Welcome to the KVR Developer Challenge 2012, the fourth free-for-all audio plug-in / audio application / soundware design event!

Voting is closed!

The Winners

There was a clear overall winner this year, with almost twice as many points as the second placed entry. It was ThrillseekerXTC, a contemporary exciter built around a true parallel analog style equalizer design, by Variety Of Sound who wins 30% of the prize fund as the top Windows entry. Variety Of Sound actually won the last DC back in 2009 with FerricTDS - Tape Dynamics Simulator.

Overall second place goes to Proximity, an easy to use distance "pan-pot" based on several psycho-acoustic models, by vladg/sound, who wins 30% of the prize fund as the top Mac OS X entry.

In third place is Kamioooka, a polyphonic Full-Modular synthesizer with patch cable system, by g200kg, who wins 20% of the prize fund as the best of the rest.

The highest placed Soundware entry was The Total Composure Orchestra, a full orchestral sample library created using only samples that are in the public domain, by Total Composure, who wins 10% of the prize fund.

The final 10% wild card random selection will be announced next week.

Read the full DC12 Winners Announcement here

Below you'll find the 55 entries for KVR DC12 - the best turnout yet! 49 run on Windows, 7 on Mac OS X and 6 are Soundware for other products. Thank you and congratulations to all developers for getting your entries in.

Donate: Have you donated to the prize fund yet? Remember, if you enter, donate or vote you'll be in with a chance to win one or more of the extra prizes from the KVR DC sponsors listed at the bottom of this page!

KVR Developer Challenge 2012 Entries

Rules, Information, Guidelines, etc.

Additional Prizes Thanks to all these developers for donating even more prizes. We'll announce who gets what nearer the prize giving time - it could be you! If you enter, donate or vote you'll be in with a chance to win one or more of these extra prizes!

The "KVR Developer Challenge" is for anyone who develops Audio Plug-ins or Applications and, new for this year, Soundware. The challenge is to create and release a brand new free audio plug-in, application or sound library / pack / set that will benefit the community at large. Creativity is key, it can be as simple or as complex as you want - KVR members will vote on the entries and pick the eventual winner using whatever criteria they choose to. Anyone can make a donation via PayPal, the prize fund will be distributed to the eventual winners (details below).

Any operating system, any plug-in format, a stand-alone application, a sound library - anything that will assist in music making goes! You have three months to get it together - submissions will end on October 31st, 2012. They will all then be hosted for download on the KVR server and released "AT ONCE" for public appraisal and voting!

Although anything goes, you should consider how to appeal to the largest market - things such as open source or being multi-platform may garner a bigger audience, and consequently more votes. This is your call though. Whatever you are comfortable with!

The Basics:

Anyone may enter.

Your entry must be an original creation made by you (your team / crew / company / family). Of course you may reuse code / modules / development frameworks, but the actual plug-in / application / sound library should be a new, original creation, not just an obviously cut-down subset of a program you have already written.

Your entry must not break any copyright rules or license agreements - if your entry uses GPL code then your code should adhere to any restrictions imposed by this, for example.

Your entry must not be restricted in any way that could make it appear to be a demo / trial version for a subsequent "full" release. i.e. It must not be save-disabled or beep every few seconds or nag the user to donate / pay, etc. Your entry should be fully functioning and remain fully functioning forever.

Your entry may support any operating system(s) in general use for making music: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, iOS or Android.

Your entry may support any plug-in format, or be a stand alone application / utility, or be a sound / sample library.

You may use any programming language or development environment (e.g. programming languages such as C++, Delphi, Java, etc. or any of the myriad development applications such as SynthEdit, SynthMaker, Max, etc.).

Design and testing must be done in private - public beta testing is not allowed as this may affect the voting process.

During the voting period you may update your entry but updates must be bug fixes ONLY. You are NOT allowed to add new features or rework existing ones during the voting period.

You grant KVRaudio.com the permission to distribute your entry for download via our server from November 1st, 2012, onwards.

You grant KVRaudio.com the permission to act on your behalf, without monetary involvement, for your entry to be published and/or publicized in/on written publications with or without accompanied media such as CDs and DVDs, as well as online publications. You may choose to opt out via a written (email) disapproval of such permission at the time of your entry. KVRaudio.com will not seek or make attempts at financial gain by promoting your entries on written or online publications.

How To Enter:

To enter you will need a KVR Developer Account [get one here - it's free]. If you already manage your products and submit news directly at KVR, you will already have one.

Access the Developer Control area and add your entry as a new product but remember to also set the DC12 flag. Anything flagged as DC12 will NOT be made live on KVR until the DC12 go live date of November 1st, 2012.

Voting:

KVR Members will vote for their favourite entries between November 1st - 30th, 2012. Depending on the amount of submissions, the voting period (and consequently the winner announcement date) may be extended for another week or so. All KVR members will be eligible to vote although we may instigate some restrictions at the time of voting - maximum joined date, minimum number of posts, etc. - to help prevent voter fraud.

Voting will be in the form of selecting a top 5: 1st choice will be awarded 5 points. 2nd choice will be awarded 4 points. 3rd choice will be awarded 3 points. 4th choice will be awarded 2 points. 5th choice will be awarded 1 point.

The winners will be announced on December 3rd, 2012.

The prize fund will be delivered to the winners via PayPal within a week of the winner being announced.

The Prize Fund (Money Money Money)

The prize will be cold, hard, cash, made up from donations from the KVR community. Donations can be made via PayPal and will be held in escrow by KVR Audio until the winner has been selected. The prize will be paid to the eventual winner via PayPal. We'll endeavor to keep the prize fund total updated here.

The prize fund will be split: 30% to the Windows Plug-in or Standalone Application entry with the most votes 1, 2 30% to the Mac OS X Plug-in or Standalone Application entry with the most votes 1, 2 20% to the next highest placed entry 10% to the highest placed Soundware entry 10% to a wild card random selection (maybe an iOS or Android entry, if we get any!)

Additional prizes, donated by fellow developers, will also be available and distributed on an ad-hoc basis. If you wish to donate something please contact laura@kvraudio.com

1 These can be the same entry. If it is multi-format and gets the most votes the entrant would receive 60% of the prize fund.

2 Yes we know Linux (and other OS) appears to be overlooked but the Linux (and other OS) userbase at KVR is very small so we'll concentrate prize distribution on the two major Operating Systems for audio production - Windows and Mac OS X. However, in the event of the unlikely situation that the entry with the most votes is for Linux (or another OS) only it will be awarded 30% of the prize fund and the next 40% will be split between the highest placed Windows and Mac OS X entries (20% each) and the "next highest placed entry" will receive 10% instead of 20%.

Good Luck!