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"Tbh it's a good idea but this shouldn't be about any prizes imo. \nFrom a business point of view, what is Spitfire's gain in this? A lot of effort around their free libraries, which means more \"losing\" money. They already host a website for LABS, which require someone to maintain it, they already have to pay for hosting those libraries and a lot of downloads happening all over the world, and we get one free LABS library every month or so, and someone is getting paid for that. In the end it's for marketing and a snippet of what the paid libraries might be like, like in the case of Discover, although Discover is less than 200MB compared with 1TB of the full product so it's a very big difference. Well, it's working. As much as I enjoy free stuff I'm set to buy some of these when I'll have money in the future. I'm up for more contests but imagine how much effort went into watching thousands of videos on YouTube for Stargirl, which is only possible if you have multiple people doing it. So doing the same thing more eften is quite a drain of resources. And I forgot,  about more free stuff, Christian Henson is also involved in Pianobook.\nFrom a participant  point of view, there will be a lot of stress around creating something \"to be the best\", although music is quite subjective. I've seen many contests and in the end some people that worked in the field for years and have a lot of experience behind keep winning, not the enthusiasts like us that barely have LABS or Discover to play with. Those who invest have more to gain in the long run. And I've seen some of these pros live, they can cook up in 1-2 hours what I'm unable to do in a couple of weeks, so free libraries is not their limitation. Btw, there are contests all over the place, check metapop and other places, with lots of useful stuff for you. I'm up for these challenges but a prize isn't necessary.\nThis is just my personal opinion and input, I don't want it to sound criticizing or negative, just some food for thought. \nIn case people don't know, there is a monthly  LABS community playlist on SoundCloud, where you can submit your tracks made with at least one LABS instrument (and whatever else you want) and you get a change to be in the monthly playlist. You gain some popularity and exposure, which is some starting artists  need. So you get to combine LABS and Discover and even libraries from other brands and participate."
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