It completely slipped our minds that we should have posted a leaderboard thread for the OS points.
Now that people are actually winning some, I will list the current contenders below.
1st
JHXC - 8 pts (Won the tiebreaker)
2nd
Firebolt391d - 8 pts
3rd
Julesvpraag - 7 pts
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4th
XStep - 6 pts
Lumien - 6 pts
6th
Moopler Surprise - 5 pts
blobertthebob - 5 pts
UTComposer - 5 pts
9th
DarastrixCrowl - 4 pts
dcsm - 4 pts
11th
mysticswe - 3 pts
12th
korwynkim - 2 points
"But Lucent, we don't even know these people in the top 3!!11!1 This leaderboard is unfair!"
Calm yourselves. Even I feel the leaderboard isn't balanced. We're going to see how to balance the points per contest after the first three months of the OS Events.
Meanwhile, we are also trying to make more events that we can add to the point counter so that can also provide opportunities to balance the scores.
For now, pat yourself on the back if you make it on here. Thank you for participating in the OS Events!
And now, with all of the points given out, it’s time to tally up all the points to see who wins the 2018 Beta Monthly Contests!
*insert drumroll*
The winner of the 2018 Beta Monthly Contests is JHXC! Congratulations! You’ll be contacted shortly about your prizes.
The second place winner of the 2018 Beta Monthly Contests is Firebolt391d! You’ll be receiving your prizes shortly.
The third place winner of the 2018 Beta Monthly Contests is Julesvpraag! You’ll be receiving your prizes shortly.
I want to give a huge thank you to everyone who participated in the 2018 Beta Monthly Contests this year! I hope you all look forward to the 2019 Monthly Contests that will soon come out.
Lastly, in case anyone wants to listen, here were the winning sequences for each monthly contest!
October: [url=]Unknown Ambitions by Moopler Surprise[/url]
November: [url=]Autumn by blobertthebob[/url]
December (Winter): [url=]Midnight Solstice by JHXC[/url]
December (Christmas): [url=]Frosty Visits Cool, Cool Mountain by UTComposer[/url]
December (Finale): [url=]Concealed the Conclusion by XStep[/url]
Hello Online Sequencer and welcome back to the OS monthly contests!
Let me just start by saying thanks to everyone that participated in the previous contest! I am so thrilled by how popular it was! Anyway, this month’s theme will be Autumn. Good luck!
General Information
The entry period is from 11/1 ~ 11/21 (11:59 PM EST). Winners will be announced on 11/30!
While we will post general notes on every contest, please refer to the Monthly Contest announcement thread for more details on Monthly Contests themselves.
Entry limit of 2 sequences per person.
Committee members are allowed to enter the contests, but will not enter their example sequence nor will they vote for their own entry.
Sequences made prior to the current Monthly Contest are allowed, although we don’t recommend entering the same sequence in different Monthly Contests.
Making a remix of an existing song is allowed. Please make it as creative as possible while applying the contest’s theme.
The standard Online Sequencer Rules will apply and any entries violating a rule will automatically be disqualified.
CommitteeNotes
Autumn is definitely a trickier feel to get, as it’s not often attributed to music. On top of that, depending on where in the world you live, your autumn may be different from others’.
For example, I’m lucky enough to live in a temperate deciduous forest, which is a fancy way of saying that I get to see nature’s one last brilliant show before the cold onset of winter.
Where the leaves on the trees all turn hues of yellow, orange, and red and fall to the ground, lighting wherever the go ablaze with their fiery hues. This is my autumn.
Based on this, I would describe autumn music as follows: slow and calm with a touch of somberness and a pinch of awe.
Autumn is something I have tried many times to capture in music, as it's my favorite part of the year and I have a lot of familiarity with it, due to living in a deciduous area.
As Kirbyderp said, it's certainly quite tricky, but here's my best description.
I envision something melancholy, adventurous and tranquil, with a bit of brilliance and an epic vibe as the song progresses, as more and more leaves turn and light the skies on fire with their brilliant colors. Towards the end you could have a slightly ominous, cold and almost foreboding undertone, as winter approaches.
Vibraphones, flutes, acoustic/jazz guitars and synths are instruments I attribute with autumnal music. But it's up to you what to do; this is just my personal preference.
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This is a song I made previously with the intention of capturing the vibe of autumn. I think it's my best attempt at it and works well as an example sequence. The beginning is reminiscent of the end of summer, but quickly transitions to an autumnal somberness.
Hello and welcome to the Halloween Candy Scavenger Hunt! I hope you’re all ready to get your thinking caps on! This event will last only from 5:00 PM ~ 12:00 PM EST!
How To Play
Clues will tell you where to find the candies and they can range in difficulty from “EZPZ” to “heccin obscure.”
After you find a candy, post the link of where the candy is, the location of the candy on the page, and say which clue it goes to.
Nobody but the first person who posts the link will get a point for finding the candy related to that clue.
During Halloween is the time frame that you will have to find the candies because afterwards the extra candies will be revealed.
You should always be on the lookout for extra little “secret candies” that require you to be very observant. If you find one, you don't need to provide the clue it goes to!
I’ll try and mark off clues that have been found as quickly as possible so others know that that candy already been discovered.
Lastly, committee members can’t play (sorry!) as they can access the answer sheet and frank, no bull*****ting around with code to find the candies easier (this applies to anyone else as well).
Candy Advice
Points will be distributed according to their difficulty. There are four types of clues.
EZPZ candies are worth ½ a candy each, Not Too Bad candies are worth 1 candy each, Harder candies are worth 2 candies each, while the Heccin' Obscure and Secret candies are worth 3 candies each.
It’s best to go for the easier candies first, as some of the more difficult candies might require things that the normal candies found. I’d also like to point out that the EZPZ candies are to show how the clues might talk about the locations they describe. Look for any relations between the EZPZ clues and their respective candies! It’ll help on the harder ones.
EZPZ Clues:
• While Kirbyderp can't listen to this all day anymore, you should still stop by there for a nice surprise! (~ ¯▼¯)~
• Is the OS menu not aligned correctly while on the forums? To fix this bug, you'll have to repair your browser cache.
Not Too Bad Clues:
• Once a useful forum tool, the link was lost as time is cruel. Good at finding certain pages, many specific customizations. Rediscovered and showcased, you must find where this is placed.
• A place to hide when chat's spammed by a dimwit, or just a place where you can be private. Discovered by an OS code delver and made a part of OS shortly after. Click his link once you find his thread, or someone else will get it instead.
• In the most recent forum to date and in a thread where we celebrate: "The big 7 digits," as some might say, a sequence made by everyone here today.
• Another hidden place to speak. But which one is it? It's what you seek. Yes, what you seek but from letters to numbers, find it or this, someone else will surely conquer.
Harder Clues:
• A few months ago, at the end of the school year, a user did an experiment on here. The results somehow unpinned but now reinstated, it seems a sweet treat had got lost in the *data.*
• A user on here made an event, but alas, success for it was never meant. The first try di ed and the second never flied. But the latter might hold a little present.
• The first contest this user had done, which they had undoubtedly won. But putting the pieces together reveals why the user's victory was a steal: for their contest entry was the only one.
• This fun forum game grew quite a spectacle, but a recent censorship made it less practical. But where is this candy that you might seek? It's in a place where the reason is luspeak. But now that the word is uncensored again, it's popularity might be re-attained.
Heccin' Obscure Clues:
• If you find this, it must be fate, as a *glorious* treasure awaits. The profile of the bird and negative place to exchange words. It's the older version you must investigate.
• A compilation says you? That's a great big thing to do. But with months of time put it it's only 3/10 the way to completion. Well it's archived until it goes through.
• A special birthday is tonight, for an influential member that goes on the site. But where would you go to see such a thing? Lost so long ago not most didn't know it was existing. "There must be a pathway to it somewhere," you might say but not finding it makes you unable to plan for upcoming days.
• Looks like binary but when it is transferring the devices only like seeing text programming. How was this solved? It was encoded more. I can't remember the name but it had to do with 64.
Winning Information
Prizes will be given out to two contenders that collect the most candy!
First place gets 2 leaderboard points and a trophy pixel art from Kirby.
Second place gets 1 leaderboard point.
If in the case of a tie, the person who found more of the more difficult candies wins the first place prize.
Hello everyone, I’ve decided to post a committee blog for when we have comments about the month.
It’s always easier to make a new thread than to clog up the event hub with our nonsensical writing! Bonus points, you guys get to respond to the thread, so in case you have any questions or suggestions, we’ll be happy to respond to them here!
Bug fixes: You can comment on this thread now. I thought I was all cool and professional leaving it unrepliable to, but it’ll cause me OCD if I don’t unlock it.
Without further ado, the good news:
We received generally positive feedback on the OS Events so far, and I’d like to thank everyone for participating last month. It makes us happy and we’re glad to know hidden composers on the site are brought to light.
If you’re wondering why there aren’t a lot of events, I want to slowly build our way up into seeing what works and what doesn’t. Therefore, more events will be added as to what seems necessary. If you have any events you’d like to suggest, please comment below, or apply for the committee here!
At this rate, we plan on keeping Monthly Contests for the events. It’s the recurring contest that will keep our events up on a backbone, and if not anything else, you would see this event guaranteed. It’s easy to do, expect a ton of entries for it, and easy for me to update since I can literally just copy paste from the last contest. Keep up the momentum guys!
A Million Sequences of Making Music Online seems to be a popular event from what I can see. It’s good to see people updating it now and then, but there appears to be a larger shift towards later sequences (900k).
While I appreciate the new people wanting to participate in this, this event is heavily geared towards the older user base. Please make something you guys! It’s hard to transition my test sequence because I don’t have enough sequences of Ye Old Sequencer™.
Now onto the bad news:
Unfortunately, Battle of The Bands is not getting as much attention as it should have been. I’m not sure if it’s because it’s difficult to form bands on the site, or if it’s something else. Maybe the instruction manual was too messy. For all I care, you guys could be extremely antisocial and just prefer to make your own thing, and I understand how that goes.
If no bands are made this month, I have to close down the event in December and come up with something else. This leaves with Monthly Contests being the only recurring competitive event, and competition is what drives the Event Point System.
Originally, I thought Monthly Contests were the only thing that made the Event Point System, until Alex suggested to reward OS points in Battle of The Bands. I liked that idea more, which is why I had to do a bunch of editing to make it an overall thing across events. I might have to go back to the original system I had in mind, if we do happen to close the Battle of The Bands.
I really like the idea of team competition on OS, so if you have the heart to, please save Battle of the Bands! If this doesn’t happen, well, back to the drawing board for us.
The Candy Scavenger hunt was a last minute event that Kirby suggested we should do. As I am writing this, it is being proofread and will head out by 5 PM EST. As some of you have seen yesterday, I created a pretty MIDI art sequence for the event. In real life, I can't eat as much candy anymore... but I'd ship it out to you guys if I could! This sequence was the least I could treat you guys with. :D
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In the meanwhile, we have been considering some more community events that I can’t spoil just yet. I don’t think I’ll have the time to write these down for November, but I might provide an update in the middle of the month for you guys to check out. By then, these events might be more thought out than they are at this moment.
Please await for further updates! Once again, thanks for all your support!
Surprise! We have something special prepared for Halloween!
You see, as it’s traditional to go out trick or treating on Halloween, we’ve decided to give you candy in our own way. We’ll strew the word “candy” all over the site and it’ll be your jobs to find as many of them as you can. We’ll explain it in more detail when we launch the event.
We’ll be launching this event on October 31st at 5PM EST. Please note that there are prizes for the winners who participate! See you then!
Online Sequencer has been running since January 2013, amassing 24,000+ users and almost 1,000,000 sequences!
I have requested Jacob to reserve this number for me for this special community event that I will describe below.
General Information
For those of you who are familiar with the [url=]Super Collab[/url], this event will basically be a more organized version of that. For those of you with a very ancient user number, now is your chance to brag to everyone about that.
Take your best sequences from a certain age in OS and remix them! These sequences will be partially featured in the millionth sequence as a medley type collaboration.
You can enter as many times as you want, in the end, I will be the one collecting entries and all that good stuff involving cutting and pasting.
Once you are done remixing, please comment below with the link of your original sequence and your remixed sequence.
Please keep in mind:
Sequences of known users will have a better chance of qualifying for the medley.
If I don't know you, it's probably a sign that you haven't been on here long enough.
Recommended remix length is 8-16 measures. You can send more if you want to, but I will be taking the most usable part.
Source sequences MUST be original when you remix them. I don’t want your AU of Megalovania.
The standard Online Sequencer Rules will apply and any entries violating a rule will automatically be disqualified.
A little vocabulary for those unfamiliar with chat terms. These describe the age of a sequence.
“100k” refers to sequences that are between [url=][/url] and [url=][/url].
“<100k” refers to sequences that are earlier than the 100,000th sequence.
I think you can guess what the rest of them mean.
The original sequence you are remixing will fall into these ages. Try to use your earliest sequences, as I know later sequence numbers will have more momentum.
This event may sound a little confusing, so if you have any questions, I will be more than happy to clear things up.
Hello Online Sequencer! It’s finally time to announce the first monthly contest theme for the beta contests!
As tradition for anything in the month of Halloween, this month’s theme will be spooky! Give us sequences that really put a chill down your spine.
General Information
The entry period is from 10/1 ~ 10/21 (11:59 PM EST). Winners will be announced on 10/31!
While we will post general notes on every contest, please refer to the Monthly Contest announcement thread for more details on Monthly Contests themselves.
Entry limit of 2 sequences per person.
Committee members are allowed to enter the contests, but will not enter their example sequence nor will they vote for their own entry.
Sequences made prior to the current Monthly Contest are allowed, although we don’t recommend entering the same sequence in different Monthly Contests.
Making a remix of an existing song is allowed. Please make it as creative as possible while applying the contest’s theme.
The standard Online Sequencer Rules will apply and any entries violating a rule will automatically be disqualified.
Committee Notes
To me, spooky is all about the atmosphere of a song.
It just has to radiate fear from every note and beat. Granted, I’m not really good at that (yet), but I have come up with a couple neat tricks that can help.
Putting music box notes in really low octaves actually creates quite the spooky sound (although it’s slightly delayed, so you’d want to place the note about a beat before you want the actual sound to play).
The other is that you can make some very creepy chords out of a pseudo-spammed steel drum in the lower octaves as well. (Some rattling percussion also doesn’t hurt, but that’s often more specific to the type of spooky you’re going for.)
Anyway, I combined those together into a short tidbit for you to hear. Who knows? You might get some good inspiration from it. ##920846
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It completely slipped our minds that we should have posted a leaderboard thread for the OS points.![[Image: nov2018.png]](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/484092584193556534/504446548252557342/nov2018.png)
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Hello Online Sequencer and welcome back to the OS monthly contests!![[Image: avatar_19360.png?dateline=1539748353]](https://onlinesequencer.net/forum/uploads/avatars/avatar_19360.png?dateline=1539748353){kind=avatar}
Autumn is something I have tried many times to capture in music, as it's my favorite part of the year and I have a lot of familiarity with it, due to living in a deciduous area.![[Image: candy.png]](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/484092584193556534/507307076121264128/candy.png)
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