Hello. Since the AGS community has some really wicked musicians, I was wondering if someone could illuminate me as to what should I provide in a remix kit for people to remix songs I made. I believe that just the mp3 isn't enough, so what do I need to add in there? I used to give away the midi version of my songs, but is that enough?
Thanks in advance for the replies!
Well you generally want to include all the master tracks, ie the original recordings.
Unless it's synthesized then you'd give away the midi file or reason file or whatever it is you use to make the track. (that is if the remixer and you use the same software).
P.S. Uncompressed ;)
Thanks for the quick reply, Phemar. So, by uncompressed, do you mean in WAV format?
Yea, wave is best.
Separated tracks indeed.
Giving only the song would not work for me when remixing.
E.g. the bass line must be separated from the synt loops.
I used to work with samples in WAV format.
The song it self can also be needed in order to see [hear] what kind of song you have made.
I'm used to roughly rebuild it first and remix it after that.
But I must note that I'm used to remix with tracker software like Schism Tracker (http://eval.sovietrussia.org/wiki/Schism_Tracker).
Which is a windows compatible clone of Impulse Tracker (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impulse_Tracker).
So when using other remixing software than tracker software, the way of delivering your sound might be different...
Many thanks to Phemar and Arj0n for their input and their help!
Instead of wav you could also use FLAC (click) (http://flac.sourceforge.net/). It is compressed but does not lose quality in any way, just like plain wave. It uses generally about half the space wav does, pretty good I guess :)