Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

I have quite a lot experience of hosting music competitions. I've 
hosted my "Nifflas 30 sec competition" at www.nifflas.com and is 
about to host "Spectrum Music Competition 2003"... I'm also a host 
for one hour music competitions on IRC (Each artist gets the sample 
pack and should submit a complete song within an hour, based on the 
sample pack samples). Here's some advice I can give to you that will 
make it more simple to host a competition.

* A homepage is really important. At least a competition URL with 
information about the compo itself, how to submit the song. A compo 
(aka. competition) can not only be held at a "message board" like 
this, it will be too hard looking up the information you need. And 
how to tell a friend? Can't give him a whole bunch of rules. Better 
to give him an URL.

* There's no need to hurry. If you want to get like 20-30 entries, 
there has to be a quite long time to the deadline, after the official 
compo start. I started N3C in January, and set the deadline to March. 
Many people had time to find and read about the compo, and I got lots 
of nice entries.

* Maillist. Everyone who submits a song could automaticly become a 
member of a maillist, where you get information (not often at all) 
about what's happening to the competition (when the competition is 
over, the maillist should of course not exist anymore). If you decide 
to do it - keep in mind that you should not send a single mail to 
multiple e-mail adresses at the same time. Privacy is important to 
avoid chain letters and ads. Keep each persons e-mail adress secret 
to the other people.



I would join such a compo. Count me in. I might already have a song 
ready which is completley made with the XL-7, but this is if you 
allow multiple roms.

//Nifflas

--- In xl7@y..., "freakyfreq" <freakyfreq@c...> wrote:
> Count me in as well! Let's use multi-roms and audio tracks for 
spice?
> 
> 
> --- In xl7@y..., "joesapo" <joesapo@y...> wrote:
> > i'm in.  so what about a deadline?  1 week contest?
> > 
> > sapo
> > 
> > --- In xl7@y..., erik_magrini@B... wrote:
> > > Yes, finally a taker!  It's all just for fun, so I hope people 
> > aren't 
> > > going to do it because they're afraid of some critisms or 
> > something.  It 
> > > gives everyone a chance to hear what you're doing on the same 
> box, 
> > offer 
> > > advice, get ideas, and generally (hopefully) have fun.  With 
> enough 
> > > submission, we may even be able to persuade to Emu to offer up 
a 
> > small 
> > > prize and or judge the entrants (though I haven't asked them 
yet, 
> > doh!). 
> > > C'mon, some one else wants to compete no?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > rEalm
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > BTW- I liked your idea about posting annonymous works
> > > up and voting on them. Even though I am pretty far
> > > down on the food chain as far doing all work on the
> > > box by itself. Any other takers?
> > > 
> > > 
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