64D hasn't done a collaborative music project yet. At least, not with actual instruments.
Incidentally, I haven't seen a completed game collaboration in 64D's 6 year life, but whatever.I think the main reason there hasn't been a music project (with instruments) yet, is because no one can record their drum set. I've dropped several thousand on a Roland TD9-SX, so I can record some drumming.I know half the site plays bass, and several of you play guitar, so let's try put something together.I was thinking someone could record some guitar, and then I could record some drums to match it, and someone could do some bass over top of it. I'm sure someone plays the keyboard too. I doubt anyone is non-awkward enough to do vocals though. XDI've never played in a band - my 8 years of piano lessons was ALL classical, and my 2-3 years of drum lessons have simply been to blow off steam. I don't know how musicians normally collaborate together, and I'm not very creative, nor musically inclined. But I thought it'd be fun to try this. Also, I took 3 years of music theory - most of it's gone out the window, but I can re-learn what I need to, if that helps anyone else communicate.Soooo, someone record something. Or, if you want, I can record something and you can play something over top of the drums, but drumming isn't usually the driving force behind the melody of a song.Another thing we could do, is define a tempo, a style of music, and sort of lay out the flow of a song. (ie a 4/4 rock song at 120 bps, that is energetic for the first 8 bars, then slows down for 6, then goes back to energetic for another 8 bars, etc)Juju is the only one I know of here that is in a band, so I'm expecting him to comment on this! =DEdit: Oh yeah, we'd be doing different mp3 files, so we'd use Acid or Fruity Loops to put the music all together.Edit 2: We're not doing mp3. Poly has advised that mp3 loses sound quality. Also, rather than an original song, we can do a cover, if everyone can agree to a song.
Sounds like an awesome idea. :D
Unfortunately, I have no musical talent whatsoever. :CSo I bid you good luck on your journey, good sir. :)I would lend my voice, but it kind of sucks for metal or any screaming… I'm more of a folk/light rock voice. (Which kind of sucks because I like singing rock. [:(])
I'm good enough with a bass. Toast is good, and Juju is probably the best here. :P
Us three are the only bassists I know of here :(But your idea is really goodJID: You can't rap?!
Acid: We only play metal. >:(Though it'd still be cool if you try put your vocals on. btw, I have a double bass pedal, but I can only hold a stead steam of 32nd notes at a little more than 120bps. It's not hard to go a lot faster if I only do four (or less) 32nd notes at a time though.Edit: my division is horrible. It's actually 16th notes (I forgot about 8th notes), not 32nd.CPS: You should all do bass. We can different version of the same song with different bass lines. Same with guitar and stuff.Heh, I'm okay. Ya goddamn racist.
I can't do it if I wanted to anyway. I don't have a microphone. :/It's much easier to start a recording with drums, then add bass, and then guitar- keeps everything on beat better. Of course, if you're just writing a song and not doing a permanent recording then you can record in any order and figure it out later.
Also, don't trade mp3! You're reducing the sound quality every time you export until eventually it becomes a disgusting mess. That's like saving Photoshop projects as jpeg.I have plenty of recording equipment at my disposal, and a bunch of instruments if you want anything… acoustic and electric guitar, bass, autoharp, bells, trumpet, harmaonica, toy piano, organ, upright piano, an out-of-tune bamboo flute, jew harp, some shakers… And I could mix it if you guys wanted.Frooty Loops kind of drives me crazy, and it's not so good for live instrumentation (in my opinion). It would probably better to record in Audacity.Need some sax?
I'm all for this! here's a riff idea.. Idk if it's the style we want I can do another Im just throwing out ideas
uuh 76 bpm, and I can also rerecord it when its not 3am and I haven't been playing kings all nighthttp://64digits.com/users/aeron/untitled.wavWhoo! Poly stepping in with advice. =D
Anything other than wav is gonna be huge. T_TShould we be doing wav, or is flac or something else okay?If no one else wants to mix, you can do it. If you can make Aeron's riff loop, then that'd be cool. I can setup audacity and record something on the drums. Any advice on how I can keep my timing lined up with aeron's? If my metronome is even a little off, it'd be messy.…Or does audacity have a metronome? (I've only ever used it a few times, and I've formatted my PC since then, and haven't reinstalled it) I'll have to look into this…Mush: I'd love some. I'll get a condom.cps: It'd probably be a new song, but if there's a cover everyone can agree on, we can do a cover. It'd probably make more sense to actually do a cover first. The problem is, I don't listen to half the crappy music everyone else listens to. But if you guys want to cover something, name some songs.aeron: That's great. =DCan you record something longer (so we don't have to edit it into a loop), and we can try add instruments to it from there? Or would you rather someone take that riff and make another instrument on top of that, with a longer recording, and then you play along to it? Like Poly said, it might be easier to play along over top of drums or something.