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Teams of 4 musicians

Have 1 hour to make a track

Using 'secret ingredients' (samples)

Tons of prizes and networking opportunities

Next Event

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Rules

Bakeoff Rules

  1. ​​Anyone of any skill level, genre, or musician type (singer, songwriter, producer, instrumentalist) is allowed to compete.

  2. Teams must start with a blank session on their preferred DAW. 

  3. Teams have 1 hour to create a 60-90 second track that must be placed in the submissions folder before time is up.

  4. Teams must create a track at the BPM assigned to them.

  5. Teams may ONLY use samples provided as part of the competition (this means no premade loops).

  6. Teams may ONLY use 'sampler instruments' to create progressions (this means no VST synths or in-house/software default synths, aside from 'sampler instruments').

  7. Teams may ONLY use in-house/software default effects (this means no VST effects).

  8. Teams may use hardware, instruments, vocals, as long as everything is created and recorded once the competition starts.​​

  9. Additional hardware teams are allowed to use:

    1. Computer containing their preferred DAW

    2. Hard drives (to transfer files and multitracks between computers)

    3. Headphones and headphone splitters

    4. MIDI hardware/instruments

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