Calling all Urban Musicians and Beat Manglers

[Rodders]

i personally would prefer it if we were only allowed to use the contributed samples, a) makes it more of a challenge, and b) everyone is in the same boat, as it were. but i'm easy either way.

i agree that we should also have to use all the samples at least once. no excuses

 

[grosun]

i personally would prefer it if we were only allowed to use the contributed samples, a) makes it more of a challenge, and b) everyone is in the same boat, as it were. but i'm easy either way.

i agree that we should also have to use all the samples at least once. no excuses

Yeah, I'd agree with that; test your mashing up skills... if you can chuck in other samples, there's nowt stopping pple taking a tune they've already done & just bunging in a few extra noises in the form of the new samples. I strongly feel only the supplied samples should be used.

 

[FreddyB]

This sounds like it could be lots of fun. Any idea on sample lengths etc?

 

[pidgeonhead]

I'm up for this too, for the record.

 

[jodal]

i personally would prefer it if we were only allowed to use the contributed samples, a) makes it more of a challenge, and b) everyone is in the same boat, as it were. but i'm easy either way.

i agree that we should also have to use all the samples at least once. no excuses

Fuck you all then.

That's why I asked in the original post what would be best. OK, its decided, for the first outing we'll only be able to use the uploaded samples all of which have to be used. No exceptions.

What are we gonna do about hosting though? Does anyone have any Gmail invites?

Also, I'm trying to come up with a theme but so far nothing.

 

[jodal]

This sounds like it could be lots of fun. Any idea on sample lengths etc?

This raises some important questions actually. Firstly, the obvious one:
1. How long is too long for submitted samples?
but also...
2. Do you have to use the WHOLE sample or can you just take snippets of it and discard the rest?

 

[FreddyB]

This raises some important questions actually. Firstly, the obvious one:
1. How long is too long for submitted samples?
but also...
2. Do you have to use the WHOLE sample or can you just take snippets of it and discard the rest?

I reckon that tunes have to use all the samples, nothing but the samples but not be limited to having to use a complete sample. Gives more freedom with tunes and samples so more possibilities.

 

[Moggy]

RIGHT, so it's:

Use ALL the samples at least once.
Use ONLY the uploaded samples.
You do NOT have to use the complete sample.
All samples MUST be .wav files (any complaints?)

We should have a MAXIMUM (sorry, i'm digging the capitals ) and (possibly?) a MINIMUM sample length. Is it worth setting a standard for the quality of the samples? Is there anything else we're missing?

 

[chooch]

I'm in, if I can find somewhere to live with a connection of some sort.

 

[Barney Bee]

***hiccup posting***

...What are we gonna do about hosting though? Does anyone have any Gmail invites?
...

I have many. pm me an email address and I'll send you one.

 

[jodal]

PM sent.

Is "Dirty" an alright theme for everyone?

 

[jodal]

OK the gmail account is set up:

The address is (thanks hiccup): [email protected]
Anyone can send samples to this address.

If you want the password then PM me.

I will start a new thread tomorrow where the games can begin. Someone please remind me what the rules and regulations are.

Should we say minimum 128kb sample rate?
Should we say maximum 15 second samples? (is that to short?)

Cant wait for this to kick off... just to see if it works.

 

[audiotech]

Fruity Loops, Reason and Cubase at the ready.

Along with guitars, synth and drum machine.

 

[hiccup]

I'm really looking forward to this

"Dirty" eh?

*puts on thinking cap*

*Retrieves videos from under mattress*

 

[b.b]

can sample some of my guitar stuff but not sure about wav though..

 

[Moggy]

Are we gonna run this like the music competition and do it over a month and then vote at the end?

 

[adsr]

Sorry, bit confused about how the gmail thing works. Going to send samples to that address but how do I download the already uploaded samples.

Plus, is there a cut-off date for submission of samples, otherwise the amount will keep on increasing and we'll have to keep downloading the new samples and plugging them into our work.

Does that make sense?

 

[Moggy]

1 or 2 weeks for samples to be submitted with run the competition till the end of the month? Basically, send the sample as an attachment on an email to the gmail account, then to download the other people's samples log in to the account and then you can download the attached files from the emails people have sent in.

I think its worth taking note that people might be unable to log in to the email account temporarily if someone else is currently logged on and downloading the samples.

 

[jodal]

can sample some of my guitar stuff but not sure about wav though..

Let me know what file format it it is, I might be able to convert it to .wav for you.

 

[jodal]

http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=3787975#post3787975

And they're off...

Let me know if anything needs changing or is just plain wrong. I just wanted to get it going so made a lot of shit up.