These are the 3 winners of our recent studio pic contest powered by Sample Magic ! Three great pics so a shout out for these guys, respectively (in the photo order) “Samplaire”, “Shmoe” and “Vester”. Each one of them will be able to choose 3 Sample Magic libraries entirely for free, Christmas before time ! (click on the pics to see them bigger, when available)
Being a Celldweller fan. It’s the kind of thing we think that happens only at other people’s families, until the day we surprisingly see it happening within our own kingdom. And what should we do, then? Well, if you think we’re going to lock a friend in one of Ohm Force cave’s abandoned dark rooms and feed him with a defrosted pizza, you’re completely mistaken! We’re open minded people and we do accept – and respect – our friends as they are. The proof is that we’re even sponsoring FIXT’s current Celldweller remix contest, which offers prizes from Ohm Force, Fabfilter and Cakewalk: if you appreciate his electronic-and-almost-trance-metal-rock, don’t miss this opportunity to have fun, show your skills and grab some gear. Nevertheless, Klayton/Celdweller is a first-time Ohmicide:Melohman user, what shows that he’s indeed a clever guy. And it’s true that he sculpted some very nice distorted landscapes in his tunes, which fits very well with his…. euh… we better stop here, otherwise you’ll start to think that there’s more than one fan here. Not at all, everything is under control!
We’ve written each name in same sized piece of papers and put them all in a supermarket plastic bag. It took only 40 seconds until one of our cats – who has a kind of paranormal power, some believe – shake the bag making the first three papers come out so, the three winners of a Groovemonkee midi pack are…… Thomas Leroux, Stephen Crane and Julian Rademacher ! Congratulations guys!
If you’re coming from the link that you’ve just clicked on our August newsletter, it’s at this post’s comments section where you should leave the link for the picture that proves that you you should be a little bit faster next time, this little contest is from now closed: it’s Thom, the guy who posted the picture from the link below who’s got a copy of the ”Electro House Revolution Vol.1″ DVD from Sound Of Revolution. (…) You have no idea what we’re talking about? What?? Haven’t you subscribed to Ohm Force’s newsletter yet? No donut for you this time, but if you go there and leave your mail in the right form, you won’t miss next month’s promo and giveaways…
What will be a great thing to do during this summer? Making music, of course! What about participating at this year’s edition of the Summer Electronic Music Games, the yearly contest organised by SectionZ? SEMG’s first edition happened during the summer of 2004 and experimented a wide success, with up to 11 different events, more than 200 entries and live web broadcast shows for the results announcements and playback. Since then it became a tradition, getting bigger year after year, specially the prize vault: for 2009’s edition more than U$ 60,000 in pro-audio related goodies have been donated by top industry names, and of course you’ll read the Ohm Force name on that list. Second and third places of each event will put their hands in a OhmBoyz delay and the “4 on 4 relay fresstyle” (a ‘four style in a row’ competition ) big winner will get nothing less than an ALL-ALL Bundle with all our plug-ins. If you enjoy musical challenges you should participate in the contests, listen, review submitted tracks and promote your own within and beyond the SectionZ community. Non members can freely download or stream music just as easily as members.
As you may know, we are trendy hipsters at Ohm Force. Actually, most of the supermodels of the best haute-couture shops in Paris drive by our headquarters on Mondays hoping to catch a glimpse of the T-shirts we’re wearing and adapt on Tuesdays.
But don’t jump in your stretched Hummer. It is not practical to move around in Paris with that kind of ride.
You’d rather follow our twitter feed from the comfort of your home studio.
To spice it up, (and considering that we are needy people) we are throwing a quick follower whoring contest on twitter.
The rules are easy :
When our follower count hits 500, the first fellow follower to tweet “@ohmforce NEED <plugin>” will receive the <plugin>.
<plugin> is the plugin of your choice in Ohm Force’s lineup. (protip : they have “ohm” somewhere in their name).
We will use the following notifcation email timestamp to pinpoint who will be the winner.
Of course you won’t have access to that information. There will be a bit of randohm thrown in.
We will not accept automated entries.
If you don’t win this time, there are and will be more contests and events to score some freebies with the Ω tatooed in the special place. And our store is always open with that crazy bearded man in the top right corner. (We call him the unhelpful shopping non-assistant)
So click on that follow button over there, and come back here, I am not done yet:
What should you expect from our twitter account ?
Signing off,
Green Grey Force (Yes, I am one cool hacker)
All german music producers of this planet (most of them actually living in Deutschland by the way) we ask you attention please! The german music production site Delamar, specialized in music production tutorials and computer music news, have just announced a nice music production contest, and we can guarantee man, you’ll enjoy the not-that-german prizes 
We’ve recently made a contest in partnership with french ‘one stop geek blog’ Geekzone.fr, and Matthieu M. aka Alkama was the big winner, taking home a deserved Ohm Force ‘ALL-ALL Bundle’. The contest theme was about christmas – we’ve actually challenged the contenders to create some “Electrohmic Christmas” soundtrack – and Alkama did it greatly: he’s found a creative way to stay coherent to the proposed theme, with a groovy jingle-bell-bassline that goes along the whole track, but also with beats and melodies that go beyond the contest subject and could easily be at our Mp3 players during the whole year. The Ohm Side of the Moon has made a big interview with him, so click here to listen to his winner track while you check it out:
1- For how long you produce music and what is your studio setup?
I’ve been producing music since the middle of the 90s, as a teenager, when I joined a digital movement called demoscene as a coder and musician. Back then, I used to run on C64, then Amiga, Atari and the early x86s. Those were quite stable platforms to develop on, with known reachable limits. Today, the average computer is quite a monster, and demoscene slowly evolved from its “pushing limits” goal to an expression media. A way to produce underground animated art.
My homestudio is made of a Desktop PC with an RME HDSP9632 sound card connected to a pair of DynAudio BM5A and a Mackie BigKnob to control the volume. The RME card is flawless and impressive, I used to plug some Sony MDR7509 headphones and it sounded just good enough. I’ve waited a long time before buying descent monitors: it’s an expensive investment. But now I got those Dynaudio, I just cant remember how I did before. It completely reshaped the way I mix my tracks. The mobile part of my studio is composed of a MacBook Pro laptop with a NI Audio Kontrol 1 sound card. The sound card is less important on macs, since audio latencies are short anyway.
On the software side, my main tools are Ableton Live and MaxMSP. As all geeks, I like to experiment and nothing beats the old good “do it yourself” state of mind. MaxMSP is a dream tool and a pleasure to play with (now that I went over the beginners aggressive learning curve), and Live is just easy and flexible enough not to be a hassle while trying to lay down an idea (click here to take a look at his track’s live arrangement). Plugin-wise, I’m a total fan of the Minimonsta. I use it for just everything. It’s much more versatile than one could suppose. And the idea of embedded “LFOs/ADSR on every control” makes it even deeper and expressive. Lately, I also bought myself Logic Studio, hoping to spend more time finalizing my songs. (more…)
During last 2 months we’ve been making a production contest in partnership with frenchy geek’s paradise Geekzone.fr, and as the site is written only in french, the contest was obviously mainly focused on french speakers/readers. But now that the submission period is closed we’ve a nice bunch of songs, and since music its *the* international language, there’s no reason to not share it with all ohmfriends. The contest theme was “Christmas”, but not that Christmas we’re used to see, the one they see trough their particular eyes instead. So listen and share some visions; then leave a comment to tell which one you think deserves winning the first place…
