Starship Krupa Posted September 7, 2021 Share Posted September 7, 2021 Best Audio And MIDI Software: KVR Readers' Choice Awards 2021. (and or other software, depending on your preferences) 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacques Boileau Posted September 7, 2021 Share Posted September 7, 2021 Done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurre Posted September 7, 2021 Share Posted September 7, 2021 Diddelydone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Kelley Posted September 7, 2021 Share Posted September 7, 2021 Sez you can't vote for freeware. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slartabartfast Posted September 7, 2021 Share Posted September 7, 2021 From the instructions for nominations: "Please note that Freeware and Donationware products should not be voted for in any categories except Favorite Free Virtual Instrument and 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
User 905133 Posted September 7, 2021 Share Posted September 7, 2021 Quote Please note that Freeware and Donationware products should not be voted for in any categories except Favorite Free Virtual Instrument and Favorite Free Virtual Effect Processor. So is Cakewalk a Free Virtual Instrument, a Free Virtual Effect Processor, or both? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slartabartfast Posted September 7, 2021 Share Posted September 7, 2021 I would argue that it is neither. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel Borthwick Posted September 7, 2021 Share Posted September 7, 2021 26 minutes ago, slartabartfast said: From the instructions for nominations: "Please note that Freeware and Donationware products should not be voted for in any categories except Favorite Free Virtual Instrument and 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. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Fogle Posted September 7, 2021 Share Posted September 7, 2021 I voted for Studio Instruments in favorite free virtual instrument and Cakewalk in favorite free processor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starship Krupa Posted September 7, 2021 Author Share Posted September 7, 2021 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. ? 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. ? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Kelley Posted September 7, 2021 Share Posted September 7, 2021 Does winning or losing the KVR contest matter to ANYONE? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slartabartfast Posted September 8, 2021 Share Posted September 8, 2021 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 the 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Kelley Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 (edited) Well ok then. Edited September 9, 2021 by Terry Kelley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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