The 17th CGEmpire Music Compo has kicked off this week. The theme this month, is childrens’ music, and the winner will receive a copy of ProjectSAM’s True Strike 2 worth $539.99.

ProjectSAM is the brain child of film composer Maarten Spruijt, media composer Vincent Beijer and composer-arranger Marco Deegenaars, who teamed up in 2002, to found sample library development company ProjectSAM®.
ProjectSAM is where custom samples and commercial libraries meet.

Nowadays, ProjectSAM has become one of the most respected orchestral sample development companies. ProjectSAM has developed 8 sample libraries specially aimed at film, tv and games composers: True Strike 2, True Strike 1, Flute & Piccolo Effects, SAM Organ Mystique, SAM Solo Sessions, SAM Trumpets, SAM Trombones and SAM Horns. All libraries are sold internationally through ProjectSAM’s online shop and by a number of world-wide distributors in the US, Europe and Japan.

The 17th CGEmpire Music Competition, sponsored by ProjectSAM

For full information as well as the rules, take a look at this thread.

Shocking news everybody! According to some guy called John Mayer who, according to Wikipedia, is some sort of American rock musician (yep, we’re in touch and up-to-date here at CGEmpire), pushing plastic buttons and waggling your arms around in Guitar Hero is not really very similar to playing an actual guitar.

Lies. Real guitars don’t have coloured buttons, apparently

Amazing. Congratulations John Mayer for that astounding insight.

Source: Rolling Stone

Hearty congratulations go to mirrored for winning the 15th CGEmpire Music Competition with his entry ‘The Long Way Home‘.

For his troubles, mirrored takes home a copy of Stormdrum 2 which retails at $495, courtesy of Eastwest/Quantum Leap.

The challenge for this month’s competition was to compose a theme to accompany the following premise:

…The heroes kept on walking, the wind blowing restless. Soon the terrain changed. The sparse trees, which until then provided some kind of shelter, gave place to rocks. As they climbed the mountain the sun got hidden by deep clouds, and the wind changed to rain first and then to snow. The slowed down but never stopped. Every obstacle they overcame, they were not short of courage. Finally they reached the top of the mountains, stood there for only a brief moment, to catch their breathes and then took the path down, to the other side. At the bottom, the snow gave way to the everlasting greens and the familiar smell was reassuring enough. They were home!

Congratulations to all who took part for all-round excellent entries! You can listen to all the music competition entries here!

The theme for this month is “RETRO”

Toontrack has kindly agreed to sponsor the 14th CGEmpire Music Competition!

The winner will receive for free a copy of EZdrummer worth $179 and a copy of Claustrophobic Expansion Kit retailed at $99.

For demos please visit THIS page (for EZdrummer) and THIS page (for the claustrophobic expansion kit).

More information can be found in the CGEmpire Music Competition Thread.

Hearty congratulations go to DaZ for winning the 13th CGEmpire Music Competition with his entry ‘The Dark Heart‘.

For his troubles, DaZ wins the Garritan Personal Orchestra, otherwise known as GPO, worth $199, the Jazz and Big Band collection, otherwise known as JABB, worth $249 and the newly released Concert and Marching Band collection, worth $239.

Congratulations to all who took part for all-round excellent entries! You can listen to all the music competition entries here!

We love this game already and it’s not out until some time next year!

If it’s not the ridiculous amount of characters that excites you, or the stages based on the catalogue of Nintendo games, then let it be this… the music!

Super Smash Bros. Brawl has got the most delightfully wonderful remixes of classic Nintendo tunes ever - I’d buy the soundtrack if it was ever available and play it on loop, forever. The music ranges from the cute (like the theme from Yoshi’s Story or Animal Crossing) to the grand (like the operatic Fire Emblem or Main Theme), with classics along the way that make you want to hug the musicians (like the amazingly fab Ocarina of Time Medley).

This could possibly end up being the most fantastic videogame soundtrack of all time at this rate (except for the ending song from Portal, of course). Click those links and go have a listen, or go here to listen to the complete set.

Continuing development of CGEspace into an online showcase of CGEmpire member’s skills and portfolio, CGEmpire is proud to announce the beta launch of “CGEspace Jukebox”!

CGEmpire members can add any mp3s they have hosted at any web address on the internet to their Jukebox, allowing other users to listen to their music when they visit the member’s CGEspace.

So what are you waiting for, musicians? Give it a spin!

Here are the entries so far for the 11th CGEmpire Music Competition. When the entry deadline has passed you will be notified on the voting rules and procedure.

Anticipated Reactions

Vampire Sadness Theme

A Short Lullabye In Memory of Lillie B Ross

Remembrances

Cloak and Dagger Operation

A Story Of Lovers

Rains of Catalmach

L’s Lament

Autumn Mood

Memories of Childhood

Untitled

decapitation_song

Sea Watching

Sad Nest

Reflections

She was drawn towards the sky

loss

reflection

Lady Of Lamentia

Sadness and Despair

Mourning

Death in the family

The Abandoned Farmhouse

Sadness

Passing of the Mighty Magus

Teardrop

Crestfalling

Hidden tears of miss adelle

Forgiveness

Gone

Signed With Love

Enjoy!