[Conner_Bw]

Check it out.

OFFICIAL UPLOAD AND VOTING PAGE:
http://www.renoise.c...tions/indamixx/


Other URLs of interest:

• Uploaded songs appear in this sub-forum
  
• Indamixx + Renoise + CDM Music Production Contest
  
• Competition: Optimize the hell out of your song
  
• Old submission form; Contact CDM directly.

Here's the executive summary:

• LOW CPU XRNS (use this benchmark song)
  
• EXTENDED: Deadline is October 25th

Prizes:

- Indamixx Netbook ($549.00) (specs flyer pdf)




- 4x Indamixx USB Stick ($149.00)


- Renoise license ($77.00)



Good times!

[chunter]

Conner_Bw, on Sep 22 2009, 06:01 PM, said:

• LOW CPU XRNS
  
• Deadline is October 15th

Good times!

I assume that a tune must either only use plugins that come with Indamixx or only use native plugins. Otherwise, low CPU should be easy for me; I usually compose on a laptop with single-core CPU.

Looking forward

[vincentvc]

Style? Anything, as long as it sounds good?

[Bantai]

You're songs are going to be voted on by other people, so I reckon it's best to make something most people will like.

Also pay attention to the CPU usage, your song should not be more CPU heavy than this benchmark:

http://createdigital...enchmark21.xrns

[vV]

chunter, on Sep 22 2009, 08:16 PM, said:

I assume that a tune must either only use plugins that come with Indamixx or only use native plugins. Otherwise, low CPU should be easy for me; I usually compose on a laptop with single-core CPU.

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The winner will become a demo song available via Renoise and on the Indamixx Linux-powered USB flash drive and pre-configured netbooks.

In a nutshell it tells you more or less what you can use and what you cannot and also what limitations you are facing against: A Demo tune for a net-book powered Linux platform which is quite a challenge.
As usual:a Renoise demosong does not use external effects (A pity Peter shows a screenshot with Renoise using external effect which might more or less set you astray from the original goal of the contest), yet if you have tried running the current Renoise demo songs on net-books, you probably figured out there are not much of those songs that last too long without hickups.

The real challenge here is not to make it sound like some cheezy chiptune as that is cpu low, but likely not a winner.
Just a small hint:you could track great quality stuff in the old Dos days on a Pentium 75 using FastTracker, so a 600Mhz (it is 1.3 but performs like a 600Mhz) cpu should pose no problems when using the trickery from the trackers handbook...

[Jonas]

nice challenge! Is there also a file-size limit?

[Bantai]

Stay below 5 MB to be safe. Since the winning song is going to be a used as a demo song, it shouldn't be too big. Use XRNIRipper to compress the samples in your song with Ogg Vorbis and you'll have about 50 MB worth of flac samples available. For example, none of Hunz's XRNS songs exceed 4 MB.

[vV]

jonas the plugexpert, on Sep 22 2009, 11:32 PM, said:

nice challenge! Is there also a file-size limit?

Renoise installer is currently aprox. 16Mb in size including all demo song content and some instruments?
I think it would suit the song if it won't get too bulky in size... having a 60meg installer of which 10MB is only the actual software seems rather unbalanced... unless the other 50MB consist mainly of high quality samplepacks.

[Conner_Bw]

Just to follow up by stating the obvious, CDM is running Renoise and Indamixx stories all week.

Check their home page daily, contribute where you can via comments, keep the good times flowing; because good times is my cliché but it's oh so right.

http://createdigitalmusic.com/

[vincentvc]

I have their RSS feed on my iGoogle for few months now. I read the article first on CDM. It was pretty surprising..

[Jonas]

Is there a limit to the amount of submissions per person?

[Bantai]

jonas the plugexpert, on Sep 23 2009, 08:35 PM, said:

Is there a limit to the amount of submissions per person?

No, but I think you have a greater chance of success if you concentrate on one or 2 songs rather than 5, for example.

[Corticyte]

Hooray! CDM are bumming Renoise and not the f-king iPhone!

Wait, a Netbook music competition? :|

[NTX13]

Sounds cool ! I'm in
...Too bad I put my old PII-350 to death! [it had an option to disable L2 cache so it could run reaaaaaaaaaal slooooooooow ]

This post has been edited by NTX13: 24 September 2009 - 10:21 AM

[Moss]

How does one apply the creative commons license?
Just post this link in with it?

[Bantai]

Moss, on Sep 24 2009, 10:20 PM, said:

How does one apply the creative commons license?
Just post this link in with it?

Yeah, see http://wiki.creativecommons.org/FAQ for offline works

[Prickly_AI]

Indamixx Netbook? 2GB Ram but Intel Atom? The song must be tested by the notebook with the CPU not limiting upto 90%? How am I going to convert my common CPU percentage to the Netbook?

[vV]

Prickly_AI, on Sep 26 2009, 02:57 AM, said:

Indamixx Netbook? 2GB Ram but Intel Atom? The song must be tested by the notebook with the CPU not limiting upto 90%? How am I going to convert my common CPU percentage to the Netbook?

Use cross reference values for demo-songs that do not halt on a netbook.
On an Acer Aspire One Bk250, 2 songs can give you a direction how much your cpu threshold of your laptop should be scaled to:
The Path 2009 peaks at 71.9%, but does not halt.
Nivi does not halt.

Also read the MSI Wind U100 review where someone did a similar test:
http://www.renoise.c...o...c=19175&hl=

So play those songs and look at the maximum CPU rates of those songs when played on your laptop or PC (turn off multicore usage).... if you can stay under that, your song written on your laptop/pc may as well survive on a netbook.

Also the songs that do not work out can give you indication of what to avoid using or combining.

[Bantai]

Prickly_AI, on Sep 26 2009, 01:57 AM, said:

Indamixx Netbook? 2GB Ram but Intel Atom? The song must be tested by the notebook with the CPU not limiting upto 90%? How am I going to convert my common CPU percentage to the Netbook?

Please, please read the given information on the compo page. It's all there.

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2. Make sure your track will play on a netbook – so go easy. For reference, here’s a file used for benchmarking systems. Figure that your track should have a similar task on your CPU.

CPUBenchmark21.xrns (nothing special musically – for testing only!)

Hell, I've even said it in the 4th post of this thread.

[slomo]

can renoise 2.1 play files from renoise 2.0?

[vV]

slomo, on Sep 26 2009, 05:50 PM, said:

can renoise 2.1 play files from renoise 2.0?

Yes, all older songs (from Renoise 1.27 and up) should be loadable into the newest version.

[Conner_Bw]

slomo, on Sep 26 2009, 11:50 AM, said:

can renoise 2.1 play files from renoise 2.0?

Why not use the latest version?

http://www.renoise.c...wnload/renoise/

[Bantai]

One of the entries:

Cow in a can

I was very surprised.

[Jonas]

don't think I can do something for this compo, to little time

[Bantai]

jonas the plugexpert, on Oct 5 2009, 12:26 PM, said:

don't think I can do something for this compo, to little time

Hehe, a little while ago you asked for the maximum amount of entries per person...