The Immortal Empire - Renoise Music Competition has come to an end. The winners are: Jacek Dojwa, Frej Bjon, and Bence Tasnadi. Congratulations! They receive $300, $200, and $100 (USD) respectively and will have their music featured in the upcoming role playing game Immortal Empire.

The response to the compo was immense, with participants sending in over 50 great songs. Immortal Empire’s developer Tactic Studios has ranked and reviewed all songs: Compo results and comments.

To commemorate the closing of the competition, here’s a trailer of Immortal Empire featuring the music of first place winner Jacek Dojwa.

To celebrate the launch of Renoise 2.0, the teams from Renoise and Tactic Studios are announcing the start of the official Immortal Empire - Renoise Music Competition. The objective of the competition is to score music for the upcoming MMORPG Immortal Empire. The game is a turn-based strategic RPG set in a fantasy world.

The entries will be judged by Tactic Studios’ development team. Any song submitted may be used in the final product of the game, so this is a chance for your music to be exposed to a large audience. If you make it to the top 3, you will win up to $300 in cash.

The kind of music we are looking for is Orchestral or Progressive Orchestral. To get an idea what that sounds like, check out the background music of games such as Diablo, Baldur’s Gate 2, StarCraft and Mass Effect.

The competition will close on March 15th 2009.

Visit the Immortal Empire Renoise Music Competition Website for more information.

Renoise 2.0 Beta Music Competition Results

Renoise’s previous competition has come to an end and the winning songs have been included in the installation packages. All songs and reviews of the Renoise 2.0 Beta Music Competition can be found on the Beta Compo website.

The deadline of the Renoise 2 Beta Competition has passed. We have received a fair amount of pretty good songs and we are currently deciding on a winner.

In the previous post about the compo I promised a public Renoise 2.0 RC1 demo. Unfortunately at this time the demo has been delayed for about 1 week. Beta 6 will be released shortly.

Renoise 2 Beta 5 is now available for all registered users. This will be the last Beta before moving on to the first public Release Candidate. Beta 5 contains several fixes and new features. For a detailed overview of the new features in Renoise 2 check out the What’s New section.

The Renoise 2 Beta Music Competition has been extended with a 2nd round. Congratulations to the contestants so far. The first round’s winner is Mr. Mark Dollin’s song Ghost Debts. It’s pretty unique and innovative. At only 66 KB it will barely increase Renoise’s install package.

See the Beta Music Competition page for more info and the updated rules for round 2. The compo deadline is planned on the same day as the first public Release Candidate of Renoise 2.0. If you are not a registered user that will be day you can finally get your hands on a free demo of the new Renoise. Anyway, send in your song before the deadline: Monday 17 November 23:00 GMT. and keep it below 5000 KB.

Renoise 2.0 is shaping up quite nicely. Its new timing features help you get a more natural and organic sound. But, we need a really good demo song for when Renoise 2 goes public. One that makes you say: “Wow, that wasn’t possible with Renoise before!”

Because we want to have the demo song before the first public demo of Renoise 2, we have started the Renoise 2 Beta Music Competition for registered users.

Send in your song before the deadline: Sunday 26 October 23:00 GMT.

If you are not a registered user, don’t panic. There will be a public BeatBattle when Renoise 2 is finished. Ofcourse, you could also order a license and join the Beta compo as well.

Calling out to all the IDM/breakbeat/breakcore heads out there. Take your best shot and show what you are worth in the Mutant Breaks Compo.

Deadline

June 27th, 2008

Theme

“The reckless pursuit of utopia at all costs, even utopia”

Rules

• Breakbeats, basslines, any tempo, any thing
• Song/track must be multi-platform Renoise 1.9.1 XRNS files, no VST/VSTi/LADSPA plugins allowed
• 1 winner chosen, arbitrary criteria, heavy drinking

Prize

The winner may choose 1 of the following:

• Registered copy of Renoise
• Renoise T-Shirt and Mouse pad
• Entire Trotch discography, mailed to you

How to join

Upload your song somewhere and post the link in the Mutant Breaks Compo thread.

GO!

Update: Renoise 1.9.0RC2 has just been released, so it is a double party! Rules have been changed accordingly.

What: ROHC#3 - Ultra High Speed 1.9RC Celebration Music Compo
Date: 18 October
Time: 19:30 GMT (look up your local time)
Location: #renoise at EsperNet
Tool: Renoise 1.9.0RC2 (demo or full)

Bring your lunchbox.

How does the One Hour Compo work?

1. Go to #renoise
2. Receive sample pack link
3. Track your song in Renoise 1.9.0RC2 with the given sample pack
4. After one hour go back to #renoise and dcc or e-mail your song
5. Vote after getting the song pack
6. Win or not win

Rules

• Your song should not give away your identity.
• Use only the samples from the samplepack.
• There is no theme or genre or whatsoever. Just hurry up.
• Sample mashing inside Renoise allowed with built-in effects and features.
• Do not vote for yourself.

BeatBattle 5’s Final Ranking has been published, so it is time to give all the winners their prizes. In fact, all plugins from CamelAudio, Crysonic, NUSofting and Tone2, and the Trotch discography, have already been given away. We are now collecting personal information from those who win the Renoise licenses and WusikStations.

At the moment of writing, we have sent e-mails to ranks 5 to 9. If you are one of them, please answer as quickly as possible, so we can proceed with the next ranks. We might have prizes for ranks up to 20, so stay alert.

We are handing out over 1500 Eur worth of VSTs, records and Renoise licenses:

Renoise BeatBattle 5 Prizes

Find out if you are one of the winners:

Renoise BeatBattle 5 Ranking

Renoise’s epic music compo BeatBattle 5 ~Underwater~ is coming to an end. The final ranking will be determined and published tonight, 31 July 2007 at 23:59 + 2:00 GMT. After that time, althought it will still be possible to rate and review, the outcome of the compo cannot be influenced anymore.

Which songs do you think will be make it to the top 5? If you haven’t done so, leave a rating for the songs while you still can!

Update - results are in!

BeatBattle 5 - Final Ranking

It is almost time to announce the winners of the Renoise BeatBattle 5 ~Underwater~ music competition. Be quick if you still want your opinion on the songs to be heard, because the voting closing date is only 4 days away: 31 July 2007.

Vote now: BeatBattle 5 voting