Re: [LAU] LAU collaboration coordination?

On 2007-11-16 03:03 pm, Frank Pirrone wrote: Storage is not an issue but bandwidth always is. I totally agree. There are at least 3 levels of involvement, a) anything light and simple to initially define a song, proof of concept songs only have to be MIDI tracks, using say the fluidr2 soundfont, along with live medium-fi vorbis tracks anyone gets to play on this level, even via 56k dialup from Nigeria (ooh, bad example) b) a semi-pro final mix using flac'd 16bit/44.1khtz audio tracks and as many MIDI tracks that can be rendered to 16/44 locally (without requiring any transfer of large wavs) a bit of a compromise but I'm sure the end result could be quite satisfactory, and so so much Better Than Nothing c) if a song, or piece, passes both the previous levels and is deemed worthy of super-pro mastering then those intimately involved with the piece can make their own arrangments to deal with transferring 32bit/96khtz master tracks to wherever is going to do the final mix(s) and perhaps use archive.org to hold the complete final master mix components I'd be impressed if I ever see a LAU based a) let alone a b). A c) by the end of the decade would be too cool. And just as a note, I am personally interested in GPL-like songs where the components that went into making the song are also available somewhere, hence the idea of using Subversion to deal with some, or even all, parts of a song and indeed it's entire life cycle of evolvement can be logged and this creative outline or path is ALSO of great interest to me. A bunch of guys using collab in "secret" and suddenly releasing a final mastered ogg to listen to is of little interest to me. How a song is created with access to the digital parts that make it up is what I find the most exciting part of this discussion. Oh, and actually listening to something, as well, would be kinda cool too :-) --markc