Freewave wrote:1. Participants should pick the genre they are doing in advance and claim it (ie reserved). So one dusbtep version, one trance, one electro house, one drum & bass, etc. That way we won't have the same genre for the same track at least. You can easily get 15 or 20 genres if you allow people to reserve them.
2. The particpants are allowed to change bpm and move sections around.
3. People can use short samples (kicks, hats, drums, horns, striings)
But i think as long as you follow some of the ideas above you should have enough variety.
Question i now have is if we do something like this can we decide on a title and theme? Since we're essentially remixing the same (unreleased) song it may be completely different in theme and focus (ie pony) and would be even more so if someone did vocals and lyrics too....sticking with one title and theme would prob need to be a necessity.
1. My initial plans were hosting an event much smaller, at least to try out initially. If there are many people who want to participate then we will need a system like that to make sure the album has some variety and balance.
2. I had no problem with BPM changing, but if the song has to stay rigid then I don;t much use in changing BPMs as it would only really make it slower or faster. I have to think more about letting people move sections around.
3. Meaning people can add in whatever samples they want/need to make their own track more unique? I think I can work something like that in.
It would all have the same theme, it being the same song with different sounds applied, I haven't thought much yet about a vocalist, that could be worked in.
TheOcularInvisible wrote: basically every song will be the same song, with just different synth patches.
That is the basic idea of it, its not a remix competition in the traditional sense, its not about applying your own musical style/genre to an already released song. Its more about applying your 'sound' to the exact same song as someone else.
I may not have been clear enough in saying that its my vision to do this with as few people as possible, I was thinking of having no more than 4 versions total. It's only ever been a thought in my mind, I am still forming the framework.