DiGiCo SD9 Gives Turkish Songwriters A Taste Of The Big Time

Sponsored by Halici, one of Turkey's leading software companies, the Computer Aided Composition contest has been run for the past 18 years, held at the Babylon venue in Istanbul. Open to all amateur and professional composers, the competition gives entrants the opportunity to showcase their songwriting talents to both the national and international music industry.

Sixteen finalists were selected from 78 entries, who then performed live at Babylon in front of a distinguished jury of Turkish music, arts, and technology professionals.

Elit Light & Sound Technologies, DiGiCo's Turkish distributor, supplied the SD9. "The snapshot feature made mixing 16 different performances very straightforward," says Elit's Emre Defne. "There was only a short time between each act, so it was important to change the mixer's settings very quickly. The event included a concert by The XYZ Project after the awards and the SD9 was pre-programmed for their performance as well."

The public was voting for their favorite of the 16 songs on the competition's website and these votes were added to the jury's vote to reach the final result. Emre concludes, "The winner was Utar Artun's The Girl Who Has Chocolate Eyes, but the SD9 gave all the finalists a taste of what it was like to perform in a truly professional situation."