[macintologist]

A friend of mine sent me an mp3 of a recent chilled out loops-only track he had thrown together in Garageband. I listened, and I was like...damn this really needs a groovy drum track. So I asked my friend to send me the original Garageband file. He did, I messed with it and added a cool drum track and a few more effects. I sent it back to him and he thought the changes were great.

I was thinking, is there such a thing as open source music composition? Similar to Wikipedia except it's music rather than encyclopedia articles? Everyone is able to download the source file, check it out, make a few changes and upload it back to the central server.

What do you guys think of this concept? Do you wanna try it here?

[turtle777]

Originally posted by macintologist:
What do you guys think of this concept?

Two words: bandwidth killer !

-t

[macintologist]

Originally posted by turtle777:
Two words: bandwidth killer !

-t

Garageband files and Finale notation files are never bigger than 200k.

[turtle777]

Originally posted by macintologist:
Garageband files and Finale notation files are never bigger than 200k.

With this, you assume that everyone uses the same sample loop library.
The results would probably bore me.
More interesting would be if different samples and loops are used.
But then you have bandwidth issues and licensing issues.

-t

[GoGoReggieXPowars]

A friend of mine did something similar to that 10 years ago for his final project in our Multimedia class: he made a 4 minute song and video presentation, working with a guy in Australia and one in Sweden. Over modems!

[BRussell]

I think it would work great for jazz, but you wouldn't want too many additions. Maybe something like putting up a bass and drum track, and then saying "here's two choruses for a sax solo, this spot is for a piano solo," etc.