Toontrack x G.O.D. Songwriting Competition (English)

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The Prizes

The top 5 entries in each category will receive an item of their choosing from the selection below. 1st place will have first choice, 2nd place will have second choice and so on. In addition, 1st place in the guitar performance category will become a member of G.O.D.!

Guitar performance category

  • SONICWIRE online store coupon worth ¥50,000 (SONICWIRE)
    (You have to switch your language setting to Japanese on SONICWIRE)
  • All the Kemper rig packs and IR libraries by ViViX (ViViX)
  • Royer Labs R-10 (Miyaji Gakki)
  • QAC-222G 3m S-S and the power cable L/i50 HBE 1.8m(neo Created by OYAIDE Elec.)
  • HPH-MT7 (Steinberg (Yamaha Music Japan))

MIDI mockup guitar category

  • SONICWIRE online store coupon worth ¥50,000 (SONICWIRE)
    (You have to switch your language setting to Japanese on SONICWIRE)
  • All the Kemper rig packs and IR libraries by ViViX (ViViX)
  • Your custom studio desk (GROUND MUSIK)
  • T-RackS 5, Lurssen Mastering Console, AmpliTube MAX (IK Multimedia)
  • HPH-MT5W (Steinberg (Yamaha Music Japan))

How to enter

Guitar performance category

  • Compose your original guitar instrumental song with a Toontrack drum library.
  • Record a video of you playing the song and upload it on YouTube. (Make sure to mention which Toontrack library was used in the description box.)
  • Advertise it on Twitter. The tweet must include ”the URL of the video”, “#GOD_movie” and “@cfm_sonicwire”. If you don’t have a Twitter account, send an e-mail here with your name and URL of the video.

That’s all! Please wait for your entry to appear on the entries page.

MIDI mockup guitar category

  • Compose your original guitar instrumental song with a Toontrack drum library and guitar samples.
  • Upload it on SoundCloud (Make sure to mention which Toontrack library was used in the description box.)
  • Advertise it on Twitter. The tweet must include ”the URL of the track”, “#GOD_sound” and “@cfm_sonicwire”. If you don’t have a Twitter account, send an e-mail here with your name and URL of the track.

That’s all! Please wait for your entry to appear on the entries page.

Deadline : Janurary 21, 2018 11:59 p.m. (JST) (extended!)


Rules

  • Multiple entries will be OK.
  • Compose a whole new piece of music for this competition.
  • Except for the guitar and drums, you can collaborate with players of the other instruments.
  • We’ll accept entries from all over the world, and we’ll ship the prize worldwide except for the studio desk.
  • We’ll accept entries regardless of age or gender.
  • In the Guitar performance category, entrants must play the guitar themselves.
  • Arrange your drum track with your own Toontrack license.