📢 LinkedMusicians 1st Anniversary FREE Giveaway Thread! $378 Worth of Prizes!

[ronniejames]

Of course I love the deals section but i also love the section where you can read various articles and reviews and of course NO DRAMA!

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[LinkedMusicians]

On jude77 said

He ought to write a book!  His insights always fascinate me.

I already went down that path and had a book deal with Wiley and another in the wings with Random House. I don’t have any future plans to write books. I just enjoy being helpful to the community by sharing my business knowledge and experience in an area that’s also music-related and to counter all of the bad information that’s so pervasive online.

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[EusebioRZ]

Happy Birthday LM!

What I value most? friendly people helping one another in our passion for music software and instruments, without being beholden to a manufacturer.

Is Gear Addiction Syndrome a form of insanity? Here is my vst collection.

What is Gremlins' Music? watch or listen at Odysee

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[joegyork]

Come on everyone this is a great giveaway deal to enter! I can’t believe more people haven’t commented!

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[thor]

So you want to know what do you do well?

This is the only safe place inside the industry I’ve spotted, no worries on getting attack bombed by hundreds of certain tribes for liking something or saying hmm this doesn’t work well hope they can improve that without having a flame war in posts and private messages and their according insane threats…

Its also a place where people chat normally with one another in a healthy discurs.

All this made this place great but even more thst you my friend run it with such love and care to make it a better place.

Peter you rock @LinkedMusicians

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[Lemar Sain]

I truly appreciate the collection of knowledge, advise and resources here. From the posts and the users. I have been really looking forward to watching the site grow in new and creative ways and growing with it.

Lemar

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[LinkedMusicians]

On thor said

So you want to know what do you do well?

This is the only safe place inside the industry I’ve spotted, no worries on getting attack bombed by hundreds of certain tribes for liking something or saying hmm this doesn’t work well hope they can improve that without having a flame war in posts and private messages and their according insane threats…

Its also a place where people chat normally with one another in a healthy discurs.

All this made this place great but even more thst you my friend run it with such love and care to make it a better place.

Peter you rock @LinkedMusicians

Thanks, @thor. I don’t know if you noticed it, but I’m closing down the forums and OPEN MIC after the giveaway. You’ve been a big encouragement to me (so people know, Thor is a long time friend of mine, who has encouraged me with this idea from the beginning; Thor is a games music composer). Frankly, it’s just been far too much work and cost to maintain. So I’m going to keep the resources available, and may even keep the blog and we’re going to go out with a bang with this giveaway from two developers whose work I love who have both been emotionally supportive of LinkedMusicians from the beginning. Actually, you and Greg were the earliest supporters of this passion project. Everyone can still stay connected via LinkedMusicians Facebook Group and subreddit, but this site will turn into resources and,I haven’t made a final decision on whether or not to continue blogging.

What I want to do most is make this giveaway a success. So everyone is clear, I don’t make any money off of this. I have never received any financial support from any developer for LinkedMusicians. Every bit of my enthusiasm for the developers I’ve praised here is 100 percent sincere and uncompensated (I’m a business owner, not an influencer hawking products).

This giveaway was intended to celebrate our community and to boost conversions for LinkedMusicians. Now that I’ve made the difficult decision to close down the forums and OPEN MIC, I look at this as the final hurrah for the social aspect of LinkedMusicians and will be immediately closing down the forums and OPEN MIC when the giveaway ends.

If anyone wants to discuss this, please use another thread, so this one will be easier for me to manage when the giveaway concludes. I created this thread to discuss what’s next for LinkedMusicians:

📢 A Very Important Announcement About LinkedMusicians

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[thor]

Understandable Peter, keeping the resources alive sounds awesome.

Will miss it lets see if we can Discord it 🙂 as thats better at controlling trolls

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[LinkedMusicians]

On thor said

Understandable Peter, keeping the resources alive sounds awesome.

Will miss it lets see if we can Discord it 🙂 as thats better at controlling trolls

I am eager to have this discussion, but let’s separate it off from the giveaway thread. To be very candid, I really don’t enjoy Discord’s UI, I find it disjointed and annoying for finding things. I like Reddit a lot and we already have a subreddit that I can reopen, and we also have a Facebook Group. I can easily reopen the subreddit. I would love to discuss the options, and we can use the thread I’ve linked below. I’m good with things that keep us together that I don’t have to post deals in. I’m going to continue to keep trying out and recommending free libraries and I’d love if others want to maintain free lists, which we can keep here but discuss in a subreddit or Facebook Group. I’m also good if someone else wants to handle posting deals or just post the glitch sales, only killer deals, and special offers. I just can’t maintain having to hunt for and post deals, moderating, handle the backend of a social media platform, the messaging end, have to deal with attacks on the site and fraudulent DCMA requests, the legal risks, and then also try to build the community — it’s a full time job, and very costly and need to scale it back to a casual passion project.  Here’s where we can continue the discussion:

📢 A Very Important Announcement About LinkedMusicians

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[Teebacca]

Really like the fact that the people who come here are real musicians who care more about building each other up than tearing each other down. Combined with the overall professionalism of Peter’s knowledge and experience in the industry, and his passion to see this forum come to life, it’s been my favorite place to check deals

Thom

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[swijaya]

Really like the laid-back atmosphere in this forum, and especially really liking the Deals forum (for the obvious reason).

Hopefully you can continue blogging, because I learn much from it, the business/marketing angle and also the insider scoops.

Thank you for all your hard work & personal sacrifices. It’s nice that you are going to keep all the resources.

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[zoukiman]

Congrat!

The team spirit

My favorite relaxing place…

Thx

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[lastcall]

I value the most the community, from Peter to all members, just to mention a few: Patrick and Ken (Zarg).
To me you guys coming here and commenting shows me your desire to live, to give, to connect (fodder for a song?).

Feature: Songwriting 100000x!

If you want to make songs you need to find out how to do it, a tool for songwriting will help immensely.
To me it’s all about tension release… or all tension!!! or… all RELEASE! It all depends!
Your personality and taste will direct you to the right path too.

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[patrickwichrowski]

Good deals are really anti stressing 😀

https://linktr.ee/patrickwichrowski/

https://patrickwichrowski.bandcamp.com/

[Milan Dobrota]

I just joined, but have been lurking for some time. 🙂 If I’m not eligible to enter the giveaway, let me know, I’m more than happy to withdraw and have the prizes go to more deserving long standing members.

One of the best resources that I keep coming back to is the page that lists all the different sample libraries. 🙂

Getting back to music.

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[LinkedMusicians]

@mrkindness Welcome! We’re glad to have you here. And, I think, you’ve arrived at the most exciting time to be part of the LM community with our twist to the subreddit. I have a bunch of really useful things that I think you’ll love planned for the site — that include making the free sample library and other free lists even more useful — and helping them grow.

Good luck to you and to all!

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[LinkedMusicians]

I’ll be candid: the turnout so far is lower than these developers deserve. These are two beloved developers who make great products. I’m making a call to extend the current contest deadline by 5 days. We’re moving the cutoff from May 8th to Wednesday, May 13th.

I realize that announcing the transition to a subreddit during the giveaway was a distraction that kept the focus off what should be the highlight of the community. IK Multimedia and Orange Tree Samples stepped up in a big way with some great products and even more than that, they showed their belief in our community and values early on. I think they deserve the full creative power of our membership.

If you’ve been sitting this one out, now is the time to jump in. Let’s make a real splash and finish this chapter of the forum on a high note before we make the move to our new subreddit.

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[Tim Gallivan]

Happy Anniversary!! 🍕
<p style=”text-align: left;”>Thanks Peter for this wonderful site. I love it cuz they’re so many pros here and I love the Deals section…</p>
Congratulations!

Timbo

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[LinkedMusicians]

Hi everyone,

We are officially in the final stretch of our 1st Anniversary Giveaway! With the deadline hitting tomorrow, May 13th at 11:59 PM CDT, I wanted to jump in with a quick update.

It’s been great reading through your entries. It’s no surprise that the Deals Forum is a favorite—I love it too! However, as many of you have noticed, I’ve hit “pause” on posting deals this week. I’m hoping this gives the community a chance to step up and share their own finds, but more importantly, it’s a great time to explore the deeper utility features we’ve built for you (this is just a sampling):

PowerSEARCH: Find deep-dive reviews from Sound on Sound and TapeOp without the SEO clutter, search all of the big forums at once, or search through high-quality presets, and samples.
Mixing & Mastering Problem Solver: Troubleshooting tools for when your mix hits a wall.
Songwriting & Theory Tools: Resources to help you break through creative blocks.
FREE Curated Sample Library Lists

Our Site Charter: Our unwavering commitment to ethics, transparency, and member privacy.
With only about 50 entries so far, your odds of winning a license from IK Multimedia or Orange Tree Samples are currently excellent (about 1-in-25!). If you’ve been lurking, now is the time to post your comment and verify your profile.

I’ll be closing this thread at midnight tomorrow. Good luck to everyone!

Peter

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[Pedro Fialho de Jesus]

What I value the most are the general basic principles that drive this community.

PfJ

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[Vst0nE]

one thing you value most:

free speech. people nice and happy to be here!

interests:

relaxing with 80-90s sound

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[thesteven]

Congratulations on LM’s one year anniversary!

While I love the deals, it’s the nontoxic environmental and Peter’s dedication to making this forum be what it is that I appreciate the most.

👍

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[LinkedMusicians]

Official Giveaway Entry Period: CLOSED

Thank you to everyone who participated! The entry period for the LinkedMusicians giveaway is now officially closed as of midnight.

Later today, we’ll be working with Random.org to handle the drawing. Stay tuned—we’ll be announcing the winner(s) and reaching out shortly after the drawing is complete.

Thanks for being part of the LinkedMusicians community!

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[LinkedMusicians]

The drawing is officially complete!

The first and second-place winners are:

1st Place: GusGranite
2nd Place: mira

Verification of Neutrality
To ensure complete transparency, you can view the unalterable third-party drawing results here: https://www.random.org/draws/details/?draw=292829

Official Backups
In accordance with our commitment to professional accountability, we have also drawn three backups. If a primary winner does not respond within 72 hours, we will proceed to the next person on this list in the order shown:

3rd: bselack
4th: v394
5th: fossile

A huge thank you to everyone who participated and shared. I also want to extend my sincere gratitude to IK Multimedia and Orange Tree Samples for their generous support of the LinkedMusicians mission and for providing these incredible prizes.

[NOTE: As the giveaway has now concluded, I’ve re-opened this thread for comments. Feel free to post!]

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[LinkedMusicians]

I’ll be super candid. The list was small enough that I had fond memories of everyone who entered and, seriously, wished that everyone could have won. @gusgranite and @mira have responded so everything has gone like clockwork. As we will soon transition to the subreddit, I plan on doing more fun things for our community like this giveaway in the future, so know that even if you didn’t win this time, there will be plenty of future opportunities.

Please feel free to post in this thread again, as I’ve opened it up to comments now that the giveaway is complete.

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[GusGranite]

Amazing! Feeling very lucky right now… Huge thanks to Peter for organizing this and for, well, generally everything! Good on IK Multimedia and Orange Tree Samples for getting involved in this community event. Really great to see.

This has really made my day.

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[Barrie]

So close ….

Maybe this is the year I finally release something 🙂

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[patrickwichrowski]

Congratulations to the winners 😉

 

If possible, the winners could do some review on the prizes 🙂

 

 

https://linktr.ee/patrickwichrowski/

https://patrickwichrowski.bandcamp.com/

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[lamia6]

Yay congrats winners 🥳

CINZ NET Radio    |    Radio Registry

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[Paul L]

Fab!  Well done, everybody – I hope the winners enjoy their plug-ins 🙌

Guitarist, songwriter, recording artist for SKY PATTERNS (https://skypatterns.co.uk/)

[mira]

Hello to all musicians on best forum on net 🙂

Hello dear Peter LM , hello dear Greg from Orange Tree Samples and hello Pdear Peter from Ik 🙂

Im so so much thankful for winning this fantastic music library from Orange Tree Samples – thank yoou so much dear Mr. Greg to put this gem in prize pool on LM forum….

Im so much happy to have this new gem in my arsenal..

Million times thanks To Peter LM to make this forum / and in near future we all meet on reddit esp we are now on it – or some of us /

be part of these community – super user friendly, honestly real like family, absolutely non toxic with many experience musicians, hobbist, etc… this is dream and dream comes from Peter mind…. Pweter is my friend from covid times and i can honestly say – its hard to find honestly user friendly musisians on net as Peter… yes here are almost all people awesome.. but Peter take forum to their hands and make something unique in this world – in these days… hope reddit subredit will be same, with all same people and we make community super strong…

 

thats all for now, offer nice evening here from Czechia, again many thans to Supporters of Giveaway Greg from Orange Tree Samples and Peter IK.. and Peter LM :))))))

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[LinkedMusicians]

We’ve wrapped up the giveaway. The prizes have been distributed. And I, once again, want to give my thanks to Peter / IK Multimedia and Greg / Orange Tree Samples for supporting LinkedMusicians.

So that the community is perfectly clear, the giveaway was done to celebrate our community. I didn’t charge IK or Orange Tree Samples, it was purely about creating a fun, engaging event to reward and build our community and seeing two of the best developers in the industry show their support for our community is incredibly gratifying. I hope that our community doesn’t take that for granted. LinkedMusicians — even according to Google — is unique in the music tech industry in how we operate, especially in encouraging our members share both the positive AND negative experiences and opinions with the tools and companies they use. Let’s be clear, MOST companies are not on board with that. That’s why legacy forums censor members. Most brands don’t want to pay money for an environment where people can authentically share negative experiences, because it hurts sales.

I’ve been managing digital marketing, writing, and speaking about brand authenticity for decades — and that concept is something I not only believe is ethically right, I think it’s wise for businesses to adopt that philosophy. But the truth is, most brands don’t abide by that, and this industry is certainly no exception. Peter / IK Multimedia and Greg / Orange Tree Samples represent two companies and two people who do welcome that authenticity, and I am proud and thankful to have their support.

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[joegyork]

Congratulations to the winners and thanks to Peter for organising and IK Peter and OTS Greg for providing the prizes

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[mira]

Hello guys / girls :-))

 

Want to share some superb experince from first testing Indie Rock from Orange Tree Samples from dear MR.Greg –

-is super fun to use, nice sounding – super hq 🙂  i playing with these library yesterday evening and today evening will do again its superb… to all – niceend of weekend 🙂 míra

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[dsteinschneider]

Congrats to Mira and GusGranite! Appreciate sharing your experience with the products.

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