enter. I'm making this post to hold myself publicly accountable.

There will even be vocals -- don't say I didn't warn you!

[Marc Fey]

Here's mine. For this SWC092, I've tried to tell the story of a person whose day begins on the street of a big city.
She already knows that a hellish pace awaits her, not a single break throughout this fast-paced day, no time to breathe (except

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at the end of the track, when she realizes that it was a dream, a grim premonition of the day to come).

The provided images immediately inspired me to complete the beginning of a piece I'd put aside some time ago (I didn't know how to develop it).
So thanks Mister Fox for this!

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/r83wcsjl ... ac3ym&dl=0

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DAW: Tracktion Waveform Pro 13

Instruments:
Drums: AD2 Black Velvet
Bass: EZbass
Bass Synth: Arturia Acid V
Guitars: Ample Sound and Audiofier Veevum Guitarscapes
Synth and Keys: Arturia Analog Lab
Pads: Arturia Analog Lab and Dawesome Abyss

FX: Melda EQs, Arturia Rev Plate-140, IK MixBox, TDR Kotelnikov GE, TDR SlickEQ M, Venomode Maximal 3

[EsteveCorbera]

Dear challenge companions and Mister Fox.

I present to you my new song that I made for this month's challenge.
First of all I was inspired by the images that Mister Fox sent and, then, I was also inspired by the last concert that I went to hear. On April 2, Tangerine Dream (TD) came to Barcelona and I went to see them. That's where the inspiration came to me and I decided to pay them a little tribute. The music that he has made wants to resemble TD and at the same time wants to express this continuous movement that surrounds us. A feeling that everything is going fast and that we are only spectators of this constant flow.
For this reason, I wanted to base myself on a sequence of notes that are repeated and that from time to time vary but never stop sounding. I tried to make everything reminiscent of TD, which is why I also used a package of Arturia presets that also paid tribute to him.
Well, I hope you like it.

Thank you colleagues.

(translated with google)



Updated 22 april


Equipment:
DAW:
Reason 13.2.1d1 (build 17.4339)

Reason Instruments:
ID8 Songwriter's Toolbox

Reason Effects:
Reason Equalizer
Master Compressor
RV7000 MkII Advanced Reverb
The Echo

Reason Players:
Scales & Chords

Reason Utilities:
Gain Tool

Reason Rack Extension:
BASSGRID Filter X1 (Effect)
Robotic Bean AB Euclidean Rhythms Rhythm Sequencer (Player)

Other instruments outside of Reason:
UJAM Beatmaker CIRCUITS
UVI Workstation
Arturia Analog Lab V
Arturia Jup-8 V4

Presets:
Arturia Soundbank _Tangerine Tribute

Other effects outside of Reason:
HoRNet Plugins HoRNet Harmonics Pro

UVI Library:
UVI Soundbank PX Sunbox

Other tools:
HoRNet Plugins HoRNet HarmoniQ
HoRNet Plugins HoRNet Sleek
iZotope Ozone 9 Standard
Plugin Alliance SPL HawkEye
HoRNet Plugins HoRNet VHS
Mastering The Mix Expose2