FAQ

It is a monthly competition where tracks are made using only one synth for absolutely all sounds, including percussion, then voted on.

Simply upload your track to SoundCloud before the deadline (remember to make downloadable), then announce it in a forum post in the submissions thread with a link your entry, including a list of how many instances of the synth you used, what DAW you used and what other effects (if any) there were, and you are entered.

General rules are here, but might vary slightly with each competition so check the synth page and first post of the submissions forum thread, but basically a track must be made using only the one synth and nothing else for all sounds including percussion. All plugin effects like equalizers, delays etc, must either be inside the synth / DAW or external effects which must be freeware and easily available to all.

You can use any plugin as long as it's not against the rules, but here is anyway a list of Recommended Plugins

There will be a link on the page for the synth in question here and also in the submissions forum thread.

Ensure that your filename complies with the naming convention outlined in the rules.
Upload to your soundcloud account, and post a link in the forum with your announcement.
Make sure the track is marked public and downloadable.
Note that SoundCloud will transcode your track to 128kbps CBR (constant bitrate) MP3 for the website player, even if it's already in that format! For best sounding results, upload in an uncompressed format (wav or aif) and keep a headroom of 3db (levels not maxed out).
Your track should appear in soundcload playlist published on the forum when all submissions are in, and should also be on the voting website. If it does not appear there please contact one of the admins.

XP: Right-click file then: - > properties - > summary -> advanced
Vista: Right-click file then: - > properties - > Details
Win7: Make sure you are running as administrator then same as Vista above
Use Windows Media Player: In the library, right-click on the MP3 file and select "Advanced Tag Editor".
Use the free EasyTag or Mp3Tag program

Some older synths don't work too well with the newer multi-core CPUs with many instances loaded, so one trick is to make copies of the dll with different names for each. Check also if your DAW has an option to load the synth in a different way.
If none of this helps, you must bounce (record as audiofile) some tracks and then close down those instances of the synth to free up the processor.
Write a post in the submissions and chat forum. Other participants can often help, and may experience similar issues.

After submissions deadline is over there will usually be a link supplied to a zip file with all tracks in high quality MP3 format and posted on the challenge page. Alternatively you can listen to the entries via the voting site or on Soundcloud.

After submission deadline at the end of the month, there will be a link here at the site and at the competition forum thread to the page where you can vote and instructions how to do it.

Voting is mandatory for all participants. You will be disqualified if you don't vote.

Yes, voting is open to all, but you need to have 40 posts at KVR forum before the start of the competition period.

Use the general discussion forum thread not related to the individual competitions.

We are using Google Sites to host the web page, so that's just a general login for all Google Sites.

Reload the page and try again. If still not working, you might have set the browser or firewall to block flash players.

Here is a page with collected videos, tutorials and links that you might find useful.