The annual HOFA XMAS MIX CONTEST began on December 1, 2021! For the 13th time now, HOFA is organizing this mixing and remixing contest for all those who want to spend some quality time in their home studio. The download of the tracks can be found on the HOFA website.

As every year, the contest song was written by HOFA CEO Jochen Sachse. The song is called “You & Me & Them”. For the production of this Christmas excursion into electronic dance music, he teamed up with Tim Segewitz and Joel Christ, who have already been the producers behind a number of chart hits. Tim Segewitz has also held several workshops about electronic music at the HOFA-College.

The music video features the mix of Christoph Thiers and Jochen Sachse. The video is viewable on the HOFA website. HOFA is looking forward to your mixes and remixes.

This year there will be prize money of €1,000 twice – for the best mix and for best remix of our contest song – and also attractive special prizes from iZotope, KORG, Focusrite, Novation, Toontrack, Image Line, Spectratronics, ADAM Audio, Ableton, PreSonus, Sonarworks, Akai, Soundtoys, Sennheiser, M-Audio, beyerdynamic, Steinberg and HOFA.

Those who want to enter the contest can enter their email address on the HOFA website. Doing so allows HOFA to use your personal information for the sending of HOFA’s newsletter. You can upload your finished mix/remix via the upload portal at hofa-contest.com. There, you can also listen to the submissions of the other participants.

The closing date for entries to the annual HOFA XMAS MIX CONTEST is January 31, 2022.

HOFA announced the HOFA SYSTEM ALL Bundle. It’s time to create your own channel strips & FX. HOFA SYSTEM ALL Bundle offers you 32 high-end plugins, that you can use in your DAW or connect them with each other in the revolutionary SYSTEM environment.

The HOFA SYSTEM:

•  For mixing, mastering, and sound design
• With premium dynamics, EQs, reverbs, FX, modulation and saturation effects and utilities
• Intuitive and fast workflow for multiband, mid/side, parallel and dual mono routings
• All plugins can be used as inserts and within HOFA SYSTEM

Save 57% with the new SYSTEM ALL Bundle. The HOFA SYSTEM with all plugins now only EUR 169.90. (The regular price is EUR 400.00). You receive 29 plugins immediately, including: SYSTEM basic + AlgoVerb + EQ-Dynamic +MixBox + PhaserChorusFlanger + Saturate.

In January 2022, you will get these 3 new premium plugins for free: Convolution reverb + transient shaper + mastering limiter.

It has never been easier or faster to change the signal flow of your plugin chain. You can use multiband, mid/side, parallel and dual mono tools anywhere – just drag and drop the plugins around. You want to use an equalizer only on the side signal? Or saturate the signal above 200 Hz? No problem, SYSTEM can do that in no time.

You are looking for a certain sound or a new inspiration? No worries! More than 300 carefully selected pieces not only provide you with a starting point for your own creations – they will also sound great! You can add presets to your existing effect chain via drag’n’drop and thus easily create your own individual high end channelstrip.

HOFA introduced HOFA 4U + ProjectTime V3. It tracks your working time directly in the DAW. Right now, it is being offered at an introductory price of 20% off. That works out to EUR 39.90.

ProjectTime V3 has all the features you need to monitor the time you spend working on your DAW projects. After you have loaded ProjectTime into any plugin slot of your DAW, you can start tracking the time. The measured time is saved when you close the project and can be continued when you open it again.

The main innovation is the ability to start the timer automatically, depending on whether playback is running in the DAW or whether an audio signal is detected. In addition, you can now conveniently work with several sessions and edit them later.

As with all plugins from the 4U+ series, you can choose: there is a freeware version that can be used without any costs and a full version with a significantly extended feature set.

Features of the full version:

• Precise work-time recording in DAW projects
• Automatic play/pause detection
• Hourly wage calculator
• Time-budget calculator
• Working on a project with several participants
• Show duration also in decimal hours
• Editing of sessions
• PDF export
• CSV export
• TXT export
• Price: Normally EUR 49.90, currently on sale for $39.90.
  
  Features of the Freeware version:
• Precise work-time recording in DAW projects
• Editing of sessions (limited)
• TXT export

The freeware version can be used on any number of computers without a license. You can use the full version in a 14-day trial period. The full version can be activated with the HOFA-Plugins Manager or directly in the plugin. The plugin can be activated and used on two computers at the same time. It is possible to deactivate licenses and transfer them to other machines. HOFA plugins can be activated and used offline.

HOFA announced another HOFA Song Contest. There is a countdown on the HOFA website that shows you exactly how many days, hours, minutes, and seconds there are before the contest starts!

The HOFA Song Contest is an International online competition for musicians and music producers. This is HOFA’s sixth time holding the contest. Convince the HOFA jury of your skills and collect votes in the online voting. There is no fee to participate!

The HOFA Song Contest is open to artists from every genre. HOFA will make your talent heard, provide you with a stage for your music – and offer the chance to win attractive cash and non-cash prizes with a total value of over €20,000.

This is a public contest, so your song will be heard by fans and music lovers from all over the world. As a participant, you can vote for other songs, registered guests can comment on your songs.

The contest will start on June 1, 2021, and will close on August 3, 2021. The end of the user voting period will be on August 24, 2021. The jury begins voting on August 3, 2021. The winners of this HOFA Song Contest will be announced on August 31, 2021.

The winner in each of the 6 main categories will receive €500 prize money. The main prize is donated by HOFA.

Other prizes come from:

• Native Instruments: Komplete 13 Ultimate Collector’s Edition
• Native Instruments: Maschine Mikko
• Neuman Berlin: KH 80 DSP of Monitors
• Celemony_: Melodyne 5 Studio
• Teufel: Rockstar Air Bluetooth Speaker
• AKG Harman: C451 B Condenser Microphone
• SPL: SPL Phonitor One d Headphone Amplifier
• ToonTrack: Superior Drummer
• ToonTrack: Legacy of Rock SDX
• Adam Audio: T8V Pair of Monitors
• SHURE: SM7B Studio Microphone
• Ableton: Ableton Live 11 Standard
• Focusrite: Focusrite Scarlett 4i4 Audio Interface
• Soundtoys: Soundtoys 5 Bundle
Sennheiser: HD 300 Pro Headphones
• Loopmonsters: 2x Loopcloud Professional for 1 year
• Novation: Launchkey 49 MK3
• Beyerdynamic: DT 770 PRO Headphones
• HOFA: 50x HOFA-College song analysis
• HOFA: 300x €20 HOFA voucher

HOFA has a sale on the IQ-Series Reverb V2 with all IR-Packs. The bundle is 36% off right now. It is unclear how long this sale will last.

The IQ-Series Reverb V2 with 4 IR-Packs includes:

IR-Pack Magic Plates: This large collection of legendary, established and innovative plate reverbs offers you extremely dense reverb structures with a highly musical tone that should not be missing in any production!

IR-Pack Professional Post-Pro: Within this pack you will find impulse responses from various indoor and outdoor locations for film, radio play, game sound design – and music productions too, of course.

IR-Pack Halls & Churches: You like it all big and mighty? Cathedrals, churches, concert halls and venues in all shapes and colors were assembled for this premium bundle.

IR-Pack Binaural Spaces: Coming soon: This IR Pack contains a collection of 236 binaural reverbs that will add a whole new dimensionality to your mixes!

Features of the IQ-Series Reverb V2 include:

On of the world’s largest collection of reverb sound: Find the perfect reverb for mixing, sound design and post-pro. Choose from hundreds of natural, real rooms and classic vintage equipment – or completely new and innovative reverb designs.

Smart Browser: More than 1,500 different reverbs and effects – and which one fits best? Our fast and intelligent browser helps you to make the right choice quickly and shows you interesting alternatives. Among other attributes, you can filter and sort by brightness, RT60 and application range of an IR.

Crazily Creative: Don’t you sometimes want to distort, gate or modulate a reverb and do anything else you can think of? This plugin gives you impressive options for creative work. This also includes the possibility to lengthen or shorten frequency components of the impulse responses directly in the 3D view.

6 at a time: Only the IQ-Series Reverb V2 lets you mix up to six reverb sounds. You have access to several special effects and even an excellent algorithmic reverb for your very personal blends.

HOFA previously announced that its 12th Annual Xmas Mix Contest would begin on December 1, 2020. You can now download the song “Christmas Blind” and remix it into your entry for the contest.

The annual HOFA XMAS MIX CONTEST has begun on December 1st! For the 12th time now, we are organizing this mixing and remixing contest for all those who want to spend some quality time in their home studio.

Every year, the contest song was written by HOFA CEO Jochen Sache. This year, he brought the platinum awarded hard rock specialist Dennis Ward on board as producer and mixing engineer – for a reason: the song is a pretty heavy rock track!

Those who want to enter the contest can visit the HOFA website and watch a video that features this year’s song. Enter your email address to reveal the link to the download page. After you are done mixing/remixing the song, you can send it to HOFA via the upload portal hofa-contest.com. You can also listen to the submissions of other participants.

The closing date for entries is January 31st, 2021.

Prizes this year are worth more than €15,000! This year, there will be prize money of €1,000 twice – for the best mix and for the best remix of the contest song – and also attractive special prizes from Steinberg, Neumann, Sennheiser, Native Instruments, Shure, ADAM Audio, AKG, Novation, Toontrack, Sommer Cable, Reveal Sound, König & Meyer and HOFA.

HOFA announced that the HOFA XMAS MIX CONTEST will start soon! Those who are interested in participating should visit the HOFA website and watch a YouTube video of a recording documentary and (re-)mixing session.

It is this time of the year again: the annual HOFA XMAS MIX CONTEST will begin on December 1st! For the 12th time now, we are organizing this mixing and remixing contest for all those who want to spend some quality time in their home studio. The tracks are released for download with the start of the contest.

The song this year is called “Christmas Blind”. As every year, the contest song was written by HOFA CEO Jochen Sachse. This year, though, he brought the platinum awarded rock specialist Dennis Ward on board as producer and mixing engineer – for a reason: the song is a pretty heavy rock track!

This year there will be prize money of 1.000 € twice – for the best mix and for the best remix of HOFA’s contest song – and also attractive special prizes from Steinberg, Neumann, Sennheiser, Native Instruments, Shure, ADAM Audio, Novation, Toontrack, Sommer Cable, Reveal Sound, König & Meyer and HOFA.

Be sure to check the HOFA website after on (or after) December 1, 2020, to find out more details.

HOFA has announced that you can now enter the HOFA Song Contest 2020. The contest started on June 1, 2020, and the closing date for entries will be on August 3, 2020. Your song might be a winner!

For the fifth time now, the international online competition for musicians and music producers is opening its doors. Mobilize your fan base for the user voting and convince the HOFA jury of your skills. The participation is free of charge!

The HOFA Song Contest is open to artists from every genre. We will make your talent heard, provide you with a stage for your music – and offer the chance to win attractive cash and non-cash prizes with a total value of over €20,000.

You are allowed to upload one song that is written by you and/or your band, for whose publication you have the agreement of all involved persons, that is not registered at the GEMA or similar collection societies. Lyrics are not mandatory, but mere playbacks or beats without rap parts cannot take part.

Genres include: Pop, Electronic Music, Hip-Hop/Soul/R’n’B, Rock & Heavy, Traditional & Folk, and World and other genres.

Winners are determined out of the Top 20 of in the online voting in the main 6 categories. Depending on the genre, they pay attention to sound selection, songwriting, lyrics, musical performance, mix & mastering, sound quality and distinctive features. In addition, all songs are listened to and evaluated in order to determine the awardees of the special prizes.

The main prize is 500 €. This will be presented to the winner in each of the 6 main categories. There are also prizes from Steinberg, Native Instruments, Ableton, Adam Audio, Focusrite, Novation, Shure, Sommer Cable, Sonarworks, ToonTrack, and Vengeance.

HOFA announced that they have organized their 11th Xmas Mix Contest. It is open to all who want to spend some quality time with Xmas mixing. The closing date for entering the contest is January 21, 2020.

This year, there is a prize money of 2 x 1000 € for the best mix and the best remix of our contest song. In addition, there are Special Awards for outstanding mixes, donated by Neumann, Sennheiser, Toontrack, Sommer Cable, ADAM Audio, Ableton, Konig & Meyer and HOFA. The public voting is also considered for some of the Special Awards – it definitely pays to get some likes.

HOFA says 100 max analyses are raffled from all uploaded songs. This analysis gives you a feedback to try your mix and points out strengths and weaknesses – that alone makes your work worthwhile!

The song for the 11th Xmas Mix Contest is “Let There Be Snow” by HOFA CEO Jochen Sachse. It is a modern a cappella song with the fantastic lead vocals by Stephanie Lenk and Milos Malesevic, supported by four more singers and an impressive beat of body percussion and vocal drums. The tempo of the song is 90 bpm, the tracks are on hand as 24 bit wav files in 44.1 kHz and 96 kHz.

To enter, you need to download the contest song. Create your own mix and upload it as a stereo track. For more details, please visit the HOFA website.

HOFA announced the 2019 HOFA Song Contest. The contest is live now. More than 800 musicians and producers uploaded their songs last year to present their music – and to get the chance to win great prizes.

HOFA is a German manufacturer of audio plugins and acoustic modules as well as a provider of audio engineering courses and a recording studio since 1988. The annual HOFA XMAS Mix Contest is now complemented by the Song Contest in the summer.

The HOFA Song Contest is for songwriters and producers. HOFA’s declared goal is the provision of a common platform and the promotion of outstanding talents.

Any solo artist, team, band, etc. can join in with a song of their own. Each participant can submit one track; remixes and coversongs excluded. Send us your song if you believe it’s a brilliant piece of songwriting and production. The participation is free!

In each of the six categories (genres) there is a main prize donated by HOFA. In addition, many attractive special prizes will be awarded (donated by HOFA’s partners). HOFA will also raffle 100 HOFA song analyses among the participants.

The genres are: Pop; Electronic Music; Hip-Hop, R’n’B & Soul; World & Miscellaneous; Rock & Heavy; and Traditional. Songs can be uploaded to the contest until August 5, 2019. From August 6, 2019, a jury listens to the songs and rates them. The announcement of the winners and awardees will be on September 2, 2019.

For more details, HOFA recommends you visit their HOFA Song Contest Facebook page.