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February’s Challenge is upon us! Here's the image for your inspiration, chosen by last month’s winner Dad3353... Usual rules apply: ✔️Entries must be < 5 minutes and written/recorded this month. ❌No illegal samples or other funny business. ❌No bagpipes (although I’m willing to waive this if Scotland joins the EU and someone can fix me up with a Scottish passport; just saying...). Deadline for entries is Saturday 22nd February.

Well done guys! 👏 Voting thread is up.

It's time to vote in our first Compo Challenge of 2020 Choose your favourite... (just one vote this month, so make it count!): Dad3353 lurksalot upside downer SH73 Voting ends at midnight on Sunday 2nd February.

It's time to kick off 2020 with our first Composition Challenge of the year! Here's the image for your inspiration, chosen by Dad3353... Usual rules apply: ✔️Entries must be < 5 minutes and written/recorded this month. ❌No illegal samples or other funny business. ❌No bagpipes. Deadline for entries is Friday 24th January.

It's time to vote in the special edition Christmas Cover Song Challenge! 🎄 Choose your top THREE FAVOURITES from this bumper crop of entries... Dad3353 Bleat fingers211 SH73 colleya Painy lurksalot upside downer Dazm1966 Earbrass NoirBass https://www.dropbox.com/s/tafx9yim0m7gcmh/We Bass You A Merry Christmas.mp3?dl=0 ^ Links to Dropbox MP3 player. Voting ends at midnight on New Year's Eve. Cheers all 🥃

Well done all! A bumper crop. I'm going to launch the voting thread now (whilst I can still operate a laptop... cheers 🍺). EDIT: Thread is up! Merry Christmas y'all.

Well done guys! I couldn't think of two more deserving winners... well, I could, but you'll do 😁 December's Cover Song Challenge is now on! Get jingling...

🎄 December Cover Song Challenge 🎄 As is tradition, we're doing something a bit different for December... so instead of composing to a photo, we're running a covers competition. Basically, choose a song or instrumental that you like and write your own version of it. You can be faithful to the original or completely ruin it get creative; the choice is yours. All of the usual rules apply with a few additional caveats: It doesn't have to be a Christmas song. You're welcome to submit anything recorded this year (not just from December), so there's no excuse for those of you in cover bands not to enter. Don't go lifting any samples from whatever song you intend to cover, as that will breach the usual terms and conditions leading to extreme punitive measures. This is the only time of year that bagpipes are allowed! But that still doesn't make them right. The deadline for entries is midnight on December 24th.

All done lads! The voting thread is now up: The winner will choose a picture to launch the challenge again in 2020. Next month is our Cover Song Challenge, to which you're allowed to enter any cover song written or recorded during 2019 (and they don't have to be festive...).

It's time to vote on November's Composition Challenge. As usual, please choose your top THREE favourites. The winner will choose a picture to kick-start the challenge in 2020. Next month's sees our traditionally festive Cover Song Challenge, to which all are welcome to contribute (any cover songs written or recorded during 2019 are allowed). More on that soon... Dad3353 fingers211 adamg67 lurksalot upside downer Voting ends at midnight on Saturday 30th November.

Well done mate! 👏 NOVEMBER’S CHALLENGE IS GO...

November's Composition Challenge is on... Here’s the image for your inspiration, chosen once again by the unstoppable force that is lurksalot: Rules: ✅ Check you have permission to use any samples ✅ Keep it under 5 minutes and write it during the month of the challenge ❌ Bagpipes The deadline for entries is midnight on Saturday 23rd November.

Well done Lurks! 👏 October's challenge is now on...

October's Composition Challenge is on... Here’s the image for your inspiration, chosen by last month's winner, lurksalot: Rules: ✅ Check you have permission to use any samples ✅ Keep it under 5 minutes and write it during the month of the challenge ❌ No jiggery-pokery The deadline for entries is midnight on Thursday 24th October.

Sorry for the delay lads! (I'm traveling with patchy internet access). Now done...

It's time to vote in this month's composition challenge. Pick your single-most favourite! Leonard Smalls Dad3353 upside downer lurksalot Voting ends midnight on Wednesday 2nd October.

Well done Doug! 👏 September's challenge is now on...

September's Composition Challenge is on... Here’s the image for your inspiration, chosen by last month's winner, Dad3353: Rules: ✅ Check you have permission to use any samples ✅ Keep it under 5 minutes and write it during the month of the challenge ❌ No funny business The deadline for entries is midnight on Monday 23rd September.

Sorry lads, I’m camping ⛺️! Will launch the voting thread tomorrow morning.

Haha! Well done 👏 August's challenge is now on...

August's Composition Challenge is on... Here’s the image for your inspiration, chosen by last month's winner, upside downer: Rules: ✅ Check you have permission to use any samples ✅ Keep it under 5 minutes and write it during the month of the challenge ❌ No funny business The deadline for entries is midnight on Saturday 24th August.

VOTING THREAD IS UP

Voting has now started on July's Composition Challenge. Lend your ears and choose a firm favourite 3 from these beauties... Dad3353 Leonard Smalls fingers211 lurksalot upside downer Voting ends at midnight on Wednesday 31st July.

Well done guys! I’ll launch the voting thread when I get home this evening...

Well done! Glad you found a workaround. I stopped updating the OS on my home Mac (a 2012 Mac Mini) some time ago, due the driver of my audio interface (an old Allen & Heath mixer) no longer being updated. I think a lot of "pro" studios seem to work on this basis too - i.e. once you have a stable platform, leave it the hell alone! 😉