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From the instructions for nominations:

"Please note thatย Freewareย andย Donationwareย products should not be voted for in any categories exceptย Favorite Free Virtual Instrumentย andย Favorite Free Virtual Effect Processor."

Apparently they do not want any product that is not buying advertising on their associated sites to score at all. Their product database does list Cakewalk by Bandlab, so the system may accept that nomination under the DAW category, but it certainly would not fit into the categories that they list as freeware acceptable. By putting the above instruction at the top of the ballot, they are certainly skewing the subsequent vote against a lot of good products.

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Please note thatย Freewareย andย Donationwareย products should not be voted for in any categories exceptย Favorite Free Virtual Instrumentย andย Favorite Free Virtual Effect Processor.

So is Cakewalk a Free Virtual Instrument, a Free Virtual Effect Processor, or both?

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26 minutes ago, slartabartfast said:

From the instructions for nominations:

"Please note thatย Freewareย andย Donationwareย products should not be voted for in any categories exceptย Favorite Free Virtual Instrumentย andย Favorite Free Virtual Effect Processor."

Apparently they do not want any product that is not buying advertising on their associated sites to score at all. Their product database does list Cakewalk by Bandlab, so the system may accept that nomination under the DAW category, but it certainly would not fit into the categories that they list as freeware acceptable. By putting the above instruction at the top of the ballot, they are certainly skewing the subsequent vote against a lot of good products.

Yes its primitive to discriminate on a product based on what users pay for it.

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I voted for Cakewalk in Favorite Audio Software and Favorite DAW, because as we know from the tinfoil hat brigade, Cakewalk isn't REALLY freeware, because you have to register an account at Bandlab and connect to the Internet every 6 months blah blah blah. ๐Ÿ˜„

But yeah, excluding free software from the DAW categories, and "ghettoizing" other categories by having separate (but equal) ones for freeware is lame.

I just ignored the guidelines. If they get lots of votes for freeware in other categories, even if they don't report them, it at least sends a message. Which may be that users of freeware don't bother to read the rules. ๐Ÿ˜

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On 9/7/2021 at 1:31 PM, Terry Kelley said:

Does winning or losing the KVR contest matter to ANYONE?

Somebody who does not know anything about the offerings of products on theย  market may well take the fact that software has won an award or topped a poll as indicating that it is the one to buy. It is not a trivial issue, or I doubt that KVR would be bothering.

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