After weeks of suspense, it’s my pleasure to announce the winners of the CDM Giveaway. I’ve contacted the prize winners, so if your name is on the list, you should have an email from me.

PreSonus FaderPort: Vincent Hill, Seattle, WA
Numark Total Control: Nicolas Paciorek, Watertown, NY
Native Instruments Elektrik Piano: Valerie Mabre, Marion, OH
Native Instruments Absynth 4: John Belt, Canton, OH
Moog Music Moogerfooger FreqBox: John J. Koziol, Boston, MA
Glyph GT 050Q 250GB Hard Drive: Ken Hartz, Strongsville, OH
Alesis ControlPad: Joel A. St. Julien, San Francisco, CA
Ableton Live 6: Chris Budge, Newbury Park, CA
Akai MPC500: William Max Thomason, Denver, CO

Each winner will also get AudioMIDI’s Synth Legends DVD.

For details on these items, see the complete list of giveaway items.

These are the names on the forms, incidentally; I take no credit for typos. We’re confirming with these winners; if any is unconfirmed, we will re-award the prizes.

We got an extraordinary number of entrants: nearly 3,000 qualified entries, and 4,000 entries from around the world. And, the banner prizes aside, we got an amazing selection of websites from readers in the US and around the world. We’ll be sending Ableton beanies around the globe to some of our favorite selections. The variety and quality of websites is truly overwhelming, so I expect to be digging through these over the coming weeks, highlighting some favorites as we go. I really am going through them all; that’s what’s taking so long!

We also got a real look at who you are and what interests you, including some of our sizable international readership; I hope to share some of that with everyone soon.

Thanks to our sponsors: I really want to thank, in reverse alphabetical order, PreSonus, Moog Music, Ableton, Native Instruments, Glyph, Alesis, Numark, AudioMIDI.com, and Akai Professional for making this giveaway possible and for their support of the site. We reached out to sponsors who matter a lot to us, and it’s terrific to have their support of the site.

UPDATED: That’s it, folks; this giveaway is done. We’ll have winners, some overall stats on who our readers are, and some of our favorite websites from around the world soon! For starters:

Here are the winners

If you’ve been waiting to enter the CDM Giveaway, this is your last chance: entries are closed as of midnight tonight (Monday), 9pm on the West Coast of North America, early morning Tuesday in the UK and Europe, and during the day in Asia, the Pacific, and Australia.

Speaking of other parts of the world, we really will be going through some of our favorite websites entered from around the world, giving away DVDs and beanies to our international readers and featuring you on the main site. We’ve gotten so many entries that I’ll be digging through those in the weeks after the competition, but stay tuned. For our US readers in the main giveaway, we’ll count up the results, fire up our random number generator, and announce winners by the end of the week.

You can’t enter more than once, but if you haven’t entered, go do it now:

Enter the CDM Giveaway

I’m pleased to announce the first-ever CDM Giveaway. We’ve got over US$4,000 of hardware and software tools for music creation, and we’d like to give you the chance to win them. To do that, we’re holding a good, old-fashioned prize drawing — I’ve been warming up my true random number generator — so that all you have to do is enter for a chance to win. To better your odds, each prize will get a different winner.

CDM Giveaway Info Page; official rules (no purchase necessary).

Here’s what we’ve got:

Akai MPC500 mobile music workstation
Ableton Live 6 music production software
Alesis ControlPad drum pad controller
Glyph GT 050Q 250GB eSATA/USB/FW400/FW800 hard drive
Moog Music Moogerfooger FreqBox VCO effects box
Native Instruments Absynth 4 soft synth
Native Instruments Elektrik Piano soft synth
Numark Total Control DJ control surface
PreSonus FaderPort

…plus boxes of Ableton beanies and AudioMIDI.com Synth Legends DVDs. You can check everything out on the giveaway page.

And get some link love, too: Eligible residents of the United States can enter to win any one of these prizes. Unfortunately, for legal reasons we can’t extend the whole sweepstakes to international readers. To make up for it, we’ll be watching international entries for the best blogs, project pages, and music websites to feature on CDM, and we’ll send out Ableton beanies and/or DVDs to our favorite entries. (American readers, we’ll be watching your pages, too, so be sure to include your URLs when you enter.)

We’ve been putting this together for a while now and it’s been a lot of work, so I’m excited to be able to roll it out. We’ve hand-picked some of our favorite gear and software makers to partner with, or we wouldn’t be doing this.

Full details on the giveaway page. Enter now, because at the stroke of midnight following Monday, June 11, the contest is over. And I really want to get these boxes of gear and swag shipped. It’ll be a lot more fun out of the brown cardboard boxes, I’m sure.

Update: If you’re not from the US – please do fill out the form, if you include nothing other than your URL (so we can check out your site) and your country. (Nothing else is required.)

We’re really sorry we weren’t able to go global on this one for legal reasons (I try to explain why in comments). But that’s all the more reason to find out where you’re from. Server stats provide a very incomplete picture of what country people are from, and we would like to know. And if you include contact info, I might at least be able to get some of you some swag.