AGSers Music Collaboration

[Gregjazz]

Here's the first 14 bars of the song. (not counting the empty bar at the beginning) We'll pass it along, each making an additional 14 bars.

It's sort of a funky reggae kinda style. I recommend using a soprano sax for the melody, but then again, that's just my opinion. The whole idea of this project is that we each have are own different inputs in the song, so do whatever you like. Make a polka bridge. Put in a really sick electric guitar solo. Speed up the tempo until it changes from reggae to ska. Whatever.

Good luck!

http://invis.free.anonymizer.com/http://www.freewebs.com/thefind/midicycle.mid

[Trapezoid]

Ok, but who goes next?

[Gregjazz]

You, if you want to, Trapezoid.

[undergroundling]

1. Geoffkhan

2. Trapezoid.

I'll be 3.

[Flippy_D]

I'll take the fourth place. M0ds can be fifth.

[Trapezoid]

Ok, I finished my part. Er, should I email it to undergrounling? His email's not listed...

[Flippy_D]

Link it here, as long as we're clear that only undergroundling is working on the next part, I don't see the problem.

[Trapezoid]

Ok. What if someone doesn't have webspace though?

Here: http://www.eviltrailmix.com/midicycle2.mid

[Gregjazz]

Nice bridge, Trapezoid. I like that funky trumpet sound.

This project is turning out rather well!

[undergroundling]

OK, I'll start working on my part as soon as possible, was away yesterday.  Should be done by Monday evening at the latest when I find time to sit down with a MIDI sequencer  

[Evil]

This song makes me want to learn how to make music... Er, not really, but it sounds really good so far

[MachineElf]

As my soundcard doesn't have any midi sounds at all I unfortunately can't join this (which btw should be in that other forum, I think).
But I do have an idea for another form of music collaboration, using audio (as opposed to midi, but actually midi could be used as well).
Basically, what we could do is upload loops or melodies in a certain tempo to an ftp or http or something (if someone has the possibility to set one up - I'm afraid I don't). Then we all could use our favorite music program to put those together into complete songs. It would be really really cool to see how the same loops would be part of totally different songs.
What do you think?
If anyone's interested in hosting some webspace (quite a lot would unfortunately be needed), I can organize it all.

[Gregjazz]

Hmmm... I like to stay away from audio, because of the D/L time. I like MIDI because you can learn stuff from other musicians.

[undergroundling]

Geoffkhan/Trapezoid: What MIDI sequencer(s) do you use?  Just out of curiosity.

[Trapezoid]

I've got Cakewalk Pro Audio 9.

[n3tgraph]

Can I do a part too??

I had the wrong idea of this

[MachineElf]

But the downloading times wouldn't have to be too long. In this case mp3 is actually not a problem to use as the compression is only performed once. At a rate of 160kpbs or higher you wouldn't hear the difference (if you say you do I say you lie). A loop would only be a few hundred kb at most. If you're on a slow connection, just use fewer loops.

And you can definately learn things from other musicians with this method as well, only you cannot see exactly what they've done but rather have to use those ears of yours ;)

I'm totally confident about this idea as long as someone can offer some webspace. A good idea would also be some kind of login-system for members as good samples are quite valuable out there...

[Gregjazz]

I got Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 too, and it definitely rocks!

[undergroundling]

Do they still make Cakewalk Pro Audio 9? I can't seem to find it on the cakewalk website  

[Trapezoid]

No idea. There's probably newer versions. In any case, if you just want to do midi Cakewalk Pro Audio is more than you need, there are more stripped down versions that can do midi just as easily...