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S7WILD AUDIO / GOLDEN ERABEATMAKERS CHALLENGE / 2026

THE BEATMAKERS’ CHALLENGE

GE-87CHALLENGE 2026

One beat. Your samples. Your signature.

Make your beat in GE-87. Seven Champions will receive a CHAMP EDITION personalised with their name, reserved for the winners.

Explore the challengeSee the CHAMP EDITION
GE-87 CHAMP EDITION: dark ebony and champagne-gold faceplate in its dedicated studio
CHAMP EDITION

7 personalised licences. For the 7 Champions.

NOT FOR SALE
COMING SOONOpens
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17 November — 17 December 2026Paris time

OPEN · 17 Nov 2026
ENTRIES CLOSE · 17 Dec 2026 at 23:59 (Paris)
JUDGING · 18–23 Dec 2026
CHAMPIONS · 24 Dec 2026
GOLDEN ERA / 1987 → 2026

The challenge

Make a beat entirely in GOLDEN ERA GE-87 Challenge Edition. Bring your own sources; the Official GE-87 Crate will be optional.

GE-87 / CHALLENGE 2026

Contest access and participant discount

The GE-87 contest demo runs from 17 November until 17 December 2026 at 23:59 (Paris time). After that date, a permanent license is required. There is no ongoing commercial demo.

Every entry validated by S7WILD earns a personal 25% discount on GE-87 STANDARD, for one purchase, non-combinable, until 31 January 2027. Registration alone does not qualify.

03 / THE REWARD

GOLDEN ERA GE-87
CHAMP EDITION

ONLY 7 WILL EVER EXIST.

GE-87 CHAMP EDITION: Macassar ebony and champagne-gold interface in its vintage studio.
CHAMP EDITION — final design.

Seven Champions receive a personal GE-87 CHAMP EDITION, reserved for winners and never sold.

The artist name or alias, individual number from 01/07 to 07/07 and the year 2026 appear in the signed licence.

Earned. Never sold.
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01 / THE CONSTRAINT

Four rules

International · One beat per person · Maximum 3 minutes · Minors with verified parental authorization · Selection by the S7WILD team

RULE 01

GE-87 ONLY

Build the entire track in GE-87 Challenge Edition. Export it as made: no DAW enhancement, outside instruments, effects, plugins or post-processing.

RULE 02

SAMPLE WHAT YOU WANT

Choose your own sources. The Official GE-87 Crate is optional. You are responsible for the rights to any source you use; a non-commercial challenge does not make unauthorized sampling legal.

RULE 03

NO THIRD PARTY

Anything that composes or transforms the sound must come from GE-87. ONE MACHINE. NO THIRD PARTY.

RULE 04

VERIFIED EXPORT

The WAV and its verification file must match. S7WILD checks the files and may request project elements to review the work made in GE-87. A digest alone does not prove the absence of outside processing.

02 / THE JUDGING

The music decides.

The S7WILD team selects the beats under Steve VOISIN’s responsibility, without public votes or social statistics, using an anonymous first review wherever possible.

  1. Creativity and personality
  2. Inventive use of GE-87
  3. Sampling, chopping and resampling
  4. Creative use of the machine’s limits
  5. Choice and transformation of sources
  6. Overall musical quality
  7. The unexpected result
04 / WHY THIS EXISTS

Why this challenge

An idea should be able to win whether its maker has 40 followers or 200,000. The jury listens to the track and the work done in GE-87.

05 / ENTER THE MACHINE

YOUR ENTRY

Download the contest edition, create your beat in GE-87, then manage your submission and receipt here. Entry is free.

CHALLENGE STARTS

For a minor, a legal guardian’s signed authorization must be checked before submission. No minor’s audio is uploaded before approval.

ASIO® Compatible

Optional ASIO® support on Windows

GOLDEN ERA GE-87 supports ASIO for audio input and output on Windows. An ASIO driver is not required.

ASIO is a trademark of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH, registered in Europe and other countries.