15 Nov
2007
15 Nov
'07
2:06 a.m.
On Wednesday 14 November 2007 17:55, Julien Claassen wrote:
But as I understood it: this project was called
"virtual CHILLOUT
band", which indicates to me, that first we'd start with more
simplistic songs, staying at consistent tempo.
Yeah, there's been some pretty major topic drift and we've been
discussing collaborative music project hosting for a while. I
personally like some downbeat trip-hop type stuff that could be
considered "chillout", I guess, and have written a bit in that vein
long ago, but I don't have much to contribute to a piece in any
electronic music genre right now. My emotions are frankly a little
raw due to some unfortunate events in the recent past, and cool
compositions in unsyncopated 4/4 time with a click track and a bunch
of synths are not something I can make work at the moment.
BTW.: Why should the server have to internally know
about things
like tempo. As I understood so far, the server is mainly used for
more or less clver storing.
Actually, it was you who first mentioned specifying the tempo of a
song; I merely stated why I thought that was a poor idea. I don't
even think the server needs to know where the beats or measures lie
(again, because my preferred style of music doesn't necessarily
adhere to one meter for the whole piece.)
I think the way to do it is to upload tracks as discrete,
app-independent waveforms and enter an offset. But as I laid out in
my original post on the thread, my overly ambitious take on the
project involves actually doing mixdowns on the server through a web
interface, not merely storage.
Rob