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.
I wish I still had all of my recording and producing software. That would be awesome.
Yeah, wavs would probably be best. FLAC could work as well but some people might need them converted depending on the software they're using.
Audacity doesn't have a metronome (that I know of) but you can make a click track (Generate –> Click track) and then set the BPM to 76, or 152 if that's easier.I think what I would do if I were you is make a click track, import aeron's riff, highlight it and press shift-spacebar. This will start loop playback. You can't record when it's looping but you can jam out on drums until you have something you like, then stop the loop and just record to the click track.Alternatively you could highlight aeron's riff and go to Effect –> Repeat… and create a loop that way. Downside to this is that his loop will get offbeat after a while.And of course, I could definitely loop it for you (and keep it in time), just let me know how many loops you want!now i need to figure out what i can do to contribute! (Y)
That's awesome poly.
I'm at work for the next 10 hours. If you have nothing better to do today, can you loop it? If not, don't worry about it, I can just do it when I get home.MFA: pirate the software. =3firestormx: multiple problems with that. actually, only two problems.
1. my computers are borked2. no internet at homebut that aside, i do have the software. my compy is just borked.the most i could do right now is pretty much do some drum programming or sequence some junk. but, something or another. i can see what i can do about putting some junk together.Cool. I have a loop for you, but I can't upload it (sent you fellas a bug report, heh). I'll have it up on MediaFire in a bit, I'm just waiting for another upload to go through.
if we're doing metal i'm totally in, i'm the best screamer you will ever find. i can also do ridiculously fast guitar solos if desired.
I like this idea :)
and i can do hmm almost anything. so just ask ;DThat's fckn awesome aeron, my kind of style I guess. Give me a full song like that and I'll groove it up.
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